Census: 1880 U.S. Census shows Jessie L. Knight a single white female age of 13 years at school and living with her family in Worcester, Worcester, Ma.
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BIOGRAPHY: The Home of Woman's Clubs from Ten Years in Paradise Leaves from a Society Reporters Notebook by Mary Bowden Carroll, 1903 Mrs. David Starr Jordan-Entered through her great-grandfather, Phineas Knight of New England, who was with Colonel Putman's Connecticut regiment during the struggle for independence.
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D.A.R.: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution 1897 Volume XX Page 13 Mrs. Jessie Knight Jordan. DAR ID Number: 19030 Born in Ware, Massachusetts. Wife of D. S. Jordan. Descendant of Phineas Knight, of Massachusetts. Daughter of Charles Sanford Knight and Cordelia Cutter, his wife. Granddaughter of Aziza Knight and Jemima Worden, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Phineas Knight and Hetty Sanford, his wife. Phineas Knight, (1755-1833), was at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was placed on the pension roll of Hampshire county, Mass., 1818, for two years' service of a private in the Connecticut Line. He was born in Norwich, Conn.; died in Huntington,Mass.
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Santa Clara County Genealogy sfgenealogy.com Jordan, Jessie Knight, wife of David Starr Jordan, and descendant of Phineas Knight, who served as private in Capt. John Durkee's company, Col. Israel Putnam's regiment, from May to December, 1775. In Capt. Jonathan Brewster's company in 1776; in Col. Benijahs Leppingwell's regiment, 1777, and in Capt. John Riley's company, February, 1781, to December 31, 1781.
