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Jonathan Knight
b.Abt 1642
m. Bef 1642
  1. Jonathan KnightAbt 1642 - 1683/84
  • HJonathan KnightAbt 1642 - 1683/84
  • WRuth Wright1646 - 1715
m. 31 Mar 1663
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Name Jonathan Knight
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1642
Marriage 31 Mar 1663 Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ruth Wright
Death[2] 17 Jan 1683/84 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Whittemore, Henry. Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America. (New York City: Louis H. Cornish, 1898)
    Vol. 3, p. 309.

    Philip Knight of Charlestown and wife Margery had children Jonathan 26, Philip 23, Rebecca 17, Elizabeth 13 and Mary 11 when he died in 1668.
    [Note: Jonathan's birth about 1642]

  2. "Abstracts from Wills, Inventories, &c.,on File in the Office of Clerk of Courts, Salem, Mass.", in Historical collections of the Essex Institute. (Salem, Massachusetts: Published for the Essex Institute by H. Whipple)
    Vol. 4, p. 22.

    Jonathan Knight, 9th mo, 1683.
    An Inventory of the estate of Jonathan Knight, who deceased the 17th Jan., 1683, taken by Lieut. Thomas Putnam and Serg't Jonathan Walcott, the 2d of Februry, 1683. Amount, £82, 4s, 00d, returned by Ruth Knight relict and administratrix of the deceased.
    A Petition of Ruth Knight, relict and administratrix of the estate of Jonathan Knight, mentions her children are under age. Son Jonathan Knight to have 11 1-2 acres, which his father bought of his brother Philip Knight; dafter Ruth Knight, my sons Enos and Ebenezer Knight may have that fiveteen acres of land which her father bought of Thomas Cave, and also the two acres which their father bought of John Lovejoy of Andover, also medow of Stephen Johnson of Andover, and land bounded by Governor Bellingham. Dafter Deborah. Dated 25th of March, 1684.