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Lt. Joshua Knight
b.12 Sep 1746 Norwich, New London, Connecticut
d.26 Dec 1815 Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
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m. 31 Oct 1745
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m. 10 Jul 1770
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BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~torrey/Page%20215%20to%20322.htm This site has a lot of info on the Chesterfield-Knights Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume II Knight (V) Joshua , son of Jonathan (2) Knight , was born September 23, 1746 . He married, July 10, 1770 , soon afterward removed to Chesterfield, Massachusetts , and built the first house. on the old Knight homestead. He died there December 26, 1815 , aged sixty-nine years. His wife was born in Northampton , December 28, 1748 , died in Chesterfield , November 26, 1825 . Children: 1. Jonathan , born October 17, 1772 , in Chesterfield . 2. Esther , October 16, 1773 , died September 6, 1836 . 3. Joshua , January 14, 1775 , died in western New York . 4. Erastus , November 18, 1776 , mentioned below. 5. Shubael , July 29, 1778 , in Chesterfield , died May 19, 1824 ; married Hannah Rhodes . 6. Elizabeth , February 6, 1780 , died at Shepherd 's Hollow, Northampton , December 8, 1864 . 7. Miriam , July 12, 1783 , died September 28, 1835 . 8. Seth , July 11, 1785 , died August 18, 1793 . 9. Zebina , January 27, 1788 , died at Keene , August 28, 1871 ; married Philena Graves . |