Person:Laura Knight (34)

MILITARY: The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 28 page 165 Mrs. Mary Adams Kellogg. DAR ID Number: 27444 Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Wife of Marmaduke Bennell Kellogg. Descendant of Elisha Beckwith, of Connecticut. Daughter of Elisha Mills Adams and Laura Knight, his wife. Granddaughter of Elijah Knight and Electa Johnson, his wife. Gr.-granddaugghter of Charles Knight and Mary Beckwith, his wife. Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of Elisha Beckwith and Adelaide Carpenter, his wife. Elisha Beckwith, (1718-76), was among the volunteers at the battle of White Plains, where he lost his life.

REGISTER OF THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ROLL OF MEMBERS 369 EDWARD ADAMS MILLS 12944 San Francisco. Attorney-at-law. Born in the village of Akron, Erie County, N. Y., June 6, 1851. Son of Elisha Mills Adams and Laura (Knight). Grandson of Elijah Knight and Electa (Johnson). Great-grandson of Charles Knight and Mary (Beckwith). Great 2 grandson of ELISHA BECKWITH and Adelaide (Carpenter). ELISHA BECKWITH was born in Lyme, Conn., in 1718, and died in White Plains, N. Y., October 28, 1776. He was a Private Soldier in the 6th Battalion of Gen. Wadsworth's Connecticut State Brigade, commanded by Col. Chester, in which he enlisted in June, 1776. He participated in the Battles of Long Island and White Plains. (Conn. Men in the Rev., p. 413.)

BIOGRAPHY: The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New By Timothy Hopkins Volume II Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. San Francisco, California 1903 - Page 1264