Person:Robert Knight (121)

BURIAL: The Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries. Transcription Project Index. KNIGHT ROBERT 1750 - 31 JUL 1823 PV003. Sept 2004

HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: PV003 * SWAN POINT CEMETERY Location: 20 ft East of BLACKSTONE BLVD at TEL pole # 117 38000 burials with 18000 inscriptions Owner: Swan Point Cemetery, 585 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, RI 02906 (401) 272-1314 NOTE: This transcript is from the cemeteries computerized records. Map numbers that start with 'C' are cremations done at Swan Point but may not be buried there. This cemetery has been recorded and checked.

National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Grave Search KNIGHT Jr, Robert Private RI Swan Point Cem Providence, Providence County, RI 1750 - 1823 Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998

CENSUS: Census of the Inhabitants of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Taken by order of the General Assembly, in the year 1774 Arranged by John R. Bartlett - Secretary of State Providence - Knowles, Anthony & Co., State Printers 1885 - Page 120 Scituate Head of Family: Robert Knight Whites Males Above 16: 1

                      Under: 16: 1
        Females Above 16: 1
                      Under: 16: 1

Indians: Blacks: Total in Household: 4

Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year KNIGHT ROBERT M W RI RI PROVIDENCE SCITUATE 1800

Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year KNIGHT ROBERT M W RI RI PROVIDENCE CRANSTON 1810

BIOGRAPHY: Elizabeth and Robert had 22 children, eleven died in infancy, the other eleven lived to adulthood.

The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton The State of Rhode Island Philadelphia 1907 - Page 202 Robert Knight (Mercy 5, Israel 4, Othniel 3, John 2, Samuel 1), b. June 12, 1750, died July 31, 1832, married, November 12, 1768 Elizabeth Hammond, daughter of Amos - a Captain in the French and Indian War, 1755-1756-son of William Hammond and Mary Whipple (Jonathan 2, John of Providence). Elizabeth Hammond was born May 6, 1750, and died August 24, 1845. Robert Knight served in Captain Gent's Cavaliers at the battle of Rhode Island 1778.

Brayton Family History Volume I By Clifford Ross Brayton, JR. 1978 - Page 100

The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton The Founders and the Founding of the Republic Philadelphia 1907 - Page 264

History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America Frederick Stam Hammond Vol. I. Oneida, N. Y. Ryan & Burkhart, Printers 1902 - Page 547

Sprague Families, of Rhode Island Cotton Manufacturers and Calico Printers By Benjamin Knight, Sr. Santa Cruz H. Coffin, Book and Job Printer 1881 - Page 8

MARRIED: Vital Record of Cranston, Johnston and North Providence, Rhode Island James N. Arnold 1983 1-324 Knight,Robert, of Robert, Jr, and Elizabeth Hammond, of Capt. Amos, of Scituate; m. by Jeremiah Angell, Justice, Nov. 12, 1769

MILITARY: D.A.R. Patriot Index - Volume II Page 1564 Knight, Robert Jr.: b 6-12-1750 RI d 7-31-1823 RI m (1)Elizabeth Hammond Pvt RI WPNS HPNS

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August 25, 1926

Mrs. Burton A. Crane 935 West Ninth St., Erie, Penn.

Madam:

   I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 13598 it appears that Robert Knight, while a resident of Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island, enlisted as a private in a corps known as the " Captain General's Cavaliers" and commanded by Colonels Benjamin Slack and Daniel Manton, Rhode Island Troops, and served as follows.

    From September 1776, four months, from May 1777, five months and was in General Spencer's Expediton, from April 1778, five months and was in General Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition, fron June 1779, four months, from January 1780 three months, then from the summer of 1780, three months, and from March 1781, three months. He died July 31, 1823.

    Soldier married November 12, 1769 in Cranston,Rhode Island (he was then of said Cranston and recorded as Robert,Junior), Elizabeth Hammond, daughter of Captain Amos Hammond of Scituate. She was allowed pension on her application executed January 2, 1840 while a resident of Warwick,Kent County,Rhode Island aged eight-nine years.

    Their son Robert was living in Providence,Rhode Island in 1840 aged fifty-eight years. No other children referred to.

    The above noted is the only Elizabeth Knight of Kent County,Rhode Island, widow of a Revolutionary War Soldier, found on the records of this Bureau.

Respectfully,

E.W. Morgan Acting Commissioner.

Transcribed by William Custer Knight November 15, 2004

SERV:Pvt RI W Pension SAR @027904 (Supp) MO #00476 TN #00178 SERV:Pvt RI Pension DESC:Knight, Edward B ANC #006882 RI #00082 DESC:Knight, Russell Winchester ANC #008027 RI #00177 DESC:Atwood, William Greene

Robert Knight served in Captain Gent's Cavaliers at the Battle of Rhode Island 1778.[Woolley G.w Family Tree.FBK.FTW.lnk.FTW-3.FTW]

DEATH: Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636 - 1850 First Series Births, Marriages and Deaths By James N. Arnold Vol. XII - 1901 - Page 550 Knight, Robert, in 74th year. July 31, 1832

Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636 - 1850 Birth, Marriages and Deaths By James N. Arnold Vol. XV Providence, R.I. Narragansett Historical Publishing Company Providence Phenix - Deaths 1905 - Page 538 Knight, Robert, in 74th year; funeral from Baptist Meeting House, Cranston, died, July 31, 1823