Person:William Knight (519)

Biography

REv. William KNIGHT of Ipswich

William Knight attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1630/1, MA in 1634. His sister Elizabeth married Israel Stoughton in 1627 and emigrated in 1632. Knight followed the Stoughtons to Massachusetts in 1637.^[1] He was at New Meadows (now Topsfield).^[2]

Her married first to Mary Hubbard and had a son William Knight Knight Vicar of Stotfold.^[3]

He returned permanently to England with Israel Stoughton in 1643 or possibly later (before 1648). Stoughton's will in London dated 17 July 1644 appoints 'my deere brother Mr William Knight' as an overseer.^[2]

He married second to Ann and had a daughter Elizabeth who was wife of Daniel Cole.

William Knight was preacher at St Matthew, Ipswich, in 1655. He was ordained 8 August 1654 by Ralph Brownrigg, bishop of Exeter. At the Restoration he conformed, and was licensed in Ipswich as curate of St Mary at Elms and rector of St Matthew. He was still rector in 1677. a successor was appointed in 1695.^[2]

He was the son of William Knight (died 1629) and his wife Elizabeth (died after 1644). The elder William Knight was "of Tuddenham Hall, Gloucestershire," and wrote a will dated March 20, 1629 as resident of St Olave's, Southwark, Surrey, England. In it he named his children William, John, Mary and Ursuly of St. Olave's; his wife Elizabeth, as executrix.^[4][5]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640 (Boston, Massachusetts. New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 2015): Southwark, Surrey; 1638; Ipswich; returned permanently to England in 1643 [ITR 40; Plain Dealing 93; TAG 33:108-12; Morison 385-86; Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2011) 2:507-8; Abandoning 167- 68].
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Susan Hardman Moore, Abandoning American: Life-stores from early New England (Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK: The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2013) 167-8 Knight, William
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry (Salt Lake City, Utah: 2013) 3:349-353 Hubbard One of the daughters of Judith (Knapp) Hubbard married William Knight, minister of St Mathewes parish in Ipswich") from Royal Ancestry citing Candler 1868 316-317 & Metcalf Visitations 1882 p 149 - there was only one dau this could be - Mary.
4. ↑ will of William Knight dated March 20, 1629 as resident of St Olave's, Southwark, Surrey, England. In it he named his children William, John, Mary and Ursuly of St. Olave's; his wife Elizabeth, as executrix.
5. ↑ TAG 33:108

1. Thomas Lechford, Plain Dealing: or, Newes From New-England (London 1642) 92
2. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College (Cambridge 1935) [especially for Appendix B, "English University Men Who Emigrated to New England Before 1646," 385-86
3. GMB 1775-6;
4. W.L. Sachse, 'The migration of New Englanders to England, 1640-1660',
5. American Historical Review, 53 (1947-8), 278;
6. N.C.P. Tyack, 'Migration from East Anglia to New England before 1660' (PhD dissertation, University of London, 1951), 88;
7. NEHGR 4:52; 7:333; LPL, MS COMM. II, fol. 380;
8. CCEd Person ID 126006.
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