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Zebina Knight
b.27 Jan 1788 Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
d.28 Aug 1871 Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire
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m. 10 Jul 1770
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BIOGRAPHY: Descendants of Nathaniel Gunn and Esther Belden Volume I: Five Generations Paul J. McCarthy January 2002 - Page 50/159 Genealogy of the Graves Family in America Three Vols. By John Card Graves, M. A., Published at Buffalo, N. Y. by Baker, Jones & Co. 1896 - Page 96 History and Genealogies of the Hammond Families in America Frederick Stam Hammond Vol. I. Oneida, N. Y. Ryan & Burkhart, Printers 1902 - Page 286 History of Greenfield Shire Town of Franklin County, Massachusetts By Francis M. Thompson Volume II Greenfield , Mass. 1904 - Page 655 In 1815 Zebina Knight purchase from Alexander Morgan, or succeeded to, a tanning business, the vats and bark houses being in the hollow directly west of the Rugg Manufacturing Co. works. He continued buying land until he owned quite a large tract extending to the seven mile line, and in 1835 sold out to James Newton. His purchase included the Coates and the H. G. Woodard places. Mr. Newton lived at first on the Woodward place, and built the Newton house about 1840. The Coates place, formerly owned by David Smead, David Smead, Jr., Zebina Knight, James Newton, Thomas Nims, John B. Willard, Paul Willard, Edwin Hubbard, William R. Thayer and Edwin J. Jones, was deeded by Jones to Charles S. Coates, in 1860, and was owned by him when he died. |