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- From Dr David Knight's grandmother's notes: Came with a relative, perhaps a brother, from Romsey, Hants, sailing from [Sout] Hampton in the 'James' in 1635 to Newbury, MA. Mercer. [See Giles Knight - half-brother.]
THE KNIGHT FAMILY, Rev. Lewis Hubert Knight: 'helped finance the Pilgrims, & subscribed to the Plymouth agreement in 1626; householder in Cambridge, MA, Original proprietor Sudbury, owned property in Watertown in 1636. M. Mary who d. a widow May 18, 1676. John d. May 29, 1674.'
ANCIENT LANDMARKS OF PLYMOUTH, Davis (pp. 14, 15): ' Capt. John Smith, writing in 1624, says that 'the adventurers which raised the stock to begin & supply this plantation, were about 70, some gentlemen, some merchants, some handicraftsmen, some adventuring great sums, some small, as their estates & affection served. These dwell most in London. They are not a corporation, but knit together by a voluntary combination in a society without restraint or penalty, aiming to do good & to plan religion.' The following however is a later list , comprising those who subscribed an agreement made with the Plymouth Colony, November 25, 1626: ... John Knight, Eliza Knight, and others.' It is probable that most of those whose names are borne on this list were numbered among the adventurers in 1620 .. It is known that John Knight becme permanent settler here before 1640..'
Coat of arms & crest are found in a new large blue book COLONIAL FAMILIES OF AMERICA, Vol. VI, AP Kx 1928.
History of Cambridge MA: John Knight sold a home to Nicholas Simpkins 20NOV1637, & in 1637 or 1638, a home to Roger Shaw near junction of Bow & Arrow streets.
History of Watertown: admitted freeman in 1636. In 1642 proprietor of a homestall & 14 other lots of land. IN 1651 bought a house in Sudbury. 3MAR1651 he & wife Mary sold 10 parcels of land.
H. H. Crapo, SOME COMEOVERERS, 1912: Came in 'James' with wife Elizabeth in 1635, from Romsey, Hants (half-way between Southampston & Salisbury]. Knights are buried in the churchyard of S. Mary's. Sailed from Southampton in April, arrived in Boston in June. He settled at Newbury. In same ship was bro. Richard Knight, known afterwards in Newbury as Deacon Knight. Both were merchant tailors. Richard more active in town affairs. In 1637 John licensed to 'keep an ordinary & give entertainment to such as neede.' Predecessor of Tristram Coffin as innkeeper of the town. John was selectman & Constable in 1638 & several times later. 1939 granted a lot 'on condition that he follow fishing', in 1645 had a house lot in the 'new town' joining South Street. Elizabeth d. 20MAR1645, & soon afterwards he m. Ann Langley, widow of Richard Ingersoll (d. 1644) of Salem. John's son John Knight (b. 1622) in 1647 m. Bathsheba Ingersoll, dau. of his stepmother. John Sr d. May 1670; John Jr admitted freeman in 1668. Mary Knight, dau. of John Jr & Bathsheba Ingersoll (d. 30JUL1677), m. in 1681 Timothy Noyes ... [see descent to Smith, Tappan, Crapo.] PROBABLY CONFUSED WITH OUR JOHN KNIGHT, ABOVE
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