Bacheler Family Tree » Robert Knight (± 1585-1676)

Données personnelles Robert Knight 

• Il est né environ 1585 dans perhaps ofShepton Mallet
  England.
• Profession: Merchant.
• Il est décédé entre le 23 juin 1676 et le 24 août 1676Boston
  Massachusetts.
• Un enfant de Edward Knight et wife of Edward Knight
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 10 mai 2017.

Famille de Robert Knight

Il est marié avec Margaret Grimley.

Ils se sont mariés le 24 novembre 1608 à Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.

Enfant(s):

1. Margaret Knight  1622-1658 

Notes par Robert Knight

From association of names, Robert Knight may have come to America from Shepton
Mallet, Somerset Co., England, where a Samuel Adams and a Tapp family resided,
as also a Robert Knight.
Robert was an early Hampton, NH., settler who moved to Agamenticus (York) prior
to 1642. He bought Robert Blaisdell's house and lands in 1642 and received town
grants in 1648 and 1658. He was active in town affairs and was accorded the
title of respect, "Mr.." In 1668, he took over the care of a grandson, Rowland
Young, Jr. "which boy in time of his lameness Robert Knight took as his own."
His will, dated June 23, 1676, probated Aug. 24, 1676, named his son Richard of
Boston as his heir. Richard sold the land bequeath to him in the will to his
brother Rowland on 15 Feb. 1677.
His children were Richard, b. abt. 1620, d. 1690, a Boston weaver,
who m. Julian or Dinah (Unknown), d. 1690, a niece or grand-daughter of Matthew
Giles of Dover, and had 4 children; Margaret, b. abt. 1622, d. 30 May 1658, who
married John Redman of Dover, who died 30 Apr. 1658 and had 4 children; Daniel,
dates unknown; and Joan, b. abt. 1625, who married Rowland Young.
Robert Knight was not overy litigious, but on 28 June 1655, he did sue Nicholas
Frost for carrying away his newly mown hay; and on 15 Sept. 1668, he was sued by
Dockter Arthar Clapham for "the Expens of Time, Trubell & Chearge & medison"
for treating the lameness of Rowland Young's son which Robert Knight had taken
as his "owne Child" (
Province and Court Records of Maine
1931 v2 p34 167). By 1676 he had moved to Boston where his only son lived
since his will, although written 23 June 1676, was witnessed 24 Aug. 1676 by
Boston men, and recorded 28 Feb. 1678; no inventory reported and only his son
mentioned (W. M. Saargent
Maine Wills
1887 p. 56-57) No information about his wife. His children were Richard, Joan,
and Margaret (History of York r, p. 158).

{geni:about_me} ==Robert Knight==
* Birth:Between about 1585 and about 1600 - Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England
* Death:Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
* Wife:Margaret Grimley
* Children:Joanna Knight, Richard Knight, Margaret Knight

Arrived in Massachusetts in 1638.

Retrieved from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=halldb&id=I5242 8/5/2008

From association of names, Robert Knight may have come to America from Shepton Mallet, Somerset Co., England, where a Samuel Adams and a Tapp family resided, as also a Robert Knight.

Robert was an early Hampton, NH., settler who moved to Agamenticus (York) prior to 1642. He bought Robert Blaisdell's house and lands in 1642 and received town grants in 1648 and 1658. He was active in town affairs and was accorded the title of respect, "Mr.." In 1668, he took over the care of a grandson, Rowland Young, Jr. "which boy in time of his lameness Robert Knight took as his own."

His will, dated June 23, 1676, probated Aug. 24, 1676, named his son Richard of Boston as his heir. Richard sold the land bequeath to him in the will to his [adopted brother] Rowland on 15 Feb. 1677.

His children were
# Richard, b. abt. 1620, d. 1690, a Boston weaver, who m. Julian or Dinah (Unknown), d. 1690, a niece or grand-daughter of Matthew Giles of Dover, and had 4 children;
# Margaret, b. abt. 1622, d. 30 May 1658, who married John Redman of Dover, who died 30 Apr. 1658 and had 4 children;
# Daniel, dates unknown; and
# Joan, b. abt. 1625, who married Rowland Young.

Robert Knight was not overy litigious, but on 28 June 1655, he did sue Nicholas Frost for carrying away his newly mown hay; and on 15 Sept. 1668, he was sued by Arthar Clapham for "the Expens of Time, Trubell & Chearge & medison" for treating the lameness of Rowland Young's son which Robert Knight had taken as his "owne Child" (Province and Court Records of Maine 1931 v2 p34 167).

By 1676 he had moved to Boston where his only son lived since his will, although written 23 June 1676, was witnessed 24 Aug. 1676 by Boston men, and recorded 28 Feb. 1678; no inventory reported and only his son mentioned (W. M. Saargent Maine Wills 1887 p. 56-57) No information about his wife. His children were Richard, Joan, and Margaret (History of York,, p. 158).

Sources
# [http://books.google.com/books?id=L9ItAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PR3&ots=6FRpF8U_-P&dq=pioneers%20of%20massachusetts%20by%20charles%20h.%20pope&pg=PA118#v=onepage&q&f=false The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire,] 1623 to 1660: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns, Churches, Courts and Other Contemporary Sources (Google eBook) Charles Henry Pope. C.H. Pope, 1908 - Maine - 252 pages.  Page 118 "Knight" . "Robert, Mr., merchant, York, before 1643, [see testimony and letter in Mass. Arch. 38 B. 48-55.] Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652. Had letter of credit from Wrath Bathorne to his brother, Mr. Roger Bathorne, dated at Malago, 9 April, 1647, for his occasions in New England or Newfoundland. [A.] He deposed 7 Dec. 1658, ae. about 71 years, and again 6 July, 1671, ae. 86, as to what he heard Mr. Tho. Gorges say before he "went for England," —which is known to have been in 1643. [York De. I.] Gave land to his grandson John Redman, Jr. 18 Feb. 1666. His daughter Joanna m. Rowland Young; he gave land to grandson R. Y. Jr. 12 Aug. 1673, deed witnessed by the boy's sister Mary, who deposed as Mary Mowlton 24 June, 1678."

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