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1601 Richard Knight, 1656 David Knight, 1693 David E. Knight, 1721 David Knight, 1742 Samuel Knight, 1768 Rodolphus Knight, 1804 Vinson Knight, 1833 James Vincent Knight, 1887 Samuel Lee Knight, 1917 Milton Knight
There were TWO Richard Knights in early Rhode Island.
Perhaps distantly related but often confabulated was the son of William Knight Jr and Elizabeth Carter. William was born 12 May 1565 and Elizabeth was born 6 Mar 1570, both in Romsey, Hampshire, England.
1) John Knight, Sr 1595-1670
He was born 30 Jan 1595 in Romsey, England to William Knight and Elizabeth Carter. He married Sarah Hawkins, with whom he had one child in 1622, John Knight Jr. Sarah died either during or shortly after childbirth.
On 29 Mar 1624 he married his second wife, Elizabeth Vincent, with whom he had four more children: Elizabeth in 1625, Sarah in 1627, Judith in 1628, and Mary in 1634. In 1635 John, Elizabeth, and their children came to settle in Newbury, MA on the ship "James of London." They were founding settlers in Newbury, MA. Elizabeth died 20 Mar 1644.
John then married his third wife, Agnes "Ann" Langley Ingersoll, later that year. Ann Langley Ingersoll happened to be his first son John's widowed mother-in-law. (John Knight Jr had married Bathsheba Ingersoll) John Sr and Ann Langley Ingersoll had no children together and remained married until his death on 22 May 1670 in Newbury, MA.
2) Richard Knight 1603-1683
Richard was born 14 Jan 1603 in Romsey, Hampshire, England. He married Agnes Coffley/Coffey, date unknown. Like his brother John Knight Sr, he was a tailor by trade, and a founder of Newbury, MA. Their original purpose in coming to Newbury, as was the purpose of its other founders, was to raise cattle.
In the' Civil and Military list of R. I , Richard Knight was keeper of the prison in 1648-9, and served as ‘Generall Sargent’ and ‘Water Boyle’ during the years from 1649 to 1658; was made a freeman in 1655; was ' paid thirty pounds in 1659 due him for service done for the colony in his office of Generall Sargent since Oct. 10. 1656; Richard died 4 Aug 1683 in Newbury, MA. Records are sketchy for his wife Agnes, but the Massachusetts Town and Vital Records say she died 23 Mar 1678 in Newburyport, MA.
The Austin, Knight, and Littlefield families were well acquainted in 1500 Hampshire England, working, marrying, and sharing religious beliefs. During the early 1600's they lived in the Bishopstoke, Droxford and Titchfield area of Hampshire England.
1601-Richard KNIGHT. was born in Hampshire England, married and had a son mentioned in his will of 8 Feb 1648
Richard Austin and Annis Agnes Littlefield are brother and sister.
The first known members of the three families to reach New England were
1. Edmund LITTLEFIELD. Born in 1592 in Titchfield, Hampshire, England. Edmund was baptized in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, on 27 Jun 1592.
In Hampshire, Edmund was a clothier by trade as was his father, Francis Littlefield, before him. The decline of the wool trade possibly played a major part in his decision to migrate to America. He arrived in the new world in 1637, the year before his wife Annis (Austin) and the six youngest children sailed on the "Bevis" in May of 1638, bound for his location in Charleston, Massachusetts near Boston.
Apparently with him in New England were his elder son 2. Francis and Richard Austin and Elizabeth’s two oldest sons, 3. Matthew Austin - 18 (1620) and 4. Robert Austin - 8 (1630).
Edmund met and agreed with John Wheelwright (Whelewright) who was born in Lincolnshire, England, in the year 1592. He arrived in Boston May 16, 1636 and was banished to Piscatuqua in 1637 for sedition, and died November 15, 1679 at Salisbury, New Hampshire.
Robert Knight (1601) age 37 came to New England as a carpenter servant to Richard 40 and Elizabeth 28 Austin and their younger sons, Richard, 6 and Anthony, 2. They sailed in April 1638 aboard a ship named “Bevis” from Southampton, England and arrived in Boston Harbor on May 16, 1638. They were from Bishopstoke, a village in the southern county of Hampshire about a mile east of Eastleigh on the eastern bank of the River Itchen. The passenger list indicates Richard was a Tailor.
Along with their two children they brought Annis Littlefield, Richard’s sister, with 6 children and two servants, John Knight - carpenter, and Hough Durdal.
Richard Austin died soon after arriving in America and the family settled in, probably after the two Knight carpenters left with the Littlefield family for Exeter New Hampshire.
Half the passangers were adults, half children.
NOTE: Many of the above ages from the Bevis are not correct. Richard Knight was actually 50, not 40. I don’t see how they got 37 for Robert Knight’s age. It looks like the age of the next person on the list. The relation between Richard and John Knight is not known. Brothers? Father and son? Cousins? Their Carpenter skills were immediately needed in New Hampshire.
"Shortly after arrival in New England, Richard's wife's brother, Edmund Littlefield "broke from his congregation" to then settle in Exeter in New Hampshire.[8]" David B. Gracy II, "George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business," p. 4. See also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Austin_%28colonist%29
With him wenr his wife Annis, 6 children, and the two Knight carpenters to become part of the Wheelwright group of followers that established the town of Exeter in what would become the Province of New Hampshire
www.exeterhistory.org/exeter-history/2016/6/24/early-exeter-history-1638-1887
“In the winter of 1639 Exeter parceled out to its inhabitants its salt marshes, natural meadows, and upland lots for planting. The government functioned: it passed regulations controlling lumbering and the pasturage of swine; in 1640 it authorized Thomas Wilson to operate a grist mill; it ordered the owner of swine that had damaged and Indian's corn fields to make restitution in kind; it made provisions for a "band of soldiers"; and it passed a number of other regulations, which give us some idea of life in earliest Exeter. We know little about how the town looked but can assume that some of the settlers built substantial houses because
4 Aug 1640 Richard Knight agreed with the nearby town of Hampton to keep a mill at the landing and was granted 100 acres, "History of Hampton,N.H.",Pope.
14 Sep 1640, Richard contracted to build the meeting house at Hampton.
29 Jan 1640/1641, He was to make a gate for the pound.
Dec 1641, He was a defendant in a suit brought by Stephen Kent.
LAND: 1645, Adjoining to the house, twelve acres and half of upland at Gauges wigwam and ten acres of meddow adjoining to the same, and fourty acres of upland in the west field adjoing to William Hayward's land on the east and William Fifield on the west, and this was by an absolute deed of Sale dated the 5 (3) 1645.
(Signed) Richard Knight
Witness: William Walderne, An Jenks,Recorded in Suffolk Deeds, Bk. 1 page 68.
1645, A warrant was issued for the arrest of Richard Knight of Hampton.
9 Sep 1645, Joseph Armetage was ordered by the Court to hold all goods in his hands of "Richard Knight late of Hampton, now of Rhode Island"
-Essex Quarterly Court Files, Vol. 1,pg. 88.
February 1646, Goodman Knight conveyed his house, mill, and 100 acres at Hampton to Christopher Lawson of Boston, Mass.
1. OUR Richard Knight of Rhode Island
In December 1646 Richard Knight brought suit at Newport against William Jeffery (Acquidneck Quarterly Court Files, printed).
1648 Jan 16 - Richard married Sarah ROGERS in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.
On 16 Jan. 1647/8 land at Newport was conveyed to him by James Rogers, whose daughter Sarah he married about this time. On 8 Feb. 1648/9 he agreed with his wife Sarah not to sell the 40 acres of land bought of James Rogers and Robert Griffin, but entailed it upon her and his eldest son by her, who was to have it at the age of twenty years. If he should have no son, then the land was to go to their eldest daughter, at the age of sixteen years. Moreover, his son in Old England was to have no part in it. (Rhode Island Colonial Deeds, edited by Chaplin, vol. 1, p. 6.)
Will of Richard Knight, Feb 1648:
1649 Son John born in East Greenwich Rhode Island.
1653 - Son Jonathan born in Newport, Newport Rhode Island.(May belong to the other Richard Knight)
1656 - Son David born on Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut.
1658 - Son Richard born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
1662 - Daughter Priscilla born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
1665 - Rebecca born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
1676 May 18 - Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked a Native fishing camp at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River, now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The colonists killed 100–200 Natives in retaliation for earlier Native attacks against Deerfield and other settlements and for the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook.
Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed during the return from the falls.
1677 Oct 31 For rendered service to the Colony in King Philip's War he was one of the grantees of the East Greenwich lands, for service in that war. Each grantee received 100 acres.
"Newport this 12th of November 1679
Loving frind mr fild: after my serves remembred to you this ar to lette you undearsand that I that your towne shold macke mee waitte so longe for so small a som of mony which have bin so longe dwe as this have bin to mee and aftear my longe forbarance thay have broken too generall Cortte ordares to my great damage now tharfor I desiear you that it may bee sent to mee spedly and uppon the resait I shall send [ ] but if you send it not I pray writte mee whoo is your tresor for I prefor to send the genarall Sargant spedly so intviting your Ansor by mr hart I rest youres to Command in what is Just.
Richard Knight"
1880 Oct - Richard Knight died. If the Bevis record is correct, he was 79.
After his death His wife Sarah moved to his East Greenwich land.
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Gleanings from Newport Court Files 1659 - 1783 Jane Fletcher Fiske
1710, September: John Knight now resident in Providence…eldest son, and heir of John Knight late of Norwich in ye Collony of Connecticut decesd: grandson and heir of Richard Knight of Newport decesd vs. Peter Wells, Job Babcock, William Tanner, Isaac Shelden, Joseph Car[pen]ter, Peter Crandall, Samuel Hopkins & Gersham Cotterell yeomen all of Kingstowne…in a plea of partition, damage L800 as per summons dated 15 July 1710. In their plea, by attorney N. Blagrove, the defendants stated that they held no land in common undivided with the plaintiff…what land they hold is in fee simple, having received their title from Henery Hall, surviving joint tenant of [torn] Knight. David Knight and West Clark upon their engagement say that Richard Knight of Newport decd about 31 years agoe.
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1601 Richard Knight, 1656 David Knight, 1693 David E. Knight, 1721 David Knight, 1742 Samuel Knight, 1768 Rodolphus Knight, 1804 Vinson Knight, 1833 James Vincent Knight, 1887 Samuel Lee Knight, 1917 Milton Knight
There were TWO Richard Knights in early Rhode Island.
Perhaps distantly related but often confabulated was the son of William Knight Jr and Elizabeth Carter. William was born 12 May 1565 and Elizabeth was born 6 Mar 1570, both in Romsey, Hampshire, England.
They had two sons, tailors by trade.
1) John Knight, Sr 1595-1670
He was born 30 Jan 1595 in Romsey, England to William Knight and Elizabeth Carter. He married Sarah Hawkins, with whom he had one child in 1622, John Knight Jr. Sarah died either during or shortly after childbirth.
On 29 Mar 1624 he married his second wife, Elizabeth Vincent, with whom he had four more children: Elizabeth in 1625, Sarah in 1627, Judith in 1628, and Mary in 1634. In 1635 John, Elizabeth, and their children came to settle in Newbury, MA on the ship "James of London." They were founding settlers in Newbury, MA. Elizabeth died 20 Mar 1644.
John then married his third wife, Agnes "Ann" Langley Ingersoll, later that year. Ann Langley Ingersoll happened to be his first son John's widowed mother-in-law. (John Knight Jr had married Bathsheba Ingersoll) John Sr and Ann Langley Ingersoll had no children together and remained married until his death on 22 May 1670 in Newbury, MA.
2) Richard Knight 1603-1683
Richard was born 14 Jan 1603 in Romsey, Hampshire, England. He married Agnes Coffley/Coffey, date unknown. Like his brother John Knight Sr, he was a tailor by trade, and a founder of Newbury, MA. Their original purpose in coming to Newbury, as was the purpose of its other founders, was to raise cattle.
In the' Civil and Military list of R. I , Richard Knight was keeper of the prison in 1648-9, and served as ‘Generall Sargent’ and ‘Water Boyle’ during the years from 1649 to 1658; was made a freeman in 1655; was ' paid thirty pounds in 1659 due him for service done for the colony in his office of Generall Sargent since Oct. 10. 1656; Richard died 4 Aug 1683 in Newbury, MA. Records are sketchy for his wife Agnes, but the Massachusetts Town and Vital Records say she died 23 Mar 1678 in Newburyport, MA.
THE KEYS TO FINDING OUR RICHARD KNIGHT ARE THE AUSTIN AND LITTLEFIELD FAMILYS
The Austin, Knight, and Littlefield families were well acquainted in 1500 Hampshire England, working, marrying, and sharing religious beliefs. During the early 1600's they lived in the Bishopstoke, Droxford and Titchfield area of Hampshire England.
1601-Richard KNIGHT. was born in Hampshire England, married and had a son mentioned in his will of 8 Feb 1648
Richard Austin and Annis Agnes Littlefield are brother and sister.
The first known members of the three families to reach New England were
1. Edmund LITTLEFIELD. Born in 1592 in Titchfield, Hampshire, England. Edmund was baptized in Titchfield, Hampshire, England, on 27 Jun 1592.
In Hampshire, Edmund was a clothier by trade as was his father, Francis Littlefield, before him. The decline of the wool trade possibly played a major part in his decision to migrate to America. He arrived in the new world in 1637, the year before his wife Annis (Austin) and the six youngest children sailed on the "Bevis" in May of 1638, bound for his location in Charleston, Massachusetts near Boston.
Apparently with him in New England were his elder son 2. Francis and Richard Austin and Elizabeth’s two oldest sons, 3. Matthew Austin - 18 (1620) and 4. Robert Austin - 8 (1630).
Edmund met and agreed with John Wheelwright (Whelewright) who was born in Lincolnshire, England, in the year 1592. He arrived in Boston May 16, 1636 and was banished to Piscatuqua in 1637 for sedition, and died November 15, 1679 at Salisbury, New Hampshire.
The Piscataqua River (/ pɪsˈkætəˌkwɔː, - kwə /) is a 12-mile-long (19 km) tidal river forming the boundary of the U.S. states of New Hampshire and Maine from its origin at the confluence of the Salmon Falls River and Cocheco River.
Robert Knight (1601) age 37 came to New England as a carpenter servant to Richard 40 and Elizabeth 28 Austin and their younger sons, Richard, 6 and Anthony, 2. They sailed in April 1638 aboard a ship named “Bevis” from Southampton, England and arrived in Boston Harbor on May 16, 1638. They were from Bishopstoke, a village in the southern county of Hampshire about a mile east of Eastleigh on the eastern bank of the River Itchen. The passenger list indicates Richard was a Tailor.
Along with their two children they brought Annis Littlefield, Richard’s sister, with 6 children and two servants, John Knight - carpenter, and Hough Durdal.
Richard Austin died soon after arriving in America and the family settled in, probably after the two Knight carpenters left with the Littlefield family for Exeter New Hampshire.
The Ship Master was named Robert Batten. One voyage in May of 1638 carried 61 settlers from Southampton, England, leaving before 12 May 1638 in which they were “some Dayes gone to sea”, to "Newengland", all one word. The ship's passenger destinations included: Newbury, Weymouth, Wells, Maine, Newport, Salisbury, and Charlestown.
Half the passangers were adults, half children.
Austin Richard of Bishopstocke 40, Taylor , his wife and 2 children
*Knight Robert 37, Carpenter Servant to R. Austin
Littlefield Annis 38 Littlefield children, 6
*Knight John, carpenter and Littlefield servant
Durdal Hough, Littlefield servant
*Knight Robert 37, Carpenter Servant to R. Austin
Littlefield Annis 38 Littlefield children, 6
*Knight John, carpenter and Littlefield servant
Durdal Hough, Littlefield servant
NOTE: Many of the above ages from the Bevis are not correct. Richard Knight was actually 50, not 40. I don’t see how they got 37 for Robert Knight’s age. It looks like the age of the next person on the list. The relation between Richard and John Knight is not known. Brothers? Father and son? Cousins? Their Carpenter skills were immediately needed in New Hampshire.
"Shortly after arrival in New England, Richard's wife's brother, Edmund Littlefield "broke from his congregation" to then settle in Exeter in New Hampshire.[8]" David B. Gracy II, "George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business," p. 4. See also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Austin_%28colonist%29
With him wenr his wife Annis, 6 children, and the two Knight carpenters to become part of the Wheelwright group of followers that established the town of Exeter in what would become the Province of New Hampshire
www.exeterhistory.org/exeter-history/2016/6/24/early-exeter-history-1638-1887
“In the winter of 1639 Exeter parceled out to its inhabitants its salt marshes, natural meadows, and upland lots for planting. The government functioned: it passed regulations controlling lumbering and the pasturage of swine; in 1640 it authorized Thomas Wilson to operate a grist mill; it ordered the owner of swine that had damaged and Indian's corn fields to make restitution in kind; it made provisions for a "band of soldiers"; and it passed a number of other regulations, which give us some idea of life in earliest Exeter. We know little about how the town looked but can assume that some of the settlers built substantial houses because
*** there were two carpenters among the first settlers, ***
and because we know that at least two of their houses were in use many years later. Most of the first settlers, including Wheelwright, lived on the west side of the river, but a few lived on the east side. The settlers raised cattle and swine; they made barrel staves and shakes entirely with had tools; they did some planting; and they exploited the abundant fish in the rivers.”
4 Aug 1640 Richard Knight agreed with the nearby town of Hampton to keep a mill at the landing and was granted 100 acres, "History of Hampton,N.H.",Pope.
14 Sep 1640, Richard contracted to build the meeting house at Hampton.
29 Jan 1640/1641, He was to make a gate for the pound.
Dec 1641, He was a defendant in a suit brought by Stephen Kent.
LAND: 1645, Adjoining to the house, twelve acres and half of upland at Gauges wigwam and ten acres of meddow adjoining to the same, and fourty acres of upland in the west field adjoing to William Hayward's land on the east and William Fifield on the west, and this was by an absolute deed of Sale dated the 5 (3) 1645.
(Signed) Richard Knight
Witness: William Walderne, An Jenks,Recorded in Suffolk Deeds, Bk. 1 page 68.
1645, A warrant was issued for the arrest of Richard Knight of Hampton.
9 Sep 1645, Joseph Armetage was ordered by the Court to hold all goods in his hands of "Richard Knight late of Hampton, now of Rhode Island"
-Essex Quarterly Court Files, Vol. 1,pg. 88.
February 1646, Goodman Knight conveyed his house, mill, and 100 acres at Hampton to Christopher Lawson of Boston, Mass.
1. OUR Richard Knight of Rhode Island
In December 1646 Richard Knight brought suit at Newport against William Jeffery (Acquidneck Quarterly Court Files, printed).
1648 Jan 16 - Richard married Sarah ROGERS in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.
On 16 Jan. 1647/8 land at Newport was conveyed to him by James Rogers, whose daughter Sarah he married about this time. On 8 Feb. 1648/9 he agreed with his wife Sarah not to sell the 40 acres of land bought of James Rogers and Robert Griffin, but entailed it upon her and his eldest son by her, who was to have it at the age of twenty years. If he should have no son, then the land was to go to their eldest daughter, at the age of sixteen years. Moreover, his son in Old England was to have no part in it. (Rhode Island Colonial Deeds, edited by Chaplin, vol. 1, p. 6.)
Will of Richard Knight, Feb 1648:
Newport the 8th day of February 1648 . . . I Richard Knight of Newport doe inverce and ingage to my wife Sarah Knight that I will not sell . . . any of the Tract of Land latly bought of James Rogers and Robert Griffin but doe. . . Intaile it upon her and my heires forever, but Especialy to her and my Eldist: sonn if any and in case wee have no sonn to my Eldist daughter to be my and her proper he ire after my death and if a sonn he shall have it at The age of oile and Twenty yeares if I have left my beinge in this life, and if noe sonn then the Eldist daughter shall have it at Sixteene yeares of age provided alwaies that the thirds of the Land and the best and convenientest roome in the house is to be my wifes, duringe her life, and then to returne to the heire . . . But if there be more then one Sonn the daughters are noe heires soe long as any of the male be liveinge, but if noe sonn or sonns or if the sonn or sonns die with Ishue, then the Eldist daughter then livinge shall be the Right heire, But this is more Largely declared that if the Eldist sonn dye without Ishue the next shall enjoy it, But if the first have children whether sonns or daughters and alsoe the rest that are herein appointed to be heires, And this have I done the day and yeare above written, to avoyd strife because my sonn in ole England shall have nothing to doe herein nor have any Right to any Land of mine in New-England. In testimony hereof I put to my hand this day and yeare aforesaid.
Signed in the presence off John Downeing (his X marke) Robert Spink X his mark Richard Knight
Signed in the presence off John Downeing (his X marke) Robert Spink X his mark Richard Knight
1649 Son John born in East Greenwich Rhode Island.
1653 - Son Jonathan born in Newport, Newport Rhode Island.(May belong to the other Richard Knight)
1656 - Son David born on Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut.
1658 - Son Richard born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
1662 - Daughter Priscilla born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
1665 - Rebecca born in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island.
Battle of Turner's Falls
1676 May 18 - Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers (mostly minimally trained farmers) attacked a Native fishing camp at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River, now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The colonists killed 100–200 Natives in retaliation for earlier Native attacks against Deerfield and other settlements and for the colonial losses in the Battle of Bloody Brook.
Turner and nearly 40 of the militia were killed during the return from the falls.
1677 Oct 31 For rendered service to the Colony in King Philip's War he was one of the grantees of the East Greenwich lands, for service in that war. Each grantee received 100 acres.
"Newport this 12th of November 1679
Loving frind mr fild: after my serves remembred to you this ar to lette you undearsand that I that your towne shold macke mee waitte so longe for so small a som of mony which have bin so longe dwe as this have bin to mee and aftear my longe forbarance thay have broken too generall Cortte ordares to my great damage now tharfor I desiear you that it may bee sent to mee spedly and uppon the resait I shall send [ ] but if you send it not I pray writte mee whoo is your tresor for I prefor to send the genarall Sargant spedly so intviting your Ansor by mr hart I rest youres to Command in what is Just.
Richard Knight"
1880 Oct - Richard Knight died. If the Bevis record is correct, he was 79.
After his death His wife Sarah moved to his East Greenwich land.
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Gleanings from Newport Court Files 1659 - 1783 Jane Fletcher Fiske
1710, September: John Knight now resident in Providence…eldest son, and heir of John Knight late of Norwich in ye Collony of Connecticut decesd: grandson and heir of Richard Knight of Newport decesd vs. Peter Wells, Job Babcock, William Tanner, Isaac Shelden, Joseph Car[pen]ter, Peter Crandall, Samuel Hopkins & Gersham Cotterell yeomen all of Kingstowne…in a plea of partition, damage L800 as per summons dated 15 July 1710. In their plea, by attorney N. Blagrove, the defendants stated that they held no land in common undivided with the plaintiff…what land they hold is in fee simple, having received their title from Henery Hall, surviving joint tenant of [torn] Knight. David Knight and West Clark upon their engagement say that Richard Knight of Newport decd about 31 years agoe.
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1601 Richard Knight, 1656 David Knight, 1693 David E. Knight, 1721 David Knight, 1742 Samuel Knight, 1768 Rodolphus Knight, 1804 Vinson Knight, 1833 James Vincent Knight, 1887 Samuel Lee Knight, 1917 Milton Knight