Saturday, June 13, 2015

Surname Saturday - KNIGHT (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1125 who is  Mary KNIGHT (1621-1701) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this KNIGHT family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

280.  Thomas Dill (1682-1718)
281.  Mary Peirce (1682-1713)

562.  Nathaniel Peirce, (1655-1692)
563.  Elizabeth Pierce (1646-????)

1124.  Robert Peirce, born before 21 December 1621 in Norwich, Norfolk, England; died 10 September 1706 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2248.  John Pers and 2249. Elizabeth.  He married 16 October 1645 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
1125.  Mary Knight, born before 14 July 1621 in Romsey, Hampshire, England; died 18 March 1701 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Robert Pierce and Mary Knight are:
*  Judith Pierce (1651-1689).
*  Mary Pierce (1654-1695), married 1672 John Walker (1650-1724).
*  Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692), married (1) 1677 Hannah Converse; (2) 1680 Elizabeth Pierce (1646-????).
*  Thomas Pierce (1657-1693), married 1692 Elizabeth Hall (1673-1710).
*  Elizabeth Pierce (1659-????), married 1682 Samuel Wilson (1658-1729).
*  Joseph Pierce (1660-1672).
*  Jonathan Pierce (1663-1694), married 1689 Hannah Walker (1672-1726).
*  John Pierce (1664-1716), married 1691 Elizabeth Mudge (1674-1748).
*  Benjamin Pierce (1667-1715), married 1693 Hannah Bowers (1669-1746).
*  Sarah Pierce (1669-????).
*  Joseph Pierce (1672-1749), married 1700 Ruth (????-1712).

2250.  John Knight, born before 30 January 1594 in Romsey, Hampshire, England; died 22 May 1674 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  1619 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
2251.  Mary Pickering, born about 1598 in Southampton, Hampshire, England; died 16 May 1676 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of John Knight and Mary Pickering are:
*  Mary Knight (1621-1701), married (1) John Osborn; (2) 1645 Robert Pierce (1621-1706).
*  Joseph Knight (1624-1687), married 1649 Hannah Lamb (1633-1695).
*  John Knight (1630-1714), married 1654 Ruhamah Johnson (1634-1659).
*  Michael Knight (1634-1657), married 1657 Mary Bullared (1628-1703).

Information about the Knight family was obtained from:

*  Joan S. Guilford, The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford, Volume I: Seventeenth Century New England Colonials (Orange, Calif. : Sheridan Psychological Services, 1990), pages 506-510.

UPDATED:  Corrected parents of Robert Peirce (1621-1706).

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