Friday, August 25, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 189: #268 Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752) of Ipswich and Concord, Massachusetts

Jeremiah Knowlton (1713-1752) is #268 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #269 Sarah Allen in 1735 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their son #134 Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785) who married Abigail Peirce (1750-1776) in 1771.
*  their daughter #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) married #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830) in 1790.
*  their daughter #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*  Name:                      Jeremiah Knowlton[3-6]
*  Alternate Name:      Jeremiah Knoulton [1-2]   

*  Sex:                         Male
  
*  Father:                     Nathaniel Knowlton (1683-1760)   
*  Mother:                   Mary Bennett (1685-1717)  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Birth:                        before 2 August 1713, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]   
*  Baptism:                  2 August 1713 (after age 0), Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]
*  Deed:                       5 March 1741 (after age 27), bought land in Concord from Benjamin Fletcher for £20; Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]   
*  Deed:                       26 January 1743 (after age 29), sold land in Concord to Aaron Brown for £2 10s; Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
*  Deed:                       26 April 1745 (after age 31), sold land in Concord to Francis Winship for £110; Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
*  Death:                      about 1752 (after about age 39), Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States      
  
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1                  Sarah Allen (1717-1796)   
*  Marriage 1:              24 July 1735 (after age 21), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]   

*  Child 1:                   John Knowlton (1736-    )   
*  Child 2:                   Abigail Knowlton (1739-    )   
*  Child 3:                   Nathaniel Knowlton (1741-    )   
*  Child 4:                   Benjamin Knowlton (1743-    )   
*  Child 5:                   Jeremiah Knowlton (1745-1785)   
  
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

Jeremiah Knowlton was born before 2 August 1713 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, the fifth and last child of Nathaniel and Mary (Bennett) Knowlton.  He was baptized in the Ipswich church on 2 August 1713[1-2].

Jeremiah Knowlton of Concord married 24 July 1735 in Sudbury to Sarah Allen, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Grande) Allen of Sudbury[3].  They had five children between 1736 and 1745, all recorded in Concord, Massachusetts.

On 5 March 1741, Benjamin Fletcher, husbandman of Concord, sold a piece of land in the eastern part of Concord to Jeremiah Knowlton, tailor of Concord, for 20 pounds in bills of credit[4].  The parcel was about 25 square rods, bounded by a highway, land of Eleazar Flagg and Benjamin Fletcher's own land.  The deed was recorded 22 May 1745.

On 26 January 1743/4, Jeremiah Knowlton, tailor of Concord, sold a small piece of land in Concord to Aaron Brown for two pounds 10 shillings[5].  The land was in the easterly part of Concord with a dwelling house, bounded by the highway, land of Eleazer Flagg, land of Benjamin Fletcher, and his own land.  The deed was recorded 31 October 1744.

On 26 April 1745, Jeremiah Knowlton, tailor of Concord, sold two parcels of land in the eastern part of Concord to Francis Winship, glazier of Concord, for 110 pounds in old tenour bills[6].  The first parcel with a dwelling house was bounded by the highway, Benjamin Fletcher's land and land sold to Aaron Brown  The second parcel was bounded by the highway, land of Benjamin Fletcher, and land of the heirs of Eleazer Flagg.  The deed was recorded on 22 May 1745.

Jeremiah died in about 1752 in Concord.  There are no death or burial records for him.

Jeremiah Knowlton did not have a probate record in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  

After his death, his widow Sarah Knowlton sold rights to a well on the remaining property in late 1752, and a parcel of land in the same area of Concord in 1762.
 
5)  SOURCES

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Ipswich > Church Records, Earmarks, with Births, Marriages, Deaths, page 90 (image 293 of 326), Jerem^h Knoulton baptism entry, 2 August 1713.

2. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute,1910-1919), Births, page 225, Jerem[ia]h Knoulton entry.

3. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Marriages, page 229, Jeremiah Knowlton and Sarah Allen entry.

4. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), Middlesex County, Volume 45, page 164, Benjamin Fletcher to Jeremiah Knowlton, recorded 22 May 1745.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 44, page 362, Jeremiah Knowlton to Aaron Brown, recorded 31 October 1744.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 45, page 165, Jeremiah Knowlton to Francis Winship, recorded 22 May 1745.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.


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