Deborah
Knowlton
formerly [surname unknown]
Born about in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
John Knowlton Sr.
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
John Knowlton, Nathaniel Knowlton, Elizabeth Knowlton, Thomas Knowlton, Abraham Knowlton, Catherine Knowlton, Deborah Knowlton, Robert Knowlton, Susanna Knowlton, Ephraim Knowlton and Ezekiel Knowlton
Died about
at about age 42
in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Contents |
Biography
Research Notes
The original sources for this entry (separated below as "previous sources") all rely on the Stocking Genealogy of the Knowlton family. Stocking is the only source to give her date of birth, a date of death, or the last name Grant. The only physical evidence we have for Deborah, wife of John Knowlton, is a court deposition from Ipswich in 1677.
Stocking also asserts that John had a second marriage to a Sarah ?, but this is more likely referring to their son, John Knowlton, as Sarah died in 1678-9 and Deborah is still this John Knowlton's wife in late 1677. This is also the evidence for all of their children belonging to Deborah rather than Sarah.
Sources
- Essex County Depositions, Vol. 6, pg. 352: "“Deborah, wife of John Knolton, deposed that Sarah, wife of Henry Gould about two years ago brought a writing to her house and desired her to read it and after she had read it . . . .”
Previous sources (listing her as Deborah Grant)
- Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Note: APID: 1,7249::0
- Broken Link: Ancestry Family Trees: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=16746257&pid=7306
- Hugh Darrell Miller, compiler, "Genealogy: Ethel Peters Miller/Hugh Darrell Miller", manuscript in the possession of the author, 1985.
Acknowledgements
- WikiTree profile Grant-1561 created through the import of Welder Family Tree.ged on Sep 10, 2011 by Deborah Anne Welder.
- WikiTree profile Grant-1661 created through the import of Putnam2-1_2010-01-02_2011-02-16_2011-10-11.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by John Putnam. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Deborah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Deborah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Deborah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Deborah:
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~0.39%
Earl Milligan
:
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch YM721355L1 [compare]
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~0.39%
Merle Milligan :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch CF3496970 [compare]
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Having said that, I haven't run into this problem elsewhere on Wikitree, so if the convention is just to do whatever it takes to make the errors go away, I have no objection to it provided a research note is added explaining it.