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Rachel (Hare) Knight (abt. 1721 - 1803)

Rachel Knight formerly Hare
Born about in Bucks County, Pennsylvaniamap
Daughter of [uncertain] and [uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married Mar 1740 in New Garden MM, Roan County, Province of North Carolinamap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , , and
Died at about age 82 in New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Biography

Rachel was a Friend (Quaker)

Birth

Her name is reported as Rachel Hare, but researchers have guessed she might have been Rachel Herr, Rachel Hair, Rachel Head, or Rachel Hood.

Guesses about her parents include:

1. George Hare (c1696-1768/9), of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

2. Samuel Hair or Hare (c1700-1782), of Berkeley County, (West) Virginia.

3. Thomas Hare.

4. Thomas Hoed, Head or Hood (c1690-c1780), of Berkeley County, (West) Virginia.

Family tradition says she was Creek or perhaps Cherokee (Canavan (1997)). Her great granddaughter Elizabeth Sweet was listed on the 1850 census as a race other than white. Rachel is the only one of Elizabeth's ancestors who could account for Elizabeth having been mixed race.

The 1835 Cherokee Census of Tennessee, although much later, shows James Hare at Ooltewah, Tennessee, with a household of three half-bloods, one of whom could read English. There was also the household of Quatie Hare, wife of Chief John Ross, at Red Clay in McMinn County, Tennessee, with two full-bloods and four half-bloods, three of whom could read English.

Marriage

Husband Abel Knight. Wife Rachel Hare. Marriage Mar 1740. Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [1][2][3] Child: Sarah Knight.

She was not a Quaker at the time of her marriage, but later joined.

MAR 1740
New Garden Mtg, North Carolina, USA[4]
Husband: Abel Knight
Wife: Rachel Hare
Child: Thomas Knight
Child: Sarah Knight
Child: Solomon Knight
Child: Abel Knight
Child: Ann Knight
Child: Samuel Knight
Child: Jonathan Knight

Death

24 DEC 1803
New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, USA[5]

Buried New Garden Friends Cemetery, New Garden, Guilford County, North Carolina.

Emigration: 1742 Frederick County, Virginia. [6] 1752 Guilford County, North Carolina. [7]

Note: #NI3558. [8][9]

  • Fact: Burial New Garden Friends Cemetery , Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA


Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S418 15 Certainty: 3
  2. ↑ Source: #S482 17 Certainty: 3
  3. ↑ Source: #S990
  4. ↑ Source: #S36: Text: Record for Abel Knight
  5. ↑ Source: #S36: Text: Record for Abel Knight
  6. ↑ Source: #S990
  7. ↑ Source: #S990
  8. ↑ Source: #S1160 193 Certainty: 3
  9. ↑ Source: #S973






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