Amaziah Knight (1720 - 1812)

Born 28 Mar 1720 in Woburn, MA

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Smith) Knight — married 17 May 1753 in Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1812 at about age 91 in Stow, MA

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Biography

Marriage

Husband: Amaziah Knight

Wife: @I143@

Marriage: Y

Date: 17 MAY 1753

Place: Bolton, MA

Child: Eunice Knight

Child: Aaron Knight

Child: Unice Knight

Child: [H]anna Knight

Child: Keziah Knight

Child: David Knight

Husband: Ebenezer Knight

Wife: Mary Johnson

Marriage: Y

Date: 11 JAN 1717

Place: Woburn, MA

Child: Alice Knight

Child: Mary Knight

Child: Amaziah Knight

Child: Ebenezer Knight

Child: Ruth Knight

Child: Matthew Knight

Child: Sarah Knight

Child: Elizabeth Knight

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NV-R94 : 13 July 2016), Amaziah Knight, 27 Sep 1720; citing Birth, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 859,998.
• Source: SR6 Title: WeAreAllFamily3ja06.ged Publication: Merged on 1 Apr 2006 at 15:58:14 Data Changed: Date: 1 APR 2006 Time: 15:58:14

Notes

Note N134Nephew of Amaziah Knight

born to John Knight & Abigail Craggen.

Uncle Amaziah was brother of this Amaziah's father Ebenezer Knight.

Note N17601800 Census for Bolton, MA shows

Amaziah Knight in home with three white males (one between 10 & 26, one between 26 & 45 and one over 45) and one white female between 26 & 45.

Note N1804http://MA-VitalRecords.org/MA/Worcester/Bolton/Bolton_B050.html

Bolton, MA Births

KNIGHT (see Kight)

Anna, d. Amaziah and Jane, May 8, 1766

David, s. Amaziah and Jane, June 4, 1779

Hannah Ellen, d. Rufus and Lucy, June 20, 1846

Mary P., d. Rufus and Lucy, Feb. 7, 1845

Unice, d. Amaziah and Jane, April 20, 1764

Note N190Hudson Notes show birth year 1703 and death year 1812. These notes must have him confused with the uncle of the same name born to John Knight and Abigail Craggin.

Note N2086"The place where Benjamin Hastings now lives on Central Street, was formerly owned by Amasiah Knight, great-grandfather to Frank D. Knight. The old house stood west of the present one. In 1773, Knights bought 40 acres of land for 0. Itembraced all the land west of Central street at this point to the Assabet river.

The Knights family lived on this farm, at least a hundred years. One warm, summer day a big bear was discovered in the brook running through the meadow south of Central street. He was standing there to keep cool. The farmers went to the house fortheir guns. When they returned Bruin was still there; they speedily ended his existence. He was very large size and it took an ox team to draw him away.

Aaron and David Knights were two sons of Amasiah Knights. When Aaron died it took three men two and one-half hours to count the money he had stored in the house. Rufus Knights, son of David Knights was the last owner of the farm."

[From Wilbur Brigham's Early Hudson History, Hudson Historical Society. Originally published in the Hudson enterprise, March 17, 1894]

Reference: 8 DEC 2013 17:58:14

Note N246Birth reported as on 27 Sep 1720

in Ralph & Pat Roberts Family ancestry on Ancestry.com by Ralph Roberts at ralph@abooks.com

and in NewEnglandAncestors.org database

Note N247Death reported as occurring in Bolton, MA

in 1812 in Ralph & Pat Roberts Family ancestry on Ancestry.com by Ralph Roberts at ralph@abooks.com