Willard Knowles Jr. (1737 - 1818)

Born 26 Oct 1737 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mercy (Snow) Knowles — married 12 Aug 1762 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Died 17 Jun 1818 at age 80 in Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Willard was born in 1737 to Willard Knowles and Bethiah Atwood. ^[1] He married Mercy Snow in 1762. ^[2]

The 1926 NEHGR article The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass. gives the following children:^[3]

1. Treat, b. 25 Oct 1763; d. 30 May 1765
2. Treat, b. Mar 1765; d. 24 Oct 1768
3. Mary, b. 8 Jul 1767; d. y.
4. Treat, b. 29 Oct 1768
5. Willard, b. 25 Mar 1769; m. Sarah ___
6. Abigail, b. 29 May 1771
7. Mercy, b. 29 May 1771
8. Experience, b. 7 Mar 1774
9. Nathaniel Atwood, b. 22 Jun 1776

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDD-DQ2
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8V-PXDY
3. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRZ-JXX : accessed 1 July 2022), Willard Knowler Sr, Sandisfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 176, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 13; FHL microfilm 205,611.