Henry Knowles (abt. 1610)

Born about 1610 in England

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Henry Knowles migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 4, p. 215) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Do not merge with Henry Knowles of Portsmouth without discussion. See below.

18 April 1635, embarked on the Susan and Ellen, Ralph Hudson, his wife and three children, and five servants including Henry Knowles age 25.^[1][2]

Ralph Hudson died towards the end of 1638 or beginning of 1639. His will made bequests to two of the servants who sailed with him on the Susan and Ellen. No bequests were made to the other three, including Henry. This would indicate that Henry had left the employ of Hudson.^[2]

Secondary sources have assumed that this Henry Knowles is the same man who appeared in Portsmouth, Rhode Island before 1643. Where was he in the intervening years from before 1638 until 1643?^[2]

Anderson concludes: "We do not see sufficient evidence to state that the 1635 passenger was the Henry Knowles of Portsmouth and his family.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Hotten, John Camden (editor). The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen, Maidens Pressed, and Others, who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. London: John Camden Hotten, 1874. p. 62
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. pp 215, 216 link at AmericanAncestors ($)