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Daniel Knowlton (abt. 1726 - abt. 1795)

Daniel Knowlton
Born about in Ashford, Windham, Connecticutmap [uncertain]
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Husband of — married 7 Nov 1745 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticutmap
Husband of — married 1761 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 69 in Advocate Harbour, Cumberland, Nova Scotiamap [uncertain]
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Biography

Daniel Knowlton was born in 1726 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut.[1] He was the son of Robert Knowlton and Hannah (Robinson) Knowlton.[2] In Ashford on November 7, 1745 Daniel married Zerviah Wadkins, the daughter of Capt. William Watkins of the Colonial Army and Representative from Ashford.[3][4][5] During King George's War in 1745, Daniel served with a Connecticut unit under Col. Joseph Scott that participated in the capture of the French fortress of Louisbourg.[6]

In 1759, Daniel Knowlton and his former commander Joseph Scott recruited fellow New England Planters to settle in the new Onslow Township, Colchester, Nova Scotia, and Daniel was elected moderator of the town.[7][8] He came to settle in 1760 with his family and an enslaved man named Black Bob. Zerviah died soon after their arrival, and he remarried the widow of Joseph Scott.[9] Daniel sold his Onslow property in about 1770 and moved to Fort Sackville. He received a veterans' grant of 2000 acres on the Fort Cumberland Road at Halfway River in 1783.[10][11] Daniel was also granted lands in the Parrsboro area, which he transferred to his son Caleb and sold 500 acres to his son-in-law James Lockhart in 1786.[12] He passed away in Advocate Harbour, Cumberland, Nova Scotia in 1795.[13][14]

  • NOTE: another Daniel Knowlton appears in Connecticut in censuses beginning in 1790. This must be a different man, given Daniel's documented emigration and subsequent history.


Sources

  1. ↑ Stocking, person 232, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Stocking, person 232, p. 39.
  3. ↑ Stocking, person 232, p. 59.
  4. ↑ Barbour Collection, Ashford Vital Records 1710-1851, p.144
  5. ↑ Wright, p. 167.
  6. ↑ Stocking, pp. 547-548.
  7. ↑ Wright, p. 167.
  8. ↑ Campbell and Smith, pp. 11-13.
  9. ↑ Stocking, pp. 548-549.
  10. ↑ Nova Scotia Land Petitions, Vol. 1.
  11. ↑ Stocking, p. 549.
  12. ↑ Eagles, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Eagles, p. 11.
  14. ↑ Wright, p. 167.
  • Sergt Danl Nolten (Capt. Jacob Cumming's Company, Massachusetts), Muster Roll, 5 January 1758; Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 95B, p. 542, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C9YB-JDZM; consulted as "Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547 : accessed 2 April 2022).
  • Ensign Daniel Knowlton (Capt. Andrew Dalrymple's Company, Massachusetts), Muster Roll, 18 January 1759; Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 97B, p. 248, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C9Y1-3QYF-G; consulted as "Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547 : accessed 2 April 2022).
  • Ensg Danl Knowlton (Capt. Tristram Davis's Company, Massachusetts), Muster Roll, 31 January 1761; Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 98B, p. 274, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C9Y1-3QPD-4; consulted as "Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547 : accessed 2 April 2022).
  • Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Deeds, Vol. 38, 1723-1725, p. 259, FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-89ZS-1D42; consulted as "Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/190554 : accessed 1 January 2023); Robert and Hannah Knowlton to Brian Kinney, 11 February 1724/25.
  • Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Court of Common Pleas Record Book E/6: 91, Thomas Crowfoot vs. Daniel Knowlton, 1759, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSVR-V9YV-3; consulted as "Court records, 1728-1853," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/269842 : accessed 3 April 2022).
  • Pomfret Probate District, Connecticut, probate case file 2491, Robert Knowlton (1765), will; imaged in "Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999," Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9049/ : accessed 3 April 2022) > Hartford > Probate Packets, Kendall, Septimus-Larned, Daniel, 1752-1880 > image 457 of 1466.
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 1, 1770-1780, p. 218, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSLZ-1SS4-B; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 2 April 2022); Daniel and Mary Knowlton to David Hoar, 14 February 1772 (recorded 1774).
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 1, 1770-1780, p. 279, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSLZ-1SS4-J; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 3 April 2022); Daniel Knowlton to Ephraim Scott, 27 August 1774.
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 2, 1780-1792, p. 22, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSLZ-1SSL-Q; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 2 April 2022); Daniel Knowlton to Martin Brooks, 4 November 1767 (recorded 1781).
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 2, 1780-1792, p. 162, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSLZ-1SSL-W; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 2 April 2022); Daniel and Mary Knowlton to William Cutten, 28 October 1776 (recorded 1784).
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 7, 1812-1815, p. 85, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSLZ-PS14-J; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 14 April 2022); Daniel Knowlton to Nathan Upham, 7 Jul 1791 (recorded 1813).
  • Kings County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 4, 1784-1801, p. 86, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSV5-239W-1; consulted as "Deeds for Horton Township, Cornwallis Township and Aylesford Township, 1764-1903; index 1764-1968," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/73910 : accessed 2 April 2022); Daniel Knowlton to Daniel Knowlton Jr., 17 October 1785.
  • Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Land Records, Vol. 3A, 1792-1800, p. 451, FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C342-6Q5P-H; consulted as "Land records, 1770-1968; index, 1771-1965," browsable images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/24011 : accessed 2 April 2022); Mary Knowlton to Joseph Scott, power of attorney, 13 April 1795 (recorded 1799).

See Also:

  • Campbell, Carol and James F. Smith. Necessaries and Sufficiencies: Planter Society in Londonderry, Onslow, and Truro Townships, 1761-1780. Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 2011.
  • Eagles, Douglas Eaton. Lockhart families of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 1984, p. 11
  • Smith, Leonard H. Jr. and Norma H. Smith. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. p. 129
  • Wright, Esther Clark. Planters and Pioneers, Nova Scotia, 1749 to 1775. Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1978.


  • [1] Scott Family of Massachusetts, Nova Scotia and Beyond. Information compiled by: Sandra Scott Cook Wife, Military #5 Joseph Scott







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