Born in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine
Ancestors 
Daughter of Westbrook Knight
and Abigail Littlefield (Munson) Knight
Sister of
Jonathan Knight, Thomas Munson Knight, Hannah (Knight) Darby, John Knight, Westbrook Knight, Sarah (Knight) Hoyt and Nathaniel Knight
Wife of
Stephen Greenleaf
— married
25 Nov 1769 in Westport, Maine
Descendants 
Mother of
Nathaniel Greenleaf, Sarah (Greenleaf) Dunton, Mary Knight (Greenleaf) Parsons, Westbrook Greenleaf and Thankful (Greenleaf) Hodgdon
Died
at age 83
in Westport, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Jun 2011
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Biography
Mary was the daughter of Westbrook Knight and Abigail Munson
Mary was born in 1749 in Scarborough, Cumberland, ME
Mary married Lieut. Stephen Greenleaf on November 25, 1769 in Westport, Maine
Mary and Stephen had several children[1]
- Nathaniel Greenleaf 1770–1870 m) Patience Sheldon
- Sarah Greenleaf 1772–1853 m) John Dunton
- Mary Knight (Patty) Greenleaf 1774–1823 m) Thomas Parsons
- Stephen Greenleaf Jr 1775–1835 m) Mrs Mary (Calderwood) Knight
- Westbrook Greenleaf 1778–1865 m1) Mary Dunton, m2) Ruth Harriman
- Abigail Greenleaf 1780–1796
- Ebenezer Greenleaf 1782–1790
- Samuel Greenleaf 1784–1801
- Olive Greenleaf 1786–1875 m) Capt Jotham Parsons
- Thankful Greenleaf 1788–1870 m) Thomas Hodgdon
- Ebenezer Greenleaf 1791–1870 m) Abigail Hodgdon
Raising all their children in Westport Maine
Mary died at the age of 83, she is buried at the family plot, Greenleaf Cemetery #02 located in Westport, Lincoln County, Maine [2]
Sources
- Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
- Genealogy of the Greenleaf family, Original data: Greenleaf, James Edward,. Genealogy of the Greenleaf family. Boston: unknown, 1896., https://archive.org/details/agenealogygreen01greegoog/page/n34/mode/2up?q=mary+knight, Chart XXIII, Page 27 Stephen Greenleaf son of Samuel
- Greenleaf, James Edward, b. 1832. Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family. Boston: F. Wood, printer, 1896.# 309, Page 339-345
- Family Records, Westbrook Knight http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~knightfamilyofmaine/genealogy/
Acknowledgement
- WikiTree profile Knight-1212 created through the import of Timerson Family Tree May162011.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Brad Timerson.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Betty Ramsay 
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member BRamsayOsborne
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~1.56%
Heidi Howard :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #291935
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~0.78%
Beverly (Adey) Reber :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bevnreber
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~0.78%
Bob Hoyt :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch f384186 [compare], FTDNA kit #384186
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