Knight
Sexton
I
aka Saxton
Born before in Colchester, New London, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of George Sexton
and Sarah (Knight) Sexton
Brother of
Nathaniel Sexton and Mary (Saxton) Niles
Husband of
Elizabeth (Skinner) Sexton
— married
25 May 1735 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial
Descendants 
Father of
Knight Sexton, Elizabeth (Saxton) Dunham, Noah (Saxton) Sexton, Sarah (Sexton) Scovill and Samuel (Saxton) Sexton
Died before
at about age 69
in Colchester, New London, Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 4 Jul 2018
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Biography
Knight Sexton married Elisabeth Skinner on May 25, 1735, in Colchester.[1] They had there:[1]
- Knight, b. May 31, 1736
- Elisabeth, b. August 15, 1738
- Noah, b. September 5, 1740
- Judah, b. July 20, 1742
- Sarah, b. September 5, 1744
- Lidia, b. October 15, 1746
- Samuel, b. January 29, 1749
- Anna, b. June 27, 1751
- Mary, b. August 27, 1753
- Israel, b. January 29, 1757
Knight Sexton of Colchester wrote his will dated December 8, 1787. [2] He mentions:
- wife Elisabeth
- son Knight
- son Samuel
- deceased son Noah's children
- deceased son Judah's children
- daughter Lydia
- daughter Anna Jackson
- daughter Elisabeth Dunham
- daughter Sarah Siowell(?)
- son George
His estate was inventoried on December 31, 1787.
Knight was born in 1707. He passed away in 1787.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barbour Collection: Vol. 7, Colchester, Page 191
- ↑ Connecticut Probate Files. Colchester District. File 2696 Knight Sexton
- The Barbour Collection (1994) by Lorraine C. White
- "Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F759-93T : 11 January 2020), Knight Saxton, 1735.
- "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7N8-TPK : 11 June 2020), Knight Sexton, 1787.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Knight by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Knight by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- James Sexton
:
Y-Chromosome Test, haplogroup R1b1a2a1a2a1b3
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~0.78%
Edy Browne :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #607460
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~0.78%
Neil Cameron :
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Joy Ulrickson :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Amy (Uranachek) Murphy :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member amuprh47
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Sexton-3553 and Sexton-3025 appear to represent the same person because: duplicate profile
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