KNIGHT John, Sr.[1]

Male Bef 1595 - Aft 1670  (> 75 years)


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  • Name KNIGHT John 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth Bef 30 Jan 1594/5  Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 30 Jan 1595  Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Emigration 5 Apr 1635  Southampton, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Immigration 3 Jun 1635  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    • Came on the 'James' of London, a ship of 300 tons.
    Will 5 May 1670  [4
    • This 5 of may 1670 I John Knight of Newbery Senr being often pained in my body and know not how suddenly I may be desolued and leaue this world and being desirous while my memoree is good to setl my outward Estat acording to my desir and therfor do hear make my Last will and Testament as followeth first I Comitte my soule to god that gaue it: and my body to the Earth to be buried to Rest vntill the Resurecion by my Saviour Jesus Christ
      Itm I give unto my beloued wiffe Eleven pounds a yeare for hir maintainance while she liueth and that she may dwell in one End of my house while she liueth and to use anie of my goods what she hath need of for her selfe in the house
      Itm I giue and apoint fourtie pounds after my wifs deseace and in Convenient time as my overseers Judg best for my daughter Sarah bartlets vse while she liueth: ||and | with hir husband John Bartlet and after hir decease the fourtie pounds to be made good vnto the Child or Children of hir body surviving to Injoy: If she haue none then the fortie ponds to Return vnto my sonn John Knights Children Equaly vnto all accept Josep Knight: and my will is that if my daughter Sarah Bartlet haue a sonn or daughter liuing after hir decease my will is that my sonn John Knight or his asigns shall pay for the Childs use tenn pounds more which will be in all fiftie pounds: and my will is that when my son in law John Bartlet or anie other for hir Coms to demand or Recieue the fortie ponds before mentioned that then sufficient bond in land be giuen vnto my ouerseers or my Executor for the payment of it acording to my will
      Itm I giue vnto my daughter marie douner and hir husband Josep douner fourscore pounds to be paid one fortie of it in a yeare after my wifs decease and the other fortie pounds the next year after that: and Likewise I giue vnto my grand Child Josep Downer twentie pounds to be paid by my Executor when he is on and twentie years of aige: Likewise I giue vnto my gran Child marie Downer twentie pounds to be paid by my Executor when she is Eighteen years of age
      Itm I giue vnto my daughter Marie Douner and his husband during ther lius four acers of marish Land out of the marish I haue on the south sid of John Piks land that they call the 8 acers: after my wifs deceas and four acers of medow Joyning vnto that 4 acers I gaue my daughter Sara Bartlet on the north: and likwise I giue my daught maried Douner & hir husband during ther liues that peec of marish our the pond to the Creek on the East by henri Jaqueses land on the north & John piks on the south and my lot at Plum Iland and two akers wher they haue built and that one aker of ||plow|| land in the feeld on the west sid of the way going to new toune joyning to my son Johns two akers he bought of Nicholas noie and my freehold or Comanag in Newbery all which land and Comanag to Inioy during their livs and afterward to Return vnto my grand Child, Josep Downer to Inioy for Euer or if he dy before he Inioys it then to Remain vnto my granchild Marie Downer and if Josep Douner do Inioy the land then my will is he shall pay vnto his sister marie Downer twenti pound besids that her porcion be fore Likwise I giue unto my daught marie Downer after my wifs decease my great new Kitl and a puter Candlestick & a plater
      Itm I giue unto my wifs grand Child Thomas hains ten pounds to be paid after his time is out
      Itm Besid that portion of land and other Estat I gaue my sonn John Knight for manie years sinc as my brother & |other| do know I now giue vnto my sonn John Knight my howse and land I dwell upon with barn and orchard and my land next the ox comon both plow land and pastur and medow: as with all the ffences both of plow land and pastur and medow which is my part by agreement to do and likwise about 4 or 5 akers of marrish joyning to the Creeke by the Comon on the south East and likwise another parcill of marish on the north of John Piks land tourd litl Pin Iland & by henri Jquises and the Creek on the west: And my desire is that my sonn John would let his sonn Josep Knight haue and Inioy all this land and housing when he is of aige for Euer Likwise I do make my sonn John Knight my Executor and do giue him all my goods accept the three things before mentioned to my daughter marie and likwise all my stocke of Cattell and horse and sheep and swine and I do Ingaig him herby to pay all the legacies and Charg that may a Rise for funerall or debts and to Receiue all that is du vnto me from anie person Likwise my will is that if my sonn John Knight will make over by a deed ||giuen|| unto Josep Downer and his wife marie douner that three acers of land joyning unto that he dwells on by henri Jaquishes and that two ackrs of plow land by my on acker on the west sid of the Ridg which was Nicholas noices then my will is that he he shall pay but fortie pounds of the fourscor unto Josep Downer & his wife and this land Josep and his wife to Inioy during ther lius and afterwards to her sone as the other before Likwise I desier my thre frends my brother Richard Knight and Thomas Halle senr and Nicholas Noice to be my ouerseers to see this my will performed and I do giue them tenn shillings apeece to be paid by my Executor

      John Knight

      Witness:
      Richard Knight
      Thomas Hale

      Proved June 23, 1670 by the witnesses before Mr. Samuell Symonds and Maj. Gen. Denison

      Inventory of the estates of John Knight, Sr. lately deceased in May 1670, taken by Thomas Hale, Sr. Nicholas Noic and Rich. Dole: house, barn and orchard, twelve ackers of upland and twentie and two akers of meadow, £ 220; wering Cloths and Beding, £ 16; two brasse kitls, a skilet and a warming pan, £ 3; in pewter, £ 1 10s; in Iron things, £ 3, 10s; Coberd, tabl, forme and other things, £ 1 10s; 4 woodn bols, a tunnel, tray, 4 dishes, to pails, 10s 6d; Jug, tubs, barell, sivs, slid, bags & wood, £ 1 4s; a gunn, £ 1 5s; 16 bushells of mault, £ 3 12s; 3 oxn and a steere, £ 20; 4 Cows and a heifer, £ 20; 2 yearlings, £ 2; 4 swine, £ 3; bacon, £ 2 10s; 3 bush, of Rie, 13s; one sadl, pilion & bridl, £ 1; free hold or Comanag, £ 8; in trees, £ 2; total £ 324 11s 6d

      Attested June 23 1670, by John Knight executor of his father's estate.

      Essex Probate Docket #15981; "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
      1635 - 1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916
    Death Aft 5 May 1670  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Will (proved) 23 Jun 1670  [2
    Occupation Tailor  [5
    _UID 7A610D38EB9ED5118A064445535400004F49 
    Notes 
    • Came from Southampton, 1635, in the James; was a tailor of Romsey in Hants, adm. freem. with his br. Richard 25 May 1636.
    Person ID I1563  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 18 Dec 2006 

    Father KNIGHT William,   b. Abt 1565, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother CARTER Elizabeth   d. Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 12 Nov 1588  Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Family ID F562  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 HAWKINS Sarah,   b. Abt 1594, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1623, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 29 years) 
    Marriage 27 Jan 1615/6  Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. KNIGHT Elizabeth,   b. Bef 27 Apr 1623, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

    Family 2 VINCENT Elizabeth,   b. Bef 1610   d. 20 Mar 1644/5, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 35 years) 
    Marriage 29 Mar 1624  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Children 
     1. KNIGHT Elizabeth,   b. Bef 16 May 1625, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 0 years)
    +2. KNIGHT John, Jr.,   b. Bef 14 May 1626, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Feb 1677, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 50 years)
     3. KNIGHT Elizabeth,   b. Bef 13 Oct 1628, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 0 years)
     4. KNIGHT Elizabeth,   b. Bef 22 May 1632, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. KNIGHT Mary,   b. Bef 10 Aug 1634, Romsey, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +6. KNIGHT Sarah,   b. Abt 1636, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F8180  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

    Family 3 LANGLEY Agnes,   b. 1590, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1677, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Marriage 20 Mar 1643/4  [8
    Family ID F552  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

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  • Sources 
    1. [S141] Book-Savage, Vol. 3, p.35.

    2. [S5] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:397.

    3. [S185] Book-Seven Hundred Ancestors, p.73, CS71.L58.

    4. [S5] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:397-398.

    5. [S5] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:398.

    6. [S5] Book-Mass. & Maine Families, 2:396.

    7. [S1402] Book-The Great Migration Begins, Vol. IV 1634-35, p.210.

    8. [S145] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.444.