Ancestry of
Benjamin Knight

(1738–1798)

Benjamin Knight

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• • Father of Benjamin Knight — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Philip Knight Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Margery Williams   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 21 Aug 1692 
  • Christening Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT 30 Jun 1781 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Fuller
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jan 1719 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Jonathan Knight

  Benjamin Knight Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • The death record for Benjamin Knight lists his death date as 31 June (sic).

• Sources for Benjamin Knight

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 65, Baptism for Benjamin Knight.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleton, Vol. 1, p. 132, Death record for Benjamin Knight.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield, Vol. 1, p. 161, Marriage record of Benjamin Knight and Ruth Fuller at Salem.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleton, Vol. 1, p. 34, Birth record for son Jonathan Knight.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleton, Vol. 1, p. 33, Baptism for son Benjamin Knight.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1914), 1595.
  • ⁷ Hurd, D. Hamilton, History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneer and Prominent Men, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis and Co. (1888), 952.