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COLONEL JOHN KNOWLES, son of John Knowles and Apphia Bangs
MARY SEARS, daugher of Paul Sears and Mercy Freeman
Children of John Knowles and Mary Sears: Births of the first eight recorded in Eastham [EVR0]
i. Joshua Knowles was born on 6 July 1696.
ii. John Knowles was born on 28 June 1698.
iii. Seth Knowles was born on 7 August 1700.
iv. Paul Knowles was born on 8 August 1702. He married Phebe Paine.
v. James Knowles was born on 4 November 1704. He married Ann Doane
vi. Jesse Knowles was born on 1 April 1707.
viii. Mary Knowles was born in October 1709.
iii. Colonel Willard Knowles was born on 8 February 1712. [EFAY] He died on 11 March 1786, age 74, and is buried in the Bridge Road Cemetery in Eastham. [FAG1] He married Bethiah Atwood on 10 May 1733. [NENS0]
References:
EVR0. "Eastham and Orleans Vital Records," Mayflower Descendant 8: 89.
EFAY. Elijah Francis Atwood, Ye Atte Wode Annals (Sisselton, SD: Atwood Publishing Co., 1928), 11.
FAG1. "Col. Willard Knowles," Findagrave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21745671/willard-knowles). His inscription says, "To the Memory of Col.WILLARD KNOWLES who after a Life of Virtue & various usefulness attendedd with Prosperity and Reputation Died March 11, 1786 in the 75th Year of his Age."
NENS0. New Englanders in Nova Scotia, manuscript, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic and Genealogical Society, online database, American Ancestors, 8–9.
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