Return to main file

Simon Knowles (b. 1667), son of John Knowles and Jemima Asten

Rachel Joy


Simon Knowles was born on 22: 9m: 1667 in Hampton. [1]

Simon married first Rachel Unknown. [2] He married second Rachel Joy on 23 August 1700 in Hampton. [3]

The identity of Rachel Joy is unknown. There was a Joy family in Hampton. Samuel Joy (probably roughly the age to be Rachel's brother) had a son Jeremiah Joy baptized on 24 October 1697 in Hampton. [4]

Children of Simon Knowles and Unknown:

i. Simon Knowles was born on 18 March 1696 in Hampton. [5] He died on 22 April 1753 in North Hampton. [5]

Children of Simon Knowles and Rachel Joy:

ii. Rachel Knowles was born on 10 June 1701 in Hampton. [5] She died on 25 May 2767, leaving no children. [5]

iii. Joseph Knowles was born on 22 January 1705 in Hampton. [5] He married first Catherine, the daughter of Richard Taylor. [5] He probably married second Lydia Randall on 12 January on 1778. [5]

iv. Ruth Knowles was born on 30 September 1707 in Hampton. She married Joseph French.

v. Jonathan Knowles was born on 22 August 1710 in Hampton. [5]

Jonathan lived in Little River. [5]

vi. Abigail Knowles was born on 25 August 1718 in Hampton. [5] She died on 5 August 1745, unmarried. [5]

References:

1. "All New Hampshire, Birth Index, 1659–1900," Ancestry, search for children of John and Jemima Knowles.

2. "New England Marriages to 1700," digitized book, AmericanAncestry, 2:909.

3. George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 2 vols., Vital Records of Hampton, N.H.: To the End of the Year 1900 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992), 1:57.

4. George Freeman Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, 2 vols., Vital Records of Hampton, N.H.: To the End of the Year 1900 (Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992), 2:5.

5. Joseph Dow, History of the Town of Hampton (Salem: Salem Press, 1893), 817.


©a. buiter

17-May-2023