Samuel Knowles

1651 - 1737  (85 years)

• Name	Samuel Knowles  [1, 2]
  Birth	17 Sep 1651	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Jun 1737	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3]
  Burial	Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I20222	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Knowles   d. Between 1670 and 1675, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Mother	Ruth Bower
  Marriage	15 Aug 1639	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F12270	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Freeman,   b. Jul 1659, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 19 Jun 1737, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 77 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1679	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [3, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Knowles,   b. 13 Sep 1681, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 5 Jun 1732, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 50 years) + 2. Col. Samuel Knowles,   b. 15 Jan 1682, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 30 Jan 1751, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F12139	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Eastham fence viewer, 1681; constable, 1687; petty juryman, 1691; selectman, 1692 on. Representative to the general court for many terms beginning in 1697. 1703, commissioner to try small causes.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3789] Freeman Genealogy by Frederick Freeman. Boston: Franklin Press, Rand, Avery, & Co., 1875. [S2563] Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of His Daughter Patience2 compiled by Barbara Lambert Merrick with E. Virginia Hunt. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001. [S2598] Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 79:286, 1925; 79:379, 1925; 80:6, 1926; 80:119, 1926. [S3586] Charles Smith and Rachel Amy Bryant: Their Ancestors and Descendants by Charles Tenney Smith. Brattleboro, Vermont, 1938. [S2598] Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 79:286, 1925; 79:379, 1925; 80:6, 1926; 80:119, 1926., date only. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982. [S3789] Freeman Genealogy by Frederick Freeman. Boston: Franklin Press, Rand, Avery, & Co., 1875., date only.