Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Jerusha Knowles
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Name Jerusha Knowles [1, 2] Gender Female Person ID I20243 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN Last Modified 22 Dec 2018
Father Enos Knowles, b. 30 Apr 1712, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
d. 1784, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 71 years) Mother Sarah Sparrow, b. 20 Jul 1708, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. 1784, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 75 years) Marriage 12 Apr 1733 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts [2, 3] Family ID F12138 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family John Nickerson, b. 12 Jun 1730, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Nova Scotia Children + 1. Lucretia Jane Nickerson, b. Nova Scotia + 2. John Nickerson, b. 1772, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia d. Abt 1820, Woods Harbour, Shelburne, Nova Scotia (Age 48 years)Family ID F12152 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Dec 2018
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Notes - "The evidences that Jerusha and Nathaniel were brother and sister are family statements of the descendants taken down around the year 1880 by the late Professor Arnold Doane of Barrington. The chief grounds for making them children of Enos Knowles are that Enos had a son not otherwise accounted for, that Jerusha and Nathaniel could not possibly have been children of Enos's brother Samuel or cousin Cornelius, that Nathaniel named a son Enos -- a name almost unused either in Eastham or Barrington, and that the name Jerusha prevailed among the proved descendants of Enos." [Charles Thornton Libby, citation details below.]
Her first husband was Simeon Crowell, who was lost at sea in the summer of 1768.
- "The evidences that Jerusha and Nathaniel were brother and sister are family statements of the descendants taken down around the year 1880 by the late Professor Arnold Doane of Barrington. The chief grounds for making them children of Enos Knowles are that Enos had a son not otherwise accounted for, that Jerusha and Nathaniel could not possibly have been children of Enos's brother Samuel or cousin Cornelius, that Nathaniel named a son Enos -- a name almost unused either in Eastham or Barrington, and that the name Jerusha prevailed among the proved descendants of Enos." [Charles Thornton Libby, citation details below.]
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Sources - [S2590] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, by William Richard Cutter with William Frederick Adams. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.
- [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.
- [S2597] "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records." The Mayflower Descendant 17:29, 1915.
- [S2590] Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, by William Richard Cutter with William Frederick Adams. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.