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Richard Knowles

Male - 1675


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  • Name Richard Knowles  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 1670 and 1675  Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I20264  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2021 

    Family Ruth Bower 
    Marriage 15 Aug 1639  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Children 
    +1. John Knowles,   b. Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1675, near Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Ruth Knowles   d. 28 Aug 1714, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Samuel Knowles,   b. 17 Sep 1651, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jun 1737, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    +4. Mehitable Knowles,   b. 20 May 1653, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1721, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 69 years)
    Family ID F12270  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2021 

  • Notes 
    • He was a shipmaster. In Plymouth colony as early as 2 Jan 1637, he is recorded in 1651 as a mariner of the town of Plymouth, but of Eastham by 1654. He was called Goodman.

  • Sources 
    1. [S6049] Early Settlers of Eastham by Joseph Paine. Library of Cape Cod History & Genealogy No. 32. Yarmouth, Massachusetts: C. W. Swift, 1916.

    2. [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.

    3. [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.

    4. [S3586] Charles Smith and Rachel Amy Bryant: Their Ancestors and Descendants by Charles Tenney Smith. Brattleboro, Vermont, 1938.

    5. [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.