Joan Knighton

Joan married Charles Bull before 1505. Charles (son of Richard Bull and Ellen Skipwith) was born in of St. Andrew, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 27 Jun 1532. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The will of his father directed that his sons be bound as apprentices in London, which evidently happened to Richard Bull, thus his being called "of London." He appears to have subsequently returned to Hertford where he was a bailiff and then a burgess, 1578 or later.

Family/Spouse: Alice Hunt. Alice was born in of Stanford, Bedfordshire, England; died after 17 Mar 1586. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married John Lawrence on 9 Nov 1579 in St. Andrew, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. John was born in of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England; died before 24 Jun 1609; was buried on 24 Jun 1609 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Joan Antrobus on 23 Oct 1609 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. Joan (daughter of Walter Antrobus and Joan Arnold) was born before 25 Jun 1592; was christened on 25 Jun 1592 in St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire, England; died after 29 Jan 1660 in Carrickfergus, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 2 Mar 1681, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

One of TSW's eight proven "gateway ancestors."

Jane married George Giddings on 20 Feb 1634 in St. Peter, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. George (son of John Gidding and Joan Purrier) was born before 24 Sep 1609; was christened on 24 Sep 1609 in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England; died on 1 Jun 1676 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1638

Thomas married Mary Goodhue on 23 Feb 1668. Mary (daughter of William Goodhue and Margery Watson) was born about 1648. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (citation details below) describes her as "born, it is said, 1669, Dec., though there is no record."

Family/Spouse: Thomas Manning. Thomas (son of Richard Manning and Anstice Calley) was born on 11 Feb 1664 in Dartmouth, Devon, England; died on 14 May 1737 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From The Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England (citation details below):

He graduated at Harvard College in 1725; the first of his name to enter that institution of learning, and, settling in his native town, was for more than 50 years a physician. As such he was eminent, and long and favorably known. Younger men, preparing for the medical profession, studied under his instruction. It is fortunate that the inventory of his estate, taken after his decease, names in detail sundry books which constituted his medical library, and it is safe to believe that, for that period, it was a very extensive equipment, comprising, as it did, twenty different works which were mentioned specifically, and of which eight were of two volumes each. The list is valuable, too, in that it shows what authors were then of good standing. Some other items of the inventory are in the line of his profession, and carry us directly to the typical old-time doctor's office -- the eleven pill pots; the iron mortar, the bell metal mortar and the lignum vitae mortar, each with its appropriate pestle; the gallipot; the three-gallon glass bottle, the five-quart and 30 smaller bottles, and the eleven bottles of "white dint with flint 'stopples.'" His library was not confined to what has been indicated above, for he had "120 bound books on Different subjects" and "a large number of pamphletes," the nature of which cannot be known. A doctor of that day was a man second in importance only to the local minister, and one much respected, looked up to and consulted. His education was far superior to that of his neighbors, and he was credited with profound wisdom. He was the learned associate of the minister, and often called upon in public and private business affairs. Such was the typical doctor, and we may be sure that Dr. Manning filled a like position in his own community. Furthermore, the testimony of those who knew him personally has been handed down through the generations, and is to the effect that "he was above the average, both in bodily and mental endowments; a skillful and trusted physician, and withal a very good man. He had a spice of roguish slyness, and was not averse to exciting, sometimes, the puzzled amazement of his less acute and more credulous neighbors. An example may be given. Dr. Manning owned the lot which is nearly opposite to the present town house, and put up the square edifice still standing there. To make a substantial wall upon the river side he needed large stones. In the river-bed, a mile or two down, there were boulders in abundance. Selecting at low tide one of these, he would put a chain about it and so mark its position as to be able to find it with no other light but the stars and moon. At night, the ebbing tide would find the wily doctor with his boat anchored over the rock, which would soon after be grappled to the little skiff. Then as the sea wave came, the lifting and wafting force of the water was all that was needed to place the boulder in the very spot where he wished to have it. Small wonder that passers by on the following morning, seeing a large stone a lying where no stone had been the night before, and looking like a vast meteorite which had fallen from the sky, should turn their eyes askance as the young doctor passed, and almost fancy they detected a whiff of brimstone in the air." His attention was not all given to medicine; he owned 75 or more acres of land, and must have engaged, though perhaps indirectly, at farming. Another industry is suggested by an entry in the Ipswich town book for the year 1732, as follows: "Joseph Manning is allowed to erect a wharf. The town agree to have one at their expense, as a landing place, at 6d, a load."

Joseph married Elizabeth Boardman on 14 Nov 1732. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Boardman and Sarah Langley) was born about 1708; died on 30 Jan 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ruth Potter on 14 Jun 1739. Ruth (daughter of Deacon Anthony Potter and Martha Dresser) was born on 4 Aug 1709 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1791. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]