Abigail Field

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Abigail Knight 1696–14 August 1725 (Age 29) East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America

The Life Summary of Abigail

When Abigail Knight was born in 1696, in East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Jonathan Knight Sr., was 43 and her mother, Hannah Bennett, was 41. She married Thomas Field about 1717, in Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 14 August 1725, at the age of 29.

Family Time Line

Spouse and Children

Parents and Siblings

1680 1700 1720 1740 1760 1780 1800 1820

Thomas Field

1696–1777 Abigail Knight

1696–1725 Marriage: about 1717

Phoebe Field

1720–1813 Thomas Field Jr.

1723–1775 Lois Field

1723–Deceased

World Events (1)

1723 · Pirates Hung in Newport Age 28 On July 17, 1723, twenty-eight pirates are hung in Newport, Rhode Island. Sources (0) Sources There are no historical documents attached to Abigail.

Parents and Siblings

Jonathan Knight Sr. Male 1653–1717

•  Male

Hannah Bennett Female 1655–1713

•  Female

Siblings (14)

Hannah Knight Female 1675–1675

•  Female

Dinah Knight Female 1676–1676

•  Female

Dinah Knight Female 1677–1723

•  Female

Hannah Knight Female 1680–1743

•  Female

Esther Knight Female 1681–1793

•  Female +9 More Children VIEW ALL

Spouse and Children

Thomas Field Male 1696–1777

•  Male

Abigail Knight Female 1696–1725

•  Female

Marriage about 1717 Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America

Children (3)

Phoebe Field Female 1720–1813

•  Female

Thomas Field Jr. Male 1723–1775

•  Male

Lois Field Female 1723–Deceased

•  Female

Name Meaning

Knight

Abigail 1 English: status name from Middle English knyghte ‘knight’, Old English cniht ‘boy’, ‘youth’, ‘serving lad’. This word was used as a personal name before the Norman Conquest, and the surname may in part reflect a survival of this. It is also possible that in a few cases it represents a survival of the Old English sense into Middle English, as an occupational name for a domestic servant. In most cases, however, it clearly comes from the more exalted sense that the word achieved in the Middle Ages. In the feudal system introduced by the Normans the word was applied at first to a tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier. Hence it came to denote a man of some substance, since maintaining horses and armor was an expensive business. As feudal obligations became increasingly converted to monetary payments, the term lost its precise significance and came to denote an honorable estate conferred by the king on men of noble birth who had served him well. Knights in this last sense normally belonged to ancient noble families with distinguished family names of their own, so that the surname is more likely to have been applied to a servant in a knightly house or to someone who had played the part of a knight in a pageant or won the title in some contest of skill.2 Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the rider or knight’. See also McKnight . Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006. Possible Related Names McKnight Knights Nytes Rider Ritter