Deacon Samuel Knowles

Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger

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Samuel Knowles Sr 17 September 1651–19 June 1737

Birth • 9 Sources 17 September 1651 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Age 85 Death • 1 Sources 19 June 1737 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Samuel Knowles, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

Samuel Knowles Sr 1651-1737

Marriage: Dec 1679 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Mercy Freeman 1659-1745

Children (11)

Captain James Knowles 1680-1765

Mercy Knowles 1681-1732

Samuel Knowles Jr 1683-1750

Nathaniel Knowles 1686-1732

Richard Knowles 1688-1769

Rebecca Knowles 1690-1754

John Knowles 1692-1754

Ruth Knowles 1694-1745

Capt. Cornelius Knowles 1695-1764

Amos Knowles 1702-1786

James Knowles 1705-1765

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

Richard Knowles 1614-1675

Marriage: 15 August 1639 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Ruth Bowers 1616-1687

Children (7)

John Knowles 1640-1675

Mary Knowles 1642-1692

James Knowles 1648-1678

Samuel Knowles Sr 1651-1737

Mehitable Knowles 1653-1721

Barbara Knowles 1656-1715

Ruth Knowles 1657-1714.

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The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 156

From Libby’s Knowles genealogy:25

Benaiah Dunham’s earmark for cattle, granted to him in 1665, was in 1679 transferred to Samuel Knowles. During a long period of years Mr. Knowles seems to have been perhaps the most trusted by his fellow townsmen of all his contemporaries. In every matter coming up for town action that called for the qualities of discretion, impartiality, tact, and efficiency, his name is likely to be found. His advance in public affairs was gradual — in 1681 he was fence viewer, in 1687 constable, in 1691 petty juryman. From 1692 on he was often selectman. His earliest term as representative was in 1697. (The local histories say that he served as representative twenty-three years, but these years include both his own and his son Samuel’s terms of office.) In 1703 he was chosen a commissioner to try small causes, taht is, a judge of the police court.

He lived on his father’s homestead, and, when Richard Knowles’s original grant was rebounded, 13 Feb. 1681/2, the bound-stones were lettered ‘S. K.’ Apparently he had also his brother John’s land, as entries in the town records discriminate between his ‘ancient lot’ and the land formerly of John Knowles, deceased. Also there was granted to him by the town part or all of Rev. Mr. Treat’s ‘plains lot,’ otherwise called ‘Mr. Treat’s old field,’ and still later he was granted by the town all the land between his land and the Treat land. Apparently Mr. Treat must once have lived ther4e, and later, after having reduced the land to cultivation, surrendered it to the town and removed to the location afterwards purchased by Col. John Knowles on the other side of Town Cove. The burning of the records of deeds and the court records makes research difficult, and it cannot safely be said that the original Knowles lands, with what was added to them by Mr. Samuel Knowles and his sons Col. Samuel and Amos, included all the land immediately south, southwest, and west of the upper end of Town Cover, covering almost the whole of the present Orleans Village from some distance south of the road next south of Main Street as far northwast as the land crossed by the railroad north of the station; but it may be said that considerable sections of land at the different extents of this tract trace back to the Knowleses, without other ancient ownership appearing. The late Mr. Josiah Paine, in marking the ancient homesteads on a United States topographical sheet, which has been presented by Mr. Stanley Webster Smith to the Massachusetts Society of mayflower Descendants, marked Samuel Knowles’s farm as the estate of the late John Doane, Esq. All the land between the Doane estate and Town Cove and many lots southeast, west, and north of it were certainly Knowles lands. Samuel Knowles willed his homestead to his son Amos.

the immediate cause for the making of his will, which was dated 1 June 1732, was evidently his desire to provide for the children of his son Nathaniel, who was at the point of death. for his unmarried daughter Ruth and his daughter-in-law Elizabeth he provided “one fire room” between them, with firewood privileges and a cow for Elizabeth. By a codicil added aftger her remarriage he annulled the legacy of a cow, and gave the price of a good cow to be divided among his son Nathaniel’s children.

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sources

https://archive.org/details/earlysettlersofe01pain/page/n25/mode/2up Early settlers of Eastham : containing sketches of all early settlers of Eastham, Vol. 1 by Josiah Paine

https://archive.org/details/pioneersofmassac00pope The pioneers of Massachusetts, a descriptive list, drawn from records of the colonies, towns and churches and other contemporaneous documents by Charles Pope

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/ A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, by James Savage

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1. CD V189 Colonial Genealogies #1, 160

1. CD V189 Colonial Genealogies #1, 1607-1920, Colonial Families, VolumeVI, Avery Family. 2. "New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV". 3. CD171, Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 1500s-1800s, Genealogies ofMayflower Families, G-Pa, "Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass", by CharlesThornton Libby, Esq., of Portland, ME. 4. "The Mayo Genealogy", compiled by Elna Jean (May) Mayo, SecondEdition, December 1965. 5. CD171, Genealogies of Mayflower Families, 1500s-1800s, Genealogies ofMayflower Families, A-F, "The Freemans - The Eastham Branch of theSandwich Family - Major John Freeman", bThe Learning Company, 1999.

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!BIRTH: Charles T. Libby, Esq., "The Kno

!BIRTH: Charles T. Libby, Esq., "The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass."; NEHGS Register, v. 79, p.292 (Jul 1925); copy in poss. of S.B. Watrous. ORDINANCES: IGI (b,e,sp)

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!REF Suffolk County Records as Occuring

!REF Suffolk County Records as Occuring "In Boston". Descandents of Richard Knowles, 1637-1673 VA, Knowles Hufbauer, San Diego. Plymouth Colony Records, Vol 8, p 15-30. CA, Ventures Int. 1974. !MAR Mercy Freeman, Dec 1679. (D 1744).

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!PRF CD #20-Samuel KNOWLES md. Mercy FRE

!PRF CD #20-Samuel KNOWLES md. Mercy FREEMAN !AF !PRF CD #2-Samuel KNOWLES b. 17 sep 1651 Plymouth,, MA, d. 19 Jun 1737 Eastham,, MA md. Dec 1679 Eastham,, MA to Mercy FREEMAN. !PRF CD #35-Freeman Gene: Memorial of Edmund FREEMAN or Sandwich, and his desc (Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery and Co. 1875). !http://aleph0.clarku.edu/djoyce/gen/eastham/table.html - Dea. Samuel KNOWLES, Esq. (1651 - 1737) & Mercy FREEMAN (1659 - 1744).

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!BIRTH: Charles T. Libby, Esq., "The Kno

!BIRTH: Charles T. Libby, Esq., "The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass."; NEHGS Register, v. 79, p.292 (Jul 1925); copy in poss. of S.B. Watrous.

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!BIRTH: See notes for wife, Marcy Freema

!BIRTH: See notes for wife, Marcy Freeman

!MARRIAGE: As above

!DEATH: As above

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Life Sketch

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knowles-1049 Deacon Samuel Knowles Born 17 Sep 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts ANCESTORS Son of Richard Knowles and Ruth (Bower) Knowles Brother of John Knowles, Mary (Knowles) Doane, James Knowles, Mehitable (Knowles) Brown, Barbara (Knowles) Mayo and Ruth (Knowles) Collins Husband of Mercy (Freeman) Knowles — married Dec 1679 [location unknown] DESCENDANTS Father of James Knowles, Mercy (Knowles) Rich, Samuel Knowles Jr., Nathaniel Knowles, Richard Knowles, Rebecca Knowles, John Knowles, Ruth Knowles, Cornelius Knowles, Amos Knowles and James Knowles Died 19 Jun 1737 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Biography Birth Birth 17 SEP 1651 Plymouth, Massachusetts (Plymouth)[1] Marriage Husband: Samuel Knowles Wife: Mercy Freeman[2] Date: DEC 1679 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA Family Husband: Samuel Knowles Wife: Mercy Freeman Child: James Knowles Child: Mercy Knowles Child: Samuel Knowles Child: Nathaniel Knowles Child: Richard Knowles Child: Rebecca Knowles Child: John Knowles Child: Ruth Knowles Child: Cornelius Knowles Child: Amos Knowles Child: James Knowles Death Death: Date: 19 JUN 1737 Place: Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA[3][4] Will The will of Samuel Knowles, yeoman of Eastham, Massachusetts, was dated 1 June 1732; to his wife Mercy the estate that was from her father Major John Freeman; son Amos Knowles; daus. Ruth Knowles, Elizabeth Knowles; son Samuel Knowles (named executor); daughter in law Elizabeth Knowles; sons Richard Knowles, James Knowles; Samuel Cooke in the Colony of Connecticut; ; sons Nathaniel Knowles, John Knowles, Cornelius Knowles; granddaughter Rebecca Knowles; daus. Mary Rich and Rebecca Withrel.

A codicil was written 7 July 1737, revoking the legacy to his daughter in law Elizabeth and giving it instead to the children of my dec'd son Nathaniel Knowles, Elizabeth not to receive it; mentions wife Mary. An account of the legacy from Maj. Freeman to his daughter was submitted and his inventory was taken 28 July 1737.[5]

Event Type: Biography Samuel was born in 1651. Samuel Knowles ... He passed away in 1737. [6][7] Event Type: Biography Note: '3. Samuel Knowles2 (Richard1), of Eastham, Esq., son of Richard and Ruth (Bower), born at Plymouth 17 Sept. 1651, died at Eastham 19 June 1737, age 86, gravestone Old Cemetery at Orleans, Mass.; married at Eastham in Dec. 1679 Mercy Freeman, born at Eastham July 1659. (According to Mr. Libby, she died there 19 June 1737 and gravestones of both Samuel Knowles and his wife are in the Orleans cemetery, but that her headstone destroyed. However, in the Charles R. Hale vital records of newspaper notices and headstones in Conn., Mercy Freeman Knowles is listed as follows: July 1659-1744, Barkhamsted, Conn. 601, Cl, P20, which seems to indicate she died in 1744 and was buried in Barkhamsted. Additionally, the Freeman Genealogy gives her date of death as 1744, but not the location of her death.) Mercy was dau. of Major John Freeman and Mercy (Prence).... 'Benaiah Dunham's earmark for cattle, granted to him in 1665, was in 1679 transferred to Samuel Knowles. During a long period of years Mr. Knowles seems to have been perhaps the most trusted by is fellow townsmen of all his contemporaries. In every matter coming up for town action that called for the qualities of discretion, impartiality, tact, and efficiency, his name is likely to be found. His advance in public affairs was gradual--in 1681 he was fence viewer, in 1687 constable, in 1691 petty juryman. From 1692 on he was often selectman. His earliest term as representative was in 1697. The local histories say that he served as representative twenty-three years, but these years include both his own and his son Samuel's terms of office. 'In 1703 he was chosen a commissioner to try small causes, that is a judge of the police court. 'He lived on his father's homestead, and when Richard Knowles' original grant was rebouned, 13 Feb. 1681/2, the bound-stones were lettered 'S.K.' Apparently he had also his brother John's land, as entries in the town records discriminate between his 'ancient lot' and the land formerly of John Knowles, deceased.....'[8] Sources ↑ Source: #S157 Page: pg 14-17 ↑ Source: #S386 ↑ Source: #S386 ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/14498/MD V.17, p.147/264888397 Eastham an Orleans, Mass Vital Records. MD V.17, p.148 ↑ Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Deeds and Probates: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. p. 125 Accessed at Ancestry ($) ↑ Entered by Ellen Blackwell, Apr 5, 2013 ↑ Entered by Wilfred Vasile, Oct 2, 2012 ↑ Source: #S157 Page: pg 14-17

Source: S157 Title: Descendants of Richard Knowles 1637-1973 Abbreviation: Knowles - descendant Author: Virginia Knowles Hufbauer Publication: Ventures International, San Diego Ca, 1974 Source: S386 Title: Latter Day Saints Ancestral file Abbreviation: Ancestral File, LDS Publication: LDS, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997 Repository: #R2 Repository: R2 Name: Dallas Public LIbrary Address: City: Dallas State: TX Source: S469 Title: American Marriage Records Before 1699 Abbreviation: Marr Rec bef 1699 Author: Clemens, William Montgomery Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, reprinted 1967 Repository: #R18 Repository: R18 Name: Allen County Public Library Address: City: Ft Wayne State: IN Acknowledgements WikiTree profile Knowles-1049 created through the import of Tom.ged on Jun 1, 2011 by Tom Elliott. Wilfred Vasile, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Wilfred and others. WikiTree profile Knowles-1196 created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough. WikiTree profile Knowles-1267 created through the import of mike_walton_2011.ged on Aug 20, 2011 by Mike Walton. Thanks to Ellen Blackwell for starting this profile. This profile developed through the merging of Knowles-2195 into Knowles-1049. This profile developed through the merging of Knowles-2195 into Knowles-1049. Source: S1114159117 Repository: #R1100812944 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=115217896&pi... Repository: R1100812944 Ancestry.com

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Massachusetts Boston Public Office

He was elected to Public office in the Boston City area.

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Samuel Knowles Author: Jeannette Knowle

Samuel Knowles Author: Jeannette Knowles Date: 6 Jan 2003 2:55 AM GMT Classification: Query I am searching for info on Samuel Knowles who came to Long Island Bahamas about 1783 or there abouts. might be from mass. or came from devonshire England. Wife Unkown. he was a very large man 7ft tall. He had 6 or 7 children .

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/69350747/samuel-knowles
Representative of the town of Eastham, Barnstable County, MA

Inscription
HERE LYES THE BODY
OF MR SAMUEL KNOWLES
FORMERLY REPRESENTATIVE
FOR THE TOWN OF EASTHAM
WHO DIED JUNE Y 19
1737 IN THE 85
YEAR OF HIS AGE