Edmund Knowles, Sr.

DAR Ancestor # A209927 PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SOLDIER

Edmund Knowles

• Birth: ABT 1747 in Sussex County, Delaware
• ALT birth: 1742 in Somerset, Maryland
• Death: 20 MAR 1835 in Greene County, Georgia
• Parents: Richard Knowles and (unknown Finnish woman)
• Husband of Patience “Prudence” (Prettyman) Knowles — married 1 Mar 1768 in Lewes Presbyterian Church, Lewes, Sussex, Delaware. She was the daughter of Thomas Prettyman ll)

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knowles-196

Edmond Knowles Sr. participated in the American Revolution.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prettyman-4

Patience Prettyman (also shown in records as Prudence) was born in 1748 in Worcester Co., MD. She was the daughter of Thomas Prettyman Jr. and his wife Elizabeth (Enloe) Prettyman. Patience was their 7th child.

Patience Prettyman married young widower (?) Edmond Knowles, b: 1742 in Somerset Co., Maryland, on March 1, 1768 in Lewes, Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. They had the following 10 children:[1]

1. Edmond KNOWLES , Jr. b: ABT 1768 in Sussex Co., DE
2. Henry Harrison KNOWLES b: ABT 1769 in Sussex Co., DE
3. Richard Prettyman KNOWLES b: ABT 1770 in Sussex Co., DE
4. William KNOWLES b: ABT 1772 in Sussex Co., DE
5. James P. KNOWLES b: ABT 1775 in Fayette Co., GA
6. Rice Prettyman KNOWLES b: 1784 in Georgia
7. Patience KNOWLES b: ABT 1788 in Georgia
8. Elijah R. KNOWLES b: 27 APR 1790 in Greene Co., GA
9. Charles KNOWLES b: 27 MAY 1793 in Greene Co., GA
10. Thomas KNOWLES b: ABT 1797 in Greene Co., GA

The Knowles family moved from Sussex County, Delaware to Georgia at the time of the American Revolution. They eventually sett led in Greene County, Georgia, where both Patience (Prettyman) Knowles and her husband, Edmond (aka Edmund) Knowles Sr. died in the mid-1830s. They were each over 85 years old.

Origins

Will of RICHARD KNOWLES, Senior, planter

• Written: 19 Jan 1791; Proved: 5 Mar 1791
• Heirs: children: Richard Knowles, Thomas Knowles, Zechariah Knowles, James Knowles, Nancy Marvel, Edmund Knowles, Abigail Ellis wife of Joshua Elliss, Ephraim Knowles, Prudence Knowles, Patience Collings, Elizabeth Vinson, Sarah Hayward, Aseny Prittyman;
• daughter-in-law Betty Knowles, widow of my son Charles Knowles;
• grandchildren: Obediah Wills son of daughter Eve Wills; Agness Knowles, daughter of Zackreah Knowles
• Executor: sons Thomas Knowles and Ephraim Knowles
• Witnesses: Samuel Wilson, Peggy Wilson, Shiles Moore

Comments

• came to va among group indentured 7 yrs to jonathan leivsay [headright]. va to md with separists who would notconform to religious dictates of Roman Catholics or the Church Of England
• in camden distr sc 1778 4/1/1778 enlists 3rd Reg.SC Militia 5/8/1788-land,Greene[later Hancock] 1789 only Knowles on gre ga tx list HOH-1820 Gre co Ga 1830 Edm. & Patience P. listed in HH of son William & Sarah Barnes Knowles 1832 ARW Vet Ga lottery Distr 11,Sec 4,Lot 176,160th Distr Gre

DNA

Paternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulation group on MyHeritageDna

References

• Ancestry.com. Land Grants to Georgia Revolutionary War Veterans [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7186/images/LandGr...
• Sources Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 3, 2016), "Record of Edmund Knowles, Sr.", Ancestor # A209927. DAR record says he was bv 1747 in Delaware.
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Feb 9 2023, 13:33:46 UTC