Ezekiel Knight, of Dover

His first wife was Ann , living in 1655. Second, widow Ester Lovering. Ezekiel Knight married Mary Eaton Hill as his third and final wife, between 1 Jul 1675 and 1680. she was the daughter of Gov Theophilus Eaton. and widow of Valentine Hill. Ezekiel Knight died between 1687 and 1689 [sources disagree at to the date of his death], and Mary Eaton Hill Knight died 24 Apr 1708.

Ezekiel Knight appears to have married three times: 1st, Ann , who consented to deed in 1645, as above, and who was living in 1655. He married, 2d, Esther, widow of John Lovering. Ezekiel Knight appears to have married, 3d, Mary, daughter of Theophilus Eaton, Governor of New Haven, and widow of Valentine Hill.

That Will was made 18 April 1687, proved before Joshua Scottow, 16 September 1687, his loving friends Shubael Dummer (clergyman), Capt. John Alcock, of York, and Mr. John Buss, of Oyster River, N. H. (preacher and physician), overseers; witnessed by Richard Martyn (who afterwards married the widow of Samuel2 Wentworth, of Portsmouth) and Samuel Wheelwright (son of Rev. John, and Judge of Probate 1695 to 1700). He gave to his wife Mary all his estate for life; at her death, two thirds were to go to son Ezekiel Knight, jr., and one third to daughter Elizabeth Wentworth, of Cocheco. ln case Ezekiel Knight, jr., died childless, his two-thirds part was to be divided equally between the children of daughter Elizabeth.

Ezekiel Knight's daughter Elizabeth, who married a Wentworth, of Cochecho, must have been by his first wife.

"He was Commissioner for the town of Wells 1654, 1662, 1663; on the grand jury 29 June 1654; one of seventy-one petitioners to Oliver Cromwell, 12 August 1656, that they remain under the Massachusetts government in 1663, was one of the Associate Justices, and when the authority of the King's Commissioners ended (which continued from 1665 to 1668), he was immediately re-chosen. [...] In 1661, 1 July, it was 'Ordered by this Court that,' while Wells was without a minister, 'Ezekiel Knight and William Hammond shall duly attend the place of public meeting on the Lord's day, and they improve their best abilities in Speaking out of the Word of God, Praying, Singing of Psalms and reading some good Orthodox Sermons.'" [The Wentworth Genealogy]

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1. MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Ham pshire"; by Sybil Noyes, et al; Genealogical Publishing Co , Inc; Baltimore; 1988; p403
2. MARRIAGES-CHILDREN: Pioneers on Maine Rivers, by Wilbur Aan iel Spencer, Genealogical PublishingCo, Inc, Balitmore 1973 , p150; FHL Lake Stevens Branch, Lake Stevens, WA; USA/Main e 320.03
3. NOTES: Planter at Ogunquit with wife, Ann, in 1643; sold ho use in 1645; married Mary, widow of Valentine Hill, after 1 662, died in 1687.