Thomas Knowles, of New Haven

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About the year 1640, two Knowles brothers (perhaps Thomas and Eleazer, sons of a Thomas Knowles of England), left England for the capes of Virginia. One of the two sons, Thomas, landed at New Haven, in the colony of Connecticut (among New Haven's earliest settlers). In the late Winter or early Spring of 1648, Thomas Knowles, the elder and Thomas Knowles, the junior, with others, sailed from their new home in Connecticut back to their old home in England (probably to retrieve additional family members), and were all lost at sea ....

From Thomas Knowles, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932), 1:370.

Knowles, Thomas. Took the oath of fidelity, New Haven, July 1644. He and "Goody" Knowles had seats in the meeting-house, Mar. 1646/7. He died between Feb. and May 1648, his widow being referred to the latter month as in need. Married Elizabeth, not dau. of Gov. Francis Newman. She was still a widow, Nov. 1649, but married (2) by 1650 Mr. Nicholas Knell, of Stratford. Eleazer and Thomas Knowles had land in Stratford by gift from father Nicholas Knell.

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