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| From the Knight website:145 RICHARD KNIGHT, c 1605 - 1680 - The earliest record found of this person is on 4 Aug 1640 when he agreed with the town of Hampton to keep a mill at the landing and was granted 100 acres, "History of Hampton, NH", Pope. An assumption has been made that Richard came from Norfolk, England because of this record as most Hampton settlers came from Norfolk, England. However, in the book McCormick-Hamilton-Lord-Day Ancestral Lines, compiled for Elizabeth Day McCormick & Robert Hall McCormick III, privately printed, 1957 it suggests Richard came from Kent, England. 14 Sep 1640, Richard contracted to build the meeting house at Hampton. 29 Jan 1640/1, He was to make a gate for the pound. Dec 1641, He was a defendant in a suit brought by Stephen Kent. 1644, he was suspected of theft and was then "of Salisbury, MA." 1645, A warrant was issued for the arrest of Richard Knight of Hampton. 1645, Adjoining to the house, twelve acres and half of upland in the east field next adjoining to John Brown's lot, fifty acres of upland at Gauges wigwam and ten acres of meddow adjoining to the same, and forty acres of upland in the west field adjoing to William Hayward's land on the east and William Fifield on the west, and this was by an absolute deed of Sale dated the 5 (3) 1645. (Signed) Richard Knight Witness: William Walderne, An Jenks, Recorded in Suffolk Deeds, Bk. 1, pg. 68. Acknowledged before Thomas Wiggan and George Smith 5 (3) 1645. Quoted from "History of Hampton, NH". 9 Sep 1645, Joseph Armetage was ordered by the Court to hold all goods in his hands of "Richard Knight late of Hampton, now of Rhode Island", Essex Quarterly Court Files, Vol. 1, pg. 88. Feb 1646, Richard sold his house and mill in Hampton to Christopher Lawson of Boston and left for Rhode Island. Dec 1646, He had a suit in the Newport, RI Court against William Jeffray (Aquidneck Quarterly Court Files.) 16 Jan 1648, Richard had a deed from James Rogers, for valuable consideration, of two parcels of land, one of 40 acres on the west side of the highway to the common and east side of the mill highway, and one of 2 acres on the west side of the mill highway, bounded north and west by the land of James Rogers, with the condition that William Jeffrey obliges himself to make and maintain the fence forever. Feb 1648 RICHARD KNIGHT made a Will Newport the 8th day of February 1648 . . . I Richard Knight of Newport doe inverce and ingage to my wife Sarah Knight that I will not sell . . . any of the Tract of Land latly bought of James Rogers and Robert Griffin but doe. . . Intaile it upon her and my heires forever, but Especialy to her and my Eldist: sonn if any and in case wee have no sonn to my Eldist daughter to be my and her proper he ire after my death and if a sonn he shall have it at The age of oile and Twenty yeares if I have left my beinge in this life, and if noe sonn then the Eldist daughter shall have it at Sixteene yeares of age provided alwaies that the thirds of the Land and the best and convenientest roome in the house is to be my wifes, duringe her life, and then to returne to the heire . . . But if there be more then one Sonn the daughters are noe heires soe long as any of the male be liveinge, but if noe sonn or sonns or if the sonn or sonns die with Ishue, then the Eldist daughter then livinge shall be the Right heire, But this is more Largely declared that if the Eldist sonn dye without Ishue the next shall enjoy it, But if the first have children whether sonns or daughters and alsoe the rest that are herein appointed to be heires, And this have I done the day and yeare above written, to avoyd strife because my sonn in ole England shall have nothing to doe herein nor have any Right to any Land of mine in New-England. In testimony hereof I put to my hand this day and yeare aforesaid. Signed in the presence off John Downeing (his X marke) Robert Spink X his mark Richard Knight Ref. Rhode Island Land Evidences, Vol. 1, 1648-1696, Originally Published, Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI 1921, pg. 6. Page 5 is a Land Evidence Record for the sale of land with James Rogers and Richard Knight. Page 6 & 7 is land evidence of the Henry Hall & Richard Knight purchase from the the Indian Chief Cogamaquoant of the Narragansetts. There are also land transactions between Richard Knight & George Kendrick, and Richard Knight & Lawrence Turner mentioned in this book. 1648-1649 - Keeper of the prison. 1648/49/50/53/54/57/58 - General Sergeant. May 1649 - Civil & Military List of RI 1647-1800, General Sarjent, Richard Knight. To have leave to sell a little wine or strong water to some natives in theare sickness. Mr. Roger Williams. 3.7 Aug 1653 - Ipswich Court Records for 28 May 1654, there is recorded a petition to the General Assembly at Portsmouth (RI), 17 Aug 1653, "Members present: Richard Knight, general sergeant." 1655. - Richard Knight was made a Freeman of the colony, which, in Rhode Island, did not imply that he was a church member, but that he was worth, at least, $200. This was the last year of the presidency of Roger Williams, "but not the last of the unfortunate bickering disorder of the colony where fanticism not only expressed itself in religion, but in politics and society; and no scheme was so wild as to find adherents in this confused medley." 17 Mar 1655 -- Richard Knight and two others were sent by warrant for the sachem Pomham, to require him to come before the court. 22 Dec 1656 - He sold George Kenwick (Kenrick)? of Providence 12 acres in merchantable peage at rate of eight to a penny of flour of white or of black, or equivalent. 5 Dec 1658 - He sold Lawrence Turner 4 acres. Ref. RI Land Evidences, pg. 6. 1658 - Water Bailey 22 May 1662 - Land recorded of Lawrence Turner and Tobias Saunders, both of Newport, land in Newport adjacent to land of Lawrence that he purchased of Richard Knight, together with a dwelling . . . acc. to law made 22 May 1662 ratified 29 May 1673. RI Families, GBR, Vol. 2, pg 261. 1663 - He bought lands in Narragansett with Henry Hall. 19 Jan 1664 - Ref. RI Hist. Soc., "Abstracts from Vol.. 1 of RI Land Evidences in the State Archives, "pg 3" Narragansetts in the Collony of Rhod-Island ... have for. .. .Tenn pownds in peage Eight the peny in hand by me the aforesaid Cogamaquoant Received from Richard Knight & Henry Hall both of the Towne of Newport wherwith I the sayd Cogamaqucant doe discharg the said Richard Knight and Henry Halls of all debts. .. I doe. . .sell. . unto the said Richard Knight & Henry Halls their heires.... a certain percell of Land Scittuate and lyinge in the aforesaid Narraganse-tts Cuntry neere or adjoininge unto the Land Formerly Sould by me unto Mr. John Porter and Mr Samll Wilbore &c at pettacomscutt and is by Esteemation two Miles Square be it more or less being butted and bounded as Followeth Vizt. on the Eastside from a place called in Indian Qumatumpick, southward to a place called chippachuat and soe westerly to a place called Quowachauck and from thence northward to place called Winatompick and so to extand from thence upon a straight line unto the first boundery to be Houlden of our Royall Soverraigne lord Charles the Second not in Capett nor by Knights service but in comon Soccage after the manner of East Greenwich in the County of Kent. . . Further I the said Cogamoquant doe. . bind myself in the sum or Bond of Five hundred pounds Starl of good and lawfnl mony of England or to the vallew therofthat the land mentioned in this deed is a good Reall and firme Estate unto the said Richard Knight and Henry Halls and thit the said land is deere and free from all intailments deeds of sale leases mortgages and all other alienation of what nature or kinds whatsoever. ... and to deere and remove or cause to be removed at or before the first of march next after the date hereof Every Indian or Indians Inhabiting there on and not to suffer or the future any Indian to dwell or plant upon the aforesaid Tract. . . this ninteenth day of January and in the yeare of our Iord god one Thousand Six hundred Sixty and fower... in pressence of John Archer, The marke of Alse Archer, Richard Bulgar The marke of Cogamagooant The marke of Wotomer, an Indian Cobsounk, his mark, an Indian 31 Oct 1667 - He was one of forty-eight who were granted 100 acres each in a plantation called East Greenwich. This name of the new town, together with the reference in the deed of Coganaquoant, arouses a suspicion that Richard Knight, and perhaps others of the settlers, were familiar with the county of Kent, England, and possibly had come from that county. 11 Dcc 1679 - With his wife Sarah, and his eldest son, John, he sold land to Francis Brimley and Francis Smith. 1680 - Taxed 7 shillings. Last record of Richard. Ref. Homer T. Knight. "Richard was probably buried in his back yard, perhaps with a wooden marker. This was the practice in Newport in'those days. In the middle of the. nineteenth century many of these private cemeteries were moved to central locations in Newport, but since most of Richard's kin had moved elsewhere, the site of his burial had been lost." 27 Oct 1680 - His widow, of Newport pettioned the Assembly for confirmation of a share of lands settled by her deceased husband without court order, at East Greenwich, and she was ordered to be possessed of aforesaid share upon same terms as rest of East Greenwich inhabitants, she paying 40 shillings, to General Treasurer within six months. No relationship has been ascertained as existing between Richard Knight and Toby Knight (Clerk of Military Company at Newport 1642-43. Toby Knight died unmarried in England.) Richard Knight the subject had at least one contemporary, Richard Knight who md Agnes Coffley. This Richard left no male heirs. Richard Knight is mentioned 3 times in Hotten's list of Dead, Virginia, pg 191/2/3, 1623. Also Rotten's introduction, pg. xvii (1.7), Richard Knighticy, gentleman connected by marriage to John Rampden in conjunction w/Isaac Jobrison. July, 1933, Vol.87, pg 264 you can find an article by G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Early Knights of Rhode Island," New England Historical & Genealogical Register. | ||||||||||||
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