_Benedict ARNOLD ____
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_Benedict II ARNOLD _|
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| |_Damaris WESTCOTT ___
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|--Caleb ARNOLD
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| _John II TURNER _____+
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|_Mary TURNER ________|
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|_Jane _______________
_____________________
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_Abner BANGS ________|
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| |_____________________
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|--Samuel BANGS
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| _Edward III GRAY ____+
| | (1730 - 1803) m 1748
|_Hannah GRAY ________|
(1766 - 1853) |
|_Mary PADDOCK _______+
(1728 - 1789) m 1748
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
_Frederick INFIELD __+
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_Levi INFIELD _______|
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| |_Catherine BOYER ____
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|--Minnie INFIELD
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| _____________________
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|_Louise FREDERICK ___|
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|_____________________
_William JARED ______+
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_Samuel Ralston JARED _|
| (1807 - ....) |
| |_Elizabeth RALSTON __+
| (1770 - 1835)
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|--Saphronia JARED
| (1834 - 1839)
| _____________________
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|_Mary Safrona SCRUGGS _|
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|_____________________
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
Date of Import: Oct 24, 2000
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RICHARD KNOWLES, of Plymouth and later of Eastham, in the Plymouth
Colony, shipmaster, the progenitor of the family which forms the subject
of this genealogy, first appears in New England records at Plymouth, 2
Jnuary 1637/8, and died probably between 1670 and 1675, for he was one of
the surveyors of highways at Eastham in 1670 but probably did not loulive
either his son John who was slain by Indians near Taunton 3 June 1675, or
his son James , the inventory of whose estate was dated 10 Oct. 1678, the
father's name not appearing in connection with their estates. He
married 15 Aug 1639, Ruth Bower, daughter of George and Barbara Bower of
Plymouth and sister of Rev. John Bower ("Bowers" in Harvard Quinquennial
Catalogue), A.B. (Harvard, 1649), who died in 1687.
The first appearance of Richard Knowles in the Plymouth records, in Jan.
1637/8, was when he was haled into court at Plymouth "for bringing a
barke from Greenes Harbor [as the Winslow settlement in Marshfield was
then called] on the Lords day." The record of the judgment, 2 Jan.
1637/8, is brief: "Discharged." There is nothing to prove that he
considered Plymouth his home at that time as a single man it is not
unlikely that he considered his home to be under his hat, aboard his
ship. But nineteen months later he married a Plymouth girl, recently
come thither from Scituate; and before his marriage he had been granted,
7 Jan. 1638/9, "a garden place next to John Barnes." This was on the
"Eele River side" of Plymouth, next to Duxbury. Whether George Bower or
Richard Knowles came there first may be doubtful. The next spring he was
granted a parcel of meadow ground at the head of George Bower's meadow
"by the Eele river head." He must have planted crops on his own and the
adjoining land, for in 1642 John Groome received a grant of a garden
place next to his, on condition that he should build on it, but with the
stipulation: "for the present cropp Richard Knowles to have it except
John Grooine compound with him for it." In 1641 he was improved as a
juryman. In 1643 his allowance from the "keep of the towns cows" was one
pottle, which represented a two-quart measure. The same year his name
was listed among Plymouth men able to bear arms.
On the removal of the Bower family to Cambridge, about 1643 (vide p. 288,
footnote), the Knowleses apparently went there also. In the Cambridge
records, under date of 4 Nov. 1646,' is the entry: "Goodman Knowles for
his swine divers times going without keeper is fined Is. 6d." His son
James was born 17 Nov. 1648, while the father was living in Cambridge.
The birth was entered in the Suffolk County records, but was not printed
as a Boston birth by the Boston record commissioners because it was sent
in from Cambridge. In the Cambridge records the birth is entered as
occurring "in Boston." But in Dec. 1649 Richard Knowles was back at
Plymouth, for according to the Plymouth records of 1 Dec. 1649 he was
prosecuted "for denying passage of cattell in the highway."
While a navigator by occupation, Richard Knowles evidently carried on
business on land also. His wife was prosecuted 7 Oct. 1641 "for
retailing of strong waters contrary to order" and "for selling strong
waters for five or six shillings a bottle that cost but 35s. the case,"
and she was fined 10s., to be bestowed on the town's poor.
At the meeting of the Council of War at Plymouth, 12 May 1653, when
public apprehension was aroused of armed conflict with the Dutch of New
Amsterdam, two barques were pressed for the service, one the vessel in
which George Watson sailed, and himself to go as master, and also " the
Barkqe in which Richard Knowles sayleth, with him the master thereof, was
pressed for the same purpose, with John Younge and Willam Walker, and all
things nessearie for theire use belonging to the said barkqe."
There is nothing in this record suggestive of re
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