Abner L Knowlton

4th New Hampshire Volunteer Inf 14 Mar 1865 Captain

William Knowlton

10th Maine Volunteer Inf 7 May 1863 Captain

William Knowlton

transferred 29th Maine Inf 20 Sep 1864 Major kia

William C.Knowlton

7th New Hampshire Vol Inf 1 Jan 1865 Captain

Daniel C Knowlton

114th New York Vol Inf 19 Oct 1864 Captain kia

David R Knowlton

175th New York Vol Inf 15 Jun 1864 1st Lieut.

Emry E Knowlton

4th Arkansas Union Cavalry 14 May 1865 Captain

Augustus Knowlton

6th Ohio Cavalry 18 Dec 1863 Surgeon

Levi Knowlton

129th Ohio Infantry 10 Aug 1863 1st Lieut

John C Knowlton

11th Illinois Cavalry 3 Sep 1862 Captain

Albert D.W.Knowlton

7th Illinois Infantry 24 Jul 1864 Captain

James Knowlton

6th Missouri Infantry 30 Mar 1865 Liuet.Adjutant

Henry H Knowlton

33rd Missouri Infantry 19 Feb 1865 Captain

Thought you might be interested.

Art Knowlton

From: CMacQ@aol.com
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:04:24 –0500
Subject: Knowlton Info

Elizabeth W. Knowlton 75013.1446@compuserve.com

Sorry, I forgot to give my name and e-mail address yesterday when I began on this subject so am starting with them today.

My information on the above couple NOT being the parents of William (1) Knowlton who married Ann Elizabeth Smith comes from a William A. Knowlton of Virginia. If any of you ever saw the Knowlton Family News, you know it was a generic type newsletter put out by a company in Denver, CO, Maxwell MacMaster, ed., for the express purpose of making money off poor dupes like me who subscribed for several years hoping that the articles written en masse for who knows how many newsletters (with our names cleverly inserted at regular intervals) would give way to actual queries and records of our Knowlton relatives. Alas, William A.'s was about the only actual "real" article that ever appeared. [For those of you who have never seen this type of scam, it is full of gems like "After weeks at sea, the arrival at New York harbor must have been an awe inspiring time for Knowlton immigrants" under a photo of the Statue of Liberty.]

William wrote: "Some genealogies have Captain William Knowlton as the son of Richard Knowlton and his wife Elizabeth Cantize, both of Kent. Certainly until the mid-1500's, most of the Knowltons lived around and near Kent. . . . .

In any case, Stocking reports that Captain William and his wife, Ann Elizabeth Smith, had John, Robert, William, Mary, Deacon Thomas, and Samuel. Robert stayed in England and Mary died young. What is important is that the remaining four--regardless of their parentage--all lived in Ipswich [MA], were brothers, and that almost all Knowltons are descended from their lines. Stocking says Captain William was one of four sons of Richard Knowlton and Elizabeth Cantize of Kent, and that the births of George and Stephen, the reported oldest brothers, are registered in Canterbury, religious center for Kent. By implication, those of Thomas and Captain William, the two youngest, are not. During our Bicentennial, Debrett's of England did some extensive and expensive work only to find that Richard Knowlton and Elizabeth Cantize had other children, born when Thomas and William should have been. . . . ." [from Knowlton Family News, Vol. 3, #4 (Fall 1991) Denver, CO]

When I contacted him, William A. Knowlton wrote: ". . . Debrett's findings. They really did a lousy job, but they did stir the pot by finding the others born when our two should have been. Stocking collected $1.00 apiece from the family members about 1900 (There was a large K Association then) to finance a trip to the UK for some new information he had found. I know not if he ever took the trip, but my suspicions are that the "new" stuff was just this." [from letter to E. W. Knowlton, Oct. 1, 1991]

He never did get around to sending me copies of Debrett's work. I have now written him again asking for permission to put the research on this listserve.

Last fall someone spotted a news article about two women in Ipswich who were trying to save the Abraham Knowlton house (one of two old Knowlton houses remaining--at least one other burned this century). Although these women (one is Marge Robie) were not related to Knowltons, they cared about historical buildings and were actively working to preserve this one. The house was already on the Register of Historic Places, but it was in bad shape, had been sold to a nursing home, and that company was petitioning to be allowed to demolish it for, first, a parking lot and, later, an addition to their facility. A hearing with the EPA did end with the immediate danger to the house being stopped; but unless local people figure out a way to buy the building back from the nursing home (it was slum housing before) it will be eventually doomed.

Some of Marge Robie's comments in December messages:

"On the house front, the directive from MEPA was done Tuesday, but no one had yet gotten copies of it. However, the Commission meets this week and we are going to discuss how we can help the process ahead. There are great fears about on the safety of the house. One option is to propose to pay to secure the house. To do this we would need money, not large amounts. The Commission being a town body has no money for this purpose in our budget, and would have to rely on donations. Are you willing to help in this limited way? [I had volunteered.] There is of course no guarantee that the Nursing Home would let us, but this is one way we can continue to offer positive initiatives."

"In a limited way" simply means that the family shouldn't be expected to be the financial backer for the efforts to preserve the house. It would help greatly to have the family participate. The meaning of family concern would certainly impress local givers.' [Family here means Knowltons; we generated letters in November from all over the country for this.]

"Thank you so much for all your help. The checks should be made out to the Town of Ipswich. On the memo line, you should write this: IPS Family Project. This is a gift account the Historical Commission has set up to allow us to receive gifts, to make sure the money does't go into the General Fund, and to make sure that the donations are tax deductible.

You don't need to actually send checks now unless you want the tax deduction for this year. [that was in 1995] At this point we have no idea whether the nursing home will accept our offer, so pledges will do nicely. That way we know what would be available and can plan accordingly."

marge robie
70521.2435@compuserve.com

Feel free to send Marge a message if you have any questions. I last corresponded in December and am asking for an update now.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton 

Date: 27 Jan 96 22:26:04 EST
From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <75013.1446@compuserve.com>
Subject: Abraham Knowlton House

---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: marge robie, 70521,2435
DATE: 1/25/96 6:33 AM

RE: Abraham Knowlton House

Elizabeth - We haven't fallen off the earth, at least not yet! All our meetings in December were snowed out. At our first meeting in January, we voted to offer to have the Knowlton House secured. However, the next day legal questions were raised by one of our members.

We have consulted our lawyer and he recommends that we ask them to secure the house. If they accept we would ask you to send the funds directly to them. We meet today (1/25) and the letter will go out immediately.

I have talked to Janet Hutchins at MEPA about what happens next. The answer is nothing. They can let the house sit and deteriorate as long as they wish. They just can't demolish it unless they do the EIR report first. I don't believe they will. Our job will be to keep the house on everyones agenda. I'll let you know what happens.

I'm intrigued with your line for Abraham. It now matches what I worked out first. I vaguely remember a reason why our Abraham couldn't be the one that married Mary Smith, I'll have to review.

The original part of the house was built prior to 1730 according to an expert we hired. The major expansion occurred in the 40's because a similar house was built at that time and a mortgage was taken on the property. This is our best idea at the moment.

Get back to you soon.

Marge

(First, does anyone know how to contact Greg Bodge who might be on this list? I'm the keeper of the Civil War Units File, and his address Bodge@ecs.umass.edu doesn't work.)

Sarah KNOWLTON "of Hopkinton" m. Barzillai LAMB on 28 Feb 1734 in Hopkinton, Mass. (Hopkinton vital records)

Barzillai, son of Samuel LAMB(E) and Hester (Esther) JOSLIN, was born 12 Sep. 1712. I assume that Sarah was born about 1713 so this was probably her first marriage but I have been unable to find her birth record.

C. Stocking's "History and Genealogy of the KNOWLTONs" (1897) lists Sarah's father as Robert and gives his ancestry, but George Henry Knowlton's "Errata and Addenda to Dr. Stocking's History..." says "Erase Sarah. Cannot place her.... Erase Robert...died unmarried."

Any hints or suggestions welcome. aTdHvAaNnKcSe!

Carol Botteron (that's French Swiss)
botteron@gnu.ai.mit.edu

The problem posed by Carol J. Botteron is a dead-end so far but not as serious as she poses. The Sarah in question is Stocking's (182) who married, as she said, Barzillai Lamb. Supposedly she had sister Ruth (180) b. 1715 who married, in 1733, Edward Carlyle of Hopkinton, MA, and brother Daniel (181) b. 1717 who married Abigail Almy of Framington, MA, in 1743.

They are the children of Daniel (67) Knowlton, wife unknown, b. 1688. He had a brother Jonathan, b. 1680, who married a Rebecca. They supposedly grew up/resided in Holliston, MA.

Although their father (17?) cannot be identified at the moment, he must have been born by 1668 or so. It is worth following all the above lines and looking in all those location for clues.

Sarah never was (142) because Robert (once 42/26, now 21B) never had a family. He died in 1691 in the Canada expedition, having made his will before he left, April 1690. The will is printed in Stocking on p. 567.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton
75013.1446@compuserve.com

Does anyone have info on Minerva Knowlton, married Samuel Wright 1841?

From: Herb Arkin
Searching: Arkin, Batterson, Cooney, Hibbs, Losch, Mendat, Wright
Arkin@sundial.net

(anyone know how to reach Greg Bodge?)

Elizabeth, thank you for the info! I'll check out the people you listed, and report if I find anything.

I'd like to correspond with anyone descended from any of these:

Daniel (Stocking's 67) Knowlton, wife unknown, b. 1688. Jonathan (Daniel's brother?), b. 1680, who married a Rebecca. They supposedly grew up/resided in Holliston, MA.

Daniel's presumed children:
Sarah b. ~1713 (182) who married Barzillai Lamb.
Ruth (180) b. 1715 who married, in 1733, Edward Carlyle.
Daniel (181) b. 1717 who married Abigail Almy in 1743.

Carol Botteron 
botteron@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Sorry, Herb, although Stocking lists several Minervas and GHK indexes them all as correct, I do not find yours, married to Samuel Wright about 1841. Do you have any more information on where they lived or what they named their children, etc.?

Elizabeth W. Knowlton

Ken:

I think it would be an excellent idea to try to put out the first four generations of Knowltons in North America through importing from our Genealogy databases. I have my data on Brother's Keeper, DOS 5.2. Up to now I had not thought to put in lines other than my own, except for immediate siblings. After your message came out, I spent an evening getting in the rest of William's (1) children and then the children that his John (2) and William (3) had--the only two in America to leave descendants as far as I know. Most of us are probably descended from William (3) and fewer (myself included) from John (2).

This is because only John's (2) son John (5) left Knowlton descendants, while six of William's (3) children did: Thomas (8), William (10), John (11), Samuel (13), Benjamin (12), and Joseph (13A).

I have never tried to transfer data out of BK using GEDCOM. I see by the instructions that I would have to export my whole file or learn also how to create split files. I am willing to do this but want to know first that it would be useful. Perhaps someone is way ahead of me in file creation.

This is a busy time of year for me (seed-ordering and starting time in the south and also putting out my family gene. newsletter), but I intend to go on to the fourth generation a couple of nights this week. Should have done this months ago, I now see. Would people discuss Ken's proposal, especially the computer aspect of it? If I make errors in typing or in merging GHK's corrections and additions, I am confident they can be fixed. However, I will need advice on the computer end.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton

Greetings, Knowlton Researchers! This list is a great idea and will surely be a boon to all those with Knowlton roots.

I correspond frequently with Elizabeth Knowlton on CompuServe, and she has been most helpful with her extensive knowledge of the family. However, I have a Knowlton connection in my tree that is apparently not documented in the standard Knowlton reference (Stocking or Stillman?).

Here's what I know, and will be most interested in hearing your thoughts and/or ideas about origins, etc.

My great-grandmother was Carrie Estelle Knowlton, born Nov. 5, 1870 in Orange, Massachusetts. She married Myron Newell Ayres, May 16, 1890 in Petersham, Mass.

Carrie's parents were

Nathan H. Knowlton, b. abt 1837 in Petersham.
Mary E. Cook, b. May 1, 1839 in Athol, MA.

Nathan and Mary also had a son, Harry, for whom I have no other data.

Nathan's father was Dana Knowlton, who was born c. 1791 in Vermont. His age and place of birth were obtained from the 1850 US census. Dana's wife was Penelope. Dana and Penelope has a daughter as well, Maria L. Knowlton, b. abt 1824, d. November 14, 1916. She never married.

I have tried to place Dana with the Knowltons in the Newfane, Vt, area with no success.

The "disposition" of Nathan is also an unknown at this point. Apparently, Nathan's wife Mary suffered from a mental illness and spent most of her life in a state hospital, and Nathan "left the family", leaving Carrie and Harry to be raised by his sister, Maria.

The structure of the above information is somewhat rambling, but not too confusing, hopefully.

Any help, ideas or thoughts will be appreciated.

Regards,
Steve Hunter
Sherwood, OR
sthunter@teleport.com

OK, before I head off to the library and the post office in search of a needle in several haystacks, I'm hoping that someone out there can help focus my efforts on fewer haystacks.

We've traced our line back (almost certainly) to Julius KNOWLTON, b. CT 1795 or 1798. The 1800 CT census shows that there were eight heads of families with sons 10 years old and younger, in four counties -- Windham, Tolland, Letchfield, and New Haven.

Any leads, suggestions, information, speculations ...? (Don't assume that I know anything. I didn't know much when I was more active in genealogy a few years ago ... and then som much has changed and I've forgotten the rest!)

Please reply to me privately, unless you want to share something with the group.

Thanks!

Bob

Robert Magnan
Magna Publications, Inc.
2718 Dryden Drive
Madison WI 53704-3086
U.S.A.
Ph: 608/246-3590 x 107
Fax: 608/246-3597
Email: Robert.Magnan@Magnapubs.com

I have a couple of books on hand that might be useful to a Knowlton researcher. If you think you may have someone listed let me know, I'd be glad to look up information.

1. "Knowlton", printed by a Genealogy committee consisting of Milton Knowlton, Robert Knowlton, Frances Alcon, Mildred Murdo, Raymond Knowlton and Richard Tinker. Names listed in the table of contents are Vearlan Rachem Knowlton, Leslie Carlton Knowlton, Herbert Leroy Knowlton, Herbert Leslie Knowlton, Frances Agnes Knowlton Alcorn, Almon James Knowlton, Holly Luette Knowlton, Mary Irene Knowlton Tinker Barrett, Barbara Jean Knowlton, Robert Preston Knowlton, Raymond Adney Knowlton, Milton Garfield Knowlton, Idella Jeannette Knowlton Swenson, Shirley mabel Knowlton Johnson Delcado, Lydia Sherrie Knowlton Jolly Jolly.

    

2. "The Utah Knowltons", History and Genealogy of Three Generations of Sidney Algernon Knowlton and his Descendants" by Ezra Clark Knowlton

    

3. Stocking Book and Addenda

Hope this will be helpful to someone!

Cathy Knowlton

From: CMacQ@aol.com
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 22:06:38 –0500
Subject: More Book Info

Date: 27 Jan 96 22:26:06 EST
From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <75013.1446@compuserve.com>
Subject: Knowlton History and Errata

Arthur Knowlton has asked me to repeat the titles of the two old Knowlton histories so he may order them. Cathy Knowlton referred to these books recently also.

They are: 1) The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America by the Rev. Charles Henry Wright Stocking, D.D., published by the Knickerbocker Press, NY, 1897. 597 pp.

This book should not be used without: 2) Errata and Addenda to Dr. Stocking's History and Genealogy . . . together with a Complete Index to Both Books and A Supplement . . . by George Henry Knowlton, Albany, NY, published by the Everett Press Co., Boston, MA, 1903.

If you would like to purchase the Stocking history, a reprint (facsimile, nicely hardbound) is done by Higginson's Books in Salem, MA, for $55. (called a "sale" but always the same price all the years I have seen it advertised in the Genealogical Helper). I ordered with credit card by dialing 508-745-7170 (M-F, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. EST) or faxing to 508-745-8025. I got my Errata in paper cover as it is a thinner book (234 pp.)and so saved a small amount of money. I am always willing to check my copy for your connection before you make such an outlay, however.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton 

From: CMacQ@aol.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:01:16 –0500
Subject: Knowlton Township, WI question

From: jmarquar@mail.coin.missouri.edu (Jon C. Marquardt) wrote privately to me:

.>. Do you know anything about how the unincorporated community and township of Knowlton in Marathon County, Wisconsin got it's name? I grew up there . . .<

Does anyone know the answer? I have not heard of this township before. If you could respond to this list I'll inform Jon as to how the township got its name.

Cathy Knowlton
cmacq@aol.com

Date: 29 Jan 96 19:46:14 EST
From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <75013.1446@compuserve.com>
Subject: Knowlton township, WI [see note above]

Knowlton, WI, is on Lake Du Bay, in Marathon County. Your researcher should call or write the County historical society in Wausau, Marathon Co.

Knowlton is nearly on the border of Portage County, home of Univ. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and I imagine they could help him too.

19th Century Knowltons lived in Beloit, Madison, Waterloo, and Mineral Point, WI. A glance at any of the censuses would probably reveal that they were in Marathon Co. also.

Elizabeth Knowlton 75013.1446@compuserve.com

Date: 29 Jan 96 19:46:31 EST
From: "Elizabeth W. Knowlton" <75013.1446@compuserve.com>
Subject: Westchester, Co., NY

I realize I haven't asked any questions for my own Knowlton research!

Would like contacts with others tracing Ephraim Knowlton (1676-ca.1735) of Ipswich or Wenham, MA, who moved to Westchester town, NY, around 1700 and up to Bedford, also in Westchester Co. by 1715. His son Robert's Knowlton descendants lived in the county until about 1920 when the last Knowlton, Ann Augusta, died, supposedly cheated out of family land.

Ephraim had another son or grandson named Thomas Knowlton (born 1720) who lived in the area as late as 1747 but then moved up the Hudson to Ulster Co., then Albany, and finally into Ontario (Bastard township) Canada with his two youngest sons, Enoch and Thomas. Jill Russell, also a part of our Knowlton list, is descended from them.

We would like any information available on Knowltons in NY in the 18^th century as I think we may have been the first branch in the area. We have quite a bit of information to share also.

If anyone is in upper NY state, all of us could benefit from your visit to George Henry Knowlton's collection in either the State Library or Archives there in Albany. I picked up a reference to it on RLIN (Reasearch Libraries Information Network) and imagine it must contain research correspondence and documents used in writing the book(s). I'll dig up the exact reference if anyone can do this.

Elizabeth W. Knowlton

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