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Family History and Ancestry
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 Abt 1611 - 1675 (64 years)
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| Name |
George Knower |
| Born |
Abt 1611 |
St. Clements, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Feb 1675 |
Malden, Ma [1] |
| Person ID |
I84 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
| Father |
Thomas Knower, b. 1560, d. 1623, St. Clements, England (Age 63 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Anne |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Married |
26 Oct 1597 |
St. Clements, England |
| Family ID |
F76 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33":
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1631
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown
REMOVES: Malden
ESTATE: In 1635, 1636 and 1637 George Knower was credited with a hayground proportion of ½ [ChTR 20, 22, 33]. In the allotments of land on Mystic Side he received parcels of five, ten and zero acres [ChTR 37].
There is no entry for George Knower in the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions, though there should be. This may be because the only property owned by him was on Mystic Side and not in Charlestown proper. In a deed from John March to John Green, for example, a five acre lot on Mystic side has George Knower as one of the abutters [ChBOP 119].
On 2 April 1661 "Captain Edward Johnson of Oburne" sold to "William Bucknam & George Knower of Malden ... all that my forty-acre lot of land" in Malden, "with fifteen acres more sometime the lots of Mr. Hubbard & Robert Shorthose adjoining to the said forty acres" [MLR 9:228].
In his will, dated 3 December 1674 and proved on an unknown date, "George Knower aged 67 years or thereabouts" bequeathed to "my loving and dear wife" her thirds, including two cows, "during the life of Elizab[eth] Knower, wife of the aforesaid George Knower" with further instructions for "my son Jonathan" to provide lamb's wool yearly, "as also 4 lambs yearly and every year the aforesaid Elizab[eth] Kendall [sic] shall have of the aforesaid Jonathan to dispose of"; to "my daughter Mary Merrable one half of my ten acres of land & one acre of marsh more or less lying next Mr. Bellingham on that side of a creek with half of a parcel of marsh lying at the bottom of the upland before mentioned"; to "grandchild Hannah Bucknam the other half of the ten acres ... and the half part of the marsh"; to "grandchild Elizabeth Bucknam two cows" at eighteen or marriage; residue to "my son Jonathan Knower" [MPR 5:29-31].
The inventory of the estate of George Knower totalled £503 7s. 6d., of which the "housing & land" was £385 [MPR 5:31-32].
BIRTH: About 1611 (deposed 3 April 1666 aged about 55 [Pope, presumably citing Middlesex Court Files]).
DEATH: Malden 13 February 1674/5.
MARRIAGE: By about 1645 Elizabeth _____; she died after 3 December 1674 (date of
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- [S32] "Sargent Genealogy"by Aaron Sargent 1895.
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