KNIGHT, John Sr [206] ^{3 4}

   Ancestral File Number: X2PT-T1.

  General Notes:

Emigrated to Philadelphia, PA, probably in 1710/1711 or in 1699.
Death date :
- Knight family archive : 13 oct. 1728
- Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy : 1729
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Source : IGI Individual Record <http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/individual_record.asp?recid=100410748304&lds=1®ion=2®ionfriendly=British+Isles&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=®ionfriendly=&juris1friendly=&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=> :
Birth : 01 JAN 1685 Bandon Bridge, Bandon, Cork, Ireland
Father: Thomas KNIGHT
Mother: Martha ALLYN (!!!)
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Philadelphia Monthly meeting (28/01/1712) : "John Knight, unmarried, son of Thomas Knight, of Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, dated 22/08/1711, from meeting in Cork. He now resides in Philadelphia and has writen to his father in regard to his certificate. Received 28/01/1712".
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John's marriage to Hannah Badcock is recorded by the Quaker Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series. Vol. IX. Published under direction of Matthew S. Quay, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Edited by John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle, M.D. Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, State Printer, 1880. "Marriages Authorized by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1682-1756," pages 201-216.
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07/07/1724 : He received from his father-in-law, Henry Badcocke, a land 102 feet wide and 396 feet long bound eastward with 3rd street from Delaware River, southward with the Society land, westward with 4th street and northward with Dock street in Philadelphia.
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Source http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ffru/Docs/FFRU_back/vol21.pdf :
21 October - 22 November 1699. Shippers by the Richard & Mary, Mr. Philip Franklin, bound from Bristol for Virginia: Ambrose Dudley, John Cades, Robert Peyton, Edmond Mountjoy, William Lisle, James Addis, Richard Franklin, Henry Whithead, John Knight, Thomas Whittup, William Bath, Richard Burgis, William House, Humphrey Clarke. (PRO: E190/1156/1 = Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR. Such citations are followed by the reference number of the document(s)).
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Source Patricia Kruger (http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/- e-mail address: cfff82a@prodigy.com)
researching: Moore, Knight, Stretch
Looking for children of William MOORE and Martha KNIGHT. They declared marriage intent in Philadelphia MM in 1713. William was a joiner/carpenter from Cork, Ireland. Martha may have been sister of John Knight and Margery Knight. John Knight had daughter Lydia who married Joseph STRETCH. Any connections to Knight, Moore, Stretch in Philadelphia in 1712 - 1780 time frame????
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Source : Abstracts from "The American Weekly Mercury", Abstracts, 1730, Page 46 :
"KNIGHT, John, late of Phila., dec'd - accounts with estate to be settled with Hannah Knight, widow and administratrix of the dec'd (3/11)"
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Source : "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1-39, 1650-1900s Listed in: Volume XXXIII Page number: 104" :
Admitted as Freemen to the City of Philadelphia 22 April 1717
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Source : "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1-39, 1650-1900s Listed in: Volume VII Page number: 71 Early Minutes of Philadelphia MM" :
"A certificate from Cork in Ireland dated 5th of 8th mo. 1711 on behalf of John Knight (now of this place) only in respect of his clearness in relation to marriage was read"
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Source <http://search.ancestry.com> :
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
about John Knight
Name: John Knight
Year: 1712
Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source Publication Code: 5916.10
Primary Immigrant: Knight, John
Annotation: Date and place of immigration, or place and date of first mention in the New World. Some original records are located at the Meeting House on Eustace Street, Dublin, and the Public Record Office of Dublin. Place of residence prior to immigration, occupati
Source Bibliography: MYERS, ALBERT COOK. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, With Their Early History in Ireland. Swarthmore, PA: Swarthmore College, 1902. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1969, 1985, 1994.
Page: 286

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation. Merchant (Distiller ?)

• Religion. Quaker

John married Sarah CART [1009] [MRIN: 439], daughter of Samuel CART [1010] and Sarah GOODSON [1011], on 26 May 1712 in Philadelphia Mm, Philadelphia, PA.^{1 2} (Sarah CART [1009] was born on 24 May 1695 in Philadelphia, PA ² and died on 26 Aug 1716 in Philadelphia, PA ¹.)

John next married Hannah BADCOCK [194] [MRIN: 71], daughter of Henry BADCOCK Sr [170] and Mary BROWNE [182], on 26 Oct 1718 in Philadelphia, PA.^{2 3} (Hannah BADCOCK [194] was born on 14 Apr 1697 in Longhope, Gloucester, England ², christened on 2 May 1697 in Longhope, Gloucester, England ² and died in 1739 in Philadelphia, PA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Religion. Quaker

  Marriage Notes:

M. in Philadelphia, PA (Quaker Monthly Meeting)