John Knowlton 
John was born in 1610 in Canterbury, Kent, England. John's father was Capt. William Knowlton and his mother was Ann Elizabeth Smith. His paternal grandparents were Richard Knowlton and Elizabeth Cantize; his maternal grandparents were Richard Smith and Eliza Canty. He had four brothers and two sisters, named Robert, Samuel, William, Thomas, Mary and Susanna. He was the oldest of the seven children. He died at the age of 44 on October 8th, 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.General Notes
John2 KNOWLTON, b. ca. 1610; d. 8 October 1654, acc. to the geneal. Tingley, (1935, p. 190) says March 1654, both prob. wrong since acc. to Jacobus (1945, p. 267), his wf. made a will dated 20 Feb. 1653/4, he been alive., m. bef. 1633 at Ipswich, Marjory (-----) who has been called a Wilson, but Jacobus thinks she may have been a Kenning and it is known that she was sis. to the wf. of Theophilus Wilson and to Jane Kenning, poss. a dau. of John Kenning, a relationship that has led to her erroneously being given the surname Wilson (TAG, 35: 17f.). He was a shoemaker and citizen at Ipswich in 1639, made freeman there 9 June 1641, a subscriber to Maj. Denison in 1648. He accumulated considerable property. Ch.: John; Abraham (d. unm.); Elizabeth.
Occupation: Shoemaker
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1450 in Knowlton Manor, Canterbury, Kent, England
- b.~ 1485 in Knowlton Manor, Canterbury, Kent, England
- b.~ 1460
- b.~ 1527 in Knowlton Manor, Canterbury, Kent, England
- b.1553 in Knowlton Manor, Canterbury, Kent, England d.~ 1633 in Canterbury, Kent, England
- b.1584 in Knowlton Manor, Sandwich Parish, Chiswick, Kent, England d.06 Jun 1639 in at sea near Shelburn, Nova Scotia, Canada
- b.1515 in Birchington, Kent, England
- b.17 Apr 1550 in Birchington, Kent, England d.1632
- b.~ 1520 in Birchington, Kent, England
- b.1610 in Canterbury, Kent, England d.08 Oct 1654 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
- b.1533 in Kent, England
- b.1586 in Kent, England d.08 Oct 1675 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
- b.~ 1543 in Kent, England
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John and Margery were married in a religious ceremony in 1622 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. They had two sons and a daughter, named John, Abraham and Elizabeth.
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Children
John Knowlton
John was born in 1633 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 51 in 1684 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
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