Henry
KNOWLES
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1610
- 1669
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Mother:
Family 1 : ????? POTTER
1. William KNOWLES
2. John KNOWLES
3.+Mary
KNOWLES
4. Martha KNOWLES
5. Henry KNOWLES
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Henry Knowles came to Boston in 1635 in the ship Susan & Ellen commanded by Edward Payne as a servant of Ralph Hudson. She had been one of the great fleet which left England in October, ten years earlier, to intercept Spanish treasure ships off the Bay of Cadiz. There were 96 passengers on board, including Richard Saltonstall, Simon Crosby, and Ralph Hudson, all from York. Hudson, a draper at Hull, brought his wife Marie, three children, and five "servants" with him. Two of these servants were Henry Knowles, aged 25, and Benjamin Thwing, aged 16. Hudson settled in Boston, where he made his will SEP 1638. At that time Thwing was still his apprentice; but, as Knowles is not mentioned in the will, he had, no doubt, come to terms with Hudson for his passage and had been released from any contract he may have made. Henry Knowles was in Rhode Island as early as 1638. "Hen Knol" was on the grand jury at Newport on 3 DEC 1643. "Knolls" was a member of the grand jury at the Portsmouth court, 7, 1 mo. 1644. In the winter of 1648 he was one of fifty men who attested their submission to the government of Oliver Cromwell. He was a juryman in 1650. In 1655 Henrie Knowles was place on "The Roule of ye Freeman of ye Colonie, of Warwicke." Warwick was a more recently settled town than Portsmouth, and he had moved from the northern end of the island on which Newport now stands westerly across Narrangansett Bay to the mainland. During the winter of 1661/2, Knowles seems to have been in constant trouble. He was not an educated man, for he made his mark in place of a signature. But he was to be authorized in a few years to keep a tavern, and therefore he must have been something of "a man about town." In January 1661/2, Randall Holden accused Henry Knowles of trespass. The case came before a local jury, and Henry was declared not guilty, receiving damages of two pence from Holden. About the same time he served on a jury for other cases in Warwick. In March Eleazer Collins brought suit to collect ten pounds from Knowles. A compromise was effected, and the suit was withdrawn. Francis Derby of Warwick also brought a suit in April. The case was put over to a later court, and was withdrawn in August. On 23 MAR 1664/65 Knowles and three others were authorized by the town to keep ordinaries for the entertainment of strangers during the time the King`s commissioners held court in Warwick. In JAN 1666/7 he was on a jury which reported that a dead Indian came to his end by being beaten. "We, who are engaged to see this dead Indian, do find, by diligent search, that he was beaten, which was the cause of his death."
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