Edward Knight

  General Notes:

Edward was a leading Whig, and in 1774 was paid by the government for conveying secretly four cannon from Boston to Worcester. Surviving the Revolutionary War, he was a soldier in Capt. Chadwick's Company under the command of Lt. Col. Benjamin Flagg and marched to Hadley on an alarm at Bennington. His name is listed in the Daughters of the American Revolution "Patriot Index", wherein he is listed as having served as a Private in Massachussetts, resultant from which neither he, nor his widow, nor their children, nor their heirs, received any military pension.


Edward Knight's marriage to Sarah Jenkins was his second marriage.

Edward married Sarah Jenkins, daughter of Lemuel Jenkins and Sarah Wesson, on 18 Feb 1796. (Sarah Jenkins was born on 9 Oct 1758 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA and died on 14 Aug 1852 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA.)