Rebecca Knight

1643 - 1688  (44 years)

• Name	Rebecca Knight
  Birth	3 Mar 1643	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 4, 5, 9]
  Death	8 Jan 1688	Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [8]
  She died in childbirth. [8]
  Siblings	3 brothers, 3 sisters and 1 person of an unknown gender
  1. infant Knight,   b. Jun 1626, Romsey, Hampshire, England bur. 17 Jun 1626, Romsey, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 0 years)   2. Richard Knight,   c. 21 Jun 1627, Romsey, Hampshire, England bur. 15 Jul 1627, Romsey, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 0 years)   3. William Knight,   c. 7 Dec 1628, Romsey, Hampshire, England bur. 10 Jan 1630, Romsey, Hampshire, England  (Age ~ 1 years) > 4. Anne Knight,   c. 8 May 1631, Romsey, Hampshire, England ▻ Henry Jaques,  m. 8 Oct 1648   5. Richard Knight,   c. 18 Oct 1633, Romsey, Hampshire, England d. young + 6. Elizabeth Knight   d. 29 Jul 1667, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ▻ Lt. Anthony Morse,  m. 8 May 1659 > 7. Rebecca Knight,   b. 3 Mar 1643, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 8 Jan 1688, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 44 years) ▻ Abiel Somerby,  m. 13 Nov 1661 ;   John Tompkins,  m. 29 Dec 1667 > 8. Sarah Knight,   b. 23 Feb 1648, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. ▻ John Kelley,  m. 20 May 1663
  Patriarch & Matriarch	William Knight,   b. Abt 1565, Romsey, Hampshire, England   (Grandfather)  Agnes Coffey   d. 22 Mar 1679, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   (Mother)
  Person ID, Branch	I18336
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Birth: Coffin (1845) gives her birth date as 7 March 1643, and Savage (1891) follows his lead. [3, 11]

  
  

Father	Richard Knight,   b. About 1602, Romsey, Hampshire, England d. 4 Aug 1683, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 81 years)
Relationship	Birth
Mother	Agnes Coffey   d. 22 Mar 1679, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Relationship	Birth
Family ID	F1359	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart




Spouse / Partner 1	Abiel Somerby   d. 27 Dec 1671, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Marriage	13 Nov 1661	Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12]
	Marriage Record of Rebecca Knight and Abiel Somerby
Age at Marriage	She : 18 years and 8 months - He : ??.
Family ID	F8280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	21 Jun 2021




Spouse / Partner 2	John Tompkins,   b. 16 Feb 1642, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 4 May 1722, Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, U.S.A. (Age 80 years)
Marriage	29 Dec 1667	Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [2]
Age at Marriage	She : 24 years and 9 months - He : 25 years and 10 months.
Children	From 1671 to 1687  [2]
1. Joseph Tompkins (1671-1741) 2. Margaret Tompkins (1672-1723) 3. John Tompkins (1674-1710) 4. Rebecca Tompkins (1674-1735) 5. Edmund Tompkins (1676-1676) 6. Elizabeth Tompkins (1677-1708) 7. Nathaniel Tompkins (1678-1733) 8. Hannah Tompkins (1681-1731) 9. Ruth Tompkins (1682-1708) 10. Mary Tompkins (1686-1742) 11. Deborah Tompkins (1687-1732)
Family ID	F8283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
Last Modified	21 Jun 2021




• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Rebecca Knight(1643 – 1688) 2Richard Knight(1602 – 1683) 4William Knight(Abt 1565 – ) 8 9 5Elizabeth Carter 10William Carter 11Thomasine 3Agnes Coffey( – 1679) 6 12 13 7 14 15

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 3 Mar 1643 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Marriage - 13 Nov 1661 - Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Marriage - 29 Dec 1667 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 8 Jan 1688 - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1161] Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, volume IV (I-L), (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2005). [S110] Ancestry.com, Ancestry Family Trees, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S638] Coffin, Joshua, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1845). [S652] Davis, Walter Goodwin. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis volume II, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995). [S640] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume I, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S641] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 volume II, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911). [S786] Essex Institute. Vital records of Newburyport, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, volume 2 Marriages & Deaths, (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1911). [S1787] Essex Institute. Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 Volume 6 Deaths, (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1925). [S645] Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton volume II, Reprint 1902, (Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, 1902). [S188] Holbrook Research Institute, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Marriage Record of Rebecca Knight and Abiel Somerby. [S808] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume III, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861). [S91] Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriage Prior to 1700, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985).