Simon Knowles

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Died:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

Notes:

Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778-779.

He was a mariner. "A few years later, Mar. 25, 1666, he bought..." "...one dwelling-house and house-lot, containing 10 acres, together with six acres of marsh; the house and lot being in Hampton..."

Birth:
Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

Died:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

John married Jemima AUSTIN 10 Jul 1660, Hampton, Rockingham Co. NH. Jemima (daughter of Francis AUSTIN and Isabella BLAND) was born Bef 24 Jan 1641, Hampton, Rockingham Co, NH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988., p. 586.

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Married:
Source: Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988, p.778.

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Francis and Isabel emigrated first to Dedham, and then, before June 30, 1640, to Hampton, NH, where he received a grant of land on June 30, 1640.

History of Rockingham County, NH, Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1915, page 318
"Francis Austin was one of the earliest proprietors of Hampton.He was here in 1741 [SIC I believe this is a typographical error as in the previous sentence the author indicated lands being granted in 1640]. He had two children Isabella and Jemima. Isabella married Philip Towle and was charged with being a witch."

Francis married Isabella BLAND 2 Oct 1632, Colchester, Essex, England. Isabella (daughter of John BLAND/SMITH and Isabella DRAKE) was born Abt 1612, England; died 19 Feb 1699, Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH. [Group Sheet]

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Note that Isabella may, in some records, be listed with the surname "Smith" as in Jones' book on Philip Towle (p. 65). This comes from the fact that her father referred to himself as Smith, though he was born with the surname of Bland.

When her first husband died in 1642, she married Thomas Leavitt.

Birth:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Births database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabell Bland
Father: John Bland
Mother: Isabella Isabel Drake
Birth Date: 1602
City: Colchester
County: Essex
Country: England

Died:
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

The Family Data Collection - Deaths database was created while gathering genealogical data for use in the study of human genetics and disease.

Name: Isabella Bland
Death Date: 19 Feb 1699
City: Hampton
County: Rockingham
State: NH

Joseph Dow. "History of the Town of Hampton, NH, from its Settlement in 1638 to the Autumn of 1892". pub. 1893; reprinted in 1988. I. Thomas Leavitt - p.810.

Notes:

Married:
Philip Towle, Hampton, New Hampshire: His English origins and Some American Descendants, William Haslet Jones, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie MD, 1995,p. 65.

Church: Probably St. Mary, the Virgin, Colchester, Essexshire, England

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John Bland was one of the earliest settlers of Martha's Vineyard, owning land here as early as 1646. He and his second wife Joanna (his first wife, Isabella, died before he came to the island) were prominent citizens of Edgartown back in the day. It is even believed that John Bland was with Thomas Mayhew in the shallop that first pulled into what is now Edgartown Great Harbor.

He frequently called himself John Smith, this even prior to arrival in New England. Probate records include the John Smith name.

Source: Genealogical Dict. of ME & NH

"John Bland,alias John Smith was living at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, in 1646, undoubtedly the John Smith [in] association with the Mayhews in the first movement from Watertown to the Island, where he was always 'Bland'. In Watertown, lived his mother Adrian, 2nd wife of Jeremiah Norcross and there is a recorded "Isabel" wife of John Smith, born 12 July 1639, age 60. The Hampton Drakes testified that they knew his daughter Isabel Bland from childhood, that her father John Bland lived in Colchester, and that his ancestory was Bland, not Smith. Apparently his step-father was Smith. His will made 2 Nov. 1663 names wife, Joanna and "all the children that are alive that I owne"

Source: History of Martha's Vineyard

FIRST TOWNSHIP GRANT.

"The basis of all land titles in Edgartown rests upon the original grant of the two patentees to certain individuals named in the following grant of township rights:-
..... unto John Doggett, Danish Pierce and Rich'd Beeres and John Smith and Francis Smith with ourselves to make choice for the Present of a large Towne upon the same Terms that we have it: And also equall Power in Governm't with us, and equall Power in admission of all that shall present themselves to come to live upon any part of the whole grant of all the Islands; and wee grant also to them and their Associates with us to receive another Townshipp for Posterity upon the same Terms wee have from the Grantees.
[New York Col. Doc. Deeds, I, 72.]"

Buried:
Grave location and cemetery photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82166404

John married Isabella DRAKE 1597, Colchester, Essex, England. Isabella (daughter of William DRAKE and Joan MERYLLS) was born Abt 1579, England; died Oct 1639, Watertown, Middlesex, MA; was buried 12 Oct 1639, Old Burying Place, Watertown, Middlesex Co. MA. [Group Sheet]

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Buried:
Grave location and cemetery photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82166194