KNOWLES PROGENITOR BIOGRAPHIES
Alexander KNOWLES (c1604 - 1663)
Knowles Progenitor: CT-01 (Fairfield)
(based on research by Donald Lines Jacobus, and others)
"History and Genealogy of
the Families of Old Fairfield"
(compiled and edited by Donald
Lines Jacobus)
Knowles, Alexander.
Magistrate for Fairfield, May 1654, May 1661;
Assistant, Connecticut Col., 1658; war committee for Fairfield, October 1654.
Freeman, Massachusetts, 7 December 1636.
Will (date gone, c 1663);
sons: Joshua, John;
grandchildren: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary and Lydia Ford.;
grandchild: John Knowles;
"our daughter at Milford", also called daughter Elizabeth;
wife;
Mr. Gold and John Burr, overseers. Witnessed by Philip Pinkney;
Inventory: 8 December 1663.
Article #63 from: "Coe -
Ward Memorial & Immigrant Ancestors ..."
(Limited edition publication from Press of
the Converse Publishing Co., 1897)
Alexander Knowles, our immigrant ancestor, a freeman
of Massachusetts, 7th December, 1936. The 7th of October, 1645, Alexander
was appointed a commissioner to form a code of laws for the General Court of
Massachusetts.
The 17th of January, 1653, he removed to Fairfield and purchased Henry
Whelpley's house and home lot, on the southwest corner of the Frost Square;
there he was in good esteem and was chosen assistant of the colony of
Connecticut, 1654.
In 1654, Alexander Knowles was one of the committee chosen by the General Court
of Connecticut to press men and necessaries in each town for expedition to
Narragansett.
The commissioners at their meeting in September had resolved upon war with
Ninigret and had ordered 40 horsemen and 250 foot soldiers to be forthwith
levied from the several colonies; of these Massachusetts was to provide 40
horsemen and 153 foot; Connecticut 45, Plymouth 41, New Haven 31. A part of this
force was to be dispatched with all expedition to the Niantic country and the
remainder to hold themselves in readiness to march upon notice from the
commander-in-chief, the selection of whom was conceded by the commissioners to
Massachusetts.
Alexander Knowles, William Hill and N. Gold, appointed by the General Court in
1660 to try and settle the dispute between Norwalk and the Indians.
