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Author: k8ren
Surnames: Williams, Knight, Knapp, Haven Burr, Doolittle, Strong, McLean
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I am searching for the parents of Tirzah Knight who married Simeon Williams. Tirzah was
born about 1763 in Connecticut and according to an old family letter, her brothers held
high judicial office in CT. The Williams and Knight families lived in the
"Valley" near the Connecticut River near Hartford and had a large estate called
Meadow Lands. They died in Ripley Indiana before 1855.
Simeon might have been born in Stonington CT in 1763. Simeon and Tirzah had 9 children:
John, Dyer, Dudley, Henry, Adin, Lois, Susan, Fanny and Sarah. I believe they lived in
Hartland Vermont in 1790 and 1800, then Essex NY in 1810, then Butler Ohio in 1820 and
1830, then Ripley IN in 1840. Simeon supposedly died in 1847 and Tirzah around 1853, both
in Ripley County, Indiana. Their children married into Indiana families named: Knapp,
Doolittle, McLean, Burr, Strong, Cameron, Haven.
Does anyone recognize this Knight family or know more about when Simeon and Tirzah died?
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