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Knowles Line of Eligibility for Mayflower Descendants
1. William Brewster - his daughter was:
2. Patience Brewster - born c1600, prob. Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died. bef. 12 December 1634,
Plymouth, Mass.- married. Thomas Prence, 5 August 1624, Plymouth, Mass. - daughter:
3. Mercy Prence - born Plymouth, Mass. on or about 1631, died at Eastham, Mass. on September 28, 1711 - married
at Eastham on February 13, 1649 to John Freeman, born in England on or about 1601 - died at Eastham, Mass. on
October 28, 1719. Their daughter was:
4. Mercy Freeman - born at Eastham, Mass. in July 1659, died at Eastham, Mass. in 1744 - married at Eastham in
December 1679 to Samual Knowles, born at Plymouth, Mass. on September 17, 1651 - died at Eastham on June 19,
1737 - their son:
5. Nathaniel Knowles born at Eastham, Mass. on May 15, 1686 - died at Provincetown, Mass. in 1732. Married at
Windham Conn. on April 25, 1717 to Elizabeth Bacon - their son:
6. Samual Knowles (posthumous) born at Provincetown, Mass. in 1733, died at Pleasant River Plantation before
1777 - marriage intentions at Falmouth, Maine on December 27, 1754 to Sarah Elwell - their son:
7. Freeman Knowles born on December 7, 1754 at Addison, Maine - died November 27, 1797 - married Susan
Nash - their son:
8. Abraham Knowles born at Addison, Maine 1776 - died before May 12, 1815 - married at (unknown) on July 9,
1807 to Prudence Hillman, born 1784 - died at Addison, Maine on or about 1852 - their son:
9. Leander Knowles born at Addison, Maine on December 8, 1813 - died November 29, 1888 - married Mary Anne
Plummer, born in Addison Maine June 3, 1816 - died at Bangor Maine, December 20, 1893 - their daughter:
10. Josephine Bonaparte born December 8, 1852 - died June 28, 1922 - married Joseph Adams Coffin born in
Harrington, Maine on April 25, 1851 - died December 25, 1910 - their daughter:
11. Marjorie Mae Coffin born January 21, 1890 in Machias Maine - married Charles Wallace Leonard at Machias,
Maine - born September 11, 1889 at Milo, Maine - their son:
12. Philip Knowles Leonard, born October 24, 1927 - died Novermber 29, 1963 - married January 7, 1955 to
Elizabeth Blessley, born May 22, 1924 in Harrisburg, Pa. - their daughter:
13. Tracey Leonard, born January 4, 1961 in Baltimore, Md
1. The Mayflower Decendents Volume 5, page 143
2. Cape Cod Series (The Mayflower Planters) Volume 2, page 50; Volume 6, page 204
3. Mayflower Decendents volume 6, page 205
4. New England Historical & Gen. Reg. Volume 79, page 385; Volume 80, page 122
5. Widow listed in Addison & Harrington Reg. 1905, page 12
6. New England Historical & Gen. Reg. Volume 80, page 127
7. Markers at Cemetery in Machias, Maine.
8. Town records in Machias, Maine.
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