This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNOWLTON Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.knowlton/501/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, I am the administrator of the Knowlton mailing list, and I invite any of you board readers to join us by subscribing (see the rootsweb.com home page for instructions). Also, these board messages are gatewayed to our list, so we do see them; however, our posts and replies are not seen by you board members unless we log on here. Some of us have been doing Knowlton genealogy for 40 yrs or so; some of us own Rev Stockings HISTORY OF THE KNOWLTONS pub in 1897 and the ERRATA AND ADDENDA published only a few years later. Both volumes are still full of errors. Nowadays with more records available, much more USA Knowlton history is known for the 17th-20th centuries. I want to caution you that there is no documented proof at all for the Richard Knowlton and Elizabeth Cantize info in the Stocking volume. I personally believe this was another family (Knowlden) altogether. At any rate, research done in England a couple of decades ago failed to connect our family with these people--in fact, proved they were not related. We sort of keep old Capt William Knowlton as our founder even though we have no proof of him either. He is a handy way to link John, William, and Deacon Thomas Knowlton of Ipswich, MA; all of us are descended from the first two men. All over the INTERNET is undocumented info about ancestors of the Ipswich people and, worse, embarrassing nonsense about nobility etc. Our people were shoemakers and brickmakers, good yeomen and women who labored in Ipswich to make a living and bring up their families. They are enough for us to be proud of without adding fiction to the story. I hope some of you will join us on the Knowlton mailing list!