This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNOWLTON GILES BATCHELDER HASKINS WHITNEY HATTON SLADE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/307.1 Message Board Post: Chris, This information is from Chas Stocking's HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE KNOWLTONS . . .. 1897. Thomas is # 589 in that book, and George L. is # 1558 who married Olive Haskins. Martha's last name was Giles. They married Dec 11, 1817, so she was the mother of Geo L, but she was Thomas' second wife. Thomas died Aug 1832 in Detroit. Thomas' parents were Thomas (270) and Elizabeth Batchelder Knowlton of Shrewsbury, MA (1800 & 1810 census). He served as selectman of Shrewsbury 21 times and also in the Am Rev, ending up a capt of the "6th co, Worcester County Regt." He died Aug 22, 1829. Thomas (589) first married Rebeca Whitney Nov 1809, perhaps in MA. They had two girls in 1810 and 1812 before she died May 17, 1812. Children by Martha Giles were: Harriet A, b Sep 3, 1818, m John Hatton Aug 17, 1841, then m second Robert Slade, bearing 14 children; Calvin, 1820 died young; Thomas W., May 1, 1823, d Dec 31, 1854; Geo L., b Oct 1, 1824; and Charles L., b 1832, died y. Always use the 1903 ERRATA AND ADDENDA to the above volume because it is full of errors. No sources are given, so you must assemble proofs yourself.