----- Original Message ----- From: <BasketLady420@aol.com> To: <KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:48 AM Subject: [KNOWLTON] Thomas Knowlton, 1740~1776 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Knowlton > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/300 > > Message Board Post: > > KNOWLTON, Thomas. 1740-1776. Militia officer (Capt.), Continental > officer (Lt. Col.), farmer, b. West Boxford, Mass. > Distinguished himself at Bunker Hill; carried out daring raid on > Charleston, Mass., 8 January 1776; leader of a body of Connecticut > Rangers at battle of Harlem Heights, N.Y., 16 September 1776, in which he > was killed. > > > I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, > which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American > Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.354. > Joyce Thank you Joyce, for this information - interesting, and I will see if I can obain this book from the library. I think there are more Knowlton/Knowlden families in USA than in UK... Does it mention a George Williams who I know was involved in this, and I think was a Drummer Boy. If so I have more information about him. He had a connection with one 'Griffiths' his uncle who may also have been involved. from Joan - Liverpool > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >
I am descended from Thomas's Brother, Lt. Daniel Knowlton (1738-1825). I have much information on this line. A statue of Col. Thomas was erected on the State Capitol grounds in Hartford, CT. Clyde -----Original Message----- From: Joan Borrowscale [mailto:j.borrowscale@btinternet.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:06 AM To: KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KNOWLTON] Thomas Knowlton, 1740~1776 ----- Original Message ----- From: <BasketLady420@aol.com> To: <KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:48 AM Subject: [KNOWLTON] Thomas Knowlton, 1740~1776 > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Knowlton > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5Mn.2ACEB/300 > > Message Board Post: > > KNOWLTON, Thomas. 1740-1776. Militia officer (Capt.), Continental > officer (Lt. Col.), farmer, b. West Boxford, Mass. > Distinguished himself at Bunker Hill; carried out daring raid on > Charleston, Mass., 8 January 1776; leader of a body of Connecticut > Rangers at battle of Harlem Heights, N.Y., 16 September 1776, in which he > was killed. > > > I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, > which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American > Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.354. > Joyce Thank you Joyce, for this information - interesting, and I will see if I can obain this book from the library. I think there are more Knowlton/Knowlden families in USA than in UK... Does it mention a George Williams who I know was involved in this, and I think was a Drummer Boy. If so I have more information about him. He had a connection with one 'Griffiths' his uncle who may also have been involved. from Joan - Liverpool > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/