EVERETT JAMES McKNIGHT, M. D., Hartford, is one of the leading physicians
and surgeons in the county. A native of Connecticut, he was born June 12,
1855, in Ellington, Tollancl county, and traces his ancestry to John McKnight,
the emigrant, through James Dixon, Horace and John (2).
(I) John McKnight (1) was born about the year
1712, in Scotland, whence when nineteen years of age. he came to this country,
first locating in New Haven, Conn., where he became a merchant, later moving
to Hartford, and finally to Ellington, and here he resided on a farm in
the northwest part of the town until his death, in 1785. While on a trip
to England for a cargo of goods, he married Jerusha Crane, an Englishwoman,
and by her had six children as follows: Thomas, (II) John, Mary, Jerusha,
Esther and Sarah. The father of these died March 16, 1785, the mother in
September, 1783.
(II) John McKnight, born June 18, 1739, married
(first) Nov. 20, 1762, Charity Abbe, who died in 1798; he married (second)
May 27, 1799. Jerusha Kent, born May 25, 1772, died Aug.11, 1842. He passed
away Nov. 12, 1837, the father of thirteen children, as follows: Roxia,
born Sept. 8. 1788, married Parley Chapman; Timothy (twin of Roxia) died
Oct. 30, 1788: Horace was born Oct. 23. 1790; Harvey (twin of Horace) died
March 1O, 1806; Polly, born May 23, 1792, married Flavel Whiton, died June
30, 1860; Chauncey was born Jan. 21, 1796; Betsey was born Sept. 12, 1798.
Children by second marriage: Charity, born April 15, 1800, married Jabez
Chapman; Jerusha, born June 24, 1802, married Deacon Simon Chapman, and
died in Wisconsin Aug.11, 1842; Miranda, born Oct. 1, 1804, married Harvey
White, and died in Vermont Feb. 24, 1843; John, born March 2, 1807, married
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