BIOGRAPHY: Soldiers of Oakham Massachusetts
The Revolutionary War, The War of 1812, and the Civil War
Henry Parks Wright
New Haven, Conn., - The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press
1914 – Page 106
Silas Knight
Born in Sudbury, May 5, 1757, son of Samuel and Anna (Eams) Knight. He enlisted for the town of Sudbury June 28, 1776, and served till December 1, 1776, at Camp Hull and Castle Island. September 28, 1777, he again enlisted and served forty-one days with the Northern Army. He came to Oakham about 1780 and lived in a house east of the Brimhall farm, on an old private road that ran in a northerly direction from the corner near the house of Isaac Stone, 2d. This road ran near a house on Bullard Hill, crossed the county road from Rutland to Hardwick near Phineus Bullard’s and joined the Coldbrook road near the house of the late Capt. Sumner Barr. Silas Knight’s house was burned in 1802. Deacon James Allen remembered going to this fire when he was ten years old. He married Martha Goodenough, May 12, 1782. Silas Knight died between July 30 and October 4, 1842. His was grandfather to Charles S. Knight and great-grandfather of James A. Knight, both of whom served in the Civil War in the 42d Massachusetts Infantry.
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Birth Date: 05 May 1757
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50074-8
System Origin: Massachusetts-EASy
Source Film Number: 185455
Reference Number: p 83
Collection: Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
DEATH: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWC4-XZQ
Name: Silas Knight
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Event Date: 08 Sep 1842
Event Place: New Braintree, Massachusetts
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Volume/Page/Certificate Number: p 225
Film Number: 1420528
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Digital Folder Number: 4220465
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Collection: Massachusetts, Deaths, 1841-1915