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Nehemiah Rice Knight (Governor)

BIRTH: 31 Dec 1780, Knightsville, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island
DEATH: 18 Apr 1854, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
BURIAL: Grace Church Cemetery, Elmwood Avenue, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
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TITLE: Governor

Father: Nehemiah Knight (13 Apr 1746 - 15 Jun 1808)
Mother: Eleanor Hudson (1747 - 5 Apr 1823)

Family 1: Lydia Waterman (21 Aug 1780 - 4 Dec 1850)

MARRIAGE: 21 Jul 1799, Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island

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 _Nehemiah Knight ____|
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|                     |_Penelope Westcott _____|
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|--Nehemiah Rice Knight 
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|                                               _Thomas Hudson ______|
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|                      _Daniel Hudson _________|
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|_Eleanor Hudson _____|
  (1747 - 1823) m 1762|
                      |                                                                          _John Rice __________
                      |                                                                         | (1646 - 1731) m 1674
                      |                                               _John Rice _______________|_Elizabeth Holden ___
                      |                                              | (1675 - 1755) m 1695       (1652 - ....)       
                      |                         _Thomas Rice ________|
                      |                        | (1700 - 1779) m 1718|
                      |                        |                     |                           _John Whipple _______+
                      |                        |                     |                          | (1639 - 1700) m 1663
                      |                        |                     |_Elnathan Whipple ________|_Mary Olney _________
                      |                        |                       (1675 - 1753) m 1695       (1643 - 1676)       
                      |_Ellen or Eleanor Rice _|
                        (1729 - ....) m 1744   |
                                               |                                                 _Randall Holden _____
                                               |                                                | (1611 - 1692) m 1648
                                               |                      _Randall Holden __________|_Frances Dungan _____
                                               |                     | (1660 - 1726) m 1686       (1632 - 1696)       
                                               |_Mary Holden ________|
                                                 (1698 - 1738) m 1718|
                                                                     |                           _Nathaniel Waterman _+
                                                                     |                          | (1637 - 1711) m 1662
                                                                     |_Bethia "Betty" Waterman _|_Susanna Carder _____
                                                                       (1664 - 1742) m 1686       (.... - 1711)

Notes

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Ancestry of Thirty-Three Rhode Islanders (Born in the Eighteenth Century) (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), p. 37.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Elnathan Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 24 Feb 2003. Cites Descendants of Roger Williams, Book I (birth); Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (marriage); Rhode Island Cemeteries Database Index (birth, death, burial).

!OCCUPATION: "Governor, U.S. Senator." --J.O. Austin

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