William Knowlton (1584)
Supporting the notion that the [GUILFORD] family came from Kent, England, is the marriage of JOHN GUILFORD (~1625) to SUSANNA KNOWLTON (~1624), daughter of WILLIAM KNOWLTON (1584), since the latter is known to be from Kent and since he was a seafarer and owned his own ship. It is believed that these families traveled together and it is assumed that after MARY (----) GUILFORD [#6021] and her son JOHN [#3715] died, ANN (SMITH) KNOWLTON took in the children of JOHN and raised them. There has been a great deal of dispute as to whether SUSANNA was a KNOWLTON or a NORTON, there also being a WILLIAM NORTON in Hingham at the time, but this writer believes the evidence in favor of KNOWLTON is overwhelming. For a discussion of this controversy, see the KNOWLTON family [in the same book, pp. 516-21]." (SUSANNA, his wife, also died about 1660.)
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