When George Thomas Knight was born on 8 January 1824, in Rehoboth, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, John Woodson Knight IV, was 50 and his mother, Frances Harefield Williams, was 43. He married Mary Elizabeth Lipscomb on 13 November 1848, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 16 August 1874, in Rehoboth, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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