Levi Baylief Knight

Male16 February 1811–

Brief Life History of Levi Baylief

When Levi Baylief Knight was born on 16 February 1811, in Calais, Washington, Maine, United States, his father, Thomas Westbrook Knight, was 33 and his mother, Pattie Martha Dyer, was 25. He lived in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1865 and Bangor, Penobscot, Maine, United States in 1870.

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Levi Baylief Knight
1811–
Eliza J Knight
1826–

Sources (6)

  • Levi Knight, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Levi Knight in the U.S., Citizenship Affidavits of US-born Seamen at Select Ports, 1792-1869
  • Levi B Knight, "United States Census, 1850"

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World Events (8)

1812

Age 1

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

1816

Age 5

Historical Boundaries: 1816: Penobscot, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Penobscot, Maine, United States

1842 · Webster–Ashburton Treaty

Age 31

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty was signed on August 9, 1842 and resolved the border issues between the United States and British North American colonies which had caused the Aroostook War. The treaty contained several agreements and concessions. It called for an end on the overseas slave trade and proposed that both parties share the Great Lakes. It also reaffirmed the location of the westward frontier border (near the Rocky Mountains) as well as the border between Lake Superior and Lake of the Woods. The treaty was signed by Daniel Webster (United States Secretary of State) and Alexander Baring (British Diplomat, 1st Baron Ashburton).

Name Meaning

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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