Brief Life History of Nathan Kinsman
When Nathan Kinsman Knight was born on 16 January 1802, in Mansfield, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, his father, Isaac Knight, was 31 and his mother, Lucina Kinsman Deke, was 28. He married Lois Emily Twitchell Witham in 1821, in Mansfield, Lamoille, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States in 1860 and St Thomas, Lincoln, Nevada, United States in 1870. He died in 1874, in Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Glendale, Kane, Utah, United States.
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- Summit. Census Records 1900 (image 301)
- Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
- Nathan K. Knight, "BillionGraves Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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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Life Story of Nathan kinsman Knight Nathan Kinsman Knight was born on January 16, 1802 in Mansfield, Lamoil County, Vermont to Issac Knight and Lucinda Kinsman. He married Lois Witham and they made …
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