Name: Knight, Elijah (1813-1886)
Title: Justice of the Peace, Newmarket, NH, 1841, 1847
Justice of the Peace, Concord, NH
Member, New Hampshire State Constitutional Convention, 1850
Major, New Hampshire State Militia, 1853
Member, Blazing Star Lodge, F. & A. M., Concord
Member, Swampscott Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Newmarket
Born: 03/19/1813
Birthplace: Hancock, NH
Died: 08/11/1886
Death Location: Concord, NH
Residence: Hancock, NH
Alstead, NH
Goffstown, NH
Nashua, NH
Charlestown, MA
Boston, MA 1831-1837
Amoskeag, NH 1837-1839
Manchester, NH 1839-1841
Newmarket, NH 1842-1854
Concord, NH 1854-1886
Nationality: American
Occupation: Clockmaker, Nashua, NH, Charlestown, NH, Boston, MA
Jeweler, Amoskeag, NH, Manchester, NH, Newmarket, Concord, NH 1854-1885
Watchmaker
Clock Repairer
Father: Knight, Benjamin
Mother: Baker, Lucy
Relations: Worked with his brother-in-law, James Collins, clockmaker of Goffstown, NH, for 2 winters.
Listed in 1880 Concord census as watchmaker, along with his son-in-law, James C. Badger.
Siblings:
Knight, Lucy (1802-1844; m. James Collins, clockmaker; 4-5 children)
Knight, Joseph (1805-1872)
Knight, Enos (1806-)
Knight, Ruth (1810-1845)
Knight, Emily (1811-1854; m. __ Symonds)
Knight, Esther (1815-1843; m. __ Curtis)
Spouse: Mary Jane Griffin (1819-1904), 1842
Children: Helen Jane; born May 15, 1845, Newmarket; died December 17, 1882, Adams, MA; married Elisha P. Fisher
Lizzie Emily, born April 12, 1849, Newmarket; married James C. Badger, watchmaker; res. with parents in Concord, NH;
Notes: William W. Hayward, The History of Hancock, New Hampshire, 1764-1889. (Lowell, Massachusetts: Vox Populi Press, 1889), 718-720.
Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Clocks and Clockmakers. (Exeter, New Hampshire: Adams Brown Company, 1985), 323.
"Appointments," New-Hampshire Gazette, Portsmouth, NH, July 13, 1847, 3.
"Delegates to the State Convention," Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Portsmouth, NH, October 19, 1850, 3.
Advertisement, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, September 13, 1854.
"Elijah Knight," New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, Concord, New Hampshire, August 19, 1886.
Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives
Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, NH