Bio: Captain Artemas Knight : Franconia, Grafton Co, New Hampshire

From Gazetteer of Grafton County, NH 1709-1886 -Franconia
Compiled & published by Hamilton Child 1886


Captain Artemas Knight, a soldier of the Revolution, was one of the earliest
settlers in Franconia, and owned at one time nearly the whole of the town-
ship. He married Tabitha Saunders, of Worcester, Mass., and moved to this
town a few years after his marriage. Their eldest son, Thomas, born in 1783,
was the first male child born in the town. Artemas erected a large house on
the hill east of the village, and reared a family of three sons and four
daughters. To each of his sons he gave a farm, as they became of age. He
owned the water privilege which he sold to a Boston firm, who put in a
foundry, furnace, and other manufactories to work the iron ore which was
discovered in the western part of the town. About these factories the
village grew up, and the Knight House was moved into the village and became
the first hotel in Franconia. Artemas, after selling the property, removed
with his two younger sons to Westmoreland, N. H., thus leaving Thomas the
only representative of the family in Franconia. Thomas spent his life in the
town, honored by his townsmen, reared twelve children, and died at the age
of sixty-one years. Eight of his children are now living, as follows: Oliver,
James and Horace, in Franconia, Dr. Luther M., in Franklin, Thomas, in St.
Johnsbury, Vt., George R., in Chelsea, Mass., Mrs. John Wilson, in
Woodsville, and Mrs. A. K. Hoit, in St. Johnsbury, Vt.


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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman rickman@worldpath.net
Date: October 24, 2000