Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Knight, Jonathan
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Southampton Township


   JONATHAN KNIGHT farmer, P.O. Feasterville, is a son of 
Amos Knight, a brother of Benjamin.  He is a grandson of 
Absalom Knight.  His father was born 7th mo., 11th, 1779, 
and died 5th mo., 13th, 1849.  He was a blacksmith and a 
farmer, and stood high in the estimation of the community.  
He died on the place now occupied by Jonathan Knight.  He 
was married, 4th mo., 18th, 1802, to Mary, daughter of 
Jonathan Clayton, of Montgomery county.  She died 6th mo., 
10th, 1863, aged 81.  Their children were:  Ann and Clayton, 
twins; Mary, a second Ann, Rebecca, Grace and Rachel, all 
deceased, and Jonathan, who is the only survivor.  He was 
born 1st mo., 3rd, 1810, and was brought up to farming.  On 
11th mo., 13th, 1834, he married Mary, daughter of Charles 
Vansant, of Warminster township.  She was born 4th mo., 7th, 
1813.  They have had nine children:  William C., Jane, John, 
Amos, Emma, David and Mary Ann are deceased.  The oldest and 
the youngest of the family are living:  Charles G., married 
to Elizabeth Cornell, living in Northampton township; and 
Jonathan, married to Martha Tomlinson (a daughter of Watson 
Tomlinson, a Quaker preacher), living on the home farm.  Mr. 
Knight has always been an enterprising man, coming to the 
front in all things for the benefit of his county.  He was 
one of the promoters of, and heaviest stockholders in the 
Newtown railroad, and is held by his neighbors in high 
repute.  In politics Mr. Knight is a republican.