possible wife for Robert Knowlton (#468 or 229B) of Bedford, Westchester Co., NY, b ca. 1704

[E W Knowlton]

I posted this today on wikitree under Samuel Purdy:

    A supposed Charity Purdy b ca. 1709, dau of Samuel Purdy and Clorinda Penelope Strang, appears in many Ancestry trees with no sources except other trees. What is the source of all the other children from the Purdy/Strang marriage? For many years I have sought the wives of Robert Knowlton (ca. 1704 - ca. 1798) and of his son, Ephraim Knowlton (ca. 1740 - ca. 1784) of Bedford, Westchester Co., NY, without, of course, much success due to the British burning of Bedford in 1779.

     In the recent past I took the autosomal test at Ancestry and now have hundreds of matches of under 40 cM (many in one cluster in My Heritage) related to people whose ancestors either went to Canada as Loyalists or were Southerners although neither appears in my direct tree of 35 years of research. I finally realized that many of these tiny matches related to the large Purdy family and others who married into it. [Half my ancestry did not immigrate to the USA until 1933; and the half that was here since 1640 did not leave MA/NY until 1920 when they immigrated to NJ :>)]

      Robert had three known children: Charity, Ephraim (named for his paternal grandfather), and Elizabeth. This is the first time the name Charity has appeared in our family. I wondered if anyone had any ideas about where the names of Samuel's children came from since he did not leave a will or a Bible record. My tree (on Rootsweb) was kindly entered in wikitree by Samuel Knowlton a few years ago, and I am happy to give more details.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/619124/I403/robert-knowlton/individual

Elizabeth Knowlton

Atlanta, GA