Polly Knowlton
(1767–1845)
BIRTH
January 11, 1767
PLACE
DEATH
September 27, 1845
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Anna Keyes
(1743-1808)
BROTHER
Sampson Knowlton
(1770-1777)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Polly Knowlton Fitts (1767–1845) was Colonel Thomas Knowlton and Anna Keyes’s daughter, born at Ashford, Connecticut. She was nine when her father died at Harlem Heights in 1776. In January 1793 she married Stephen Fitts, an Ashford farmer; their son Stephen was born in 1798. Knowlton genealogy and county history agree on her birth, marriage and September 1845 death. Her Snow Cemetery inscription names Stephen, but its age calculation is inconsistent.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Polly Knowlton’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Polly Knowlton is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Polly Knowlton died on Sep 27, 1845. Polly Knowlton Fitts was Colonel Thomas Knowlton and Anna Keyes’s daughter, born at Ashford, Connecticut. She was nine when her father died at Harlem Heights in 1776. In January 1793 she married Stephen Fitts, an Ashford farmer; their son Stephen was born in 1798. Knowlton genealogy and county history agree on her birth, marriage and September 1845 death. Her Snow Cemetery inscription names Stephen, but its age calculation is inconsistent. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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