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Sarah Kemble Knight
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Sarah Kemble Knight
While on her journey she kept a journal to document everything she had done. This journal shows us her keen sense of humor, and her unusual tolerance. It is also important in its representation of American life at the time.
The death of a relative left her with an estate to settle, and on October 2 ,1704, she set off on horseback from Boston to New York which was a very long journey back then. Reminder: They didn't have planes or cars, they had to either walk, ride in a carriage, or ride by horse back.
She did not return to Boston until March 3, 1705.
Unlike many other latter-day Puritans who considered the frontier dangerous, Knight considered it challenging. She thought the wilderness was romantic and literary, colonized and domesticated, dangerous yet comic and amoral. Knight considered it as a challenge.
Knight married Captain Richard Knight, a ship master, who was "Considerably her senior."
Sarah Kemble Knight was born on April 19, 1666 in Boston Massachusetts and died on September 25, 1727 at the age of 61.
After her parents died she took over many of the responsibilities in her household. In 1706 she opened a boarding house and taught school which gained a lot of reputation in Boston. One of her students may have been the famous Benjamin Franklin. She also ran a shop in Boston, she ran a lodge where people frequently stayed, and she also worked as a court scrivener copying legal documents, so she had kind of a full plate.
Sarah Kemble Knight
Knights parents were Thomas Kemble and Elizabeth Trerice. Her father was a succesful merchant in Boston and her mother was a stay at home mom who descended from an old established Massachusetts family.
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