http://www.lucysfamilytree.com/wilkerson/halley-or-hawley/james-haw...

See the records here: https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-index.html

https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-peter.html

Anne Hawley married Captain Peter Knight the son of Peter Knight.

By the time he made his will in 1702, Capt. Peter Knight listed only four children: James, Elizabeth, Leonard and Mary. He does not mention his wife, so she must have been deceased at that point. Her last appearance in the records is in 1676 when she would have been over 40 years of age so she was surely mother of all these four children.

In the end, it looks like Capt. Peter Knight and Anne Hawley had the following children who can be reasonably justified by the records:

1. Elizabeth b. 1660 Rec. assumed bap. gift from grandfather
2. James b. 1664-5 ? Or was he the eldest, born before Elizabeth?
3. Leonard b. 1666 Gave deposition
4. Peter b. 1669 d. bef. 1702. This is inference/speculation based on a record.
5. Mary b. ? Was she born before Elizabeth?

There is also the possibility that Capt Peter Knight was the father of Anne Knight who married a Coppedge, but that is uncertain and we have no idea who the wife/mother might have been.

Disputed identity

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knight-3193

The origin of the tradition that Genevieve Basse married "Captain Peter Knight" is unknown and the tradition is apparently unsourced. It is likely a case of conflation between Peter Knight (1587-bef.1674), Merchant of Gloucester and Captain Peter Knight (bef.1620-bef.1705). Peter Knight, Merchant, was granted a land patent for 255 acres in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.

The Captain Peter Knight that married Anne Hawley was born in 1620. So Captain Peter Knight can not be either the husband of Genevieve Basse, or the son of another Peter Knight and Genevieve Basse.

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7150...

• Reference: TNG Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 1 2024, 19:42:58 UTC

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The Hawley Problem

I want to go in another direction here and look at what I call “The Hawley Problem” which really isn’t much of a problem, but a lot of people who have had the sense to give up Genevieve Basse as wife of Capt. Peter, are listing Capt. Peter’s wife as “Francis Ann”. We know from the records that Peter Knight married Anne Hawley, the daughter of James Hawley, but here we want to inquire into some minor details.

• https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-peter.html

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https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-peter.html:

1642 - Apr 22 - Isle of Wight VA - Admin - James Hawley - Land patent for 300 acs. . … Upon the head of the Lower Baye Cr., adj. John Rowe. Due for the per. Adv. Of himself, Ann, his wife, & trans. Of 4 pers: Francis Ann & Alice, his children, John Foster & Richard Darling. Patent renewed Sept. 27, 1643. (Nugent I, p. 125)

The scribes of the time did not use commas the way we do and I would read that list of people as Francis, Ann & Alice, i.e. three children. Another point in favor of it being three children is that few people at the time gave their children two names.

References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I2419... (no Frances listed)
2. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7150... ANN
3. https://laura-knight-jadczyk.com/genealogy/knight-peter.html
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hawley-251