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| | Knowles, John W. 1749 |
 | | John Knowles, founder of the family, was born in Northern Ireland in 1749, participated in an unsuccessful uprising against the English Army as a young man emigrated to the American Colonies before 1775, served in the Revolutionary War in Pennsylvania, moved to Virginia about 1782 and finally settled in White County, Tennessee in 1807. |
 | | It must be stated, however, that a John Knowles lived in the Philadelphia area, while our John Knowles by 1775 lived in or near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, located in modern times in Cumberland County. |
 | | Soon after the Knowles family settled in White County in 1807, their names and the names of their neighbors (and in-laws) began to appear in such official county records as deed books, tax lists, will books, land grants and county court minutes. |
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