She engaged in Indian trading and and became the owner of several farms. In 1712 Madam Knight move to Connecticut, where she controlled property in both Norwich and New London. Its stark portrayal of the New England backwoods to the refined prosperity of New York reminds us that the Puritan community was soon confronted with another America, in which, by 1704, world prosperity and secular sophistication and in strong contrast with large areas of ignorance, violence, and backwardness.
Her writing is certainly the beginning point for American writers in the areas of written social and economic issues. Madam Knight comments on the morals and manners of the social classes. Her narrative reflects her middle-class, merchant-class attitudes of gender, class, and race. It is an excellent source of colonial customs and conditions. It is an important testimony to her courageousness, quick wit, and keen sense of humor not usually represented, especially not by a woman of American life at that time. As most journals written, it was intended to keep her memory fresh and to relate events of the travel to her relatives. She wrote a journal not intended for publication. Much of the country through which she traveled was still unexplored and dangerous for any horseman let alone a woman who was thirty-eight years old. The grave of Madam Knight in New London, ConnecticutThe 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 Haven, Connecticut, and then on to New York until March 3, 1705. In the early years of the eighteenth century, she showed that a woman could be quite successful in management and business activities. "Madam was an eighteenth century term used for middle-aged matrons. "Madam" Knight, as she was known, also owned a boarding house in Boston. She probably owned a stationary shop on the ground floor of her home. She conducted a writing school for a time in 1705 where it was traditionally reported that she learned something of the law, and seems occasionally to have employed such knowledge in the settlement of estates and in other semi-legal activities. Knight engaged in a variety of employments not usually associated with the women of her times. The only record of their marriage is a document stating Richard Knight's intention to marry her in 1688.Īfter her husband's death, Mrs. Prior to 1689 she married Captain Richard Knight, a shipmaster and a widower considerably her senior. She was the daughter of Thomas Kemble, a Boston merchant, reportedly an agent of Cromwell in selling prisoners of war and Elizabeth Trerice. OL1094131W Page_number_confidence 71.00 Pages 102 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210415120729 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 244 Scandate 20210405113547 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781557091154 Tts_version 4.Sarah Kemble KnightSarah Kemble Knight, a third-generation American, was born in Boston. Urn:lcp:journalofmadamek0000knig:lcpdf:0f4d96f2-d3bd-418a-9bbd-4d29d89c153c Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier journalofmadamek0000knig Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7qp6qh8p Invoice 2089 Isbn 1557091153 Lccn 91046984 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.6678 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300172 Openlibrary_edition
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