by Laura Knight
Census Records from Images provided by USA National Archives and Records Administration. Washington D.C. extracted by myself from images on ancestry.com
I've extracted what limited information was available from each source and households (HH) are separated by double asterisks thus: ** and the name of the Head of Household (HH) on the record is in bold for ease of finding. I've gone over this several times, trying to catch all errors, but I can't guarantee that there are none; I just do my best at any moment. Also, as noted elsewhere, for ease of search/finding, I've most often converted names to the modern spelling and have frequently included how the name appears in the record and/or how the transcriber rendered it: (text: Knite, trans: Kite). Also note that I have excluded Northern States. If someone else wants to collect the Northern Knights and arrange them as I have so I don't have to do any extra work, I'll be very happy to include them and give credit where it is due.
If a census isn't here, it's because I didn't find one.
1790 – GA - Federal Census - Note, Georgia census records were destroyed by the British in 1812; I found one census reconstructed and it is incomplete. There are no Knights, but some of the other names are often associated with Knights past and present so I include them here:
James Anderson, John Anderson, Robert Anderson, William Anderson, Benjamin Barton, John Boyd, William Bryant, Josiah Carter, Thomas Carter, Eden Coleman, John Coleman, Peter Crawford, Malachia Culpepper, Harwood Evans, William Farmer, Elijah Fleming, Alex Fluwellin, John Grimes, Archibald Hamilton, Buckner Harris, Samuel Hollingsworth, Cuthbert Hudson, James Hunt, James Johnson, Nelson Johnston, John Jones, Fleming Jordan, John Jordan, Elijah Martin, William Martin, Thomas Merriweather, John Montgomery, Richard Moore, Daniel Morgan, James Morris,John Payne, Leroy Pope, Anthonny Powell, John Rayburn, Edward Rice, John Roberts, Henry Rose, Joseph M. Russell, Clayborn Rutherford, John Spain, Paton R. Stith, John Stokes, William Stokes, Henry Summerlin, Thomas Talbot, Abner Tatum, Grant Taylor, John Templeton, David Terrell, Riley Trewitt, Charles Walker, Elijah Walker, Jess Walton, Walker Walton, Valentine Warren, William Wilkinson, William Williams, Charles Williamson, Joseph Wilson, Middleton Woods, Peyton Wyatt, John Young.
1790 – GA Effingham - US Census Reconstructed - ** Thomas James Knight ** John Knight ** Joseph Knight ** Robert Knight: Names on petition, 15 Jul 1793, to Gov Telfair from inhabitants of Effingham Co saying the land court granted by fraud 1000000 acres to a few persons. Many couldn’t attend the court because of poverty.