Nehemiah Knight
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Nehemiah Knight (March 23, 1746 - June 13, 1808) was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. Born in "Knightsville," Cranston (now a part of Providence), he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was town clerk from 1773 to 1800. In 1783 and 1787 he was elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly, and was sheriff of Providence County in 1787.
Knight was elected as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1803, until his death in Cranston in 1808; interment was in a small cemetery on Cranston Street and Phoenix Avenue in a locality known as "Knightsville," Providence.
Nehemiah Knight's son, Nehemiah Rice Knight, would later become a U.S. Senator and Governor of Rhode Island.
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