From Knollin Family Manuscript: "James Richards Knollin was born on October 6, 1806 in the Parish of Brixham, near Dartmouth, England. He came to America with his father's family in 1827. At that time it took six weeks to cross the ocean so he had ample time in which to consider the act. He made Chittenango, N.Y. his home for some years where he worked at the business of 'grist' milling. After his marriage to Eve Bettinger, he moved to Sandy Creek, N.Y., bought a tract of nearly cleared land with its 'betterments' consisting of a log house and a log barn, and was a tiller of soil until his death in July 1879. During his last years he talked often of Devonshire and Levitton, the hamlet of his boyhood, and so brought to mind the lines from 'Cotswold Boy."
'That is the land of lost content,
I see it shinning plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.'"
'That is the land of lost content,
I see it shinning plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.'"
From Knollin Family Manuscript: "James Richards Knollin was born on October 6, 1806 in the Parish of Brixham, near Dartmouth, England. He came to America with his father's family in 1827. At that time it took six weeks to cross the ocean so he had ample time in which to consider the act. He made Chittenango, N.Y. his home for some years where he worked at the business of 'grist' milling. After his marriage to Eve Bettinger, he moved to Sandy Creek, N.Y., bought a tract of nearly cleared land with its 'betterments' consisting of a log house and a log barn, and was a tiller of soil until his death in July 1879. During his last years he talked often of Devonshire and Levitton, the hamlet of his boyhood, and so brought to mind the lines from 'Cotswold Boy."
'That is the land of lost content,
I see it shinning plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.'"
'That is the land of lost content,
I see it shinning plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.'"
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