Biography:
Philip Augustus Knaut was a German-born merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Lunenburg from 1758 to 1781. He was born in the Electorate of Saxony and first came to Nova Scotia with Edward Cornwallis in 1749. In 1750 he married Anna Grob. Knaut settled in Lunenburg in 1753 where he became one of the first shopkeepers there.
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