The King Family

Anna King
In 1613 Anna married William Vassall. Born ca 1592 in England. William died in Barbados in 1655; he was 63.

"William was a man of considerable fortune, son of John Vassall, a man of great wealth, and an Alderman of London, who in 1588 fitted out and commanded two vessels to help oppose the Spanish Armada.

William Vassall was one of the original patentees of New England lands. He was one of Craddock's Assistants at the time he was made acting Governor of the Massachusetts Company of London. In 1630 Vassall came to New England with John Winthrop, but returned to London in 1631 in the ship Lyon, being chosen with his brother by the colonists to present their petitions of complaints against Endicott's government to Craddock in England. He returned in June 1635 in the ship Blessing with his wife and six children, whom he left in Roxbury while he built his house at Scituate on the beautiful location overlooking river, marshes and ocean. It was known as "Belle House."

In 1646, finding himself out of sympathy with the colonial leaders, Vassall went to England, and in 1648, without returning to Scituate, he went to Barbados, where he died in the Parish of St. Michael in 1655.

Well-educated and a man of some wealth in England, he and his brother came to Scituate, MA, where he built the "Belle House" on his plantation, "West Newland". He seems to have run afoul of his neighbors in matters of religion, and became a follower of Rev. John Lathrop, a religious refugee from London. After some years of religious controversy, he returned to England in 1646, and later returned to his estates in Barbados and Jamaica where he lived until his death. Some evidence exists that he dealt heavily in slaves.

William and Ann had the following children:
i. Judith (1619-1670)
ii. Frances (abt. 1622-)
iii. John (abt. 1624-1688)
iv. Ann (abt. 1628-)
v.Margaret (abt. 1632-)
vi. Mary (abt. 1633-)

I descend from their daug. Frances who married James Adams.

my line of descendants

Info on Ann's bother Thomas
"Elder King's will, dated Jun 30, 1691 and proved 16 mar 1692, gives 'to wife Anne--to daughter Sarah Besby land at Gravelly beach--To grandsons John and Thomas Rogers 10 £ each. Item: it is my will that Robin, my negro, be set free, and receive of my estate a bed and 5 £ in money--Item: to son Thomas all my property not otherwise disposed of in New and Old England.

In 1637/1638 when Thomas was 24, he first married Sarah [King], in Scituate. Sarah died on 6 Jun 1652 in Scituate, MA.43,15