FIRST GENERATION

1. CAPTAIN JOSEPH KING was born on 10 May 1689 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was baptized on 10 May 1689 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 6 Mar 1756 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 7 Mar 1756 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

His RELATION is 5th G Grandfather of William M Worth.

Joseph King was a very prominent man in Suffield. His well known integrity and uprightness together with his accuracy and fidelity in the transaction of official business caused him to be greatly trusted and his time to be much occupied in public affairs. He was Captain of a military Company. Dec. 19,1721 he was elected Tithingman; Dec.2, 1726,

Moderator of the town meeting; March 11, 1728, Selectman and also Moderator; at the same time he was also chosen one of the "trustees to receive the towns proportion of 60,000 pound loan [of which the towns proportion was 405 pounds] and to let it out at the towns discretion." May 6,1728, he was again Moderator; March 10,1729, Selectman April 16, 1729. He was elected town treasurer and being re-elected each succeeding year, he held that office for 12 years and until 1741. In each succeeding year thereafter he was chosen Selectman and Moderator. June 11,1739, Joseph King having been chosen Moderator of the town meeting, the following proceedings there at were taken; He was selectman in 1728, 29, 32, 39, 42, 43.and Town Clerk in 1743.

Joseph King, Gentleman, was chosen agent in behalf of the town of Suffield to make a petition exhibited to the General Court now sitting in Boston, by the inhabitants of the West part of said town praying to be set of into a District and separate Society by themselves. Joseph Kings brief giving reasons why the town should not be divided is still on file among the town records of Suffield. [See Sheldon's History of Suffield]. The petition referred to was for the formation of the second ecclesiastical society and had been made in May 1739. The General court deferred a decision and recommended an arrangement by a committee chosen by mutual agreement of both parties. This was done and the decision of the committee was ratified by the general court Jan 1, 1740. The answer or brief in the handwriting of Joseph King giving reasons why the town should not be divided into Ecclesiastical societies has been preserved and is still on file among the town records of Suffield. It presents the reasons against such a division very forcibly, clearly and concisely. The closing paragraphs are as follows. The great inconvenience of breaking towns into small precincts, makes parties in towns and being unable to give honorable support to ministers which is meet has a tendency to breed discord between ministers and people and proves a wound to religion. And no man of learning and parts will be willing to settle in such places; and so they must take up with weak means which opens a door for seducers to infuse corrupt principles and bring scandal upon religion. The extreme charges of ye province & war approaching is to be considered etc. {the war referred to as approaching was probably that with the French known as King George's war]. The committee against division was Joseph King, Samuel Kent, Gentleman, and William King, Yoeman who with a committee in favor of division signed an agreement Captain Joseph King acquired a very large estate. He executed a great many legal documents and a number of these have been preserved and are now [1908] in the possession of Miss Margaret E. King of Dayton, Ohio. His seal after his signature on legal instruments always has impressed thereon the King Coat of Arms. One of these documents On Sep.8, 1755 he gave a deed of land to his wife Hannah. I do freely, clearly and absolutely give and grant unto Hannah King her heirs and assigns forever one ninth part of two hundred acres of land lying and being in Cold Springs township so called in the county of Hampshire in his Majesties Province of Mass. Bay in New England. Etc.

His will was of 4 March 1756 and he died 6 March 1756

[Parts of] Will of Capt. Joseph King of Suffield

I give and demise and dispose of my estate in the following manner & form. I give to Hannah, my dearly beloved wife the use and improvement of one half of my house and barn & well during the time she remains my widow. And after that to have the use of one third part of said house barn and well during her natural life and also one third part of the use of my improvable lands during her life and also one third part of my moveable estate during her natural life.

I appoint, and my will is that my wife Hannah and my loving brother William King and my son Pelatiah Bliss to be the executors to this my last will and testament. Which executors I empower or any two of them to sell so much of my out lands as they shall think proper or necessary for the support of my children during their minority and to my wife the time she remains my widow. After my just debts and funeral charges are paid I give to my eldest son Joseph a double portion of all I have among his brethren. I give unto my loving children, Abigail Bliss and Eliphalet and Hannah and Epaphras and Ashbel and Thaddeus and Theadore and Mary equal portions out of my whole estate and my will is that I have charged to my son Pelatiah and my daughter Abigail Bliss on my book shall be reconed as so much paid toward her portion. And I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke & declare null all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies and bequests by me in any ways before named.

Be it known unto all men by these present that whereas I Joseph King of Suffield in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut have made and declared my last will and testament in writing bearing date the fourth day of march 1756. I the said Joseph King by this present Codicil does ratify and confirm my last will and testament, and whereas my wife Hannah is supposed to be pregnant with child. My will is that the child to be born of her body shall have an equal portion in my whole estate with the rest of my children and my will is that my wife shall have one third part of my moveable estate forever. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this fourth day of March 1756.

Both the will and the Codicil still remain on file in the Probate office in Hartford, CT.

The child expected to be born and provided for in the Codicil was born May 14, 1756 a little more than two months after Captain Joseph's death and was christened by its mother, Ichabod

[The glory has departed] 1st Samuel, Ch 4, v 21.

The inventory of Joseph King's estate is listed in the King book on pages 92 through 97 and amounted to 1,452 Pounds 13s 5d dated 28 March 1758.

One of the items in the inventory is " a silver seal Kings coat of Arms". This same seal descended regularly through many years and generations and is now [1909] in the possession of Miss Emma C. King of Xenia, Ohio. The Damask table cloth and napkins are also still preserved and the property of Mr. Robert Newton King of Dayton, Ohio and the silver nee and shoe buckles are treasured by another descendant Mrs. E. A. Arnold of Cummington, Mass.

The division of the estate divided among the widow and children seven hundred and sixteen acres of land the silver seal [King coat of Arms] went to the eldest son Joseph.

He was married to Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON (daughter of Phineas WILSON and Mary SANFORD) on 2 May 1717 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd husb, His 1st wife.

Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON was born on 17 Apr 1681 in Hartford, Hartford, CT.

She died on 11 Sep 1737 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 12 Sep 1737 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Mrs. Mary Wilsen Jesse of Hartford who died September 11, 1737,

Widow of David Jesse and evidently sister of Nathanial Wilson, and daughter of Phineas Wilson from Dublin, Ireland, a wealthy merchant of Hartford, CT. by his first wife Mary Sandford, only daughter of Nathaniel and Susanna Sanford. Married as 2nd husband Joseph King

CAPTAIN JOSEPH KING and Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON had the following children:

+2 i. Abigail KING

3 ii. Joseph KING was born on 1 Oct 1722 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried in 1724 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 27 Jan 1724 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was married to HANNAH DEVOTION (Daughter of REV. EBENOZER DEVOTION and HANNAH BRECK 1st wife) on 2 Jun 1740 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd Wife.

HANNAH DEVOTION was born on 24 Apr 1716 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 4 Mar 1805 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. age 89.

She was buried on 5 Mar 1805 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She is RELATION 5th G Grandmother of William M Worth.

Hannah survived her Husband Joseph King nearly 50 years and she brought up the children and managed the large and valuable estate. A tombstone in the cemetery at Suffield points out the spot where he lies " The Body of Captain Joseph King" near which stands another

"Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Hannah King, Relict of Captain Joseph King"

ED Note: She descended from an ancient and noble family in France,

La Barre de Vaution, de la Guessonniere, which is now said to be extinct in France.

The last male of the Devotion family in the United States died recently [1907] and with him the name here also has ceased.

Much of the information on this French family [DEVOTION] comes from Harvey J. King ESQ of Troy, New York in his genealogy of the New York branch of the King family of Suffield, CT.

Also see publication 14 of the Brookline Publication Society.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH KING and HANNAH DEVOTION had the following children:

+4 i. PVT Joseph KING Amer. REV. War

+5 ii. 1 St LT. ELIPHALET KING AM. REV. War

+6 iii. Hannah KING

7 iv. Epaphras KING was born on 11 May 1746 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 16 Feb 1767 in Suffield, Hartford, CT Unmarried.

He was buried on 17 Feb 1767 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+8 v. CAPT. Ashbel KING Amer.Rev.War

+9 vi. CAPT. Thaddeus KING AMER REV. War

+10 vii. PVT Theodore KING AMER REV. WAR

+11 viii. Mary KING.

+12 ix. PVT Ichabod KING AMER REV. War

SECOND GENERATION

2. Abigail KING was born on 9 Jan 1719 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 5 Aug 1797.

She died before the widow of her Father, Joseph King, in 1805.

The names of her grandchildren appear in certain deeds of the interest they derived through her and Captain Joseph King's undistributed estate, held by right of dower by his widow until her death. The names of Grandchildren appearing in these deeds. Are Martin Nash of Ferrisburg, Addison County, Vermont [1805]; Pelatiah Bliss Nash of Dorset, Bennington, Vermont; [1805]; Andrew Bostwick and Rhoda Bostwick of Vinesburg, Chittenden county, Vermont; [1805]; Soloman Stone and Nancy Stone his wife, of Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York [1812]; Ozias Chandler and Betty Chandler his wife, of Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont [1805]

She was married to DR. Pelatiah BLISS (son of Pelatiah BLISS and Ann STOUGHTON) on 2 Oct 1746 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 1st husb.

DR. Pelatiah BLISS was born on 23 Mar 1723 in CT.

He died on 26 Dec 1756 in Greenbush, [near Albany] NY.

He was a physician of Suffield, CT, surgeon of a regiment under General Phineas Lyman of Durham, CT. in the old French war; [1755] he died while in the service on his return from Lake George camp.

His wife married again April 1765 David Pixley of Stockbridge but they separated a few years later.

Abigail KING and DR. Pelatiah BLISS had the following children:

+13 i. Anna BLISS

14 ii. Peliatah BLISS was born on 21 Feb 1748 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 18 Nov 1766 Unmarried

15 iii. Abigail BLISS was born on 6 Aug 1751 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died on 10 Dec 1751 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+16 iv. Abigail BLISS

She was married to David PIXLEY on 14 Apr 1765 in 2nd husb.

David PIXLEY was born about 1719 in from Stockbridge.

4. PVT Joseph KING Amer. REV. War was born on 15 Apr 1741 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 19 Mar 1814 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 20 Mar 1814 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Joseph King was a soldier in the American Rev. War

On the first call of the Lexington Alarm he was in Capt. Elisha Kent's Co with 18 days service at that time. Thereafter he was in Col. Joseph Spencer's Reg.

Captain Oliver Hanchet's Company [of which his brother Eliphalet King was Ensign] from May 8, to Dec 17, 1776. Then in Brig. Gen. Erastus Wolcott's Brigade at Peekskill, Col. Belden's Reg. Capt. Edward Griswold's Co. April 7, to May 11, 1777. Afterward for 8 months in Capt. John Hancock's Co. of Suffield May 27, 1777 to Jan. 1st, 1778. Then in the 4th Reg. Conn. Line and finally enlisted for 3 years in Sheldon's Dragoons Jan 7, 1781. He is described on the enlistment rolls as Joseph King of Suffield, 5ft 7in high, light complexion, hair and eyes. [Record of service of CT. men in the war of the Revolution [pp. 22, 52, 187, 283, 495 and 643] compiled by Authority of the General Assembly under the direction of Adj. General of CT. Hartford, 1889] "

Among some old papers that were in the possession [1908] of Miss Margaret E. King of Dayton, Ohio is a Will of Joseph King which has no filing mark upon it and dose not appear ever to have been presented for probate. There is no other will of Joseph to be found on file at Hartford nor any inventory or even mention of his estate. It seems possible that he sold his property at Suffield or made deeds of a gift to his children, yet no record even of any deeds from him can be found, or was found that the title to his property ever passed from him or from his estate. There is a tombstone to his memory in the old graveyard at Suffield recording his death as having occurred March 19, 1814. In the Will, I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Tryphena, the use and improvements of one third part of my real estate during her natural life and also one third part of my personal estate to be at her disposal. My Son Joshua K King has received so much already, as I judge equal to what each of my other children will share of my estate. After my decease and he having given a receipt that he has received as much as he ought to have of my estate I do give and bequeath my estate both real and personal to my other children. Irene King, Epaphras King, John Bowker King, in equal shares with the encumbrance of what I have given to my wife. And also that my Daughter in Law Hannah Bowker [His Wife's Daughter by her first Husband] have the privilege of a comfortable dwelling in the house where I now dwell so long as she shall live unmarried. And also paying the said Hannah 90 dollars in three equal payments at the end of one and two and three years after my decease. On condition that she discharge a bond for 14 pounds which I gave her dated March 27, 1790, and it is my will that my sons Epaphras and John B. King be executors to my last will and testament. The Will is dated 27 Feb.1813. The seal is impressed on a diamond shaped piece of white paper fastened to the will by a wafer. The King coat of arms is very plainly impressed on the paper seal.

He was married to Tyrphena Bowker KENDALL (daughter of Joshua KENDALL JR. and Hannah BEMENT on 12 Sep 1769 in Suffield, Hartford, CT A Widow.

Tyrphena Bowker KENDALL was born on 22 Dec 1750.

She died on 30 Nov 1828 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 1 Dec 1828 in 90 years old.

PVT Joseph KING Amer. REV. War and Tyrphena Bowker KENDALL had the following children:

+17 i. Joshua Kendall KING

18 ii. Irene KING was born on 6 Nov 1772 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 12 Mar 1833 in Suffield, Hartford, CT Unmarried.

+19 iii. Epaphras KING

20 iv. A Son KING was born on 11 Apr 1777 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 11 Apr 1777 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+21 v. John Bowker KING

5. 1 St LT. ELIPHALET KING AM. REV. War was born on 6 Feb 1743 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 29 Aug 1821 in West Springfield, Hampden, Mass.

He was buried on 30 Aug 1821 in West Springfield, Hampden, Mass.

His RELATION is 4th G Grandfather of William M Worth.

Eliphalet King, The name of Eliphalet is found as a son of David in the Bible in 2nd Samuel- 5:16 and 1st Chronicles, Chapter 14, verse 7.

Eliphalet King fought in the French and Indian Wars and was one of the first to take up arms against England in the defense of the liberties of the American Colonies [with 4 of his brothers]. And on the first day of May, 1775 he was commissioned, by "Jonathan Trumbull Esq. Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, as Ensign of the Tenth Company, in the Second Reg. of the Inhabitants, Enlisted and assembled for the Special Defense and Safety of His Majesty's said Colony. The Captain of the tenth Company was Oliver Hanchet who was also from Suffield. Under his commission as Ensign Eliphalet King fought "His Majesty's "troops at the battle of Bunker Hill on June 17,1775, and thereafter was in the expedition of Gen. Benedict Arnold against Quebec Sep-Dec. 1775. For an official report thereof, mentions Eliphalet King as one of those who lost their guns. In that campaign Capt. Oliver Hanchet and one of his Lieutenants were taken prisoner by the British, his Bother Lieutenant was killed and more than one-half of the members of their Company were killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Eliphalet King escaped with only the loss of his gun.

On Jan. 1,1776 the American Congress, composed of Delegates of the United Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina issued to Eliphalet King Gentleman a commission as Second Lieutenant of Captain Ebenezer Huntington's Third Company in the Twenty Second Reg. of Foot Commanded by Colonel Samuel Wyllys, in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defense of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof.

The Commission was signed " By order of the Congress, John Hancock, President-- Attest Charles Thompson, Secy. January the first 1776"

Lt. King was with his Reg. before Boston when the British evacuated that city March 17,1776,and in April 1776 he marched with his Reg. under General Washington by the way of New London and the Sound to New York City and assisted in Fortifying that Place. On the 24th day of August 1776, he went with his command to the front at Brooklyn, and on the 27 Aug. 1776 he was in the battle of Long Island where his Reg. suffered severely. His conduct in this Battle was such that shortly there after in September 1776 he was promoted and made First Lt. of his Company. On September first 1776 he was with his Reg. in its retreat from New York City, and after many minor engagements and skirmishes was on October 28th, 1776 in the Battle of White Plains. He thereafter remained with his Reg. in the vicinity of Peekiskill under General Heath. The record of the military service of Eliphalet King both as Ensign in the 2nd Reg. Connecticut Line, and as Lt. in the 22nd Reg. of foot, Continental Army, will be found in a book published by the State of CT entitled "Record of Service of CT. Men in the War of The Revolution" compiled by Authority of the General Assembly under direction of the Adjutant General of CT. Hartford, 1889 at pages 51-92-107-and 640 and in the same book the record of Eliphalet King's first Reg. the Second Connecticut Line is given at page 45. As follows, " second Reg. --Gen. Spencer's--1775 " Reg. raised on first call for troops by the Legislature April-May 1775. Recuted mainly in present Middlesex County and Eastern parts of the colony. Marching to the camps around Boston it took post at Roxbury and served during the siege until experation of term of service Dec. 1775. Detachments of officers and men engaged at the battle of Bunker Hill June 17, and in Arnold's Quebec expedition Sep-Dec. 1775. Adopted as Continenal in July.

The Reg. was reorganized for service in 1776 under Col. Wylly's " In addition to the forgowing, the names of the officers and men are given and under " 10th Co. " at page 51 of the book appears the following; " Captain Oliver Hanchet of Suffield, Lieutenant Samuel Wright of Suffield, Lieutenant Consider Wilson, Ensign, Eliphalet King, of Suffield" As a Officer in the 22nd Reg. of foot. The record of Eliphalet King can also be found in " Historical Register of Officers of Continental Army During the War of the Revolution by F.B. Heitman, Published in Washington, D.C. 1873. The record of the 22nd Reg. of foot, Continental Army into which the 2nd CT. was merged and in which Eliphalet King became at first a 2nd Lt. and after the battle of Long Island, a first Lt. is also given fully in the book but the record of Eliphalet King in that Reg. as we give it here is we think a sufficient statement as to the general movements of that Reg. and the engagements in which it participated.

The original commission of Eliphalet King as Ensign of the 2nd CT. Line, and the Original Commission as 2nd Lt. in the 22nd Reg. of Foot Continental Army are now [1905] in the possession of Mr. Rufus James King [Grandson] of Dayton, Ohio and both with a silhouette of Lt. Elephalet King with his old fashioned Queue hanging down his Back. Though an Officer, yet he bore a gun as well as his Sword. The gun he carried was captured from the British by him and evidently for that reason much prized. Perhaps he regarded it as a fair compensation for the gun he had lost to the British in the Arnold Expedition against Quebec. The gun carefully preserved by Mr. Rufus King is an old English flintlock Musket, Brass mounted and upon the lock-plate is stamped." Vernon 1762". The Musket has a silver plate on its stock with the inscription," THIS MUSKET Captured at the opening of the American Revolution from the British tyrant George the Third was born and used in several battles by ELIPHALET KING of Suffield CT. Ensign in the 2nd Reg. CT. Colony line and LT. in the 22nd Reg. of foot and by him presented to his son Augustine King who presented it to his son Capt. Edward A. King. Of the 15th Reg. of infantry, U.S. Army December 1847" Captain Edward A. King therein mentioned was a veteran officer in the Mexican war and afterward Col. of the 6th Reg. of infantry, U.S Army, and also Col. of the 68th Indiana Volunteers. He was in command of the 2nd brigade Reynolds Division, 14th Army corps, when he was killed at the battle of Chicamauga, Sept. 20, 1863. He was the brother of Mr. Rufus J. King the present [1905] possessor of the gun. Lt. Eliphalet King had 4 brothers, Joseph, Thaddeus, Theadore and Ichabod, who served in the Rev. War. His youngest Brother Ichabod was 23 years his junior served under Eliphalet twice. Eliphalet moved to West Springfield,

Mass. after his father's death, where he had a 300-acre farm. Copy of his will in my files [William M Worth 1999].

His will is on file at the Dept. of Justice, 50 State St. Springfield, Mass. 01103.

After the death of his first wife Eliphalit was left a widower with a large family of very young children, and he married again Oct. 2, 1788 Silence Rumriil who died Oct 16, 1839 at age 71 years. In the book cited above Record of service of CT. men in the Rev. p 640, in the list of those drawing pensions under congressional Act of 1818 and residing in Mass. Appears Eliphalit King. He died in West Springfield Mass. after a long and pain full illness in which he suffered greatly. A letter written by his son, Elijah King to Ichabod King, brother of Eliphalit living then at Marlboro, Vermont dated West Springfield Aug 31, 1821

" Dear Uncle; I have the melancholy task of informing you of the death of my father Eliphalit King. He died on Tuesday morning the 29th of August of the greatest bodily sufferings that a man could endure. He had been confined to his bed for about four months and had not walked a step since last September. Uncle Theadore is very low-- is quite deranged in his mind. Aunt Hannah is almost helpless. The rest of your friends here are in tolerable health. Signed Elijah King

Eliphalet King had 9 children by his first wife and 7 by his second wife thus blessing the world with 16 children, most of whom lived to a ripe old age and left numerous descendants. They were all born in Suffield. He was a skilled Housewright and cabinetmaker in Suffield

He was married to MARY REMINGTON (daughter of JONATHON REMINGTON JR. and THANKFUL WARNER) on 3 Nov 1768 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 1st wife.

MARY REMINGTON was born on 12 Jul 1743 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 24 Jun 1788 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. age 45.

She was buried on 25 Jun 1788 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She is RELATION 4th G Grandmother of William M Worth.

Mary Remington is a maternal ancestor in America of the King family of Suffield, CT.

She was the great, great granddaughter of Lt. John Remington of Newbury, Mass. 1673. She was the 5th of 6 children of her parents

She died at Suffield June 24, 1788, and was buried there.

The Tombstone over her grave bears the following quaint epitaph

"In memory of Mrs. Mary, Wife of Lt. Eliphalet King who died June 24, 1788 in the 45th year of her age

Life is Uncertain

Death is Sure

Sin is the wound

And Christ the Cure "

1 St LT. ELIPHALET KING AM. REV. War and MARY REMINGTON had the following children:

22 i. Eapuphsus KING was born on 4 Sep 1769 in Suffield, Hartford, CT He died on 15 Oct 1769 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 16 Oct 1769.

+23 ii. LT. Roger KING War of 1812

+24 iii. JONATHAN KING

25 iv. Seth KING was born on 15 Oct 1775 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 24 Sep 1776 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 25 Sep 1776 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+26 v. Major Seth KING

+27 vi. Eliphalet KING

28 vii. Henry KING was born on 8 Aug 1781 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 20 Nov 1801 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. Unmarried.

+29 viii. Augustine KING

30 ix. Mary KING was born on 4 Dec 1786 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was married to Silence RUMRILL on 2 Oct 1788 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd Wife.

Silence RUMRILL was born about 1768.

She died on 16 Oct 1839 in West Springfield, Hampton, Mass. age 71.

1 St LT. ELIPHALET KING AM. REV. War and Silence RUMRILL had the following children:

31 i. Elijah KING was born on 14 Oct 1789 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 21 Aug 1847 He Lived in Brattleboro, VT.

He was with his father Lt. Eliphalet King when the later died at West Springfield, Mass. Aug 29, 1821 It is said that he moved to or near Brattleboro, Vermont, That he was married and had children but no record of his marriage or descendants have been found

+32 ii. Lucy KING

+33 iii. Aurelia KING

34 iv. Sherlock KING Twin was born on 2 Aug 1796 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Sherlock visited his brother Roger King in Troy N.Y. about the year 1836. He went west shortly thereafter and has never been heard from by any of the family since then. He was not married when he went west and probably died unmarried.

35 v. Charlotte KING Twin was born on 2 Aug 1796 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She probley Died Young.

36 vi. Harriet KING was born in 1798 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died on 29 Aug 1802 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

37 vii. Matilda KING was born on 6 Feb 1799 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 15 Mar 1865 in Agawam, Mass. UNMARRIED.

For many years and until her death she lived at Agawam, Mass. with her sister, Mrs. Harriet Devotion [King] Marsh

+38 viii. Harriet Devotion KING

6. Hannah KING was born on 23 Aug 1744 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 28 Oct 1821 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 29 Oct 1821 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was married to Bildad GRANGER AM. REV. War (son of Samuel GRANGER 2nd and MARY KENT) on 15 Jan 1765 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Bildad GRANGER AM. REV. War was born on 30 Jan 1746 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 6 Mar 1820 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 7 Mar 1820 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was one of those who responded to the Lexington Alarm and marched from Suffield in Capt. Elisha Kent's Company, in which also were his wife's brothers, Joseph, Thaddeus, Theadore, and Ichabod King and his cousins Dan, Jonathan, Gideon and Pelatiah King.

His children were all born in Suffield, CT.

Hannah KING and Bildad GRANGER AM. REV. War had the following children:

+39 i. Bildad GRANGER 2nd

+40 ii. Epaphras King GRANGER

+41 iii. Hannah GRANGER

+42 iv. Ebenezer GRANGER

43 v. Justin GRANGER was born on 10 Nov 1776 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died in 1836.

44 vi. Calvin GRANGER was born on 28 Mar 1781 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died in 1841.

8. CAPT. Ashbel KING Amer.Rev.War was born on 26 Jan 1748 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 21 May 1806 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 22 May 1806 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Ashbel King was a Captain of a military Company in the Rev. war and a skilled Housewrite in Suffield, CT. He was Selectman in Suffield in 1802 and 1805 He was married to Jemima BURNHAM on 19 Dec 1782 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 1st wife.

Jemima BURNHAM was born about 1748. She died before 1804.

CAPT. Ashbel KING Amer. Rev. War and Jemima BURNHAM had the following children:

+45 i. Ashbel KING

46 ii. Uriel KING was born on 13 Jan 1786 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died in 1814 in West Florida [Suffield] UNMARRIED.

He was an attorney at law Administration of his estate was granted Feb. 15, 1816 to Roswell King. [Hartford probate records]

+47 iii. Roswell KING

48 iv. Isaac Burnham KING was born on 1 Jan 1790 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 20 Nov 1827 Unmarried.

+49 v. Walter KING

He was married to MRS. Jemima SMITH on 19 Mar 1804 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd husband

MRS. Jemima SMITH was born about 1748 Maiden Name not Known.

She died on 18 Dec 1831 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

9. CAPT. Thaddeus KING AMER. REV. War was born on 25 Jun 1749 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 20 Jan 1792 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. [Of Smallpox].

Captain of a military Company Married first Alice King but were divorced May 1787 by the General assembly. He married 2nd Lucy Johnson

By first marriage he had three children Two sons and one daughter

He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He marched from Suffield in answer to the Lexington Alarm and thereafter was in Capt. John Harmons Co. Col Wolcott's Reg.

Enlisting therein in Dec. 1775. His Reg. was at the siege of Boston and occupied that city upon its evacuation by the British. [Conn. Men in War of Revolution published by Adjutant General of CT. Hartford 1889]

His Children were born in Suffield

He was married to Alice KING (daughter of John KING and Parnel HOLCOMB] on 29 Dec 1774 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 1st wife.

He was divorced from Alice KING in May 1787 in Suffield, CT. By General Assembly.

Alice KING was born on 29 Mar 1750 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Divorce Thaddeus King May 1787 by the General Assembly

CAPT. Thaddeus KING AMER. REV. War and Alice KING had the following children:

+50 i. John KING

51 ii. Alice KING was born on 11 Jul 1780 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died in Jan 1792 in Suffield Hartford CT.

+52 iii. Thaddeus KING.

He was married to Lucy JOHNSON on 20 Sep 1787 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd Wife.

Lucy JOHNSON was born about 1749 in Hartford, CT.

CAPT. Thaddeus KING AMER. REV. War and Lucy JOHNSON had the following children:

53 i. Johnson KING was born on 6 Jul 1788 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

54 ii. Lucy KING was born in Mar 1791 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died on 20 Jan 1792 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 21 Jan 1792 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

10. PVT Theodore KING AMER. REV. WAR was born on 21 Dec 1750 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 8 Sep 1822 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 9 Sep 1822 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, responding at once to the Lexington Alarm and thereafter was in the 2nd CT. Reg.["CT. Men in the War of the Revolution," Published by Adj. Gen. CT. 1889].

His last illness was of long duration as Elijah King son of Lt. Eliphalet King, on Aug 31, 1821, wrote from West Springfield to his uncle Ichabod in Marlboro, Vermont. Uncle Theadore is very low and quite deranged in the head, And John Bowker King in a letter from Suffield dated Oct. 3,1822 to his uncle Ichabod King says Uncle Theadore died three weeks ago last Sunday, his wife died last week Thursday night.

They both died with Dysentery. Uncle's oldest son's wife and his daughter Huldah and two of Huldah, s children all died in about three weeks before he died.

He was married to Anna MATHER on 8 Jan 1778 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 1st wife. Anna MATHER was born about 1750.

She died on 7 May 1791 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 8 May 1791 in Suffield Hartford CT.

PVT Theodore KING AMER. REV. WAR and Anna MATHER had the following children:

+55 i. Mary [Polly] KING

56 ii. Elizabeth KING was born on 23 Jun 1780 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

57 iii. Anna KING was born on 28 May 1782 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

58 iv. Theodore KING was born on 23 Jul 1784 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 31 Aug 1784 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 1 Sep 1784 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

59 v. Horatio KING was born on 19 Jan 1789 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died on 24 Jul 1790 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He was buried on 25 Jul 1790 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+60 vi. Horatio KING

He was married to Sibble HANCHETT (daughter of Zacheus HANCHETT and Mary SIKES) on 28 Jun 1792 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd wife.

Sibble HANCHETT was born on 4 Jan 1758 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 27 Sep 1822 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

PVT Theodore KING AMER. REV.WAR and Sibble HANCHETT had the following children:

61 i. Huldah KING was born on 22 May 1793 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died on 28 Aug 1822 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She was buried on 29 Aug 1822.

She married and lost 2 daughters as John Bowker King wrote to Ichabod King Oct 3 1822.Two children born in Suffield died in 1822 Father is not known by me.

+62 ii. Theodore KING

63 iii. Cynthia KING was born on 20 Feb 1797 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+64 iv. Captain Artemas KING Militia

11. Mary KING was born on 22 Jul 1752 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 30 Jun 1836 in Athens, Bradford, PA.

She was buried on 1 Jul 1836.

She Moved to Athens, PA in 1810

She was married to Elijah GRANGER (son of Samuel GRANGER 2nd and MARY KENT) on 17 Dec 1772 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

Elijah GRANGER was born on 25 Aug 1744 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 14 Dec 1814 in Athens, Bradford, PA.

He was buried on 15 Dec 1814.

Their children were all born in Suffield and they lived there until 1810 when they moved to Athens, Pa, as did most of their children

Mary KING and Elijah GRANGER had the following children:

+65 i. Frederick GRANGER

66 ii. Cynthia GRANGER was born on 13 Feb 1776 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. She died in UN married.

+67 iii. Sophia GRANGER

+68 iv. Roderick GRANGER

+69 v. Lucy GRANGER

+70 vi. Alma GRANGER

+71 vii. Alfred GRANGER

+72 viii. Amanda GRANGER

+73 ix. Sarah GRANGER

74 x. Elijah GRANGER was born on 8 Oct 1793 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. He died about 1795 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

+75 xi. Elijah GRANGER

12. PVT Ichabod KING AMER REV. War was born on 14 May 1756 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

He died on 18 Dec 1834 in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont.

He was buried on 19 Dec 1834 in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont.

He was christened Suffield, CT. After His Fathers Death.

Ichabod King was born two months after the death of his father, Capt. Joseph King. The widow in her bereavement and desolation, christened this child Ichabod,

" The glory has departed" {Samuel chapter 4 ver. 21.in memory of her husband. Ichabod was a Revolutionary Soldier. Although then barley nineteen years of age he enlisted as a Pvt. in a Company of the second CT. Reg. of which his brother Eliphalet was Ensign, and when that Reg. was mustered out in Dec. 1775 he again enlisted in a Company of the 22nd reg. of foot, Continental Army, of which his brother Eliphalet had been commissioned Lt. He fought side by side with his brother at Bunker Hill, in the disastrous expedition against Quebec, at the battle of Long Island, at White Plains and in many other minor engagements. His military record will be found in "The Record of Service of CT. Men in the War of The Revolution" compiled by authority of the Adj. Gen. of CT. Hartford 1889 PP 45-51-92-107-639. West Springfield April 25, 1818

"This may certify that Ichabod King of Marlborough, State of Vermont, served seven months in The Revolution war in the year 1775 in a Reg. raised by the State of CT. "Also one year and one month beginning the First of Dec. 1775 until 1 Jan. 1777 in the twenty second Reg. of the Continental Army, Commanded by Col. Samuel Wyllys in the third Co. in said Reg. Commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Huntington in which I served as Lt. Eliphalet King".

At one time the British captured a bridge from the patriot forces with which Ichabod was serving. Ichabod was sick at the time and would have been taken prisoner but for assistance that came barely in time to help him across the bridge. In a manuscript history of Marlboro Vermont, written by Rev. Ephraim Newton, about 1865, now kept in the Vermont Historical Society Library. Montpelier, states that " Ichabod King came from his native place Suffield, CT. to Marlboro in 1776, a young man about 20, and purchased his farm from Samuel Newton of Marlboro in the county of Cumberland on the New Hampshire Grants, late under the jurisdiction of New York, April 1st 1777 on witch he settled, lived and died and which descended to his son Joseph. He served his country about 2 years in the American Revolution, and in his last days was placed upon the roll of pensioners."

There were 160 acres in the Marlboro farm and it was intersected by a public road running north and south. In 1880 Ichabods son Joseph sold the part lying on the West side of the Highway, but the part to the east was still in the possession of a Descendant.[1905]. It was on the East side of the road back on a rise of land an eighth of a mile from the highway, near a spring, that the first house stood, the one in which all of their children were born. When the youngest child was but a babe in arms the family moved into the new house which had been built just on the west side of the road. This new house now [1905] just over 100 years old is still standing. In design it is a typical New England country house of its time. A story and a half in height; two large front rooms separated by a square front entry and a huge chimney; back of the front rooms the long kitchen, [this one with its western windows giving a wide view down a long slope and out beyond over a mile of Marlboro hills] a pantry, a bed room, and a stairway to the second story; all under the main roof. At one time the house sheltered the owner, a dignified man approaching his end; his wife, paralyzed, toward the last; a daughter and a son in frail health for over 40 years; a widowed daughter and two of her children; the son Joseph and his wife and children. It could not have been in the years of much sickness that Lovisa [Adams] King purchased her red broadcloth cloke, lined with pink silk many pieces of which are now in the possession [1905] of her descendants. It may have been first owned when her husband, Ichabod King represented the town of Marlboro in the Vermont Legislature in 1798 and again in 1800. Through the exceptionally long years of family illness must have told on the resources of a Vermont hill town farm, nevertheless the acres and the work, the men and the women, did their part, and Ichabod King's gravestone in the graveyard a mile to the south of the farm advises us for him that,

"Had I a voice so loud and strong

To sound from east to west

I'd tell the honor seeking throng

To be in CHRIST is best. "

The family was one of far more than ordinary refinement, character, and mental ability. Nor was it ill to look uponphysically. It was religious, yet at least the children were not at all narrowly so. Ichabod King was a dignified, thoughtful and somewhat reserved man; a town selectman and the representative of the town of Marlboro in the Vermont Legislature of 1798 and again in 1800.

His marriage to Lovisa Adams " was the first marriage solemnized by the late Rev. Gersham C. Lyman DD and is the first public record of a marriage in Town " [Marlboro History]. They lived together before death parted them with in 9 days of 56 years and only 13 days intervened between the days of their death. All his married days were spent

on his farm and all his children were born there.

He was married to Lovisa ADAMS (daughter of Freegrace ADAMS and Anna KENT) on 27 Dec 1778 in Marlboro, Windham, Vermont.

Lovisa ADAMS was born on 20 Dec 1759 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.

She died on 31 Dec 1834 in Marlboro. Windham, Vermont.

She was buried in Marlboro, Windham, VT.

Lovisa Adams immediate ancestors for three generations --parents, grandparents, and G Grandparents were born in New England. Many of her ancestors of the generation that immigrated to America are known to have been English, and it is highly probable that all save one were, and quite possible that even that one was also English.

It is known further that all of these immigrants save four reached New England prior to 1645; and that none of them came later than 1661, more likely not that late.

Her Father Freegrace was born in Suffield, CT. in 1723, and married in Suffield,

Anna Kent, born in Suffield in 1730.

PVT Ichabod KING AMER. REV. War and Lovisa ADAMS had the following children:

+76 i. Ichabod KING

77 ii. Lovisa KING was born on 23 Mar 1782 in Marlboro, Windham, VT.

She died on 11 Jul 1847 in Marlboro, Windham, VT. Unmarried.

She was visited by a sickness in 1805 from which she did not recover but continued confined to her room for more than 40 years until removed by death.

Upon her gravestone appears the following

"adieu dear sister, fare thee well

Thy trials art gone, we hope to dwell

Where pain and sickness come no more."

+78 iii. Justin KING

79 iv. Joseph KING was born on 9 Jun 1786 in Marlboro, Windham, VT.

He died on 23 Jan 1789 in Marlboro, Windham, VT.

He was run over by a sleigh and killed

80 v. Ira KING was born on 7 Sep 1788 in Marlboro, Windham, VT.

He died on 6 Jul 1860 in Marlboro, Windham, VT. Unmarried.

He was an invalid for more than half a century, unable to provide for himself and was supported by his parents and younger brother until called to his final rest

+81 vi. Polly KING

+82 vii. Hannah KING.

+83 viii. Anna KING

+84 ix. Lucinda KING

+85 x. Joseph KING

Additions, corrections or comments should be sent to:

William Worth