Hon. E. L. King...
Mrs. Phoebe King, mother of our subject, was the eleventh in order of birth in a family of twelve children, whose parents were Joseph and Mary (Edmunds) Hall. Her father was born in Charleston, RI, 4 Oct 1771, her mother in Clarendon, VT, 12 Feb 1780, and their marriage was celebrated in Dec 1798. ...Mrs. Hall was also eleventh in a family of twelve children born to James and Abigail (Jenks) Edmunds, who were married in 1758. ... Mr. Edmunds was born in Providence, RI 1731, and also died in Clarendon, VT 1799. He was twice married, his first union being with a Miss Alaison, who died in 1757, leaving one son, William. James Edmunds was a son of James Edmunds, Sr., who with two brothers, William and Andrew, came from England to the New World and located in RI. He died in 1734 somewhere between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five years, leaving an infant son, James, Jr. His brother William died at sea in early life. James Edmunds, Jr., was left in possession of a good farm two miles from Providence, RI, which he subsequently exchanged for a house in that city, but eventually lost this property by going security for his father-in-law, and in 1775 removed to Vermont, which state was then considered the "far west."
