Capt. Ralph2 King; (Daniel1) was born about 1639. He was a large land owner in Lynn, holding 1200 acres in what is now Swampscott; selectman in 1678; first lieutenant in the Lynn Military Company in 1680, of which his father-in-law was captain, and later captain of the same himself. He married, 2 Mar. 1663, Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Captain Richard of Lynn, Reading, and Boston, and in 1670 Deputy-Governor of Nova Scotia and Acadia (under Sir Thomas Temple, Bart.), and wife Jane (Talmage). Captain King died in January, 1688/9, and was buried on the 17th of that month. The History of Lynn for the year states: "Captain Ralph King died this year. He was a man of prominence and usefulness. He left an estate quite considerable for the time, the appraisal showing in amount £2,365. 4s." His widow married Lieut. John Lewis and was the administratrix of the estate, and it is evident that she died before 1715, when, in the final settlement of the same, Capt. John Charnock of Boston, a son-in-law, acted as administrator.
