Person:Thomas King (55)

About Thomas King

Burial: New Bethel Cem, Piney Flats, Sullivan, Tennessee

Records of Col. Thomas King in Hawkins County, Tennessee:

The county court records of 1790 contained the following entry: "Whereas it has been represented to the court by Thomas King, that Matthew English and Elizabeth English, orphan children of William English, who was taken and killed by the Indians in December, 1787, at which time the aforesaid children were carried into captivity by the Indians, supposed to be of the Wyandotte Nation, and are yet in captivity. Thomas King therefore represents that the said orphans might be recovered if there was property sufficient for that purpose. Ordered by the court that James Blair and William Patterson do receive from the said Thomas King or from any other person the property belonging to the estate of the said William English, and the same apply as they shall think best for the redemption of the said orphans, and Thomas King was discharged thereupon of said property."

1785 the State of Franklin organized Spencer County, including, besides other territory, the present Hawkins County. Thomas Henderson was chosen county court clerk and colonel of militia, and William Cocke and Thomas King representative to the Assembly. the remaining officers are unknown. In November, 1786, the Legislature of NC passed an act creating Hawkins County. It included within its limits all the territory between Bays Mountain and the Holston and Tennessee Rivers on the east to the Cumberland Mountains on the west. The county court was organized at the house of Thomas Gibbons, but as the early records were destroyed during the civil war nothing is known of its transactions.

Rogersville was founded by Joseph Rogers, who settled upon the site in 1786. At the June term of the county court in 1787 the commissioners appointed "for fixing on a place for building the courhouse, prison and stocks" reported "that it be fixed at Joseph Rogers’, on Crockett Creek." Joseph Rogers then relinquished the right and title of two acres of land for the use of the public buildings, and Thomas Hutchings, Hutson Johnston, Francis Doherty, Joseph Cloud and Thomas Gibbons were appointed commissioners to lay off the town, which was done on June 15, 1787. At about this time, or very soon after, Mr. Rogers entered into a partnership with his brother-in-law, James Hagan, and in 1789 they applied to the Legislative to establish a town at Hawkins Courthouse, where a number of lots had already been laid off. It was accordingly enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, on December 22, 1789, "that Thomas King, Thomas Hutchings, Joseph McCulloch, Thomas Jackson and elijah Chissom be, and they are appointed, commissioners and trustees for designing, building and carrying on a town at Hawkins Courthouse by the name of rogersville, and they, or a majority of them, are hereby empowered and required to lay off thirty acres of land, including the public buildings at the said courthouse, in half-acre lots, with convenient streets and alleys."

Government by Franklin - During the existence of the State of Franklin,(46) that state's legislature formed several new counties in present-day East Tennessee. Spencer County was formed in 1785 from parts of Sullivan and Greene Counties "lying west of the North Fork of the Holston."(47) Spencer County had roughly the same boundaries as present-day Hawkins County. Franklin appointed Thomas Henderson Clerk of the Spencer County Court and Spencer's Colonel of the Militia. William Cocke and Thomas King were representatives from Spencer to the Franklin Assembly.(48)

1793 Jun 24: *File 438; Warrants 120 & 459; Grant 316 for 800 acres on the East Fork of Flat Creek in Hawkins County. Entered in 1780; Issued 24 Jun 1793: others mentioned are James Guthery, Thomas King, Edmond Pendleton, Robert Preston, Robert Stewart, and Archibald Taylor. #120 Warranted originally to Archibald Taylor...land entered by Robert Stewart; then assigned to Archibald Taylor; then assigned by Taylor to James Maybury; then assigned by James Maybury to Bartholomew Donahow. . Warrant 459 was originally to Francis Mayberry and entered by Robert Preston for Edmond Pendleton and assigned to Thomas King and by King to James Guthery. Book 80, p. 191. (See 30 May 1807 for registration in Hawkins County and 1814 Feb 5 for registration in Grainger Co.)

1800 Apr 10: Thomas King of Hawkins Co TN sold to Francis Maybury of Knox Co, 1,000 acres on waters of Flat Creek in Grainger County; wit by Thos. Jackson & Jos. Gentry. (now in Grainger & Union near the town of Chesney, TN); see sale to Jas. Armstrong in Jan 1801.

1814 Aug 29: Francis Mayberry under oath states that he was unable to find this land (tract 431) granted him on 29 Jul 1793 by Thomas King.

1778 - 1781 Rowan Co. NC. - William Wray 600 acres between John Johnston & Knox Crk adj. Alexander McCorkle, Thomas King, John Nisbet, Robert Moore, John McAravy Jr.

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   Thomas King was born March 17, 1754, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Susan Ann Sharp. She was the daughter of John Sharp and Jane Hamilton. She was born March 22, 1756 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
   
   Their children included:
   James Harvey King (1784, married Jane Gregg),
   Julia Annis King (1786, maried John Gregg, Sr.),
   William A. King (1787),
   Elizabeth King (1788, married Edward Hunter),
   Mary King (1790, married Alexander Dyer),
   Ellener King Berry (1792 married Thomas Berry),
   Llewallen King (1795, Susan Crouch, daughter of Jesse Crouch),
   Lavinia King (1799).
   
   Thomas entered the service in Paxton Township, Lancaster County, in August, 1776, and served under Captains James Cranch and James Morrow, and Colonel Thomas Morrow.
   
   In 1777 moved his family to what later became Sullivan County, Tennessee, where he enlisted in August, 1778 and served in Captain John Duncan's North Carolina company.
   
   Thomas King signed the 1777 petition of men living on the north Holston River complaining about the division of Fincastle County. They felt the line was not equitable and the court house was too far away.
   
   In 1779 he served in Kentucky building a fort. In 1780 he served two months in Captain Andrew Cowan's company, Colonel Arthur Campbell's North Carolina regiment. He was in a skirmish with Cherokee and burned their towns. In 1781 he served two months as a substitute for William King in Captain Thomas Wallace's company, regiment of Colonel Isaac Shelby.
   
   In 1784 and 1788 Thomas received warrants for land in Sullivan County, Tennessee. At that time it was in North Carolina.
   
   In 1793, James was in James Gregg's Company of the Sullivan County Militia.
   
   Susan King died on April 3, 1822.
   
   Thomas King died on June 18, 1857. They were buried at New Bethel Cemetery in Piney Flats.
   
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