Person:Samuel King (81)

BIOGRAPHY: The Greene Family and its Branches From A. D. 861 to A. D. 1904 By Lora S. La Mance Mayflower Publishing Company Floral Park, New York 1904 Pages 156 - 157

Samuel King was married April 15, 1766 to Deborah Greene, his sister Nancy's sister-in-law. Deborah 's lineage is fully given in Chapter XX. She was great-grand-daughter of John Greene of Quidnessett. She was her husband's senior by five month, have been born Sept. 23, 1744. She died in 1812. Deborah King was one of the "good-natured Greenes," as that placid, never-get-angry type used to be called by the family. She was a women of fine mental powers. Samuel brought her as a bride to the old home, and it is said that the affection between Marie La Valley and Deborah was like that between Naomi and Ruth in Bible days. A large family were born to Samuel and Deborah. They were Nancy, Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, George, Hannah, Dinah, David, Paul, Joel and Stephen. Paul died a bachelor. Samuel King was an expert mill-wright. He built mills all over R.I., cider mills, woolen mills, cloth mills, fulling mills, saw mills and grist mills. He was a man who thoroughly understood the business and put up good honest constructions. Three great-grandsons, S. K. Mathewson, Riley Barnes and George Nichols, were all noted mill-wrights, and all inherited this special aptitude from Samuel King. He served in the R.I. Militia during the Revolutionary War. Several have asked for a record of this fact. Rhode Island's Revolutionary records are not complete. Only a fragment of a payroll, made at the close of the a little "brush" with the enemy, contains his name. It proves his regular connection with the Militia, however, and entitles his descendants to join the Sons or Daughters of the Revolution. The following explains itself:

"Record & Pension Office, Washington, D.C." July 1, 1901 Record No. 658329 "It is shown by the records that Samuel King, rank not stated, served in Capt. Samuel Wilber's Company of Rhode Island Militia, Revolutionary War. His name appears on a pay abstract of that organization, dated April 6, 1777, with remarks, " "Marched Mch. 13, 1777. Discharged Mch. 30th. Days in service 17. No further information relative to his service has been found on record" By authority of Secretary of War

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Abstracts of West Greenwich Wills, in Rhode Island Genealogical Register. (Princeton, Massachusetts: A. G. Beaman)
   4:189.

   Samuel King of West Greenwich, yeoman. Will dated 16 Feb 1812, proved 24 June 1822, pps. 152-153.
   Sons: George, David, Paul, Joel & Stephen.
   Daughters: Sarah Hathaway, Anna Nichols, Mary Pearce, Elizabeth Kittle, Hannah Howland & Dinah Hopkins.