Person:Thomas King (115)

One Son Thomas, or Two?

"No positive record has been found to show that Thomas, the firstborn child of Thomas King, died young as is repeatedly stated. While this may be true, since the son Thomas, although of age by 1712, was not called Thomas King Jr., nor the father Thomas King Sr., in any record so far discovered, it really makes little difference. For the son Thomas who was administrator of his father's estate in January, 1712, must have been born by 1689 and have been a son of his father's first wife, Abigail Strong. Thomas King, Sr., married Mary Webster, Nov. 7, 1690, and their first child was born eleven months later. No other child of theirs could have been of age in 1712. As Abigail (Strong) King died July 25, 1689, the surviving son Thomas was born before that date. There is room for his birth in 1688 or 9, and the early death of his mother may have been the result of childbirth. But in the absence of stronger evidence, only one son named Thomas is certain."^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Scofield, Harriet. Two Generations of Descendants of Thomas King of Hartford, Conn. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1946).
2. ↑ Thomas King (2), in Trumbull, James Russell. History of Northampton : Northampton Genealogies, 1640-1838. (Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States: n.p., bef 1899)
   260.

   "Thomas (King): b. Dec. 3, 1684, in Northampton; d. young."

3. ↑ Births in 1684, in Corbin, Walter E. (Compiler), and Robert J. (Transcriber) Dunkle. Corbin Collection. Volume 1: Records of Hampshire County, Massachusetts: Northampton Vital Records. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003)
   20.

   "King Thomas s. Thomas & Abigal [born] Dec. 3 1684"