Person:William King (34)

The Death of William King

"William (King), Isle of Shoals, d. 28 May 1664, leav. William."^[3]

"15 WILLIAM, Isles of Shoals, poss. the W. H. ± 40, wit. in suit John Ridgway v. Alex. Jones, in Middlesex Ct., 1653. D. at the Shoals, inv. 28 May 1664. Adm. to son William, under age, b. ± 1646, who chose John Hunking gdn.; J. H. also apprais. with John Marden."^[4] [The younger William King had a long career in northern New England, marrying Sarah Palmer of Kittery; his sketch immediately follows that of his father, 15 William King, in GDMNH].

"It is probable that soon alter the death of his wife William Kinge brought or sent his two children to America, though neither the date of his nor their arrival in New England can he fixed with certainty. He had, however, become interested in the fisheries on the coast, and we know that he was engaged in that business at the time of his death. Dr. Alexander⁵ King (Joseph⁴, James³, James², William¹), in his genealogical notes says that 'While upon his last voyage in that business he was cast away and drowned on the Banks of Newfoundland,' but unfortunately he has omitted to give the date of that occurrence. Dr. Alexander King (as we have heretofore said), though born at Suffield in 1737. yet was during all his early life contemporary with four of the children of James King of Suffield, son of William Kinge, and certainly must have been well informed as to the manner and time of the death of William Kinge, for of these children of James, with whom Dr. Alexander King was very intimate, the youngest was twenty-five and the oldest forty-seven years of age when their father died and they must have frequently heard him tell about the circumstance of the drowning of his father - their grandfather. It probably occurred while James King was at Ipswich. Mass., and before he went to Suffield in 1678."^[1]

From the above, one might conclude that William King, father of John of Ipswich and Suffield and William King of the Isles of Shoals were two different individuals.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} King, Cameron Haight. The King family of Suffield, Connecticut, its English ancestry, A.D.1389-1662, and the American descendants, A.D.1662-1908: comprising numerous branches in many states of the United States, also appendices containing information concerning some of its maternal ancestors. (1908).
2. ↑ Cooney, William Masaru, and Robert Vincent Cooney. The Ancestry of Nina Eliza Cummings. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Aardvark Global Publishing Company, LLC, 2007)
   94.

   Isles of Shoals are currently split between the states of Maine and New Hampshire.

3. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:27.
4. ↑ 15 William King, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
   401.
5. ↑ His likely parents married 1621; he married 1642.