Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . the series contributing a share inpublic life which has made the name known inevery state until it has come to be regarded asone of those indelibly written in the history ofthis country. The King family arms are:Sable, a lion rampant guardant ermine,between three crosses patee fitchee at the foot,or. Crest: A lions gamb erased and erect,sable, grasping a cross patee fitchee, : Recte et suaviter. (I
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . the series contributing a share inpublic life which has made the name known inevery state until it has come to be regarded asone of those indelibly written in the history ofthis country. The King family arms are:Sable, a lion rampant guardant ermine,between three crosses patee fitchee at the foot,or. Crest: A lions gamb erased and erect,sable, grasping a cross patee fitchee, : Recte et suaviter. (I ) John King was the progenitor of thefamily in America. lie settled in Boston,Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century. Al-though not clearly proved, he came from thecounty of Kent. England, according to themost reliable report, and he married MaryStowell. Children: 1. Richard, see Mary, born June 8. 1719. 3. Sarah, bornFebruary 2-, 1720. 4. William, baptized Junej/, T725; a sea captain. 5. David, baptizedAugust 21, 1726. (1. Rebecca, baptized No-vember 10. 1728. 7. Josiah, baptized April4, 1731. 8. Martha, baptized September 2,1733. 9. Katharine, baptized May 23, i i :.,£•; SOUTHERN NEW YORK 925 Also most probably: 10. David, a merchant inSaco. 11. Josiah. (II) Captain Richard King, son of Johnand Mary (Stowell) King, was born at Bos-ton, Massachusetts, in 1718, and died at Duns-tan Landing, Scarborough, Maine, March 27,B775- Of ms early life there are no 1740 he was settled in Watertown, Massa-chusetts, in prosperous business as a traderfactor for Ebenezer Thornton. Before removing from Boston to Scarbor-ough, he had become one of the enterprisingcitizens of the former place. When the mili-tary expedition, under Sir William Pepperell,was organized against Cape Breton, in 1745,Governor Shirley appointed him commissaryof subsistence, carrying with the position therank of captain. He was then only twenty-eight years old, and was active in the wor
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