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BENJAMIN KING, (Benjamin, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., Sept. 11, 1717; died in Enfield, Conn., March 8, 1777; married in Enfield Sept. 26, 1741, Sarah Pease, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Spencer) Pease. She died in Enfield Feb. 24, 1800. He removed to Enfield prior to 1740 and had a blacksmith shop there. He was at the same time a farmer. An inventory of his estate, which was valued at 159 pounds 15 shillings and 2 pence, was filed in the Probate office at Hartford April 3, 1777. It mentions the blacksmith shop and tools, his land and farming implements, some live stock and also "a maare bo't by Naham King, son of the dec'd," homestead, furniture, etc. His widow married Samuel Eaton of Enfield, who died April 20, 1793, aged 74.

The descendants of Benjamin King seem to have lived in a corner or place where Longmeadow, East Longmeadow and Wilbersham (Wilbraham), all in Massachusetts, join Enfield and Somers, both in Connecticut. Somers was originally the East Parish of Enfield and was set off and incorporated July, 1734. East Longmeadow was set off from Longmeadow July 1, 1794. Enfield and Somers were in Massachusetts until May, 1749. Stafford bounds Somers on the east. To the south and east of Somers is Ellington. The inhabitants of all these towns are practically neighbors. Removing from one of these towns. to another did not mean a long journey. Sometimes it only meant building a new house on another part of the farm.

Benjamin King and at least several of his family were Baptists. The Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. XII, p. 271, in a list of Baptists belonging to Enfield Church in May, 1764, gives Benjamin King and Benjamin King Jr. The fact that the family were Baptists renders it difficult at times to get exact dates of births, marriages and deaths. Practically the town was the orthodox Congregational Church, and that church was the town. The consequence was that the Baptists had as little as possible to do with the town. If the law required it they had births recorded, but in the lax, loose methods of the days following the Revolutionary War little recording was done by

any one, and by the Baptists practically none. Subsequent generations of the Benjamin King family seem to have returned to the Congregational Church. On March 7, 1790, there was admitted to membership in the Enfield First (Congregational) Church eight persons among whom were Benjamin King Jr., Hulda King and Rhoda King, grandchildren of Benjamin and Sarah (Pease) King. These three "were baptized on the day they were admitted to communion, being of a family whose father was a baptist." All the children of Benjamin1 and Sarah (Pease) King were born at Enfield.

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BENJAMIN, b. Nov. 6, 1742; d., 1842; m. (1)
Huldah Hills; (2) Hepzibah Pease; (3) Mindwell
Terry.

90 ii. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 15, 1744; m. Isaac Hills, son of John and Deliverance (Craw) Hills, of Longmeadow, Mass.

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JOEL, b. June 30, 1746; d. Enfield Jany 2, 1813; m.
June 5, 1775, Lucy Pierce.

AMOS, b. June 9, 1748; d. Dec. 11, 1831; m. 1772,
Lucy Perkins.

OBADIAH, b. Oct. 28, 1749; m. July 24, 1774, Zilpa
Prior.

JONAH, b. Feb. 23, 1752; m. May 18, 1775, Susannah
Hale.

MICAH, b. May 18, 1754; m. Sarah —.
NAHAM, b. Jany 9, 1757; d. March 5, 1812; m. Jany
21, 1779, Sarah Bugbee.

ix. ELIZABEth, b.
John Gold.

97

98*

X.

; m. Feb. 7, 1788, at Enfield,

SARAH, b. May 17, 1762; m. Dec. 4, 1788, Julius
Terry.

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SAMUEL KING, (Benjamin, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., Oct. 4, 1719; died in Somers, Conn., June 15, 1745; married in Somers Aug. 23, 1743, Hannah Bush. His stepfather, Benjamin Thomas, deeded to him "both of Somers" fifty acres in Stafford, Conn., which formerly belonged to Benjamin King, his father. (Stafford Land Records, Book 2, p. 48.) The wife of Samuel King was married four times: (1) Samuel

King, (2) Jabez Bradley, (3) Benjamin Herrington, (4) Israel
Kibbe.
ISSUE:

99* i. Samuel, b. Somers, Conn., Sept. 18, 1744.

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ELIZABETH KING, (Benjamin, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., May 16, 1721; died-; married in Somers, Conn., May 14, 1740, Benjamin Thomas Jr. of Stafford, son of her step-father. Children born in Somers.

ISSUE:

i. LEVI THOMAS, b. March 20, 1741.

ii.

DAN THOMAS, bapt. Oct 7, 1744.

iii. AZUBA THOMAS, bapt. Oct 19, 1746.

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JOSEPH KING, (Benjamin, James, William1), born in Staf ford, Conn., Dec. 22, 1724; married in Enfield, Conn., May 5, 1748, Abiah Old. of Enfield.

ISSUE:

100* i.

PELATIAH, b. July 24, 1748; m. Dec. 31, 1773,
Elizabeth Archer.

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ABIAH, b. Oct. 16, 1749; d. July 9, 1828.

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iii.

AGNES, b. Jany 30, 1752.

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NATHANIEL, b. July 4, 1753.

v.

JOSEPH, b. March 17, 1755.

105 vi.

SABRA, b. April 9, 1758.

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EZEKIEL, b. Jany 18, 1760; d. Sept. 19, 1777.
ELI, b. Aug. 26, 1762.

ix.

OLIVER, b. Dec. 23, 1765.

109 x.

Lucy, b. June 16, 1769.

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MOSES KING, (Benjamin, James, William1), born in Stafford, Conn., ; died ; married in Somers, Conn., Feb. 9, 1758, Hannah Bement of Stafford. Children born at Somers. ISSUE:

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MARY KING, (Benjamin,3 James, William1), born in Stafford, Conn.; died; married in Enfield, Conn., Aug. 8, 1751, Eleazer Talcott, who died in Enfield Jan. 19, 1793. Children born at Enfield.

ISSUE:

i. JOSEPH TALCOTT, b. May 29, 1752.

ii.

MOSES TALCOTT, b. Feb. 18, 1755. iii. AARON TALCOTT, b. Jany 13, 1757.

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ABIGAIL KING, (Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., Jany 9, 1719; died in Aug. 5, 1797; married in Suffield (1) Oct. 2, 1746, Dr. Pelatiah Bliss, born March 23, 1723; died at Green Bush, near Albany, N. Y., Dec. 26, 1756. He was the son of Pelatiah (Pelatiah, Laurence, Thomas2 of Hartford, Conn., Thomas1 of Belstone, England) Bliss and Ann Stoughton, daughter of John Stoughton of Windsor, Conn. Dr. Pelatiah Bliss was the physician of Suffield, surgeon of a regiment under Gen. Phineas Lyman of Durham, Conn., in the old French war (1755). He died while in the service on his return from Lake George Camp. She married again, April -, 1765, David Pixley of Stockbridge, but they separated a few years later.

A list of her descendants is given in the Bliss Genealogy by John Homer Bliss at page 74. She died before the widow of her father, Capt. Joseph King, in 1805, and the names of her grandchildren appear in certain deeds of the interest they derived through her in Capt. Joseph King's undistributed estate, held by right of dower by his widow until her death. The names of such grandchildren appearing in these deeds are: Martin Nash of Ferrisburg, Addison Co., Vt. (1805); Pelatiah Bliss Nash of Dorset, Bennington, Co., Vt.; (1805); Andrew Bostwick and Rhoda Bostwick of Vinesburg, Chittenden Co., Vt. (1805); Solomon Stone and Nancy Stone, his wife, of Madrid, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. (1812); Ozias Chandler and Betsy Chandler, his wife, of Fairfield, Franklin Co., Vt. (1805).

ISSUE:

ii.

i. ANNA, BLISS, b. Suf. Aug. 6, 1747.

PELAIAH BLISS, b. Suf. Feb. 21, 1748; d. Nov. 18, 1766; unmarried.

iii. ABIGAIL BLISS, b. Suf. Aug. 6, 1751; d. Dec. 10,

1751.

iv. ABIGAIL BLISS, (again) b. Suf. June 6, 1754; d. Feby 26, 1757

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JOSEPH KING, (Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., April 15, 1741; died in Suffield March 19, 1814; married in Suffield Sept. 12, 1769, Mrs. Tryphena (Kendall) Bowker, widow, born Dec. 22, 1738, daughter of Joshua Kendall Jr. and Hannah Bement, who were married July 28, 1737. Mrs. Tryphena Bowker had by her first husband a daughter, Hannah Bowker, who is mentioned in the Will of Joseph King as his "daughter-in-law" and who died Feb. 22, 1825. Mrs. Tryphena King survived her husband. Among some old papers now in the possession of Miss Margaret E. King of Dayton, Ohio, is a Will of Joseph King which has no filing mark upon it and does not appear ever to have been presented for probate. There is no other will of Joseph King to be found on file at Hartford nor any inventory-or even mention-of his estate. It seems possible that he sold his property at Suffield or made deeds of gift to his children, yet no record even of any deeds from him can be found, nor can we discover that the title to his property ever passed from him or from his estate. There is

tombstone to his memory in the old graveyard at Suffield recording his death as having occurred March 19, 1814. The following is the will above referred to:

WILL OF JOSEPH KING.

In the Name of God, Amen: this 27th day of February 1813, I, Joseph King, of Suffield in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut being of sound mind and memory thanks be given to God therefor. Calling to mind the mortality of my body and that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament: principally and first of all I recommend my soul to God who gave it and my body to the Earth in decent Christian burial.

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