And as to such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me I dispose of it in the following manner, viz: I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Tryphena the use and improvement of one third part of my real estate during her natural life and also one third part of my personal estate to be at her disposal. And whereas my eldest son Joshua K. King has received so much already as I judge equal to what each of my other children will share of my estate after my decease and he having given a receipt that he has received as much as he ought to have of my estate I do therefore give and bequeath my estate both real and personal to my other children viz: Irene King, Epaphras King and John Bowker King in equal shares with the encumbrance of what I have given to my wife and also that my daughter-in-law Hannah Bowker have the priviledge of a comfortable dwelling in the house where I now dwell so long as she shall live unmarried and also they paying the said Hannah ninety dollars in three equal payments at the end of one and two and three years after my decease, on condition that she discharge a bond for fourteen pounds which I gave her dated March 27, 1790 and it is my will that my sons Epaphras and John B. King be executors to my last will and testament. And I do utterly disallow any other or former testament by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Joseph King · Joseph King (seal) as his last will and testament in presence of us the subscribers Hezekiah Spencer Thadds Archer The seal is impressed on a diamond shaped piece of white paper fastened to the will by a wafer. The King Coat of Arms is very plainly impressed on the paper seal. (See half-tone under title King Coat of Arms, page 30 ante.) Miss Emma C. King of Xenia, Ohio, has furnished the following record: "Joseph King was a soldier in the American Revolution. On the first call, the "Lexington Alarm," he was in Capt. Elisha Kent's company with eighteen days' service at that time. Thereafter he was in Col. Joseph Spencer's regiment, Capt. Oliver Hanchet's company (of which his brother, Eliphalet King, was Ensign), from May 8th to Dec. 17, 1776. Then in Brig. Gen'l Erastus Wolcott's Brigade at Peekskill, Col. Belden's regiment, Capt. Edward Griswold's company, April 7th to May 11, 1777Afterward for eight months in Capt. John Hancock's company of Suffield May 27, 1777, to Jany 1st, 1778. Then in the 4th Regt. Conn. Line, and finally enlisted for three years in Sheldon's Dragoons Jany 7, 1781. He is described on the enlistment roll as "Joseph King of Suffield, 5 ft. 7 inches high, light complexion, hair and eyes. (Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution (pp. 22, 52, 187, 283, 495 and 643) compiled by Authority of the General Assembly under direction of Adjt. Gen'l of Conn., Hartford, 1889)" ISSUE: 113* i. 114 ii. 115* iii. 116 iv. 117* V. 5 JOSHUA KEndall, b. Suf. Oct. 16, 1770; d. Feb. 14, 1834; m. Lucy Loomis, Feb. 28, 1793. IRENA, b. Suf Nov. 6, 1772; d. Suf. March 12, 1833; EPAPHRAS, b. Suf. Jany 16, 1775; d. ——————, 1828; m. SON, b. and d. Suf. April 11, 1777. JOHN BOWKER, b. Suf. Dec. 9, 1779; d. May 31, 1853; m. Oct. 13, 1810, Hannah (Newton) King, widow. 33 LIEUTENANT Eliphalet KinG, (Capt. Joseph, James, William1), born in Suffield, Conn., Feb. 6, 1743; died in West Springfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1821; married (1) in Suffield Nov. 3, 1768, Mary Remington; (2) in Suffield Oct. 2, 1788, Silence Rumrill. He was among the first to take up arms against England in defense of the liberties of the American colonies and on the first day of May, 1775, was commissioned by "Jonathan Trumbull Esq., Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America," as "Ensign of the Tenth Company in the Second Regiment of the Inhabitants, inlisted and assembled for the Special Defence and Safety of His Majesty's said Colony." The Captain of this "Tenth Company" was Oliver Hanchett, who was also from Suffield. Under his commission as Ensign, Eliphalet King fought "His Majesty's" troops at the Battle of |