Surname Saturday ~ KING of Lynn, Massachusetts

KING / KINGE

My 10^th great grandfather, Daniel King (1599 – 1672),  was born in Watford, Hertfordshire in England.  His son, Daniel King, Jr., stated in 1653 that he owned land in Beaconfield, Buckinghamshire, near where he married Elizabeth Guy in 1624 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.  He was in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England in 1639.  Soon after this date, he probably left for New England with his wife and children.

Daniel King’s first record in New England was a court appearance on 30 June 1641 in Salem, Massachusetts.  He was a woolen draper and a merchant, and described as “gentleman” or “Mr.” in the records.  His land in Lynn is located in what is now the town of Swampscott.  He appears in the records for many land transactions, as well as several suits such as when his bull gored his neighbor’s mare who was “great with foal” in 1646 (Essex Quarterly Court Records 1:258).  That same year he was fined for “supposed neglect of training” when he told the court he was lame and would provide a man to train for the militia in his place. 

In 1670 Daniel King conveyed the western part of his farm to his son Ralph, with provisions to three sons-in-law that they could cut wood (Essex Deeds, 3:99, 5:54).    His will is dated 7 February 1671, and was proved on 26 June 1672. He left his estate to his son Daniel, and it mentions his daughters Hannah Blaney, Elizabeth Redding, and Sarah Needham.

I descend from Daniel’s son, Daniel, Jr., (1625 – 1690), my 9^th great grandfather.  He was a merchant involved with the triangle trade between New England, the West Indies and England.  He lived for a time on the island of St Christopher/ St. Kitts, and then came to Salem to be an innkeeper.  He married Tabitha Walker in 1647.  He probably died in Salem before 2 April 1690, when on an indenture he was described as “Daniel King Sr. late of Salem, yeoman deceased”  (Essex County Deeds 8:154 – 155). 

Next, I descend from Daniel King, Jr.’s daughter Hannah King (b. 1681), my 8^th great grandmother, who married John Bacon in 1701.  They had six children, and passed on the name Tabitha to my 7^th great grandmother, Tabitha Bacon.  She had a granddaughter named Tabitha Glover (1765 – 1837) my 5^th great grandmother.  My 4^th great grandmother, Betsey Jillings Homan, had a sister named Tabby Homan, which was probably really yet another Tabitha!

Some KING resources:

“The King Family in England” by George Austin Morrison, Jr., The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 31 (1900), pages 136 – 139

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 9, pages 82 -92

The New England Historic Genealogical Society Register, Volume 65, page 84

The History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall, 1865.

My KING genealogy:

Generation 1:  Daniel King, son of Ralph King and Audrey Unknown,  baptized on 1 January 1599 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, died before 26 May 1627 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married on 4 October 1624 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England to Elizabeth Guy, daughter of John Guy and Agnes Martin.  She was born about 1606 and died 26 February 1677 in Lynn.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Daniel King, born about 1625 in England, died before 2 April 1690 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 11 March 1662 in Lynn to Tabitha Walker, daughter of Richard Walker and Jane Talmadge.  She was born 9 November 1647 in Reading, Massachusetts.  Eleven children.

Generation 3: Hannah King, born about 1681; married on 24 January 1701 in Salem to John Bacon, son of Daniel Bacon and Susannah Spencer.  He was born 24 January 1680/1 in Salem, and died before 29 February 1715/16 in Salem.  Six children.

Generation 4: Tabitha Bacon m. Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jilling Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m.  Abijah Hitchings

Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ KING of Lynn, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 6, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-king-of-lynn.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ BACON of Dedham, Newton, and Salem, Massachusetts

The grave of Tabitha (Bacon) (Glover) Jillings
at Marblehead, Massachusetts

BACON / BACCON

Michael Bacon (1569 – 1648), my 11^th great grandfather, came from Suffolk County, England with his wife, three sons, a daughter, and their families to Dedham, Massachusetts.  He was one of the original signers of the Dedham agreement in 1633.  That record says he was from Ireland. According to tradition, he returned to England and was back in Dedham by 1640. 

Michael Bacon’s will is dated 14 April 1648, and he died on 18 April.   His will mentions his sons Michael, Daniel and John, and his daughter Sarah Bancroft.  His wife Alice died on 2 April of the same year.  I descend from son Daniel Bacon (about 1620 – 1691), my 10^th great grandfather. 

Daniel Bacon was an original proprietor at Woburn, Massachusetts.  You can read his name on the list of the 32 original signers of the Woburn Orders 18 December 1640.  He removed to Bridgewater , and then later exchanged his land in Woburn (with his nephew Michael Bacon) for land in a part of Cambridge that is now the town of Newton, Massachusetts.  This deed states that he was formerly of Bridgewater, now of Cambridge.  His wife, Mary Read, was from Bridgewater.  Daniel Bacon was a tailor. His seven children are recorded in Newton.

In the next generation I descend from Daniel Bacon, Jr. (about 1641 – 1720), my 9^th great grandfather.  He was a ship carpenter and had a small shipyard in Salem, Massachusetts on a creek that was known as Knocker’s Hole.  This land is near Mill Street in Salem today.   The History of Salem, by Sidney Perley, lists many ships built by Daniel Bacon in this shipyard.   Daniel Bacon married Susanna Spencer.  In his will he left everything to his wife, with the agreement that when she passed away the property would be divided into five parts for his five children.

Next I descend from the youngest son, John Bacon, who was already deceased when his father wrote his will.  His children inherited from their grandfather.  John Bacon (1681 – 1716), 8^th great grandfather, was also a shipwright.  After his early death, his wife remarried to Joseph Willard.  I descend from John Bacon’s daughter Tabitha who married Jonathan Glover.  Tabitha and Jonathan had four sons, and all served in the Revolutionary War.   One of these sons was the famous Major General John Glover (1732 – 1797), the maritime hero of the American Revolutionary War.   I descend from their son youngest, Daniel Glover (b. 1734/5). 

Some BACON resources:

The History of Salem, by Sidney Perley (three volumes)

Bacon Genealogy: Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640, and his descendants, by Thomas Williams Baldwin, 1915.

The Genealogical Dictionary of New England, by James Savage, Volume 1, page 90

My BACON genealogy:

Generation 1:  Michael Bacon, baptized on 6 December 1579 in Winston, Suffolk County, England, died on 18 April 1648 in Dedham, Massachusetts; married on 20 September 1607 in Winston to Alice Blower.  She was born about 1581 and died 2 April 1648 in Dedham.  Five children.

Generation 2:  Daniel Bacon, born about 1620, died 7 September 1691 in Newton, Massachusetts; married about 1640 to Mary Read, daughter of Thomas Read and Rachel Unknown.  She died on 4 October 1691 in Newton.  Eight children.

Generation 3: Daniel Bacon, born about 1641, died 1720; married on 1 August 1664 in Salem to Susannah Spencer, daughter of Michael Spencer and Isabel Unknown.  She was born about 1643 probably in Lynn, Massachusetts, and died 1719 in Salem.  Seven children.

Generation 4:  John Bacon was born 24 January 1681 in Salem, died 29 February 1716 in Salem; married on 20 January 1702 in Salem to Hannah King, daughter of Daniel King and Tabitha Walker.  She was born aobut 1681.  Six children.

Generation 5:  Tabitha Bacon, baptized on 20 July 1712 (with three of her siblings) in Salem, Massachusetts, died 7 March 1785 in Marblehead, Massachusetts; married on 23 February 1727 in Salem to Jonathan Glover, son of Jonathan Glover and Abigail Henderson.  He was born 14 December 1702 in Salem, and died August 1737 in Salem.  Four children.  Tabitha remarried to Thomas Jillings on 15 July 1756.

Generation 6:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings (step siblings)

Generation 7:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 8:  Betsey Jillings Homan m. Jabez Treadwell

Generation 9:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings

Generation 10: Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 11:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 12: Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ BACON of Dedham, Newton, and Salem, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 23, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/11/surname-saturday-bacon-of-dedham-newton.html: accessed [access date]). 

Surname Saturday ~ SPENCER of Lynn, Massachusetts

SPENCER / SPENSER

Four Spencer brothers all came to settle in New England at about the same time.  Michael Spencer (1611 – 1653), my 10^th great grandfather, and his brothers, my 10^th great grand uncles (William Spencer, Thomas Spencer and Jared Spencer) probably did not arrive together on the same ship.  Elizabeth, the wife of Timothy Tomlins, was probably their sister.

The eminent genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus wrote a series of articles in the 1951 and 1952 issues of The American Genealogist on the ancestors and descendants of these four Spencers.  I would encourage you to read these articles if you are a Spencer descendant, as well as the long sketch about Michael Spencer in the Great Migration series. 

Michael Spencer died young, leaving his widow Isabel with small children.  At least one of these children, Michael, was named in a guardianship record naming Isabel’s second husband, Thomas Robbins.  My 9^th great grandmother, Susannah Spencer, probably lived with her mother and stepfather in Salem, too.  She was married there in 1664 to Daniel Bacon.

Some SPENCER resources:

"The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants" by Donald Lines Jacobus, The American Genealogist, Volume 27, pages 79- 87, and pages 161 - 185 (continued in Volume 28). 

The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634 – 1635, Robert Charles Andeson, Volume VI, pages 436-439.

My SPENCER genealogy:

Generation 1:  Michael Spencer, son of Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread, baptized on 5 May 1611 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, died before 29 November 1653 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married about 1640 to Isabel Unknown. Three (possibly four) children.

Generation 2:  Susannah Spencer, born about 1643 in Lynn, died 1719 in Salem, Massachusetts; married on 1 August 1664 in Salem to Daniel Bacon, son of Daniel Bacon and Mary Read.  He was born about 1641 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and died 1720 in Salem. Seven children.  

Generation 3:  John Bacon and Hannah King

Generation 4:  Tabitha Bacon and Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover  and Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jillings Homan and Jabez Treadwell

Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell and Abijah Hitchings

Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings and Hannah Eliza Lewis

Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings and Florence Etta Hoogerzeil

Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings and Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ SPENCER of Lynn, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted October 7, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-spencer-of-lynn.html:  accessed [access date]).