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 ~ WALKER of Lynn, Massachusetts

WALKER

There were many men named Richard Walker in Massachusetts in the 1600s. According to the book The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1633, there were men named Richard Walker in both Salem and Boston in the 1630s, and a Richard Walker marriage record in Ipswich in 1661.  None of these men appear to be related to the Richard Walker of Lynn.  

Richard Walker (about 1611 – 1687) was my 10^th great grandfather.  The first written record of him was made in Lynn, Massachusetts when he became a freeman on 4 March 1633/4.  He also lived in Boston, and in Reading, towns which border Lynn.  He served many offices in Lynn such as selectman and as Deputy to the General Court.  He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, and Captain of the Reading militia in 1651.  In 1670 he was made Deputy governor of Nova Scotia under Sir Thomas Temple. 

Richard Walker was married twice.  First to Jane Talmage, and had a son named Shubal (Shubael).  His second wife was my 10^th great grandmother, Sarah, who had four children, including a daughter, Tabitha (b. 1647), my 9^th great grandmother, who married Daniel King of Salem.

According to Robert Charles Anderson’s book The Great Migration Begins, volume III, page 1911 “On June 1676 Richard Walker, aged about sixty-five years, and William Cowdrey, aged about seventy-three years, deposed that “they were present when Mr. Daniell King of Lyn made his will, and afterward Mr. John Blanoe understanding that he was not mentioned was much troubled and sent his wife to her father and to them to induce him to include him”  [ Essex Quarterly Court Records 6:300].    The Daniel King mentioned was the father of my 9^th great grandfather, Daniel King, husband of Tabitha Walker.  The John Blaney mentioned was his brother-in-law, husband to his sister Hannah King.

Some WALKER resources:

The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620 – 1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, Volume III, pages 1908 – 1912 for a sketch of Richard Walker

History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, by John L. Shorey, 1865

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England, by John Farmer, 1829, page 302

Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, by Joseph Savage

My WALKER lineage:

Generation 1:  Richard Walker, born about 1611 probably in England, died 18 May 1687 in Lynn, Massachusetts; married first to Jane Talmadge (one child), married second to Sarah Unknown (four children).  Sarah Walker died 21 December 1695 in Lynn.

Generation 2:   Tabitha Walker, born 9 November 1647 in Reading; married on 11 March 1662 in Lynn to Daniel King, son of Daniel King and Elizabeth Guy.  He was born about 1636 in Salem and died about 1695. Eleven children.

Generation 3:  Hannah King m. John Bacon

Generation 4:  Tabitha Bacon m. Jonathan Glover

Generation 5:  Daniel Glover m. Hannah Jillings

Generation 6:  Tabitha Glover m. Thomas Homan

Generation 7:  Betsey Jillings 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 (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ WALKER of  Lynn, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted December 30, 2017, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/12/surname-saturday-walker-of-lynn.html: accessed [access date]).