John King

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

"Like his father, he was friendly with the Indians, doing humanitarian work among them and educating two, Campbell and Occeun, at his own expense, to become missionaries among their people." [William Richard Cutter, citation details below]

John married Alice Deane on 1 Feb 1700 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts. Alice (daughter of Isaac Deane and Hannah Leonard) was born on 20 Nov 1678 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 22 May 1746. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hannah King was born on 28 Feb 1705 in Raynham, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 23 Apr 1766 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Plain Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.

Notes:

"[...] Philip King, known as Captain Philip King, of Taunton, Massachusetts, a man of influence in the community as proved by his impressive funeral with military honors. Captain Philip King won the friendship of the neighboring Indians to such a degree that he and his family were never molested thereby." [William Richard Cutter, citation details below]

Philip married Judith Whitman before 1672. Judith (daughter of John Whitman and Ruth) died after 7 May 1711. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Richard Cutter identifies him as the John King who came to Massachusetts with John Humphrey, deputy-governor of Massachusetts. And the 1638-41 notebooks of Thomas Lechford do confirm the existence of a John King and his wife Mary who came over as servants to "John Humfrey esq." (page 307). Lechford's notebooks also contain a later discussion of a John King of Weymouth, "seaman" (page 397). Robert Charles Anderson points out (in The Great Migration Directory) that these two John Kings are not necessarily the same man. And The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee (Boston, 1913) says on page 517 that the wife of the John King of Weymouth was a Dorothy who made her will on 14 Jun 1652.

It seems to us likely that the father of Philip King was a John King, but we're unaware of anything that absolutely proves this, or that connects him with either of the John Kings mentioned in Lechford's notebooks.

Notes:

He arrived in 1638 and settled at Weymouth. He was appointed an ensign there in 1645. He was also a deacon of its church.

John Whitman (d. 1692) = Ruth (d. 1662)
Sarah Whitman (d. 1718) = Abraham Jones (~1630-1718)
Sarah Jones (d. ~1701 = Mordecai Lincoln (1657-1727)
Mordecai Lincoln (1686-1736) = Hannah Salter (d. ~1727)
John Lincoln (1716-1788) = Rebecca Flowers (b. 1720)
Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) = Bathsheba (~1750-~1836)
Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851) = Nancy Hanks (1784-1818)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

John married Ruth. Ruth died on 17 Oct 1662 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]