~ ~ ~ THE KING FAMILY ~ ~ ~

William King (1687/8-1775), in the second generation of Kings to be born on Long Island, was named for his father and great-grandfather. His grandfather Samuel King, born in England, arrived in Southold about 1651 from Salem, MA, with his widowed mother and several siblings.

The fourth-generation William married Bathsheba (1688-1764), daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Rogers Beebe of Plum Island. Their first-born, also a William, was joined by seven brothers and sisters. A brother James left Long Island for upstate New York, two others died as young men, and two sisters apparently died as children.

Sisters Hannah and Susannah both married; Hannah died in 1811 a few months short of her 96th birthday.

In 1738, the fifth-generation William married Elizabeth Beebe of Orient, who bore him seven children. Although their first son William married and had at least two young sons by 1800, it is through a younger brother Richard that the line descends.

The sixth generation Richard (1755-1797), born in Southold, came to Three Mile Harbor (East Hampton) and served as a soldier in the Revolution. Richard married Rachel Miller (1760-1838), daughter of George and Hannah Edwards Miller of East Hampton. According to "East Hampton History" by Jeannette Edwards Rattray, Richard and his wife Rachel "had a son on June 26, 1776 when Richard became a refugee to Lyme, Conn. [who] may have been the child who died August 27, 1783."

Not much is known about another son Nathan, but Mrs. Rattray's notes tell a wonderful, if tragic, story about son Benjamin Hubbard King. Born in 1793, Benjamin "served in the War of 1812; he fell off a load of hay on Newtown Lane, East Hampton, and died from the effects [February 28, 1856]; his name and the date of the accident were written on a post that stood there for years."

The seventh generation Richard, my 3rd-great grandfather and older brother of Benjamin, continues the King line. He also married a Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and Esther King Bennett, in 1810. Their six children included my great-great grandfather (Benjamin) Gilbert King (1819-1872), whose second wife and my great-great grandmother was also a Bennett.

In the ninth generation, my King line joins the Howard family with the marriage of (Benjamin) Gilbert's daughter Emma Sidenia King to my great-grandfather Captain David Andrew Howard. The information in "East Hampton History" does not indicate if Emma's brothers ever married or had children.

6-Great Grandfather

William King b 14 February 1687/8 d 23 April 1775
m __________ to
Bathsheba Beebe b 16 April 1688 d 7 May 1764

Richard King b 5 November 1711 d 20 May 1735

Hannah b 29 July 1715 d 12 March 1811
m 1740 to
Richard Baxter b __________ d 1751

James King b 16 July 1718 d __________ (upstate NY)

Bathsheba b 18 December 1721 d __________ (no further trace)

Susannah King b 29 May 1723 d 1 May 1766
m 1749 to
Robert Sheffield b __________ d __________

Bezaleel b 31 March 1727 d 24 April 1735

Paul King b 2 May 1731 d 26 November 1750

5-Great Grandfather

William King b 6 April 1710 d __________
m 26 July 1738 to
Elizabeth Beebe b __________ d __________ (of Orient, LI, NY)

Elizabeth King b 29 April 1739 d __________

Mary b 17 November 1740 d __________

William King b 8 September 1742 d __________

Anne King b 13 October 1748 d young

Christian King b 19 March 1752 d __________

Paul b 4 April 1762 d __________

4-Great Grandfather

Richard King b 10 December 1755 Southold, LI, NY d February 1797 East Hampton, LI, NY
m 1775 to
Rachel Miller b 1760 d 11 July 1838

Son b before 26 June 1776 d 27 August 1783 (?)

Daughter bapt 1782 East Hampton, LI, NY d __________

Daniel King bapt 12 February 1784 d 23 September 1856

Elizabeth King bapt 7 February 1786 d __________

Miller King bapt 7 February 1786 d 19 April 1852

Hannah King b 1789 d __________
m __________ to Eleazer Miller

Benjamin Hubbard King b 1793 d 28 February 1856

Abraham King b 3 March 1795 d 24 July 1875

John King b 1797 d 25 March 1843

Nathan King b __________ d __________

3-Great-Grandfather

Richard King b 1788 d 9 April 1862
m __________ 1810 to
Rachel Horton Bennett b 1793 d 14 March 1862

William Allen King b 1811 d __________

Orlando King b 1813 d __________

Harriet Rachel King b __________ d __________
m __________ to
Hiram Franklin b __________ d __________

Richard King b __________ d __________

(Hiram) Watson King b 1831 d 1894

Great-Great Grandfather

(Benjamin) Gilbert King b 1819 d 1 December 1872
m (1) 19 December 1848 to
Phebe A. Rogers b __________ d __________
m (2) 27 January 1851 to
Huldah Edwards Bennett b __________ d __________