CAPT. JOSEPH KING

• Death Notes
  • CAPT JOSEPH KING was born on 10 May 1689 in Suffield, Hartford, CT
    He was baptized on 10 May 1689 in Suffield, Hartford, CT
    He died on 6 Mar 1756 in Suffield, Hartford, CT
    
    
    

• General Notes
  • Joseph King was a very prominent man in Suffield. His well known integrity and uprightness together with his accuracy and fidelity in the transaction of official business caused him to be greatly trusted and his time to be much occupied in public affairs. He was Captain of a military Company. Dec. 19,1721 he was elected Tithingman; Dec.2, 1726,
    
    Moderator of the town meeting; March 11, 1728, Selectman and also Moderator; at the same time he was also chosen one of the "trustees to receive the towns proportion of 60,000 pound loan [of which the towns proportion was 405 pounds] and to let it out at the towns discretion." May 6,1728, he was again Moderator; March 10,1729, Selectman April 16, 1729. He was elected town treasurer and being re-elected each succeeding year, he held that office for 12 years and until 1741. In each succeeding year thereafter he was chosen Selectman and Moderator. June 11,1739, Joseph King having been chosen Moderator of the town meeting, the following proceedings there at were taken; He was selectman in 1728, 29, 32, 39, 42, 43.and Town Clerk in 1743.
    
    Joseph King, Gentleman, was chosen agent in behalf of the town of Suffield to make a petition exhibited to the General Court now sitting in Boston, by the inhabitants of the West part of said town praying to be set of into a District and separate Society by themselves. Joseph Kings brief giving reasons why the town should not be divided is still on file among the town records of Suffield. [See Sheldon's History of Suffield]. The petition referred to was for the formation of the second ecclesiastical society and had been made in May 1739. The General court deferred a decision and recommended an arrangement by a committee chosen by mutual agreement of both parties. This was done and the decision of the committee was ratified by the general court Jan 1, 1740. The answer or brief in the handwriting of Joseph King giving reasons why the town should not be divided into Ecclesiastical societies has been preserved and is still on file among the town records of Suffield. It presents the reasons against such a division very forcibly, clearly and concisely. The closing paragraphs are as follows. The great inconvenience of breaking towns into small precincts, makes parties in towns and being unable to give honorable support to ministers which is meet has a tendency to breed discord between ministers and people and proves a wound to religion. And no man of learning and parts will be willing to settle in such places; and so they must take up with weak means which opens a door for seducers to infuse corrupt principles and bring scandal upon religion. The extreme charges of ye province & war approaching is to be considered etc. {the war referred to as approaching was probably that with the French known as King George's war]. The committee against division was Joseph King, Samuel Kent, Gentleman, and William King, Yoeman who with a committee in favor of division signed an agreement Captain Joseph King acquired a very large estate. He executed a great many legal documents and a number of these have been preserved and are now [1908] in the possession of Miss Margaret E. King of Dayton, Ohio. His seal after his signature on legal instruments always has impressed thereon the King Coat of Arms. One of these documents On Sep.8, 1755 he gave a deed of land to his wife Hannah. I do freely, clearly and absolutely give and grant unto Hannah King her heirs and assigns forever one ninth part of two hundred acres of land lying and being in Cold Springs township so called in the county of Hampshire in his Majesties Province of Mass. Bay in New England. Etc.
    
    His will was of 4 March 1756 and he died 6 March 1756
    
    [Parts of] Will of Capt. Joseph King of Suffield
    
    I give and demise and dispose of my estate in the following manner & form. I give to Hannah, my dearly beloved wife the use and improvement of one half of my house and barn & well during the time she remains my widow. And after that to have the use of one third part of said house barn and well during her natural life and also one third part of the use of my improvable lands during her life and also one third part of my moveable estate during her natural life.
    
    I appoint, and my will is that my wife Hannah and my loving brother William King and my son Pelatiah Bliss to be the executors to this my last will and testament. Which executors I empower or any two of them to sell so much of my out lands as they shall think proper or necessary for the support of my children during their minority and to my wife the time she remains my widow. After my just debts and funeral charges are paid I give to my eldest son Joseph a double portion of all I have among his brethren. I give unto my loving children, Abigail Bliss and Eliphalet and Hannah and Epaphras and Ashbel and Thaddeus and Theadore and Mary equal portions out of my whole estate and my will is that I have charged to my son Pelatiah and my daughter Abigail Bliss on my book shall be reconed as so much paid toward her portion. And I do hereby utterly disallow and revoke & declare null all and every other former testaments, wills, legacies and bequests by me in any ways before named.
    
    Be it known unto all men by these present that whereas I Joseph King of Suffield in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut have made and declared my last will and testament in writing bearing date the fourth day of march 1756. I the said Joseph King by this present Codicil does ratify and confirm my last will and testament, and whereas my wife Hannah is supposed to be pregnant with child. My will is that the child to be born of her body shall have an equal portion in my whole estate with the rest of my children and my will is that my wife shall have one third part of my moveable estate forever. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this fourth day of March 1756.
    
    Both the will and the Codicil still remain on file in the Probate office in Hartford, CT.
    
    The child expected to be born and provided for in the Codicil was born May 14, 1756 a little more than two months after Captain Joseph's death and was christened by its mother, Ichabod
    
    [The glory has departed] 1st Samuel, Ch 4, v 21.
    
    The inventory of Joseph King's estate is listed in the King book on pages 92 through 97 and amounted to 1,452 Pounds 13s 5d dated 28 March 1758.
    
    One of the items in the inventory is " a silver seal Kings coat of Arms". This same seal descended regularly through many years and generations and is now [1909] in the possession of Miss Emma C. King of Xenia, Ohio. The Damask table cloth and napkins are also still preserved and the property of Mr. Robert Newton King of Dayton, Ohio and the silver nee and shoe buckles are treasured by another descendant Mrs. E. A. Arnold of Cummington, Mass.
    
    The division of the estate divided among the widow and children seven hundred and sixteen acres of land the silver seal [King coat of Arms] went to the eldest son Joseph.
    
    He was FIRST  married to Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON (daughter of Phineas WILSON and Mary SANFORD) on 2 May 1717 in Suffield, Hartford, CT. 2nd husb, His 1st wife.
    
    Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON was born on 17 Apr 1681 in Hartford, Hartford, CT.
    
    She died on 11 Sep 1737 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.
    
    She was buried on 12 Sep 1737 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.
    
    Mrs. Mary Wilsen Jesse of Hartford who died September 11, 1737,
    Widow of David Jesse and evidently sister of Nathanial Wilson, and daughter of Phineas Wilson from Dublin, Ireland, a wealthy merchant of Hartford, CT. by his first wife Mary Sandford, only daughter of Nathaniel and Susanna Sanford. Married as 2nd husband Joseph King
    CAPTAIN JOSEPH KING and Mary {Widow Jesse] WILSON had the following children:
    +2 i. Abigail KING
    3 ii. Joseph KING was born on 1 Oct 1722 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.
    He was buried in 1724 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.
    He died on 27 Jan 1724 in Suffield, Hartford, CT.
    
    
    

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