AN INTERIM TRACING OF THE ANCESTRY OF VALERIE DALY KING Privately Printed 1956 Printed in U.S.A. THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC. Richmond, Virginia TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK I The Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (The Father of Valerie Daly King) Page I PART ONE Ancestors of Zadock King 7 PART TWO Ancestors of Hannah Mitchell PART THREE Ancestors of Silas Holbrook 17 PART FOUR Ancestors of Betsey Bridges 22 PART FIVE Ancestors of Andrew Deming 49 PART SIX Ancestors of Hannah Granger 61 PART SEVEN Ancestors of Thomas Botsford PART EIGHT Ancestors of Sarah Lay APPENDIX TO BOOK I The Pomeroy Controversy 86 The Seymour Controversy 99 BOOK II The Maternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King (The Father of Valerie Daly King) Page I2I PART ONE Ancestors of James Daly 123 PART TWO Ancestors of Emily Bloomer 132 111 lV Ancestry of Valerie Daly King PART THREE Ancestors of William Dealing, 2nd. PART FOUR Ancestors of Mary Bourdette 157 BOOKIII The Paternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King (The Mother of Valerie Daly King) Page I85 PART ONE Ancestors of Asa Sisson PART TWO Ancestors of Pamelia Whitcomb PART THREE Ancestors of Reuben Learned 204 PART FOUR Ancestors of Nancy Clark Lovejoy 207 BOOK IV The Maternal Ancestry of Mildred Sisson King (The Mother of Valerie Daly King) Page 209 PART ONE Ancestors of Attilius Alexis Ladd 211 PART TWO Ancestors of Jane Anderson Russ 216 PART THREE Ancestors of John Tavennier 218 PART FOUR Ancestors of U ree Carter Drake 219 APPENDIX TO THE VOLUME Page 225 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Colonial Service 225 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Revolutionary Service 229 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in the War of 1812 231 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in the Civil War 232 Ancestors of Valerie Daly King: with Service in World War I 233 INDEX Page 235 BOOK I The Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King Compiled and Arranged by Ella Bourdette Daly King (EDITOR: Charles Daly King, 19 5 3) These data were compiled by Ella Daly King, wife of Robert Courtney King, and dated 16 December, 1917. They were collected and arranged under the original supervision and with the assistance of Mr. Austin Morrison, M.A., and later with emendations and additions by Miss Martha Collins, both genealogists of repute. To Robert Courtney King In endeavoring to compile for you a short history of your ancestors I have taken your four great-grandfathers and your four great-grandmothers and have put them in the following order : Part I-Ancestors of Zadock King Part 2-Ancestors of Hannah Mitchell Part 3-Ancestors of Silas Holbrook Part 4-Ancestors of Betsey Bridges Part 5-Ancestors of Andrew Demming Part 6--Ancestors of Hannah Granger Part 7-Ancestors of Thomas Botsford Part 8-Ancestors of Sarah Lay Even if you do not take pleasure in reading all that has been written about them, you will perhaps be pleased to know that it has given me much pleasure to make their acquaintance and to write about them. ELLA DALY KING December the sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. "God sifted an whole nation, that He might send choice grain into the wilderness." "While it cannot be pretended that our Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers were perfect in all respects, yet it must be admitted that they were a brave and virtuous set of men and women, possessing an ardent love of civil and religious liberty." THE FREEMAN'S OATH The Freeman's Oath as established in Massachusetts in 1634 was the first paper published in New England, and was as follows: I, ( A.B.), being by God's providence an Inhabitant and Freeman within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, do freely acknowledge my­ self to be subject to the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true and faithfull to the same, and will accordingly yield assistance & support thereunto, with my person and estate, as in equity I am bound; and will also truly endeavour to maintain and preserve all the liberties and privileges thereof, submitting my self to the wholesome Lawes & Orders made and established by the same. And further, that I will not plot or practice any evill against it, or consent to any that shall so do; but will timely discover and reveal the same to the lawfull Authority now here established, for the speedy preventing thereof. Moreover, I doe solemnly bind my self in the sight of God, that when I shal be called to give my voyce touching any such matter of this State, in which Freemen are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduct and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of persons or favour of any man. So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ. REFERENCES Records of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. I, p. 117. A reprint of Mass. Bay Colony-The Oath of a Freeman-First Printed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Cambridge, 1639. PART ONE Ancestors of Zadock King KING COAT OF ARMS: sable, a lion rampant between three crosses, or, ducally crowned, argent; crest: out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi ostrich, wings endorsed beak of the first. MOTTO: Loyal au mort The King family of Westmoreland, England, trace their descent from Sir Ralph Kinge who fought at Agincourt. In America the Northampton Kings took an important part in early colonial times and long were prom­ inent at Northampton, Mass., where King Street still exists. John King of Westmoreland, England, was born in Yorkshire; he was called Captain King. Hinman states that he came to America when 16 years of age. He was born in 1629 and died on 3 December, 1703, aged 74, leav­ ing a Will, dated 7 July, 1703, in which he mentions sons, Samuel, John and Jonathan, and daughters, Sarah and Thankful. He lived at Hartford, Conn., in 1645 with a Mr. Cole until he was 21 and then went to North­ ampton, Mass. He married, 18 November, 1656, Sarah, daughter of William (Deacon John?) Holton of Northampton. She died on 8 May, 1683. He then married, second, Sarah Mygatt, widow of Jacob Mygatt and daughter of William Whiting, who died at Windsor, Conn. John King was a Repre­ sentative, 1679-1689, and a Captain in the Colonial Militia. His marriage to Sarah Holton is the first recorded at Northampton and it is believed to have been the first to be solemnized there. Sarah Holton was the daughter of the Hon. William Holton, colonist, who was born in England and came to America in 1634; he came from Ipswich, England, in the ship, Francis, and was one of the early proprietors of Hartford, Conn. In 1655 he re­ moved to Northampton and was one of the Deacons in the church there, 1660-1671. He was also a Representative, serving one year for the neigh­ boring town of Hadley. John King had twelve children, of whom the third son was: z,,,, Thomas King, of Hatfield and Hartford, Conn. He was born on 14 July, 1662, and died on 26 December, 17u, son of John and Sarah (Holton) King. He was in Hartford, Conn., in 1688. An inventory of his estate was 8 Paternal Ancestry of Charles Daly King taken on 28 January, 1712, by Benjamin Graham, Joseph Mygatt and Edward Allyn, the total amounting to i 95.2. l l and then being distributed to Thomas, the eldest son, Robert, Abigail and Mary. On 17 November, 1683 he married Abigail Strong, daughter of Jedediah Strong, who. died in July, 1689. He then married, second, Mary Wolston, daughter of Robert Walston, who died on 27 September, 1706; and he then married for a third time but the name of this wife is unknown and she died on 2 January, 1712. His eldest son was: -; Thomas King (Jr.) of Hartford, Conn., later of Windsor, Conn. He was born on 3 December, 1684, the son of Thomas (Sr.) and Abigail (Strong) King. On 6 November, 1712, Thomas King of Hartford, Conn., at that place married Sarah Mygatt. The parentage of this Thomas King has never been fully attested by record but it is claimed by his descendants that he was identical with the Thomas King who was born at Hartford and was the son of that Thomas King of Hatfield and Hartford, Conn., · who in turn was the son of John King of Northampton. John King of Northampton married, second, Sarah Mygatt; among those who settled the estate of his son, Thomas, was Joseph Mygatt; and the present Thomas King, claimed to be the son of Thomas aforesaid, again married a Sarah Mygatt, thus implying a continuing relationship between the two families and outlawing an otherwise rather strained coincidence. The descendants of Thomas King base the claim in addition upon family tradition and upon an old pedigree chart long preserved in the family and now in the possession of Miss Julia R. King of Maxwelton, Durham, Ga. If on the other hand the question turns upon the identities of the two Thomas Kings who were at Hartford, Conn., in or about 1688, it is here assumed that they were identical. ,> Zadock King, son of Thomas and Sarah (Mygatt) King, of Deerfield, Mass., later removed to Windsor, Conn. He died 25 August, 1769. He married 3 July, 1751, Hannah, daughter of Joseph Mitchell. She married ( 2) John Bugbee. Children born to Zadock and Hannah at Deerfield : Hannah, Zadock, Josie and Abner.