"The King Family" by Goode King Feldhauser/George M.G. Stafford Fhlcardcatalogue Title the King Family Stmnt.Resp
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"The King Family" by Goode King Feldhauser/George M.G. Stafford FHLcardcatalogue Title The King family Stmnt.Resp. compiled by G. M. G. Stafford Authors Stafford, George Mason Graham, b. 1876 (Main Author) Notes Microreproduction of typescript (37 p.). The King family of Virginia, genealogy, 1350-1950. Subjects King Format Manuscript (On Film) Language English Publication Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971 Physical on 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Film Notes Note - Location [Film] The King family - FHL US/CAN Film [ 877519 Item 3 ] "The King Family" presents the genealogical research of Goode King Feldhauser as compiled after her death by G. M. G. Stafford and published about 1949. Her research emphasis was on the line descending from William Alfred's son William (b. 1711, Stafford Co. VA). A small amount of information concerning Thomas (b. 1714. Stafford Co. VA) is included in the text suggesting that Thomas went to Louisa Co. VA. early in life. Revolutionary War records of Thomas' sons indicate that Thomas was born in 1714. Commonality among given names in the two generations is striking and supports the hypothesis that Thomas King of Louisa Co. VA is the son of William Alfred King and Sophia Burgess of Stafford Co. VA. THE KING FAMILY Compiled By Dr. G. M. G. Stafford, Baton Rouge, Louisiana This compilation has been made possible by the persevering research of the late Mrs. Edward Feldhauser of St. Paul, Minnesota, who spent much time over a period of many years in collecting material for a contemplated history of the King family, but died before realizing her ambition. Mrs. Feldhauser before marriage was Goode Watkins King, a great grand-daughter of General John Edwards King through his fourth son, Milton King. General King was born in Prince William County, Virginia, and died in Kentucky. We are very greatly indebted to our good friend, Dr. Valentine King Irion of New Orleans, a great grandson of General King, for his kindness in putting this material at our disposal. Through his influence it was obtained from Mrs. James F. Donahue of Cleveland, Ohio, a niece of Mrs. Feldhauser. We are particularly interested in, and will confine ourselves chiefly to, the southern branch of this very extensive family connection. This line comes directly from the Kings of the Northern Neck of Virginia who came over in the early days of the colony, indeed, almost at its inception. Their records take us back across the ocean to Devonshire, England, where John King of "Dodebroke" lived about 1350. He married Agnes Mortimer, daughter of Edmund Mortimer (son of Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March) and his wife, Lady Philippa Plantagenet, daughter of Lionel, Duke of Clarence. Thence we go back to Godfrey, the first Plantagenet, who married Matilda, daughter of King Henry, I, of England. John King and his wife Agnes Mortimer, had a son, Roger King, who used the Plantagenet seal on a deed of sale in the year 1389, which parchment may be seen today in the archives of Devonshire. Roger's son, Sir Ralph King, distinguished himself at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. This Sir Ralph had a son, John King, whose son, Sir Thomas King, married Johanna Beauchamp, daughter of the Earl of Warwick. Among their several sons was William King who married Margaret Ferrers, and their son, Captain William King, who commanded the ship Diamond, was the first of the name to visit the shores of Virginia (1609). On the return voyage his vessel was wrecked in a storm near the English coast and he was lost. This Captain William King married Blanche Mainwaring, and their sons, John, Ralph, and Thomas came to Virginia. The first of these, John King, commanded the ship Falcon and in 1636 was in the Barbadoes trade. Later he went to Virginia, several of his sons going with page 2 him, and one of them, Michael, settled in Norfolk. The wife of Captain John King was Ann Daniel, daughter of Piers Daniel, whom he married in Chestershire, England. Francis King, one of the sons of Captain John King and Ann Daniel, originally came over as one of the headrights of Captain Giles Brent of Maryland and Virginia. He was twice married: 1st to Dorothy, daughter of Sir Walter Aston, and 2nd to Elizabeth Brooke. One of his sons, Robert King, (by which wife we do not know), married his cousin Hannah Scarborough who had an aunt of the same name who married John Wise of Accomac County, Va., and who is frequently confused with her. Robert King and Hannah Scarborough had several children, among whom were: Dorothy, John, Edmund, William and Robert. Of these Dorothy married Col. John Waller and lived in Spotsylvania County, Va. John went to Maryland with Capt. Richard Ewen. Edmund went to York County, Va., with his cousin John Scarborough and had a son, Robert King, who married Sarah West and left a son, Nathaniel, whom we later find in Lunenberg County, Va., and who is said to have been the ancestor of some of the Alabama Kings. Robert, youngest of the sons of Robert King and Hannah Scarborough, married Mary Aylett, daughter of Sir Benjamin Aylett , and was captain and major in the colonial militia. Captain William King, son of Robert King and Hannah Scarborough, was the first of the name whom we find in the records of Stafford County, Va., as settling there permanently. He married Martha Richardson of Middlesex County, Va. He was a captain of militia in that county. After her death he married Judith Peyton, daughter of Valentine Peyton and Frances Gerrard. Col Valentine Peyton, born in England in 1629 a son of Henry Peyton and Katherine Bathman, came to Virginia about 1654 and settled in Westmoreland County where his estate was known as "Nominy." He was descended from the Peytons of Isleham, in Cambridgeshire, England. He married in 1660, Frances, daughter of Dr. Thomas Gerrard and his wife Susanna Snow, (widow of Col. Thomas Spake), of Maryland and Virginia. Captain William King died in Stafford County, Va., in 1716, leaving a will in which he named his children as follows: Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane, Margaret, William Alfred, Thomas and John. Before proceeding further it would be well to here reiterate, for the sake of clarity and a better understanding, that the branch of the King family with which we will deal in this discussion appears very definitely to stem from the Captain William King of the ship Diamond who visited the shores of Virginia just two years after the first settlement at Jamestown. Then followed his son, Captain John King, of the ship Falcon who went first to Barbadoes and then to Virginia, and his son, Francis King, soon followed as page 3 one of the headrights of Captain Giles Brent. Robert King, son of this Francis, married his cousin, Hannah Scarborough, and their son, Captain William King, who first married Martha Richardson and then Judith Peyton, settled in Stafford County, VA., and was the immediate ancestor of the southern branch of the King Family. Thomas King, 2nd son of Captain William King and his 2nd wife, Judith Peyton, was born in Stafford County, Va., about 1690. The name of his wife is not known to us. They had five sons, besides other children, viz., Valentine who married Ruth Fleming and lived in Winchester, Va., Stephen, John, Samuel, and Cyrus. The daughter of Cyrus, (the youngest), Ann King, married William Fairfax. Other children of Cyrus were: Cyrus, Jr., who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, Marianna who married a Dinwiddie, and Samuel. John King, youngest son of Captain William King and his 2nd wife, Judith Peyton, was born in Stafford County, Va., about 1700. We know that he was a minor when his father made his will in 1716. He married Judith Brent, daughter of George Brent and Judith Pursell of Lancaster County, Va. She was not a descendant of the Woodstock Brents, in Stafford County, but of Hugh Brent of Lancaster County. It is not known that the two families were related. John King died between March 2nd and June 19th 1752, leaving three children: William, John, and Mary. His widow (Judith) then married on May 2, 1753 her cousin, William Brent. WILLIAM ALFRED KING, eldest son of Captain William King and his 2nd wife, Judith Peyton, was born in Stafford County, Va., about 1685. He married Sophia Burgess, daughter of John and Elizabeth Burgess, and grand-daughter of Col. William Burgess and Sophia Ewell (or Ewen). They lived on a part of the Ewell estate near the site of the present town of Dumfries, in Prince William County, Va. (It was then Stafford County). There were many children born of this marriage, ten of whom were sons. There were probably daughters, but we have no record of them. The sons were: 1. - William, 2. - Alfred, 3 - Thomas, 4. - Benjamin, 5. - John, 6. - Robert, 7. - Richard, 8. - Walter, 9. - Francis, 10. - Edward. We regret our inability to report definitely on any of these except William and Thomas. As William the eldest of the ten, is the progenitor of the branch in which we are particularly interested and will take up most of the space in this manuscript, we will first dispose of his brother Thomas. 3. - Thomas King, 3rd son of William Alfred King and Sophia Burgess, was born in Stafford County, Va., in 1714. He married Sarah Alexander. We find his name quite frequently mentioned in the Virginia records. On October 23, 1747, Thomas King bought 214 page 4 acres of land in Louisa and Hanover counties from Wilson Harris.