Ezra King (1697 - 1746)

Born 22 May 1697 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Silence (Rice) Bond — married about 1719 in Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 14 Jan 1746 at age 48 in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Ezra was as born May 27, 1697^[1] son of Samuel Rice (1667-1713) and Abigail Clapp (1675-1713) ^[2]

(IV) Captain Moses Rice, son of John Rice (3) was born in Sudbury, October 26, 1694, married Sarah King of Sudbury, November 16, 1719, and removed to Worcester about 1722, with her brothers Ezra and Peter King. Rice opened a public house on the site on the one afterwards kept by Captain Ephraim Mower on which was subsequently erected The United States Hotel, the present site of The Walker Building. He was on garrison duty at Rutland, with others from Worcester, in 1724, in Captains Wrights company. He commanded a company of Cavalry while he lived in Worcester. He removed to Rutland about 1742. He purchased two thousand two hundred acres of land in Charlemont, Massachusetts April 23, 1743, and finally settled on it. ^[3]

Neither the marriage of Ezra nor the births of any of his children are entered in the Sudbury vital records. However, several of the births are found in the Worcester vital records.

1. Abigail King (1720-1745)^[4]
2. Jonus King (1722-1746)^[5]
3. William King (1724-1793)^[6]
4. Mary King (1726-1803)^[7]
5. Ezra King (1728-__)^[8]
6. Silence King (1729-1812)
7. Experience King (1731-1731)^[9][10]
8. Elisabeth King (1732-1767)^[11]
9. Adonijah King (1734-1755)^[12]
10. Beulah King (1735-__)^[13]
11. Nehemiah King (1737-1738)^[14][15]

Ezra Rice King was killed on 14 January 1746 at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. ^[16]

Research Notes

NOTE for descendants of this line that Ezra King and Silence Rice were double 2nd cousins as their paternal grandparents were both composed of a Rice brother (sons of Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost) marrying a King sister (daughters of Thomas King Jr. and Anne Collins). Ezra's paternal grandparents were Samuel Rice and Elizabeth King and Silence's paternal grandparents were Thomas Rice and Mary King. Descendants of this line can still share a fairly high amount of DNA with their distant cousins.

Land Record

On 13 April 1764, the heirs of Ezra King sold 16 acres lying partly in Brimfield and partly in Monson which was "all that part of the thirds of Ezra King's estate" -- in other words, the 1/3 of his real estate that was set off to his widow for her life.^[17] The deed was executed by:

• William King of Brattleborough, New Hampshire, husbandman
• Charles Barker of Templeton, Massachusetts, yeoman, and Mary Barker his wife
• John Bond of Rutland District, Massachusetts, and Silence Bond his wife
• Cyrus Rice of Deerfield, Massachusetts, husbandman, and Elizabeth his wife
• James Peirce of Templeton, Massachusetts, husbandman, and Beulah Peirce his wife
• John Barret of Hinsdell [Hinsdale], New Hampshire, husbandman and Eunice his wife
• Mindwell King of Brattleborough, New Hampshire, spinster
• Joseph Hitchcock Junr. of Brimfield, Massachusetts, Husbandman

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4DW-3DS : 4 December 2014), Ezra King, 22 May 1697; citing Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, p 83; FHL microfilm 185,455.
2. ↑ VITAL RECORDS of SUDBURY MASSACHUSETTS To the end of the year 1849 "http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/Images/Sudbury_B082.gif"
3. ↑ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, editor, 1907 Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal "http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3fx7gc48;view=1up;seq=482". New York: The Lewis publishing company, HathiTrust.org accessed 4 April 2016, Page 302
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQX2-SM7 : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Abigail King, 23 Oct 1720; citing WORCESTER,WORCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 864,093, 864,090.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQX2-GQM : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Jonas King, 13 Oct 1722; citing WORCESTER,WORCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 864,093, 864,090.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQX2-PPV : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for William King, 24 Oct 1724; citing WORCESTER,WORCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 864,093, 864,090.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQXK-BYG : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Mary King, 09 Jul 1726; citing WORCESTER,WORCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 864,093, 864,090.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQX2-G8B : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Ezra King, 03 May 1728; citing WORCESTER,WORCESTER,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 864,093, 864,090.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ96-H97 : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Experiance King, 27 Jul 1731; citing BRIMFIELD,HAMPDEN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0844538 IT 1.
10. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FH1D-JQX : 10 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Experiance King, 20 Nov 1731; citing Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 276; FHL microfilm 223,943.
11. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ9D-Q58 : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Elisabeth King, 16 Nov 1732; citing BRIMFIELD,HAMPDEN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0844538 IT 1.
12. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ96-LL6 : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Adonijah King, 18 Jul 1734; citing BRIMFIELD,HAMPDEN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0844538 IT 1.
13. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ96-79C : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Bulah King, 23 Sep 1735; citing BRIMFIELD,HAMPDEN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0844538 IT 1.
14. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FZ9X-83V : 4 December 2014), Ezra King in entry for Nehemiah King, 27 Jul 1737; citing BRIMFIELD,HAMPDEN,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0844538 IT 1.
15. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FH1D-J28 : 10 December 2014), P. Ezra in entry for Nehemiah King, 30 Jul 1738; citing Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, reference v 1 p 276; FHL microfilm 223,943.
16. ↑ "Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FH1D-JLX : accessed 12 Jul 2013), Ezra King, 14 Jan 1746.
17. ↑ Hampshire, Masschusetts, Deeds vol. 7 pages 587-8

See Also:

• VITAL RECORDS of SUDBURY MASSACHUSETTS To the end of the year 1849 "http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/Images/Sudbury_B082.gif"

• Crane, Ellery Bicknell, editor, 1907 Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal "http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t3fx7gc48;view=1up;seq=482". New York: The Lewis publishing company, HathiTrust.org accessed 4 April 2016, Page 302

• Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network.

Acknowledgement

WikiTree profile King-4722 created through the import of Dankowski Family Tree.ged on May 28, 2012 by Laura Mercado.