William King (1745 - 1833)

Born 22 Feb 1745 in Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Letitia (Bland) King — married 1765 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia

Descendants

Died 2 Jul 1833 at age 88 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky

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William King is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A064875.

Biography

Daughters of the American Revolution information:

• KING, WILLIAM
• Ancestor #: A064875
• Service: VIRGINIA
• Rank(s): PRIVATE
• Birth: 2-22-1745 STAFFORD CO VIRGINIA
• Death: 7-2-1833 NELSON CO KENTUCKY
• Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL#1093
• Service Description: 1) CONT LINE
• RESIDENCE: Created: 2002-03-27 23:23:55.3, Updated: , By: Conversion 1) *County: STAFFORD CO - State: VIRGINIA
• SPOUSE: LETITIA BLAND; Created: 2002-03-27 23:17:13.16, Updated: 2012-02-28 09:34:22.0, By: 1)
• Child son: GEORGE KING, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] AMELIA LEJEUNE
• Child son: ELIJAH KING, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ELIZABETH SMITH
• Child son: JOHN KING, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] MARY/POLLY CASH
• Child son: WILLIAM EDWARDS KING, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] ELIZABETH BASKETT
• Child son: ABNER KING, [Spouse #] Spouse: [1] MARY POLLY WEBBER

Name: William /King/^[1][2]

Birth

Date: 22 February 1745^[3][4]

Place: Overwarton Parish, Stafford

Marriage

Wife: Lettice /BLAND/^[4]

Date: 11 February 1768

Place:

• 1792 - Was a member of the Convention of 1792 to form the first constitution of KY.

• 1832 - Died at son Elijah's home.

• Occupation - Clerk of the Court and Justice of Stafford County, Virginia

• Fought at Battle of King's Mountain: King's Mountain, South Carolina, British Colonial America

• Death

Date: 2 July 1833

Place: Henderson County, Kentucky

Burial:

Sources

1. ↑ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3WH1-S7P : accessed 2016-10-24), entry for William /KING/.
2. ↑ Source: #S00014 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: CONT
3. ↑ "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRRH-M8B : 28 January 2020), William King, 1745.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} General John Edwards King, of Kentucky: Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. I, p.645 on-line.

See also:

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A064875
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ2N-83W
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 23 June 2017, 21:41), entry for William Edwards King(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZ2N-83W); contributed by various users.
• https://sites.google.com/site/kinggenealogy/%22thekingfamily%22bygoodekingfeldhausergeorgem.g.stafford "The King family" compiled by G. M. G. Stafford]
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3WH1-S7P : accessed 2016-03-09), entry for William /KING/.

Acknowledgements

• King-9557 was created by Jack Isham through the import of Jackie Lynn Isham_2014-02-12.ged on Feb 12, 2014.