1208.William King. William died in Salem, MA ca 1650/1.104
From the article “William and Dorothy King, of Salem, Mass., and three generations of their Long Island Descendants”104 complied by Lucy D. Akerly from the Manuscript Genealogy of Rufus King of Yonkers, N.Y. New York Gen. Biog. Rec. (1902):
William Kinge of Salem, Mass., was born in England about 1595, and is first traced in a list of 106 passengers entitled “Bound for New England, Waymouth, ye 20 March, 1635.” This list includes the following names: William Kinge, aged 40, Dorothy his wife, aged 34, Mary Kinge his daughr, aged 12, Katheryn his daughr, aged 10, Willm Kinge his sonne, aged 8, Hanna Kinge his daughr, aged 6.
There was also another son Samuel King, born about 1633, whose name is not included in the ship's list, doubtless on account of his being so young, but his King parentage is clearly set forth in legal papers recorded at Salem relating to the distribution of his father’s estate.
As William King selected Weymouth for a point of departure, it is conjectured that he may have lived in some place in the south of England for which it was the most convenient port.
In the Register of the Abbey Church of St. Mary at Sherborne, Dorset, are many entries of the name King, and among them the following: “1616-17, Feb. 17, Williami Kinge et Dorothiae Hayne nupt.” This is probably the record of the marriage of William and Dorothy King the emigrants to America, though they do not appear to have lived in Sherborne as we find no further record of them there nor entries of the baptism of their children in the Church Register.
William Kinge on reaching New England, settled at Salem, Mass., where he sas made freeman 25 March, 1636, and received the same year a grant of 40 acres at Jeffrey’s Creek, now Manchester, also in 1638, one of 30 acres at Royall Side at the head of Basse River, now Beverly, where the King homestead was pleasantly situated.
The land rose with a gentle slope to the level of a broad field, and the road turned to the left beyond the house, passing over the bridge part way up the hill; the King acres were on both sides of the bridge.
In the deposition of John Weston, Senr, of Reading, dated 24 Feb., 1699-1700, may be found some interesting facts relating to the disposal of this land by the widow Dorothy King and her removal from Salem to Long Island.
Capt. John Dodge of Beverly, aged about 63 years, testified on 28 June, 1700, as to the King property at Royall Side, and described the boundaries as follows: “On the East upon the river called Basse River, Southerlie on ye cove that runs to a house formerly Batchelor’s and Westerly and Northerly with the land of John Green, deceased.”
William King’s name appears in a list of Salem Grand Jurors in 1637, and also on the roll of members of the First Church of Salem; he took an active part in the religious controversies of the time and in 1637, identified himself with the Antinomians, a step which placed him under the ban of the Salem authorities, he was admonished to sever his connection with the sect, under penalty of being disarmed, and refusing to do so, he was directed to leave his gun with Lieut. Danforth.
Mr. King died about 1650-1, intestate; his widow Dorothy and son William settled the estate under the direction of the court at Salem, where papers on file mention the following children: William the eldest son, Samuel aged 18, John aged 13, Mary, wife of Mr. Scudder, Katheryn, wife of John Swasy, Mehitable aged 15, and Deliverance aged 9.
Dorothy Kinge, widow, of Salem, bought in 1652, of John Swazey of that place, his dwelling house and land, lying between the lands of Richard Hyde and Daniell Rumball on the South River; also a tract of land in the South Field; in 1653, she sold the same to Thomas Johnson, Thomas Reynolds and Thomas Barnes; in 1658, she is mentioned in the Salem Court Records as “Doritha King, widdow and Relict of William King, Sen’.,” in the testimony of Michael Shaflin, aged about 80 years; in 1684, she received commonage of one acre at Southold, where her daughters Hannah, wife of Lieut. Richard Brown, and Deliverance, wife of John Tuthill were then living.
16 Feb 1616/7 William married Dorothy Hayne in Abbey Church of St. Mary, Sherburne, Dorset.104 Dorothy died aft 1684.