 1745 - Aft 1832
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| Name |
KING William, Jr. |
| Born |
22 Feb 1745 |
Overwharton Parish, Stafford, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
1792 |
Kentucky |
| Was a member of the Convention of 1792 to form the first constitution of Kentucky |
| Death |
1832 |
Died at son Elijah's home |
| Military Service |
Fought at the Battle of King's Mountain |
| _UID |
E2AE7B15A58ED74A9BAC3BAA950C4013943E |
| Died |
Aft 1832 |
Henderson County, Kentucky |
| Person ID |
I824 |
Ancestors of Catherine Yvonne King | The Ancestors of Catherine King from the Virginia King Family of Stafford and Louisa County, Virginia |
| Last Modified |
16 Sep 2004 |
| Father |
KING William Valentine, b. 1711, Stafford County, Virginia , d. 1778, Dumfries, Prince William Co., Virginia |
| Mother |
EDWARDS Elizabeth " Eliza", b. 22 May 1719, Stafford County, Virginia , d. 1792, Halifax County, Virginia |
| Married |
21 May 1738 |
Overwharton Parish, Dumfries, Prince William, Virginia |
| Family ID |
F282 |
Group Sheet |
| Family |
BLAND Lettice (Letitia), b. Abt 1748, Stafford County, Virginia , d. Aft 1800, Kentucky |
| Married |
1765 |
Stafford County, Virginia |
| Children |
| | 1. KING Nancy |
| | 2. KING Mary |
| > | 3. KING George Rogers, b. 21 Jul 1769, Stafford County, Virginia , d. 24 Nov 1850, Opelousas, Saint Landry, Louisianna |
| | 4. KING Elijah (Elisha ), b. 1771, Stafford County, Virginia |
| > | 5. KING William Edward, b. 1773, Stafford County, Virginia |
| > | 6. KING Abner, b. 3 Oct 1775, Stafford County, Virginia |
| | 7. KING Elizabeth, b. 1779, Stafford County, Virginia |
| | 8. KING John B, b. 5 Nov 1787, Nelson County, Kentucky |
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| Family ID |
F289 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- SOURCE:
General John Edwards King, of Kentucky
A Sketch by His Great Grandaughter, Goode King Feldhauser, of St. Paul, Minnesota @ 1929
John Edwards King, when but nineteen years of age, fought with his brothers, Jack, William, Valentine,
and Nimrod, as a private in the Stafford County Militia, 3rd Virginia Regiment, in the Revolutionary War,
and all were discharged from the camp at Valley Forge, February 16, 1776, " to return to their homes
in Stafford county." Probably on accunt of the disturbances which the war brought about in eastern
Virginia, there was a heavy immigration westward about the year 1780. Settlements began to spring up all over the area of good lands, and there was a general exodus towards Augusta County and that vacinity.
Justice William King, having died, his widow, Elizabeth Edwards King, decided to sell her plantation and accompany her children to Augusta County. She was at that time about sixty years of age, and was still living in 1790, when she is mentioned in the will of her son Valentine King.
They did not remain long in Augusta County, for the Kentucky records show them living in Kentucky a few years later. All of the sons fought at Kings Mountain, serving under Colonel Isaac Shelby, and though John Edwards King was but twenty-three years old, he " displayed so much daring and initiative in action as to call forth the praise of his general."
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