Richard King1

b. circa 1718, d. 27 March 1775
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3rd great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
5th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Richard King was born circa 1718 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of John King and Mary Stowell. He married first Isabella Bragdon, daughter of Jeremiah S. Bragdon and Tabitha Banks, on 20 November 1753.1 He married second Mary Black, daughter of Samuel Black, on 31 January 1762 at Second Church, Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine.2,3 He died on 27 March 1775 at his home near Dunstan Landing, Scarborough.3 He was buried on 30 March 1775 in Scarborough.2
     
     Richard King settled as early as 1740 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where he kept a shop, being by trade a housewright, and was connected in business with Ebenezer Thornton, being especially engaged in procuring timber for house and ship building.3 He removed to Scarborough, Maine, in 1746, where he accumulated nearly 3,000 acres of land divided into several valuable farms, and was for many years one of the largest exporters of lumber in the District of Maine.3

Additional Data
"Mr. Richard King, the elder, had three brothers, David, Josiah and William." It is highly probably, says [William S.] Southgate, in his History of Scarborough (Maine Hist. Coll., Vol. iii.), that Richard King was descended from the Kings of Kittery, who settled there during the seventeenth century." (William Scott Southgate, author of the History of Scarborough, was the great-grandson of Richard King through daughter Mary and grandson Horatio).4

Richard King was appointed by Governor Shirley as commissary of the British army troops destined for Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia in 1744 and subsequently established himself in business in Watertown, Massachusetts, and in 1746 in Scarborough, Maine.5,3

Richard King, in 1746 conveyed to Jonas Cooledge of Watertown, land in Watertown, bought of Thornton in 1742. David King was witness.6

Richard King was a farmer, merchant and the largest exporter of lumber from the district of Maine.7

David King and Elizabeth King sold land in Pepperellborough, Maine, on 16 September 1765: "David King of Maine trader and Elizabeth his wife to Richard King of Scarboro, Gent."8

Children of Richard King and Isabella Bragdon

Children of Richard King and Mary Black

Citations

  1. [S707] John King of Boston MA, online http://members.tripod.com/~loupero/famous1.htm
  2. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 38:342.
  3. [S761] NEHGR, 21:377.
  4. [S761] NEHGR, 21:377, 378.
  5. [S708] Rossiter Johnson, editor, Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans (Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904), 254.
  6. [S731] Unknown author, "Notes", Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder 1:4 (1884): 214.
  7. [S708] Rossiter Johnson, Bios of Notable Americans, 250.
  8. [S724] Antiquary, "King Deed Extracts", Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder 3:3 (1886): 214, citing Registry of Deeds, Alfred, Maine, Vol. 38, p. 210.
  9. [S736] Wm. M. Sargent Esq., "Records of the First Congregational Church in Scarborough, Maine", Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder 2:2 (1885): 83.