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From: (Marcia Payne)
Subject: [MAWORCES] KING Family; Part 3
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:52:39 -0600 (CST)

(4) Jonathan KING, Jr., son of Jonathan KING (3), was born in Sutton,
Mass. on Sept. 3, 1734 ***(previously stated Sept. 31, 1734) He settled
in that part of Petersham, which became Dana, Mass., on 1801. He lived
in Sutton for some time before his removal to Petersham, and his house
was on the road from Eight Lots School house to Millbury, nearly
opposite what is now called the HARWOOD place on the west side of the
road.
He was a soldier in the Revolution and late in life a pensioner. His
widow drew a pension after his death until her death about 1850.
He married (1st) on April 10, 1755, and married (2d) at Petersham on
April 25, 1787 to Rachel CLAFLIN.
Children of Jonathan, Jr. and Elizabeth were:
1) Mary, married Dec. 14, 1780 to Benjamin DAVIDSON, settled in Spencer,
Mass., grandparents of John C. DAVIDSON, of Worcester.
2) John
3) Stephen, of whom later
4) perhaps others

(5) Stephen KING, son of Jonthan KING, Jr. (4) was born in Sutton, about
1765. At the age of 16 he ran away from home in order to enlist in the
American Army in the Revolution.
Stephen KING enlisted, according to the Revolutionary Archives in the
State House at Boston, when he was 16 years old. One record gives his
age as fifteen and a half. He enlisted in the Continental Army agreeable
to the resolve of the General Court of Dec. 2, 1780, as returned by the
enlisting officer, Seth WASBURN, supervisor. He was in Capt. ELLIOT's
company, Colonel DAVIS' regiment. The records give his stature as 5 feet
2 inches, also as 5 feet 3 inches; complexion, light and his occupation
as a farmer. He was born in Sutton and engaged for the Town of Sutton,
enlisting Dec. 25, 1780.
Later he was in Capt. REMICK's company, the First Mass. Regiment, for
a term of 3 years. This company in which he served to the end of the
war, was in the regiment of Colonel Joseph VOSE. His name is on a muster
roll dated at Garrison, West Point, April 1781; he was at Camp
Phillipsburg in May, June and July of 1781. In Oct. and Nov of 1781, he
was at York Hutts.
He is on a list of men tried by court martial subsequent to 1781.
KING was tried Dec. 6, 1781 by regimental court martial, Capt. William,
president on the charge of stealing grain; the charge was not supported
and KING was acquitted. He was at York Hutts Jan. and Feb. of 1782.
His father deeded him a farm in Petersham (later Dana) by deed dated
Dec. 1, 1793. He sold land in Dana on April 8, 1802 to Joel AMSDEN, the
land deeded to Stephen by his father lying north of the farm of
Jonathan. A few months later Stephen and his wife Mehitable sold their
farm of 65 acres on the southeast corner "of my father Jonathan's farm,"
land in Dana, to Elisha WOODWARD, of Petersham.
Stephen KING died at Dana in Sept. of 1827. His widow Mehitable
administered the estate, and their children were:
1) Stephen, Jr.; of whom later
2) Betsey
3) John

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