George King

d. 1625

Died 1625

Children include Ann

George King was a yeoman of Cold Norton, in Essex, and later of Woodham Mortimer in the same county. A yeoman was a farmer of standing, below a gentleman, who worked land he owned or held on long leases. His name was also written Kinge.

On 9 June 1613 his daughter Anne, about twenty, was licensed to marry William Vassall of Eastwood, a yeoman and bachelor of about twenty, the son of John Vassall, gentleman. The licence says that George "appeared and did give express consent," and that the wedding was to be at Cold Norton. Anne's first child, another Anne, was born on 6 September 1614 and died at Cold Norton on 22 September.

He made his will on 14 October 1625 as "George Kinge of Woodham Mortimer, Essex, yeoman." In it he mentions "my right Worshipful good master Sir Arthur Harris knight." He left his wife Joane the lease of "the house wherein I dwell" for her life. After her it was to go to his eldest son George, then to his second son Thomas, then to his third son Daniel, and lastly to his daughter Judith.

He held a lease of a farm called West Cannon, in Cold Norton and Stow Maris, and owned a tenement in Stow Maris outright. Thomas got the West Cannon lease, paying George six pounds a year out of it. Daniel got "my farm of East Cannon in Cold Norton and Purleigh."

To "Anne Vassall my daughter" he left "my sealing ring of gold." His three Vassall grandchildren, John, Judeth and Francis, had twenty shillings apiece. Francis was his granddaughter Frances, then about two. To his son-in-law William Vassall he left "all my instruments and tools for the measuring and plotting of lands and the suit of silver buttons the which he hath of mine and my gown." He made William his sole executor.

The will remembers others too. His cousin William Petchey had a suit of silver buttons, and Edward, John, Anne and Johan Petchey, "my kinsmen and kinswomen," ten shillings each. His kinswoman Susan Purcas had forty shillings. He had accounts to settle with Susan, the daughter of his late brother Christopher Kinge, a clergyman, and he named her brother James. He named John Harding, his servant; Thomas Totman of Norton; John Lurron, "my wife's kinsman"; the widow Marrion of Norton; and Old Tabor of Stow Maris. The will was proved on 7 December 1625.

Children

Ann King b. 1593

Sources

Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," with notes by E. D. Harris, and Francis Olcott Allen, "Vassall," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 51 (1897), p. 289, London marriage licences, archive.org newenglandhistor51wate, leaf n304

Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," with notes by E. D. Harris, and Francis Olcott Allen, "Vassall," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 51 (1897), p. 282, PCC Clarke 140, archive.org newenglandhistor51wate, leaf n297

Caroline M. Calder, John Vassall and his Descendants (1921), p. 7, archive.org johnvassallhisde00cald, page n12

Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," with notes by E. D. Harris, and Francis Olcott Allen, "Vassall," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 51 (1897), pp. 282, 289, archive.org newenglandhistor51wate; Caroline M. Calder, John Vassall and his Descendants (1921), p. 7, archive.org johnvassallhisde00cald

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