John Kingsley
John Kingsley was at Dorchester in Massachusetts by 1635. On 23 August 1636 the town gathered a new church, and he was one of its seven pillars. The pillars were the founding members who first covenanted together and formed a church, and the rest were admitted by them. He outlived all the other six.
His children were Freedom, Eldad, born in 1638, Enos, Edward, and Renewal, born on 19 March 1644. Sometime after 1648 he moved to Rehoboth, in Plymouth Colony.
He was still there when King Philip's War broke out in 1675. The war was fought between the English colonies and the Wampanoag leader Metacom, called Philip by the English, and Rehoboth was in its path. On 5 May 1676 he wrote a letter asking for relief. James Savage, writing in 1860, says a "most sad pict." of what the town had suffered "is giv." in it. The letter is printed in the Colonial Records of Connecticut.
He made his will on 2 November 1677. It names only three children, Edward, Enos and Freedom. A daughter, probably dead by then, had married John French of Northampton.
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Cite: Heirology, "John Kingsley", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-kingsley-440b78.