William King

b. 1607 · England

Born 1607, England

Children include Deliverance

William King was born in England in 1607. He came from Weymouth in Dorset to Salem in Massachusetts in the Abigail in 1635, and was admitted a freeman of the colony in 1636. He married Dorothy, and their children were Mehetabel, John, Deliverance, baptised on 31 October 1641, and Samuel.

Twice he stood on the wrong side of the Massachusetts authorities. In 1637, in the religious quarrel the colony called the Antinomian controversy, he was one of five Salem men ordered to be disarmed. The dispute was over whether a person was saved by grace alone, and those who sided with the losing party were made to give up their guns.

In 1659 he showed kindness to the Quakers, who were then being whipped and banished from Massachusetts for preaching there. He was whipped and banished in his turn. In 1661, on his repentance, he was allowed back.

His daughter Deliverance had married John Tuthill at Southold on Long Island in 1658, the year before his banishment.

Children

Deliverance King (b. 1641)

Sources

Charles Wells Hayes, William Wells of Southold and His Descendants (1878), p. 37, archive.org williamwellsofso00byuhaye, leaf n42

Charles Wells Hayes, William Wells of Southold and His Descendants (1878), archive.org williamwellsofso00byuhaye, pp. 37-38, quoting James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860-62), under KING

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