I have found in 3 separate places that don't always agree and I need to locate someone else who is researching John Hobson King that married Elizabeth Parker in North Carolina. They were written about in the book "Stones of Surry" by Chas. H. Stone and the "Stokes County, North Carolina Heritage Book" Vol II in an article by Lucille King Wall and were also included in the Family History Index No. 198886 in the LDS FHC. One of these sources gives a marriage date for them as 28 Feb 1787 in Gates County, NC. Another source claims Martin Co., NC. Another states Williamston, N.C. or Wilmington, NC. Then according to several of these sources to have had 2 children, Thomas Benjamin King born 1802/3 and Fannie Wiggins King birth date unknown. In that era it seems unlikely that they would have gone 15 years before having their first child. In the "Stones of Surry" it says John Hobson King bound out his son, Thomas Benjamin to an uncle. Thomas was indignant at being bound out and ran away to Stokes County, NC where he prospered. He married Elizabeth King in 1826 and had 3 children; Jane Elizabeth born on 14 April 1828, William Augustin born on 5Apr 1832, and John Quincy Adams King born on 19 Dec 1834, all born in Stokes County, NC. For the past 3 years I have been looking for a John King that Married Elizabeth ? and had a son James King born in 1796. More and more it looks like this John King is a good candidate. He could have had children previous to Thomas Benjamin. My James King married his wife, Barzillah Gordon, in Stokes County in 1819. Thomas Benjamin would have been 16 then and he ran away from where ever the uncle lived and went to Stokes County. In a book by Isaac Martin Gordon on his Gordon family history that I found on microfiche in the LDS FHC No.6018075 on page 5, quote---- "Barzillai, who married James King, and removed to, and died in Indiana, this James King was the son of John King, who first settled the J. Gideon Gordon Place in Stokes County, (NC), raising a family, and residing there about 40 years prior to the time it came into the possession of Martin Gordon. Said place was entered or taken up from the state by this John King, who sold it to John Gordon, father of Martin Gordon, for about $350, and removed to, and lived and died on the Bill Snyder Place, a part of what was formerly the J. Quincy A. King place, near Pinnacle, Stokes Co., NC." I don't know if these descriptive names for the property was what it was called in the 1800's or if this was the description the people in 1910 used when Isaac Gordon wrote the history. I am assuming it was in 1910 and the person owning the land could have been John Hobson King and it was willed to or somehow acquired by his grandson, J(ohn) Quincy A(dams) King. I went to the Archives in Raleigh, NC in 1997 and spent all day for 6 days there searching for my John King. I found land records for John King but I wasn't able to identify him as related to my James King. I had not begun to think that John Hobson King was a candidate yet. That came about 3 months ago when I started seriously researching the only John King I found who had married an Elizabeth in the late 1700's and in North Carolina. I would sure appreciate any help or comments, especially from other John Hobson King researchers. Did he die in 1835? Janet King Bower JKB@nwlink.com Puyallup, WA 98374