I am researching the Kings of Fentress & Overton counties Tennessee that move/migrated to those areas in the late 1700's. Per the earliest census records available and land grants, these are the Kings that were in the area. I am trying to link #5 John A. King to one of these earlier, older Kings. Note: The Ferrell's may have come from the Pittsylvania (??) area of VA. I do not have desc info on any of these except #5 as they disappeared before detailed census were available. There is little to no court record info these early Kings either. #5 John A. King is my direct line. 1. Robert KING b: Between 1770 - 1780 2. Peter KING b: Before 1775 3. Hiram KING b: Between 1790 - 1799 4. Hugh KING b: Between 1780 - 1789 5. JOHN A. KING, SR. ; b: 1796 Fentress Co., TN ; d: Fentress Co., TN md: LEANN FERRELL ; b: Abt. 1805 ; d: Fentress Co., TN ; Father: SMITH FERRELL ; Mother: MARY MCCOWAN 6. Thomas KING 7. William KING Notes on #1 Robert King: 1830 census, Fentress CO., TN: 10110001-1221001: 1 male under 5 (1825-1829), 1 male 10-15 (1815-1820), 1 male 15-20 (1810-1815), 1 male 50-60 (1770-1780), 1 female under 5 (1826-1830), 2 females 5-10 (1820-1825), 2 females 10-15 (1815-1820), 1 female 15-20 (1810-1815), 1 female 40-50 (1780-1790). 1820 census Wilson Co., TN: 400010-10100; 4 males under 10 (1810-1820), 1 male 26-45 (1775-1794) - 1 female under 10, 1 female 16-18. April 9, 1830 - Robert King lived on the Goose Neck of the East Fork of Obey River. (Entry #515). "A long path. In a deed from Thomas and Robert King, dated March 20, 1793, recorded in book A, p.246, a part of the description recites that, "For and in consideration of two thousand and five hundred pounds current money of Virginia, conveys 2500 acres of land lying on the west side of a path that leads from the mouth of the Holston to the ford of Wolf River." This trail was known as the east and west trail. The trail led from the Tennessee River near the mouth of Holston across the Cumberland Mountain, and across Wolf River to the Cumberland River near the mouth of the Obeds River. by: Pat Bryant, Fentress County History Book. Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Grant #19, 23 Aug., 1788, 600 acres, book 64, page 360. Joining a survey of 600 acres. Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Middle District, Grant #25, 23 Aug., 1788, 1280 acres, book 64, page 360, on the WOLF RIVER. Robert & Thomas King, Grant #7, Middle District, 1000 acres, 10 July 1788, entry #67, entered 409, on a branch of WOLF RIVER Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Middle District, Grant #13, 1280 acres, 23 Aug., 1788, Entry 2691-2275, entered 19 Dec., 1780, book 67, page 433 or 33 0r 133 ??, on WOLF RIVER. Robert & Thomas King, Middle District, 5000 acres, Grant #53, 10 July, 1788, entry #1682, entered 16 Apr., 1784, book 67, page 436, lying almost four miles from the GREAT SALT LICK. Robert & Thomas King, Middle District, 2500 acres, Grant #71, 10 July, 1788, entry #1689, entered 16 Apr., 1784, book #67, page 445, at a place known by the name of the BANKS. TO: JAMES KING - Sumner Co., TN, 640 acres, Grant #2546, issued 8 Aug., 1795, entry #809, Book #88, page 296, entered 10 Dec., 1795, JOINING AN ENTRY OF ROBERT KING. The Tennessee Gazette and Mero District Advertiser (1803-1807): July 3, 1805, vol. 5, no. 22: Jackson County - non payment of taxes - land will be sold................ Robert King & William Riley, 640 acres on Little Doe Creek. Jan. 17, 1807, vol. 6, no. 39: Public Sale in Rockland, directed by Superior Court of Hamilton District in White County of several tracts of land belonging to Robert King. June 14, 1806, vol. 1, no. 27: On 9th of August next, Jackson County, will have a public sale of the lands of Robert King. 640 acres occupied by Thomas Bounds; 1000 acres occupied by Robert House and Robert Hill. Luceal N. King, 4046 Manning Hollow Road, Pegram, TN 37143: Need to contact her regarding her book on the Robert King Desc.; Robert King & Lydia Keaton King; Robert King (1785 NC - 1863) married 3/2//1812, Lebaon, TN ydia Keaton (1790 VA); if there is a possible connection to Kings of Overton/Fentress counties. Scott County Land Deeds: To Ellis Langham 12/20/1791, grant #183, 1000 acres, south side of Clear Fork, of the Cumberland. Thomas King surveyor. Grant #151 to Gilbert Christian 11/17/1790, 400 acres on Mill Branch of Clear Fork. Thomas King surveyor and Robert King & James Cooper chain carriers. Abstracts of: "Dusty bits of the forgotten past" by H. Clay Smith; p.11; There is a record of the travel of James Robertson and nine men, among them a negro, probably a cook by trade. They left the Holston Settlement in 1779 to go to the Cumberland Setlement at Nashboro, following the Indian trail as has been described and travelling on horseback. This trail took the party through southern part of Scott County, Glemary and White Oak headwaters and is called for in a grant of land from North Carolina to THomas and Robert King. The grant calls it a "Path leading from the mouth of the Holston River to the ford in the Wolf River." This was 1773. It shortens the route from the Holston Settlement nery much, as the party could float most of their goods down the Wolf River and on down the Cumerland to Nashboro. Land Warrant #3187; Grantee = Thomas Swan; Assined to = Robert King; book B, p.181; Overton COunty; Rev. War land grants in TN. --------------------------------- "TN 1787-1791, Land Grants in TN" (NC) p 10-B (Index) King: James, Robert, Peter and Thomas. Thomas pp 102, 103, 112, 122, 128. (Vol. I) King: Thomas pp 65, 71, 76. John pp 13, 56, 61. William pp 68, 72. Edward p 13 Thomas King (Sullivan Co.) p 65, Grant# 1273, 640 acres, granted in 1784; north side of Holston River. p 71, Grant# 1429, 2,000 acres, granted in 1788; north side of Holston River. p 76, Grant# 1534, 100 acres, granted in 1791; in the Island opposite to Mouth of Sinking Creek. Thomas & Robert King (Middle District) p 136, Grant# 2820, 1,000 acres, granted in 1788; on Branch of Wolf River. p 138, Grant# 2867, 5,000 acres, granted in 1788; on Spring Creek on Brimstone Creek. p 139, Grant# 2884, 2,500 acres, granted in 1788; between Mouth of Holston River and the Ford of Wolf River. ---------------------- CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA; Vol 2, pp 310-319 by Lyman Chalkley 1793--November 30, Robert King and William King, surety. Robert King and Isabella Hanna. ------------------------- Need to olocate a copy of "The Book of Kings" which has a Robert King who came from southwest area ofVirginia. Notes on #2 Peter King: 1820 Overton Co., TN census: 12001-3011: 1 male under 10 (1810-1820), 2 males 10-16 (1804-1810), 1 male over 45 (before 1775) - 3 females 0-10 (1810-1820), 1 female 16-26 (1794-1804). Peter King disappeared after the 1820 census and there are no Fentress or Overton county court records with his name on/in them. Notes on #3 Hiram King: 1830 Overton Co., TN Census: 111001-112001: 1 male under 5 (1825-1830), 1 male 5-10 (1820-1825), 1 male 10-15 (1815-1820), 1 male 30-40 (1790-1800) - 1 female under 5 (1825-1830), 1 female 5-10 (1820-1825), 2 females 10-15 (1815-1820), 1 female 30-40 (1790-1800). Hiram King disappeared after the 1830 census and there are no Fentress or Overton county court records with his name on/in them. Notes on #4 Hugh King: 1840 Fentress Co., TN census records, 22200001-1000001. 2 males under 5 (1835-1840), 2 males 5-10 (1830-1835), 2 males 10-15 (1825-1830), 1 male 50-60 (1780-1790), 1 female under 5 (1835-1840), 1 female 50-60 (1780-1790). Hugh King disappeared after the 1830 census and there are no Fentress or Overton county court records with his name on/in them. Iredell Co., N.C. Will Abstracts 1788-1845: John King 13 May 1806 Prb. 16 May 1809 Wf: Rachel. Sons: John, Hugh, Rufus, Milus. Tracts in Iredell Co., when of age. Western lands authorized James Dillon to survey and divide among all children, male & female. Hugh to have land formerly laid off for Richard. Exec: Wife & friends Alexander King & Richard H. King. Wit: Jmes & William Sharpe. Notes on #5 John A. King: 1830 Census, Fentress Co., TN - 101001-12001: 1 male under 5 (1825-1830), 1 male 10-15 (1815-1820), 1 male 30-40 (1790-1800), 1 female under 5, 2 females 5-10, 1 female 20-30 (1800-1810). 1833 Fentress Co., TN Enumeration: James, Robert, John William King. 1840 census, Fentress Co., TN: 221001-110201: 2 males under 5 (1835-1840), 2 males 5-10 (1830-1835), 1 male 10-15 (1825-1830), 1 male 30-40 (1800-1810) - 1 females under 5 (1835-1840), 1 female 5-10 (1830-1835), 2 females 15-20 (1820-1825), 1 female 30-40 (1800-1810). 1850 census Fentress Co., TN: age 50 (1800). 1860 census Fentress Co., TN: age 64 (1796). Died before the 1870 census. Thomas King, his son, got the family land/farm. King, John grant #3001, entry #464, 100 acres, 5/8/1833, book E, page 120. Iredell Co., N.C. Will Abstracts 1788-1845: John King 13 May 1806 Prb. 16 May 1809 Wf: Rachel. Sons: John, Hugh, Rufus, Milus. Tracts in Iredell Co., when of age. Western lands authorized James Dillon to survey and divide among all children, male & female. Hugh to have land formerly laid off for Richard. Exec: Wife & friends Alexander King & Richard H. King. Wit: Jmes & William Sharpe. #1668 Book #13 Mecklenberg Co., NC, Deeds: p.899 6 nov 1790 from Wm. king Sr. to his son John King, a negro boy named Samuel, age 15. Wit: John Crocket, Robert King. Prvd in Jul 1791 Ct by Robert King. John King 99 - convicted of larceny 15 years ago, been an honest man ever since, restored to honest citizen privileges. Fentress County, TN Court Records. John King spent about 1 year in prison. Quote from " Tennessee Convicts: Records of the State Penitentary" John King was recieved March 11, 1833. He is 5'8" in height and weighs 156 lbs. Light hair , blue eyes, fair complexion, 31 years of age. Born in Tennessee and brought up in Fentress County. He has a wife and seven children, 4 boys and three girls. Her father , Smith Ferrell, resides in Overton co, Tenn., near the Wolfe Meeting House. He has a small scar in the edge of the hair , near the center of the forehead. A scar near the instep of the right foot. A scar on the forefinger of the right hand, running across the finger, from the cut of a Tomahawk. He has generally followed farming . Was found guilty of petit larceny at the Circuit Court of Fentress County and sentenced to one year confinement in the Jail and Penitentiary House of the State of Tennessee. John King was discharged by expiration of sentence on the 15 day of March 1833. Detained one day for bad conduct. [ He must have been released March of 1834, since he was recieved in March of 1833. I believe the date he went in was correct since it was in line of all the other 1833 inprisonments listed with his imprisonment.] In his home in 1850 , Fentress co, Tn was Richard Wineharm 4, Tn : Louisa King 28, Tn; Thomas King 7 : Mary King 4 ,Tn: and Jane 6 months [ census taken Aug 30, 1850] Tn. Was this a daughter ? Maybe a daughter in law with her children? Note that there is a four year span between William and Thomas. This is most likely the time John was in prison. Only one of the girls born before he went to prison is in home. Next door is Adam Wineham 20, Tn and Martha Wineham 21 ,Tn could this one of the daughters. Living near by is a large Wineham family. The daughters were probably married by this time unless Louisa is also a daughter. Only one of the sons is not in the home that was born before he went to prison. In 1840 John lived next door to James King (son ?) Notes for #6 Thomas King: "A long path. In a deed from Thomas and Robert King, dated March 20, 1793, recorded in book A, p.246, a part of the description recites that, "For and in consideration of two thousand and five hundred pounds current money of Virginia, conveys 2500 acres of land lying on the west side of a path that leads from the mouth of the Holston to the ford of Wolf River." This trail was known as the east and west trail. The trail led from the Tennessee River near the mouth of Holston across the Cumberland Mountain, and across Wolf River to the Cumberland River near the mouth of the Obeds River. by: Pat Bryant, Fentress County History Book. Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Grant #19, 23 Aug., 1788, 600 acres, book 64, page 360. Joining a survey of 600 acres. Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Middle District, Grant #25, 23 Aug., 1788, 1280 acres, book 64, page 360, on the WOLF RIVER. Robert & Thomas King, Grant #7, Middle District, 1000 acres, 10 July 1788, entry #67, entered 409, on a branch of WOLF RIVER Robert & Thomas King, Hawkins Co., NC, Middle District, Grant #13, 1280 acres, 23 Aug., 1788, Entry 2691-2275, entered 19 Dec., 1780, book 67, page 433 or 33 0r 133 ??, on WOLF RIVER. Robert & Thomas King, Middle District, 5000 acres, Grant #53, 10 July, 1788, entry #1682, entered 16 Apr., 1784, book 67, page 436, lying almost four miles from the GREAT SALT LICK. Robert & Thomas King, Middle District, 2500 acres, Grant #71, 10 July, 1788, entry #1689, entered 16 Apr., 1784, book #67, page 445, at a place known by the name of the BANKS. Scott County Land Deeds: To Ellis Langham 12/20/1791, grant #183, 1000 acres, south side of Clear Fork, of the Cumberland. Thomas King surveyor. Grant #151 to Gilbert Christian 11/17/1790, 400 acres on Mill Branch of Clear Fork. Thomas King surveyor and Robert King & James Cooper chain carriers. Abstracts of: "Dusty bits of the forgotten past" by H. Clay Smith; p.11; There is a record of the travel of James Robertson and nine men, among them a negro, probably a cook by trade. They left the Holston Settlement in 1779 to go to the Cumberland Setlement at Nashboro, following the Indian trail as has been described and travelling on horseback. This trail took the party through southern part of Scott County, Glemary and White Oak headwaters and is called for in a grant of land from North Carolina to Thomas and Robert King. The grant calls it a "Path leading from the mouth of the Holston River to the ford in the Wolf River." This was 1773. It shortens the route from the Holston Settlement nery much, as the party could float most of their goods down the Wolf River and on down the Cumerland to Nashboro. Thomas King Served under Col., Shelby in the Rev. War. Notes for #7 William King: The Tennessee Gazette and Mero District Advertiser (1803-1807): March 20, 1805 Vol. 5, No. 9: Jackson Co., TN, Sept. Term, following tracts of land will be sold first Monday, September next, for non payment of taxes..............William King 640 acres Roaring River. Impartial Review and Cumberland Repository, vol. 3, no. 149: Died at Abington, VA, William King, October 13, 1808. Warrant #3818; Grantee = William King; Assigned to = Josiah Marchbanks; Book B, p.271; Overton County Rev. War Land Grants in the TN Military Reservati on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- Thomas KING who was elected a representative to the House of Commons, from Hawkins County North Carolina, (now Hawkins County, TN) in 1788 and 1789. (Claiborne County was formed from part of Hawkins County) This Thomas KING was born _____? and died about 1805. He was a colonel in the militia, and was a surveyor by trade. The most interesting fact about him is his relationship to David (Davy) CROCKETT. Notes from "The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors", by Worth S. Ray. Archibald Crockett, his wife proved in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Jan 3, 1804 (his wife was a KING) mentions: 1. Son, Elias Crockett, land where I live 2. Daughter, Ann Crockett, wife of a Mr. Taylor, tract of land where Frederick Taylor lives (evidently Ann married Frederick Taylor) 3. Son John Crockett, to him i will and gequeath a tract and parcel of land now lying in the hands of Col. Thomas KING, now living in the State ofTenn., in Hawkins county, and all the rest of my property, except one woman's saddle, t be taken out for my daughter Mary Ann. Executores: Son John Crockett and Samuel Downs, in the presence of Eli Crocket and Clias Crocket The above will of the grandfather of the celebrated and famous David (Davy) Crockett, his fahter being the son of John Crockett mentioned in the will. This will refutes the idea that the father of "David Crockett" was a penniless "back woodsman" in Ten, and shows that he was a close kinsman of the Honorable Thomas KING, an uncle, who lived in and helped to corgaize Hawkins County, Tenn,. (in 1786), and who served from that diestrict in the Legislature of N.C. Notes from the "The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors", by Worth S. Ray William King, his wife, probated in Mecklenbur County, N.C. on Nov. 1, 1788. Will BookD Page 138 mentions: My dear wife mary Ann King, my four children. 1. Archiblad Crockett, 2. John King 3. Elizabeth McCorkle 4. William McCullough Executors named are Archibald Crockett and John King. Witnesses, were Eli Crockett, john Elliott and Henry Downs This William KING lived somewhere East of Providence church, of which Archilbald Crockett ws one of the first elders. He was the great-grandfather of the famous David (Davy) Crockett of Tenn. and Texas, his daughter having married Archibald Crockett, the Henry Downs who signed this will as one of the witness was a Signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration on May 20, 1775. Significant note as the Crockett's and Kings and other early families lived near each other in Fentreees county, TN. Best regards, Rick Hoover