Subject: King Surname, Sent in two postings: Kings of Fentress, Pickett and Overton County, TN: There is some unknowns as to the parents of the three brothers Robert, James and William King that married the Beaty sisters. Many think it is John A. King. Unfortunately, to date no documentation has been found to support this. One thing I can clear up. John A. King was married to Lee Ann Ferrell/Ferriel. John A. King was NOT married to Ann Shields. The Ferrell's lived at the base of King Mountain and have a large cemetery there. Also, the death certificate of one of John and Lee Ann's children states Lee Ann was a Ferriel. John A. King spent some time in prison. John's criminal record gives John's physical appearance and states that John's father-in-law is Smith Ferrell. Later on John A. King petitioned the court to be put back in good standing with the community as he had been a good citizen since being released from prison. Ann Shields was married to a John King of Greene (or Hawkins??) county. The Shields and King families were very prominent there. That family has a great deal written about them in that County's Historical book. None of the children of John King and Ann Shields resembles the Kings of Fentress and Overton county. This can be proven by just reading the County history book. *********************** Here are some of the Kings I have gotten from the early Fentress & Overton county census records, court records, etc.: 1st half Posting 1) Robert KING b: Between 1770 - 1780 2) Peter KING b: Before 1775 3) Hiram KING b: Between 1790 - 1800 4) Hugh KING b: Between 1780 - 1790 5) JOHN A. KING, SR. b: 1796 Fentress Co., TN, d: Fentress Co., TN +LEANN FERRELL b: Abt. 1805, d: Fentress Co., TN, Father: SMITH FERRELL, Mother: MARY MCCOWN 2nd half Posting 6) Thomas KING 7) William KING 8) William KING, b: April 22, 1814 Tennessee d: October 27, 1912 Ann Ward Cem, Little Crab, Crab Orchard, TN +Ritta BEATY, b: 1824 Tennessee, Father: David BEATY, Sr., Mother: Sarah Sallie STEPHENS 9) James Silver Jim KING, b: 1816 Tennessee d: Abt. 1875 Fentress Co., TN +Elizabeth BEATY, b: April 23, 1822 Clinton Co., KY, d: January 25, 1888 Joel Beaty Cem, Riverton, Fentress Co., TN, m: Abt. 1844, Father: Thomas M. BEATY Mother: Jane MULLINIX 10) Robert KING, b: March 1818 Tennessee d: November 03, 1900 Fentress Co., TN +Nancy Agnes BEATY, b: November 14, 1824 Clinton Co., KY, d: June 28, 1904 Fentress Co., TN, m: June 1841, Father: Thomas M. BEATY Mother: Jane MULLINIX ******************* Using the numbers for each of the above individuals, below are notes, histories and communications I have received and collected over the years for that individual. These notes may or may not be the same person but have the same name. So I collected them under like names till I could figure them all out. Currently, I have no doubt that the Kings that did all the surveying in the late part of the 1700's are the ancestors of the Kings that settled in Fentress county. Only which one is which ? Well, everyone now knows what I know about the early Kings of Fentress & Overton County, TN. Any help sorting out these Kings would be greatly appreciated. Rick Hoover Franklin, TN ****************** 1) Notes on a Robert King of the Fentress County area. This Robert is old enough be the father of John A. King, Robert, James and William 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 or 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. 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 Settlement at Nashboro, following the Indian trail as has been described and traveling 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 very much, as the party could float most of their goods down the Wolf River and on down the Cumberland to Nashboro. Land Warrant #3187; Grantee = Thomas Swan; Assigned 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. Middle District comprised of later counties: Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Dickson, DeKalb, Davidson, Fentress, Franklin, Giles, Hickman, Humphrey's, Jackson, Lincoln, Marshall, Montgomery, Maury, Overton, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, and Wilson. Early History of area... 4 or 5 hostile Indian tribes inhabited the section up to as late as 1800. Explorers representing Spain, France and England visited the territory intermittently from about 1540 until the early part of 1700. White settlers moved into what later became Sullivan and Hawkins Co. in the NE corner of the state and established settlements as early as 1772. Several families came into the NE section from the Uplands of NC. They banded together as the Watauga Association and spread over the Eastern part of the Section. 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. ************* 2) Notes for 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). 1820 Smith CO., TN Census: 000101-00001 Will: Written in Orange Co., N.C., probated in Rowan Co., N.C. 1785 & 1788 Randolph Co., NC Petitions: Peter King Named. 3) Notes for 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). 4) Notes for 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). 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: James & William Sharpe. ********************** 5) Notes for 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: James & William Sharpe. #1668 Book #13 Mecklenburg 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. Quote from " Tennessee Convicts: Records of the State Penitentiary" John King was received 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 received in March of 1833. I believe the date he went in was correct since it was in line of all the other 1833 imprisonments 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. Ancestry.com has John A. King's father as a James King. Jan Stringer posted the information. Emailed her 11/12/2001 to see where she obtained that info. No reply.