Our Amos King born 1756 (son of William King Sr. IV) 3rd known child and oldest of his second marriage. We know that he married in New Salem and enlisted in the Revolution from New Salem. We also know that he was raised in and lived in New Salem except for a short time when his family removed or were listed as residing in Shutesbury, Hampshire County, Massachusetts where a 4th child was born to his parents (mother unnamed but not Mary Andrew as published by Rufus King of Yonkers in the NEHGS and the NYHGS) who was born by 1765. Amos married first to Hopestill (AKA Haskins) daughter of William Hoskins Jr. IV in 1781. He and his wife had 2 sons near as we can figure Nahum on 25 July 1783 and William Oliver in 1785. We believe that Amos and his young family removed to New York by 1887 or as early as 1785 probably before the third child was born. By 1790 with a short stint in his plans to continue on to Michigan by canoe over Lake Erie Amos is said in a letter by a grandson that he marked trees for his land near Hastings in the future Oswego County, NY. I have some hand written bills and receipts prior to 1790 in the area of Canaan but always known as New Lebanon Springs in the Lebanon Springs Valley formerly the King's District to denote is from the Dutch along the Hudson River in the west. We know that 6 children were born to Hopestill and Amos then her death is recorded in the memoirs of Desire Jane wife and widow of Horace King born 1811 written from Nebraska after 1885. Amos then married Miss Bassett in NY and they had 9 children raising 7 of them to maturity it is said. Amos died a widower in June 1839. Got a pension for his service in the Revolution applied for in 1831 and approved in 1832. Both he and his wives have never been located as a grave. Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karin Brown" <JayFamNY@webtv.net> To: <nycolumb@rootsweb.com> Cc: <nycolumb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [NYCOLUMB] KINGs of New Lebanon > Daniel, have you checked the 1779 taxlist of Kings District yet ? It's > on our genweb site. It shows Capt. Gideon KING as having his own BEAT > , an area to collect taxes , and next to Asahel KING , both had large > holdings. That might be an area to investigate. Best I can make out > from the neighbors , their area was Lebanon Springs ( Mott Cemetery) > and part of Lebanon Mountain ,( Darrow Brothers gave lots of land to > the Shakers.) > > Have a wonderful day Karin > > searching for BROWN GARRISON PORTER FLORANCE LAMOREAUX FINCH BEERS > HOUGHTAILING RICH FRINK LOW BAILEY in NY > > http://community.webtv.net/JayFamNY/EarlyAmerican > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYCOLUMB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message