Samuel Kent, b. Suffield, CT, 12/14/1698; d. Suffield 10/28/1772, son of John Kent, b. Gloucester, MA 4/28/1664; d. Suffield, 4/11/1721; m. (1st) Suffield, CT 5/9/1686, Abigail Dudley
Married (2nd) Suffield, CT, 2/28/1772, Abiah Dwight
Mother:
Abiah (Dwight) Kent, b. Northampton, MA2/17/1704; d. Suffield, CT, 2/23/1748, dau of Justice Nathaniel Dwight, b. Dedham, MA, 11/20/1666; d. West Springfield, MA, 11/7/1711 (while on business and believed buried there in the oldest grave of the old burying ground of West Springfield). Her father was a surveyor, farmer, justice of the peace, and surveyor of land on a large scale. Nathaniel m. 12/9/1693, Mehitable Partridge, b. 8/26/1675; d. in Northampton, MA, 10/19/1756, she lived in widowhood for 45 years and is buried in Northampton
Brother:
Capt, later Maj. Elihu Kent, was the head of a Suffield company of 59 men when news of the Battle of Lexington reached Suffield, CT (his son, Elihu Kent became a Colonel, and served with his father in the Revolutionary War, and was captured by the British on Long Island, and confined as a prisoner of war in the old Sugar House in NY, where he suffered greatly). See parents for other siblings
Anna Adams married in Suffield, CT, April 4, 1753. Her husband, Freegrace Adams, was induced against his wishes by his step-mother to sign a note for her son, his half-brother Samuel, the mother's favorite. Samuel failed, and Freegrace was obliged to give up one-half his Suffield farm. He accordingly decided to go to Marlboro, Vt., in 1774 when his daughter Lovisa was fourteen years old. Anna died when she was seventy-seven years old and could still read fine print. Freegrace died when he was ninety-two.
(From "The King Family of Suffield, Connecticut", compiled by Cameron Haight King, in 1908)
The Marlboro manuscript history (kept in Montpelier, Vt.) states that Freegrace Adams "came to Marlboro about 1773 and settled on the well known Freegrace Adams farm, now owned by Almerin Ames".
Ten children, all born in Suffield, Connecticut
1. Juliana (Adams) Rice, b. 7/5/1753; d. before 1847; m. Ezekiel Rice
2. Lovice Adams, b. 12/7/1754; d. 4/23/1755, Suffield, CT
3. Eliphalet Adams, b. 1/29/1756, Suffield, Hartford Co, CT; d. 7/2/1844, Acton, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada; m. 12/20/1778, Patience Rice, b. 9/28/1753, CT; d. 6/11/1832; 11 children
4. Ezekiel Adams, b. 11/29/1757; d. before 1847; m. Sally Rice
5. Lovice (again-name shown as Lovisa) (Adams) King, b. 12/20/1759, Suffield, Hartford, CT; d. 12/31/1834, age 76, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; m. 12/27/1778, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT, Ichabod King, b. 5/14/1756, Suffield, Hartford Co, CT; d. 12/18/1834, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT, age 79
10 children
Justin King (memorial 177668437), b. 3/7/1784, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; d. 3/20/1852; Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, Ohio
m. (1) 9/2/1810, Boston, MA, Ann (Cook) Morse; d. Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 11/5/1818 (possibly widow of Eleazer or Eleazar Morse, d. 3/9/1810, age 31, Boston, MA who she married 11/26/1801). She was probally the dau of Richard and Mary (Moshier) Cook. She was the sister of Alice (Cook) Berry, for years of Wheeling, W. VA. They went to Boston to live about 1805, and removed 9/4/1815 driving from Boston to Cincinnati, Ohio in 41 days with one horse (making several family visits) and reached Cincinnati, Ohio 10/14/1815.
(2) in Cincinatti, Hamilton, Ohio, Ann ___ , d. 8/9/1833, Cincinnati, Ohio
(3) 8/2/1835, in Cincinatti, Ohio, Elizabeth Hunt, widow, half niece of Ann Cook, his first wife
Children with Ann Cook, who died 11/5/1818:
I. Ann King, b. Boston; b. Boston; d. 2/5/1817
ii. Elizabeth (King) Proctor, b. 11/1/1812; d. 2/7/1891 (memorial 32104597); m. 12/23/1827, Newton Thomas Proctor
iii. Alice King, b. 3/3/1815; d. 10/1821
iv. Charles Cook King, b. 5/18/1816; d. 6/3/1880; m. (1) Martha Chumley; (2) Eliza Dorr; (3) Mrs. Catherine (Bauman) Hubbell
v. Mary King, b. 1/1818; d. abt 1876, unmarried. Blind during the later part of her life
Children with Ann ___, d. 8/9/1833:
vi. Ann (again), b. 8/25/1819; d. 8/4/1820 (son b. 2/2/1821; d. 12/5/1821; son b. ?; d. 4/1823)
vii. Daniel Eleazer, b. ___, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; d. abt 1860, Covington, KY; m. Covington, KY, Lizzie Hall (one son who drowned in the Ohio River when he was abt 13 years old)
6. Freegrace Adams, b. 11/22/1761; d. 3/27/1762, Suffield, CT or Hartford, Hartford, CT
7. Anna Adams, b. 3/21/1763; d. 1857
8. Freegrace (again) Adams, Jr., b. 4/1/1765, Suffield, CT; d. 7/23/1834, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; m. 2/20/1792, Suzannah Halladay
9. Temperance (Adams) Kellogg, b. 4/2/1768; d. 9/22/1799 or before 1812 or 1862; m. Jonathan Kellogg; children: Sally Kellogg, b. 4/4/1793; Cynthia Kellogg, b. 8/28/1797; Temperance Kellogg, b. 2/27/1799
10. Jeminice or Jemima (Adams) Alverson, b. 5/2/1770; d. 4/19/1855, Whitewater, WI; m. 11/5/1809, William Alverson
****Husband - Freegrace Adams:
Son of Lieut. Abraham Adams, b. Suffield, CT, 11/10/1687, d. Suffield, CT, 2/12/1769, (son of Hon. Jacob Adams, b. Newbury, Mass 9/13/1651; d. Boston, MA, 11/1717; m. 4/7/1677, Anna Allen, b. 1/3/1658)
married:
(1st) in Suffield, CT 4/7/1713, Joanna (Johannah) (Norton) Adams, b. Suffield, CT, 3/17/1693, d. Suffield, CT, 9/3/1726, (dau of Capt. George Norton (memorial 7975485), b. Salem, Mass, 3/28/1641; d. Suffield, CT, 11/15/1696. He married 6/20/1683, Mrs. Mary (sometimes called Mercy) (Barber) Gillett-Norton (7976412)- his second wife, b. Windsor, CT, 10/12/1651; d. Suffield, CT, 12/31/1725, who first married John Gillett); all children born in Suffield Twp, Hartford, CT:
1. Abraham Adams, b. 2/19/1715; d. 1775
2. Joseph Adams, b. 1/24/1718; d. 1788
3. Joseph (again) b. 8/23/1720 twin to Joanna (Adams) Hathaway, b. 8/23/1720; m. Joel Hathaway
4. Freegrace Adams, b. 11/14/1723 above; m. Anna Kent
5. Silence Adams, b. 8/23/1726; d. 8/23/1726 (twin to Mornfull)
6. Mornfull Adams, b. 8/22/1726; d. 9/5/1726 (twin to Silence)
(2nd) 7/25/1733, Suffield, CT, Anna Hayden
Note: Suffield, CT was originally a part of Massachusetts, annexed into CT in 1749
Many thanks to Peter Williams #49117443 for the perspective photos!
Samuel Kent, b. Suffield, CT, 12/14/1698; d. Suffield 10/28/1772, son of John Kent, b. Gloucester, MA 4/28/1664; d. Suffield, 4/11/1721; m. (1st) Suffield, CT 5/9/1686, Abigail Dudley
Married (2nd) Suffield, CT, 2/28/1772, Abiah Dwight
Mother:
Abiah (Dwight) Kent, b. Northampton, MA2/17/1704; d. Suffield, CT, 2/23/1748, dau of Justice Nathaniel Dwight, b. Dedham, MA, 11/20/1666; d. West Springfield, MA, 11/7/1711 (while on business and believed buried there in the oldest grave of the old burying ground of West Springfield). Her father was a surveyor, farmer, justice of the peace, and surveyor of land on a large scale. Nathaniel m. 12/9/1693, Mehitable Partridge, b. 8/26/1675; d. in Northampton, MA, 10/19/1756, she lived in widowhood for 45 years and is buried in Northampton
Brother:
Capt, later Maj. Elihu Kent, was the head of a Suffield company of 59 men when news of the Battle of Lexington reached Suffield, CT (his son, Elihu Kent became a Colonel, and served with his father in the Revolutionary War, and was captured by the British on Long Island, and confined as a prisoner of war in the old Sugar House in NY, where he suffered greatly). See parents for other siblings
Anna Adams married in Suffield, CT, April 4, 1753. Her husband, Freegrace Adams, was induced against his wishes by his step-mother to sign a note for her son, his half-brother Samuel, the mother's favorite. Samuel failed, and Freegrace was obliged to give up one-half his Suffield farm. He accordingly decided to go to Marlboro, Vt., in 1774 when his daughter Lovisa was fourteen years old. Anna died when she was seventy-seven years old and could still read fine print. Freegrace died when he was ninety-two.
(From "The King Family of Suffield, Connecticut", compiled by Cameron Haight King, in 1908)
The Marlboro manuscript history (kept in Montpelier, Vt.) states that Freegrace Adams "came to Marlboro about 1773 and settled on the well known Freegrace Adams farm, now owned by Almerin Ames".
Ten children, all born in Suffield, Connecticut
1. Juliana (Adams) Rice, b. 7/5/1753; d. before 1847; m. Ezekiel Rice
2. Lovice Adams, b. 12/7/1754; d. 4/23/1755, Suffield, CT
3. Eliphalet Adams, b. 1/29/1756, Suffield, Hartford Co, CT; d. 7/2/1844, Acton, Halton Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada; m. 12/20/1778, Patience Rice, b. 9/28/1753, CT; d. 6/11/1832; 11 children
4. Ezekiel Adams, b. 11/29/1757; d. before 1847; m. Sally Rice
5. Lovice (again-name shown as Lovisa) (Adams) King, b. 12/20/1759, Suffield, Hartford, CT; d. 12/31/1834, age 76, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; m. 12/27/1778, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT, Ichabod King, b. 5/14/1756, Suffield, Hartford Co, CT; d. 12/18/1834, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT, age 79
10 children
Justin King (memorial 177668437), b. 3/7/1784, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; d. 3/20/1852; Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, Ohio
m. (1) 9/2/1810, Boston, MA, Ann (Cook) Morse; d. Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 11/5/1818 (possibly widow of Eleazer or Eleazar Morse, d. 3/9/1810, age 31, Boston, MA who she married 11/26/1801). She was probally the dau of Richard and Mary (Moshier) Cook. She was the sister of Alice (Cook) Berry, for years of Wheeling, W. VA. They went to Boston to live about 1805, and removed 9/4/1815 driving from Boston to Cincinnati, Ohio in 41 days with one horse (making several family visits) and reached Cincinnati, Ohio 10/14/1815.
(2) in Cincinatti, Hamilton, Ohio, Ann ___ , d. 8/9/1833, Cincinnati, Ohio
(3) 8/2/1835, in Cincinatti, Ohio, Elizabeth Hunt, widow, half niece of Ann Cook, his first wife
Children with Ann Cook, who died 11/5/1818:
I. Ann King, b. Boston; b. Boston; d. 2/5/1817
ii. Elizabeth (King) Proctor, b. 11/1/1812; d. 2/7/1891 (memorial 32104597); m. 12/23/1827, Newton Thomas Proctor
iii. Alice King, b. 3/3/1815; d. 10/1821
iv. Charles Cook King, b. 5/18/1816; d. 6/3/1880; m. (1) Martha Chumley; (2) Eliza Dorr; (3) Mrs. Catherine (Bauman) Hubbell
v. Mary King, b. 1/1818; d. abt 1876, unmarried. Blind during the later part of her life
Children with Ann ___, d. 8/9/1833:
vi. Ann (again), b. 8/25/1819; d. 8/4/1820 (son b. 2/2/1821; d. 12/5/1821; son b. ?; d. 4/1823)
vii. Daniel Eleazer, b. ___, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio; d. abt 1860, Covington, KY; m. Covington, KY, Lizzie Hall (one son who drowned in the Ohio River when he was abt 13 years old)
6. Freegrace Adams, b. 11/22/1761; d. 3/27/1762, Suffield, CT or Hartford, Hartford, CT
7. Anna Adams, b. 3/21/1763; d. 1857
8. Freegrace (again) Adams, Jr., b. 4/1/1765, Suffield, CT; d. 7/23/1834, Marlboro, Windham Co, VT; m. 2/20/1792, Suzannah Halladay
9. Temperance (Adams) Kellogg, b. 4/2/1768; d. 9/22/1799 or before 1812 or 1862; m. Jonathan Kellogg; children: Sally Kellogg, b. 4/4/1793; Cynthia Kellogg, b. 8/28/1797; Temperance Kellogg, b. 2/27/1799
10. Jeminice or Jemima (Adams) Alverson, b. 5/2/1770; d. 4/19/1855, Whitewater, WI; m. 11/5/1809, William Alverson
****Husband - Freegrace Adams:
Son of Lieut. Abraham Adams, b. Suffield, CT, 11/10/1687, d. Suffield, CT, 2/12/1769, (son of Hon. Jacob Adams, b. Newbury, Mass 9/13/1651; d. Boston, MA, 11/1717; m. 4/7/1677, Anna Allen, b. 1/3/1658)
married:
(1st) in Suffield, CT 4/7/1713, Joanna (Johannah) (Norton) Adams, b. Suffield, CT, 3/17/1693, d. Suffield, CT, 9/3/1726, (dau of Capt. George Norton (memorial 7975485), b. Salem, Mass, 3/28/1641; d. Suffield, CT, 11/15/1696. He married 6/20/1683, Mrs. Mary (sometimes called Mercy) (Barber) Gillett-Norton (7976412)- his second wife, b. Windsor, CT, 10/12/1651; d. Suffield, CT, 12/31/1725, who first married John Gillett); all children born in Suffield Twp, Hartford, CT:
1. Abraham Adams, b. 2/19/1715; d. 1775
2. Joseph Adams, b. 1/24/1718; d. 1788
3. Joseph (again) b. 8/23/1720 twin to Joanna (Adams) Hathaway, b. 8/23/1720; m. Joel Hathaway
4. Freegrace Adams, b. 11/14/1723 above; m. Anna Kent
5. Silence Adams, b. 8/23/1726; d. 8/23/1726 (twin to Mornfull)
6. Mornfull Adams, b. 8/22/1726; d. 9/5/1726 (twin to Silence)
(2nd) 7/25/1733, Suffield, CT, Anna Hayden
Note: Suffield, CT was originally a part of Massachusetts, annexed into CT in 1749
Many thanks to Peter Williams #49117443 for the perspective photos!
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Headstone is missing or probably one of four worn unknown fieldstones in the photo next to son, Freegrace, Jr.
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