See also
| Husband: | William * KING (1621-1664) | |
| Wife: | Agnes * ELWILL (1625-1662) | |
| Children: | William * KING (1643-1664) | |
| James KING (1647- ) | ||
| Marriage | 16 Oct 1642 | Ugborough, Devonshire, England |
| Name: | William * KING | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | William * KINGE (1584-1662) | |
| Mother: | Christina * LAPP (1594- ) | |
| Birth | 1621 | Ugborough, Devonshire, England |
| Death | 18 May 1664 (age 42-43) | Suffield, Hartford, CT, US |
| Name: | Agnes * ELWILL | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | John * ELWILL (1602-1662) | |
| Mother: | Anne * DENT (1613-1672) | |
| Birth | 1625 | Ugborough, Devonshire, England |
| Death | 7 Apr 1662 (age 36-37) | Ugborough, Devonshire, England |
| Name: | William * KING | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Sussana * KINGE (1641- ) | |
| Birth | 31 Dec 1643 | Ugborough, Devonshire, England |
| Death | 28 May 1664 (age 20) | Isle Shoals, NH, US |
| Name: | James KING | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 7 Nov 1647 | |
William and Agnes (elwill) Kinge. Founder of the King Family of Suffield, Connecticut. William King married in Ugborough, Devonshire, England, Oct. 16, 1642, Agnes Elwill, who died in Ugborough, April 7, 1662. They had two children, viz.: William King; baptized in Ugborough, Dec. 31, 1643; and James King, baptized in Ugborough, Nov. 7, 1647; died in Suffield, Connecticut, May 13, 1722; married (1) in Ipswich, Massachusetts, March 23, 1674, Elizabeth Fuller; (2) in Westfield, Massachusetts, Feb. 27, 1716, Hannah Loomis.
The following are verbatim copies of entries made in the Ugborough Parish Registers:
Marriages.
"1642—Willimus Kinge et Agneta Elwill nupti erant 16 Octobris" (A. D. 1642—William King and Agnes Elwill were married 16th of October).
BAPTISMS.
"1643—Willimus fil. Willimi Kinge et Agnetae, ux. bap. fuit ultimo die Decemb." (A. D. 1643—William, son of William Kinge and of Agnes, wife, was baptized the last day of December).
"1647—Jacobus, fil. Willi Kinge et Agnetae uxor eius bapt. 7 die Novembris" (A. D. 1647—James, son of William Kinge and of Agnes his wife, baptized 7th day of November). Jacobus is the Latinized form of James (see Names and their meaning, by Wagner, page 254). The statutes of King James I of England (1566-1625) are called statutes "Jacobi." The Greek form of James in the New Testament is Jacobus. The coins of the time of King James I (A. D. 1603-1625) and of King James II (1685-1689) are inscribed "jacobus, Dei Gratia, Rex."
The period between the marriage of William Kinge to Agnes Elwill (1642) and the birth of James King (1647) was that of the great Puritan Revolution in England. Both Exeter and Plymouth, between which cities lay Ugborough, were besieged and the whole neighborhood was the scene of severe conflicts between the Puritan and Royalist forces. Actual hostilities continued from 1642 to 1649 when King Charles was brought to the scaffold and the Commonwealth with Oliver Cromwell at its head was established. Thus our ancestor James King of Suffield was ushered into the world in the midst of a great revolution, wherein a king lost his head, a monarchy was temporarily overthrown and a great Commonwealth inaugurated.