Saturday, August 22, 2015

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Golden Wedding Anniversaries

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):


1)  After I wrote my blog post yesterday about the newspaper article for my second great-grandparents golden wedding anniversary, I thought to myself "Self, that would be a good SNGF topic."


2)  So - the challenge today is to findo ut which of your ancestors have celebrated a golden wedding anniversary - 50 years of marital bliss (?).  Was there a newspaper article about it?

3)  Share your results in your own blog post, in a comment to this blogp ost, or on Facebook or Google+.

Here's mine (back to 4th great-grandparents): 

1)  Seaver line:

*  Frederick Walton Seaver and Betty Carringer, married 1942, Fred died in 1983:  only 41 years
*  Frederick Walton Seaver and Alma Bessie Richmond, married 1900, Fred died in 1942: only 42 years.
*  Frank Walton Seaver and Hattie Louisa Hildreth, married 1874, Hattie died in 1920:  only 46 years.
*  Isaac Seaver and Lucretia Smith, married 1852, Lucretia died in 1884: only 32 years.
*  Benjamin Seaver and Abigail Gates, married 1817, Benjamin died in 1825; only 8 years.
*  Benjamin Seaver and Martha Whitney, married 1783, Benjamin died in 1817; only 34 years.

2)  Carringer line:

*  Lyle Lawrence Carringer and Emily Kemp Auble, married in 1918, Lyle died in 1976:  married 58 years!
*  Henry Austin Carringer and Abbie Ardell Smith, married in 1887, Della died in 1944; married 57 years!
*  David Jackson Carringer and Rebecca Spangler, married in 1851, Rebecca died in 1901; married 50 years!
*  Henry Carringer and Sarah Feather, married 1825, Sarah died in 1848; married 23 years.
*  Martin Carringer and Mary Hoax, married 1784, Martin died in 1835; married 51 years.

3)  Richmond line:

*  Thomas Richmond and Julia E. White, married 1868, Julie died in 1913; married 45 years.
*  James Richmond and Hannah Rich, married in 1845, Hannah died in 1911; married 66 years!!!
*  John Richman and Ann Marshman, married in 1811, Ann died in 1856; married 45 years.

4)  Auble line:

*  Charles Auble and Geoergianna Kemp, married in 1898, Charles died in 1916; married 18 years.
*  David Auble and Sarah G. Knapp, married in 1844, David died in 1894; married 50 years!
*  John Auble and Anna Row, married in 1804, John died in 1831; married only 27 years.

Hmm, this is a bigger task than I thought!  So far, the "winner" is James Richman and Hannah rich at 66 years.  Of the 17 couples I checked, 6 of them had marriages of 50 years or longer.

I looked through my pedigree charts and found several others in 4th grandparents and more recent:

*  Amos Underhill and Mary Metcalf, married in 1801, Mary died in 1855; married 54 years.

*  William Knapp and Sarah Cutter, married in 1804, William died in 1856; married 52 years.

*  Alexander Sovereen and Elizabeth Putman, married in 1840, Elizabeth died in 1895; married 55 years.

*  Stephen Cutter and Tabitha Randolph, married in 1769, Stephen died in 1823; married 54 years.

*  John Kemp and Mary Dafoe, married in 1795, Mary died in 1850; married 55 years.

*  Frederick Sovereen and Mary Jane Hutchison, married in 1810, Mary Jane died 1868; married 58 years!

So out of the 63 couples back to my 4th great-grandparents, only 12 of their marriages lasted 50 years or longer.  

What about your ancestors?  Can you top 66 years?  Or 12 out of 63?

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Surname Saturday -- SNOW (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1149 who is Mary SNOW (1630-1704) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this SNOW family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

142.  Nathaniel Horton (1721-1763)
143.  Eunice Snow (1722-1816)

286.  Jabez Snow (1696-1760)
287.  Elizabeth Paine (1702-1772)

574.  John Paine (1661-1731)
575.  Bennett Freeman (1671-1716)

1148 Thomas Paine, born about 1627 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England; died 16 August 1706 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before April 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
1149.  Mary Snow, born about 1630 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 April 1704 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow are:
*  Mary Paine (1650-1704), married (1) 1671 James Rogers (1648-1678); (2) 1679 Israel Cole (1653-1724).
*  Samuel Paine (1652-1712), married 1682 Patience Freeman (1665-1746).
*  Thomas Paine (1657-1721), married 1678 Hannah Shaw (1661-1713).
*  Eleazer Paine (1658-????).
*  Elisha Paine (1658-1736), married 1685 Rebecca Doane (1668-1758).
*  John Paine (16612-1731), married (1) 1689 Bennett Freeman (1671-1716); (2) 1720 Alice Mayo.
*  Nicholas Paine (1663-1733), married 1699 Hannah Higgins (1672-1732).
*  James Paine (1665-1728), married 1691 Bethia Thacher (1671-1734).
*  Joseph Paine (1667-1712), married 1691 Patience Sparrow (1675-1745).
*  Dorcas Paine (1669-1707), married 1689 Benjamin vickery (1664-1718).

2298.  Nicholas Snow, born before 25 January 1600 in St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London, England; died 15 November 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4596. Nicholas Snow and 4597. Elizabeth Rowelles.  He married 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2299.  Constance Hopkins, born before 11 May 1606 in Hursley, Hampshire, England; died 25 November 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 4598. Stephen Hopkins and 4599. Mary.

Children of Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins are:
*  Mark Snow (1628-1695), married (1) 1655 Anne Cook (1636-1656); (2) 1660 Jane Prence (1637-1712).
*  Mary Snow (1630-1704), married 1651 Thomas Paine (1627-1706)
*  Sarah Snow (1632-1697), married 1655 William Walker 1620-1703).
*  Joseph Snow (1634-1723), married 1659 Mary.
*  Stephen Snow (1636-1705), married 1663 Susanna Deane (1634-1701).
*  John Snow (1638-1692), married 1669 Mary Smalley (1647-1703).
*  Elizabeth Snow (1640-1678), married 1665 Thomas Rogers (1638-1678).
*  Jabez Snow (1642-1690), married 1670 Elizabeth Smith (1648-1733).
*  Ruth Snow (1644-1717), married 1666 John Cole (1644-1725).
*  Constance Snow (1646-1682), married 1667 Daniel doane (1636-1712).

Information about this Snow family line was obtained from:

 *  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,  (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Volume III, page 1701-1704, Nicholas Snow sketch.

*  John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume Six: Stephen Hopkins (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001), 3rd Edition, page 9, Constance Hopkins sketch.

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Friday, August 21, 2015

Snapshots of Life in San Diego on the Carringer Memory Lane

I keep finding interesting information about the lives of my ancestors almost everywhere I look!

I renewed my GenealogyBank subscription recently, so I spent some time looking for Carringer tidbits in the San Diego newspapers which are well supplied by GenealogyBank.  Here is a snippet from an article I found from


The article, titled "Points for Growers" on page 3 of the 20 February 1899 issue of the San Diego Union newspaper (accessed on GenealogyBank) provides background information on David Jackson Carringer's and Henry Austin Carringer's horticultural experience:

"D.J. Carringer & Sons, also from Colorado, have and are fitting up pleasant homes on Thirtieth and Watkins.  Mr. Carrington [sic] gives a gloomy picture of the fruit industry in Colorado.  He was one of the directors of the Longmont Horticultural society and Boulder Fruit association.  He says blight and woolly aphis are fast destroying the apple industry in that state, and having had twenty years' experience there he knows some things not known here.  That's right, D.J., when a rancher finds out he can make mistakes he is in a fair way to keep out of the house of correction.  Not only ranchers, but Uncle Sam, who has been playing Ophelia to there Philippine Topsy (who truly, in this instance, just 'growed' onto us), and in finding out there are things we wish we hadn't had to touch.  Woolly aphis and woolly barbarians are a hard lot to deal with.  In Colorado they cutup the trees to get rid of the aphis.  Let us hope a better fate is in store for Uncle Sam's Topsy-turvy people who have had to receive unexpected chastisement, and must feel somewhat cut up.

"H.A. Carringer has alfalfa cut for his cow, has made nine crops, and in July it was thirty inches.  August ditto, and this, remember, is on red mesa soil.  Maples grew eight feet in a year cherimoyers are doing well, and white Meakanack potatoes yielded prolifically, from a small patch, had enough for his family and a few sacks to sell.  Secret, the land is well fed, hence it returns the compliment."

  "Points for Growers," San Diego [CA] Union, 20 February 1899, page 3, columns 1-2, D.J. Carringer comments; online index and digital image, GenealogyBank (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 20 August 2015), Newspaper Archives.

I knew before I found this article that D.J. Carringer had been a fruit grower in Boulder, and that Henry Austin Carringer (and his wife) were successful at growing almost anything at their home on 30th Street - I saw it all around me as I grew up on the block.

Another find in the same search in GenealogyBank was this article on page 4 of the 19 October 1901 edition of the San Diego Evening Tribune newspaper:


This article says:

"A GOLDEN WEDDING

"A merry party of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Carringer assembled at their home on Brooklyn Heights last night to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.  The evening was appropriately and pleasantly passed.  Mr. and Mrs. Carringer being the recipients of many valuable and useful presents among which was included gold coin and other substantial tokens of regard.  It was a especially enjoyable affair for the aged couple both of whom are invalids.  Mr. Carringer is 72 years old and Mrs. Carringer 71."

"A Golden Wedding," [San Diego] Evening Tribune, 19 October 1901, page 4, Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Carringer 50th anniversary article; online index and digital image, GenealogyBank   (http://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 20 August 2015), Newspaper Archives.

Indeed, Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer passed away on 13 December 1901, less than two months later, and David Jackson Carringer passed away on 20 January 1902, three months after the anniversary party.

David Jackson (D.J.) Carringer (1828-1902) is my 2nd great-grandfather, and Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) is my great-grandfather.

I wish that I could go back in time 114 years and witness and participate in this event, hearing the stories about their lives - the struggles and successes, the joy of three children and the despair of losing a daughter, the moves from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Colorado to San Diego.  I'm thankful that snapshots of their lives are in newspapers and records for me to find where I can.

This was a fun trip finding more snapshots of life in early San Diego on the Carringer memory lane.

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Book Notice: "Blood Legacy: The True Story of the Snow Axe Murders" by James Pylant

I received information about this book from the author and agreed to post the information about it:

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GENEALOGIST INVESTIGATES
90-YEAR-OLD CRIME IN BLOOD LEGACY

 The revised, updated Blood Legacy: The True Story of the Snow Axe Murders is now off the press. Originally released in 2008, this true-crime tells the story of reclusive woodchopper F. M. Snow who butchered his bride of six weeks as well as his mother-in-law and stepson on a Texas farm in 1925.

The horror story appeared in print in books, newspaper, and magazines, but these accounts were often inaccurate or fictionalized. Author James Pylant, a one-time professional genealogist in Salt Lake City, used his sleuthing skills to delve into the backgrounds of the killer and the victims. Blood Legacy sheds new light on a tale of twenty shocking deaths fueled by greed, insanity, and revenge. 

The well-illustrated book is fully documented with detailed family trees for the Snow, Rushing, Smith, Jones, Connally, and Polston families, which are not available in the Kindle version.

James Pylant, who has authored three other true-crime volumes, is the editor of GenealogyMagazine.com.

"Set in the seemingly quiet isolation of small-town Texas, Blood Legacy is a well-written, well-researched true tale with Gothic overtones and more than a hint of Stephen King-style horror."

                                    —Carlton Stowers, best-selling and Pulitzer-nominated author

Blood Legacy: The True Story of the Snow Axe Murders 
By James Pylant
Softbound (2008, rev. 2015), 246 pp., illustrated, indexed
Published by Jacobus Books, 
P.O. Box 1587 
StephenvilleTX 76401
$15.95, plus $4.00 postage; TX residents add 8.25% sales tax


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This sounds like a really interesting book, combining a true crime story with a genealogical search.

NOTE:  I did not receive a review copy of this book.

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 86: #102 Philip Jacob Konig (1764-1829)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I am extending this theme in 2015 to 104 Ancestors in 104 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #86:

Philip Jacob Konig (1764-1829)  is #102 on my Ahnentafel list, my 4th great-grandfather, who married #103 Catharine Ruth (1770-1813) in about 1789.




I am descended through:

* their daughter, 
#51 Elizabeth King (1796-1863), who married #50 Daniel Spangler (1781-1851), in 1815.
*  their daughter, #25 Rebecca Spangler (1832-1901) who married #24 David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902),  in 1852.
*  their son, #12 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), who married #13 Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith (1862-1944) in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
*  their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                    Philip Jacob Konig[1–2]   
*  Alternate Name:    Philip Jacob King[4,8]    
*  Alternate Name:    Philip J. King[5–7]  

*  Sex:                       Male   

*  Father:                  Philip Jacob Konig (1738-1792)   
*  Mother:                Maria Barbara Wilhelm (1740-1779)   
       
2)  INDIVIDUAL FACTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                    24 February 1764, York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[1,3–5]   
*  Baptism:               7 April 1764 (age 0), Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[1]   
*  Military:               1778–1782 (about age 14–about 18), York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[4]     
*  Census:                1 June 1810 (age 46), York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[6]   
*  Census:                1 June 1820 (age 56), York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[7]   
*  Will Written:       3 February 1826 (age 61), will written; York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[8]   
*  Death:                 2 March 1829 (age 65), Spring Garden, York, Pennsylvania, United States[4–5,9]
*  Burial:                 after 2 March 1829 (after age 65), Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[4–5]    
*  Probate:              8 March 1829 (age 65), probate of last will and testament; York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[8]   
  
3)  SHARED FACTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:             Catharine Ruth (1770-1813)   
*  Marriage 1:          before 1789 (before about age 25), probably York, Pennsylvania, United States[10]  

*  Child 1:                Anna Maria King (1790-    )   
*  Child 2:                Catherine King (1792-    )   
*  Child 3:                George King (1794-1860)   
*  Child 4:                Elizabeth King (1796-1863)   
*  Child 5:                Salome "Sarah" King (1797-1836)   
*  Child 6:                Lydia King (1799-    )   
*  Child 7:                Catherine King (1801-    )   
*  Child 8:                Jacob King (1803-    )   
*  Child 9:                Rebecca King (1805-    )   
*  Child 10:              Barbara King (1808-1852)   
*  Child 11:              Julia Anna King (1810-1825)   
*  Child 12:              Henry King (1813-    )   

*  Spouse 2:             Christina (Johnston) Miller (1766-1833)   
*  Marriage 2:          8 March 1814 (age 50), York, York, Pennsylvania, United States[11–12]   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

The material presented below is excerpted from the book The Kings of York County:  Pioneers, Patriots and Papermakers by Richard Shue.  Part III details the life and times of Philip Jacob King, the younger, the Papermaker[3,9-11].

Philip Jacob King was presented for baptism on 7 April 1764 in Christ Lutheran Church in York, Pennsylvania.  His sponsors were Elizabeth and Martin Kronemiller, his aunt and uncle.  Reverend Nicholas Hornell performed the ceremony, christening the infant of six weeks as Philip Jacob.  As he grew, young Jacob worked with his father learning the miller's trade.

In 1790 he bought 35 acres and all property thereon from Solomon Miller in Manchester township on the Codorus River, one mile from the public square in York, for the price of 2,544 pounds and 17 pence.  On this site he had a grist mill, a saw mill and a large house (called the Cookis house today).  During the Revolutionary War, the house had served as a tavern and inn, and the Continental Congress may have secreted some of its papers there after the retreat from Philadelphia. The house still stands in York today.

In 1792, Jacob purchased 24 acres from Samuel Fahnestock for 400 pounds, the land was on the York side of the Codorus River across from his grist and saw mills.  By 1798, his estate consisted of 32 acres in Manchester township and 150 acres in York township.  In Manchester, there was a two-story stone house, the stone grist mill, a saw mill, and a still house of brick.  In York, a one-story frame house and two barns stood on his land.  This house was tenanted by Melchior Switzer who did the farming for his employer.  The total valuation of his property was 5,206 pounds.

During 1812, Jacob King began a new home - the King mansion house, with eleven spacious rooms, the date stone set high in the gable of the west wall reads "Built by Philip J. King & Catharine, his Wife." Built of brick, two and one-half stories high, of impressive size, it was a fine example of early American residential architecture.  The house still stands, and since 1917 has been the offices of Schmidt and Ault Paper Company on King's Mill Road near the center of York.

Jacob King built a paper mill on the York side of the Codorus.  The public announcement of his enterprise appeared in the January 11, 1812 issue of the York Recorder, reading:

PAPER

A QUANTITY of writing, printing and wrapping
PAPER, of a good quality, is now and will be
constantly kept for sale at the New Paper Mill
near this borough.  Storekeepers and others
will be supplied agreeably to their orders -
Apply either at the subscriber's dwelling in
town, or at the mill.

Philip J. King

Catharine (Ruth) King, having borne 12 children over 23 years, died in 1813 at the age of 43, only ten months after giving birth to Henry. Three months after his wife's death, Philip Jacob King married Christina Miller on March 8, 1814, in the First Reformed Church in York.

In 1817, the saw mill was swept away by a flood on the Codorus River. The waters encircled his house and other two mills, but they stood firm.  This occurred again on February 21, 1822.

Philip Jacob King served for fifteen years as a director in the first Bank in York, and a director of the Bible Charity and Sunday School Society in York.

In 1826, Philip Jacob King wrote his will, stating that he was "in a weakly state of health, but of a sound and perfect mind and memory". His son Jacob and sons-in-law George Kann and Jacob Ehrhart were named as executors.

He bequeathed "all household goods she brought at the time of her marriage" to his wife Christina, and specified part of the home for her occupancy, and part of the kitchen cellar for her use, and the entire garden for her cultivation.  She was also to receive his watch, two beds, an oven, one cow with fodder, and the meat of one hog.  She was to be paid $200 yearly.

The eldest son, George, received the most valuable possession, the paper mill and the store, with its sign proclaiming Philip J. King & Co., and the home in which his family lived and acreage in Springgarden township.  He released George from a $1,000 debt, and subjected George to a $4,000 lien, payable in equal shares to his four surviving sisters, Anna Maria, Elizabeth, Salome and Barbara.

The two other sons, Jacob and Henry, received jointly the grist mill, all of the land on the north side of the Codorus, 50 acres in York township and 25 acres in Springgarden township.  The latter land included one acre completely surrounded by land to which George was heir - being the mansion house and a barn.  This was also subject to a lien of $3,000, of which the four sisters were to receive $750 each.

He put several stipulations in his will.  He reserved the water right for his son George "as may be necessary for the Paper Mill".  He admonished George "not to take the water when low so as to prevent the grist mill from going."  He ordered that the dam breaching the Codorus be kept in good repair, half of the expense being borne by George and the other half by Jacob and Henry.  He was not unaware of the possibility of disputes between Jacob and Henry:  "... in case... Jacob or Henry should wish and be desirous to sell his part of the real estate devised to him, it is my will that he shall first offer the same to his brother, and if they cannot agree as to price, they are to choose three respectable men to value the same."

On the day following his death, the York Gazette, owned by his brother Adam King, announced:

"Yesterday, in Spring Garden Township,
PHILIP JACOB KING, aged 65 years"

From the Records with information about Philip Jacob King (1764-1829):

The Records of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in York, Pennsylvania indicate that Philip Jacob Konig was born 25 February 1764 and was baptized on 7 April 1764[2].  

The Kings of York book indicates the birth date was 24 February 1764. and his parents were Philip Jacob and Barbara (Wilhelm) Konig[1].  

Philip Jacob King served as a Private in the 7th Company, 2nd Battalion of the York County Militia in April 1778, and in the 7th Company, 3rd Battalion of the York County Militia in February 1782[4].  

There is no known record of the marriage of Philip Jacob King and Catharine Ruth.  It may have occurred in Berks County, Pennsylvania.  They were probably married in about 1789, before the birth of their first child in January 1790.

Philip and Catharine had 12 children between 1790 and 1813.

In the 1810 U.S. Census, the Philip J. King family resided in York township, York County, Pennsylvania[6].  The household included:

*  one male under age 10 (probably son Jacob King)
*  one male aged 16 to 26 (probably son George King)
*  one male over age 45 (certainly Philip J. King)
*  two females under age 10 (probably daughters Barbara and Rebecca King)
*  one female aged 10 to 16 (probably daughter Salome King)
*  one female aged 26 to 45 (certainly wife Catherine King)

Catharine (Ruth) King died in 1813, leaving Philip Jacob King with a household of young children.

He married (2) Christina (Johnston) Miller - the marriage of Philip Jacob Konig and Christina Miller occurred on 8 March 1814 in the Trinity United Church of Christ in York, Pennsylvania[11-12].

In the 1820 U.S. Census, the Philip J. King family resided in York town, York County, Pennsylvania[7].  The household included:

*  one male under age 10 (probably son Henry King)
*  one mail aged 10 to 16 (probably son Jacob King)
*  one male over age 45 (certainly Philip J. King)
*  two females aged 10 to 16 (probably daughters Barbara and Julia Anna King)
*  one female over age 45 (probably wife Christina King)

Philip Jacob King wrote his will on 3 February 1826[8].  The transcription of the will is:

In th name of God Amen. I Philip Jacob King of Spring Garden township in the County of York and State of Pennsylvania, being in a weakly state of health, but of a sound and perfect mind and memory, therefore thought proper to make and publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following that is to say First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors herein after named and after my funeral charges and just debts are paid I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Christina and to her heirs and assigns all the household goods and property which I received and she brought to me at the time of our intermarriage, she can identify and ascertain the same. I also give devise and bequeath to her the Western part of my now dwelling house, and part of the kitchen cellar, garden, bake oven and pup (?) and entry in the house, and privilege in the yard and about the house during her natural life; al-so the following articles namely two beds with the beding and bedsteads a cow with all the necessary fodder and feed & keeping also sufficient firewood delivered; also my gig also my clock and case, a ten plate stove and pipe, and all the linen, yarn, help, flax and tow; and as much other household and kitchen furniture as she may choose to enjoy the same during her life and what remains of these articles at the time of her death the same to be sold by my Executors and the proceeds to be divided as the residue of my estate where after directed to be divided; I also give and bequeath unto her four bushels of wheat, the meat of one hog and such other eatables as may be left in the house at the time of my decease.

It is also my will and I order and direct my sons Jacob and Henry to pay her yearly and every year the sum of two hundred Dollars, one hundred dollars to be paid to her in three months after my decease, and one hundred dollars in one year after my decease, and from thence the said yearly sum of two hundred dollars to be paid to her during her natural life, which is to be in full of her share of my estate real and personal the yearly payment of two hundred dollars to her to be and remain a charge and lien on the property hereafter devised to the said Jacob and Henry. 

Item, I give and devise to my son George and to his heirs and assigns, my paper mill and the house wherein he now dwells and all my land on the south side of Codorus Creek, which I purchased from Doctor Samuel Fahnestock and Solomon Miller, with all the buildings, appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging except my brick dwelling house and barn and about one acre of land adjoining and which is bounded on the South by the public road leading to the Borough of York and Westerly by the road ^running^ to and past the paper mill and Northerly by the garden partition fence,this course or line to run so far Easterly as to extend two perches Easterly of the barn and shed and thence a streight line to the public road aforesaid, for which property devised to my said son George, I hereby charge him his heirs and assigns with the payment of four thousand Dollars which is to be a charge and lien on the premises devised to him – to be paid as follows, one thousand dollars part thereof to be paid to each of them immediately after my decease and to pay the Interest of one thousand dollars yearly to my daughter Elizabeth intermarried with Daniel Spangler during her natural life the first payment to be made in one year after my decease and at and immediately after her death the said sum of one thousand dollars, the principal, to be paid to her children share and share alike and he is also to pay the interest of one thousand dollars to my daughter Anna Mary intermarried with George Kan yearly during her natural life and after her death the said principal sum of one thousand dollars to be paid and divided equally between my said son George, his two other brothers and three sisters, Elizabeth to receive only the interest yearly of her share thereof and after her death the share to be paid and divided between her children equally

. Item, I give and devise to my two sons Jacob and Henry, and to their heirs and assigns as tenants in common, my grist mill and tenements and about thirty acres and a half of land, situate on the North side of Codorus Creek in West Manchester township, together with the appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging; and also my dwelling house and barn and about one acre of land as before described,and excepted out of the land which I purchased from Doctor S. Fahnestock (reserving and excepting the life estate of my said wife as before mentioned.) And also about twenty four acres of land, situate on the South side of the public road leading to the Borough of York in Spring Garden township and being the same which I purchased from Philip Gossler reserving the water right to my son George his heirs and assigns as may be necessary for the paper mill and privilege and liberty to clean and open the ditch race or water course when necessary doing so little damage to the land as may befor which said property they shall pay to my daughters and heirs the sum of three thousand dollars and which sum is to be a charge on him on the said property so devised) as follows namely seven hundred fifty dollars to my said daughter Salome and seven hundred fifty dollars to my aforesaid daughter Barbara, to be paid to them immediately after my decease and the interest of seven hundred fifty dollars to be paid yearly to my aforesaid daughter Elizabeth and at her death the principal to be paid to her children in equal shares and also the yearly Interest of seven hundred fifty dollars to be paid to my aforesaid daughter Anna Mary during her natural life and after her death the principal to be paid and equally divided between my said sons Jacob and Henry and George and daughters Salome Barbara and Elizabeth, Elizabeth to receive the interest of her share thereof yearly during her life and after her death the principal to be equally divided between her children, the interest and principal to be a lien on the property devised. Item I also give and devise to my said two sons Jacob & Henry and to their heirs and assigns a tract of land situate in Spring Garden and York township, adjoining lands of John Fahs, Simon Minick,John Weiser, John Beshore and others containing one hundred and seventy eight acres more or less. And all the residue of my real estate consisting of a house & part of a lot situate on the North side of High street and two small tenements and lot of ground on the we-st side of Beaver street, in the Borough of York – about fifty acres of land in York township adjoining lands of …. Rohr, Frey Yost, and others; and also a house and two lots in Wrightsville. I order and direct my Executors or acting or surviving Executors to sell the same as soon as may be after my decease and to the best advantage at their discretion and the money arising therefrom, and all my other personal estate, I give and order the same to be divided as follows namely one fourth thereof I give and bequeath to my said daughter Salome; one fourth to my daughter Barbara,one fourth to be put out on interest by my executors (taking good security) the interest whereof to be paid yearly to my said daughter Elizabeth during her life, and after her death the principal to be paid and equally divided between her children and the other fourth share or part, I also order the same to be loaned out on interest (on good security) and the interest thereof to be paid to my said daughter Anna Mary yearly during her life and after her death the same to be equally divided between my other six children Elizabeth's share thereof I also order to be put out on interest and she to receive the interest thereof yearly and after her death to be equally divided between her children share and share alike. Item It is my will and I order that the mill dam to be kept in good repair and that one half of expences thereof be paid by my son George and the other half by my sons Jacob & Henry and their assigns.

Item It is my will that my said son George is not to take the water when low, so as to prevent the grist mill from going.

 Item, It is my will that my if son Henry should die under the age of twenty one years then and in that case I give and devise all his share of my estate to my son Jacob his heirs and assigns and if in case any one of my sons Jacob or Henry should wish and be desirous to sell his part of the real estate devised to him. It is my will that he share first offer the same to his brother, and if they cannot agree as to the price, they are to choose three respectable men to value the same. 

Item I do hereby appoint my son in law George Kan to be Guardian for my son Henry. Whereas I have heretofore advanced to my son George one thousand dollars now I do hereby releave him from the payment of the same. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Jacob and my sons in law George Kan and Jacob Erhart to be Executors of this my last will and testament revoking and annulling all former wills by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six – (Signed) Philip J. King 

Philip Jacob King died 2 March 1829 in York, Pennsylvania[4-5].  The gravestone in Prospect Hill Cemetery for Philip J. King has this inscription[5]:


Sacred 
to the memory 
of
PHILIP J. KING
who was born February
24th 1764
and departed this life
March 2nd 1829
Aged 65 Years
and 6 Days

The will of Philip Jacob King was proved in York County Court on 9 March 1829[8].  The court record says:

Whereas Philip Jacob King of spring Garden Township in the County of York lately died having previous to his death made his last will and testament in writing bearing date the 5 day of February 1826. And said will having been by him republished and signed on the 10th April 1828. Wherein and whereby he the said Philip Jacob King did nominate and appoint Jacob King George Kan & Jacob Erhart the Executors of his said testament and last will. Now know all men by these presents that I Jacob Erhart one of the Executors above mentioned for divers causes me thereunto moving to resign, renounce and quit claim to said appointment,and desire that letters testamentary on said will may be granted to Jacob King & George Kan the other executors in said will named. 
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal the 9th day of March AD 1829.
Witness present George Small Jacob Erhart {seal}
York County

On the 9th day of March AD 1829 Before me Jacob B. Wentz Register for the probate of wills in and for said County came Jacob King & George Kan the two Executors accepting in the testament and last will of Philip Jacob King late of spring Garden township in said County deceased, who on their solemn oath did depose and say that they will well and truly administer the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of the said deceased that they will a true inventory and conscionable appraisement thereof make and exhibit the same into the Registers office in and for said county within one month. And that they will a true and just account, calculation and reckoning of their said administration make and render within one year from the above date.                                
                                          J B Wentz Regr

Memorandum That letters testamentary on the testament and last will of Philip J. King decd were granted to Jacob King &George Kan the two Executors accepting their appointment the 9th of March 1829. A true copy taken from and compared with the original remaining on file.

                                          J B Wentz Regr      

5)  SOURCES
 
1. "York County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1800: Christ Evangelical Lutheran  Church," indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Philip Jacob Konig baptism entry.

2. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), PA-York > York > United Church of Christ > Trinity united Church of Christ > image 150 of 502, page 330 (penned), Philip Jacob Konig and Christina Miller entry.

3. Richard Shue, The Kings of York County: Pioneers, Patriots and Papermakers (York, Penn. : the author, n.d.), Part II, page 4.

4. "Pennsylvania, Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), Philip Jacob King II entry.

5. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Penn., Philip Jacob King memorial #79801793.

6. 1810 United States Federal Census, York County, Pennsylvania, Population Schedule, York township, page 156, Philip J. King household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M292, Roll 57.

7. 1820 United States Federal Census, York County, Pennsylvania, Population Schedule, York township, page 49, Philip J. King household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M33, Roll 114.

8. "Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994," digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org), York County, “Wills, 1818-1833, vol. O-Q,” Volume Q, Philip Jacob King will, on pages 136-141 (images 638 to 640 of 846).

9. Richard Shue, The Kings of York County: Pioneers, Patriots and Papermakers, Part III, page 35.

10. Richard Shue, The Kings of York County: Pioneers, Patriots and Papermakers, Part III, page 5.

11. Richard Shue, The Kings of York County: Pioneers, Patriots and Papermakers, Part III, page 26.


12. Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, digital images, Ancestry.com  (http://www.ancestry.com), PA-York > York > United Church of Christ > Trinity United Church of Christ > image 150 of 502, page 330 (penned), Philip Jacob Konig and Christina Miller entry.


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