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John Kingsley, Sr.

John Kingsley, Sr.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40]

Male 1665 - 1733  (~ 67 years)


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  • Name John Kingsley  [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40] 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 06 May 1665  Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 11, 38, 39] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Windham, Colony Of Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 19, 38, 39] 
    Burial 1733  Scotland, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 39] 
    Person ID I312684222721  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Father Eldad Kingsley,   b. 1637, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Aug 1679, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Mehitable Mowry,   b. Abt. 1644, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Apr 1730, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Marriage 09 May 1662  Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Sabin,   b. 10 Aug 1667, Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Scotland, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 01 Jul 1686  Rehoboth, Bristol, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2166  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 2 Elizabeth Storrs,   b. 31 May 1675, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Sep 1730, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2165  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • Adult
      Adult

      Sources
      Rehoboth, Massachusetts Vital Records p. 661. Windham, Connecticut Vital Records from Barbour Collection. Windham, Connecticut Land Deeds Volume E: 409-10, 413-4, & 429-30. Amos Kingsley, 1768-1847, by Edna Hartshorn Deane in December 1961. Pages 79-80. Dorchester, Massachusetts was annexed to Boston, Massachusetts in 1870, it was founded in 1630.

      CAUTION There are two John Kingsleys in MA near the same age. Please don't confuse or merge them.
      They are different men born in different places. Their fathers, Eldad and Enos, were brothers.
      John Kingsley born 30 May 1667 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts also had a wife name Sarah.

      John Kingsley removed to Windham, Connecticut before 1700
      He was admitted an inhabitant of Windham July 10, 1702. He lived on the road between Scotland and Windham, a little west of Beaver Brook on the side of the hill north of the road. He purchased 60 acres of Jonathan Crane on May 12, 1702, and 40 acres of the Reverend Samuel Whiting on November 25, 1703, both pieces near Beaver Brook. He subsequently purchased several other pieces of land. John Kingsley of Windham, for and in consideration of that parental love and affection which he bears unto his two sons John Kingsley VI and Ezra Kingsley, both of Windham, gives to them 70 acres of land lying and being in Windham on the east side of Beaver Brook, being part of the two thirty-acre lots lying together, the one of which the said John Kingsley V purchased from Mr. Samuel Whiting and the other from Jonathan Crane. Dated May 16, 1720 and recorded the same day. Witnesses John Fitch and John Broughton. Suddenly the same day he made his will. John Kingsley V died sitting in his chair in the 68th year of his age and was buried in the old Scotland burying ground, sometimes called the Palmer town burying ground.

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