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Eldad Kingsley

Eldad Kingsley[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]

Male 1637 - 1679  (42 years)


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  • Name Eldad Kingsley  [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15] 
    Birth 1637  Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 7] 
    Christening 1637  Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 28 Aug 1679  Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15] 
    Burial 30 Aug 1679  Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Person ID I312684222670  Oswald Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

    Family 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) 
    Marriage 09 May 1662  Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Kingsley, Sr.,   b. 06 May 1665, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 1733, Scotland, Colony of Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     2. Samuel Kingsley,   b. 01 Jun 1669, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 1745 (Age ~ 75 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     3. Mercy Kingsley,   b. 07 Oct 1675, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     4. Nathaniel Kingsley,   b. Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jul 1752, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]
     5. Elizabeth Kingsley,   b. Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 May 1717, Windham, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     6. Jonathan Kingsley,   b. Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt. 15 Jun 1750, Swansea, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F2415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2025 

  • Notes 
    • ! BIOGRAPHY: Eldad KINGSLEY was a courea
      ! BIOGRAPHY: Eldad KINGSLEY was a coureageous religious pioneer, credited with being one of the founders of the first Baptist Church in Massachusetts. He paid taxes in Rehoboth and Swansea, and helped defray the expenses of King Philip's War. He served in that war, and died at the early age of 41, leaving 7 children ages 1 to 16. ! MARRIAGE: It was reported that the Intention of Marriage was reg. at Providence, RI. It could have been recorded there but mg. was prob. at Reho- both, MA. Both the intention and the mg. have the same date, 9 May 1662. After his marriage Eldad moved to Rehoboth with his father, John, who had recently married a second time to Alice JONES. ! RESIDENCES: The house that Eldad built in Rehoboth abt 1664 was still standing in 1976 at 108 Davis St.and was then owned by Irving Duckworth. The house that Eldad built at Swansea was burned by the Indians during King Philip's War. ! RELIGION: Father and son built their homes about 10 miles from Providence, RI, to be near Rev. Roger William. Eldad had been a signer of the first covenant for a Baptist church in Rehoboth, MA, but in 1667, the Plymouth Court punished them for setting up "seperate worship" and ordered them to leave Rehoboth or forfeit their lands. They left and moved to Swnsea, where the Court had granted them lands. ! REFERENCES: New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Torrey, p.441. Rehoboth and Swansea Vital Records Abstracts of Bristol Co. Probate Recs., Bk 1, 1687-1745, pg. 63. "In a Place Called Swansea," 1675 Inhabitants, pp 77, 146. "History of Swansea," 1667-1917," Wright, pp 170-2. Sandra McLean Clunies' Ahnentafel Chart & f.g. cht. which cites: William Arthur Kingsley, Kingsley Family in America, 1980. Representative Men & Old Families of RI, by J.H. Beers, 1908, 3 Vol. Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910, NEHGS 1992, p. 423. Edna Hartshorn Deane, Amos Kingsley, 1768-1847.

      Rehoboth Vital Records !Death Records of
      Rehoboth Vital Records !Death Records of Rehoboth, MA p.844

      !Volume II of Kingsley/Thomas Kirkham of
      !Volume II of Kingsley/Thomas Kirkham of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and some of his descendants. Kingsley page 215 It is probable that the John Kingsley who married in Windham, Conn., Feb 10, 1755 Mary Burnap, was the son of Amos and Ruth (Adams) Kingsley, of Windham, who were married Jan., 12, 1725 and had ten children as follows; 1. Amos 2. Isaiah, b. June 11, 1725; 3 Nathaniel b. 1726; 4. John; 5. Samuel; 6. Joesph; 7. Eliza; 8. Alice; 9. Abiah; 10. Ruth. The Kingsley line as follows; John of Dorchester, Mass and Taunton, Mass. He was in dorchester in 1635, and he died in Rehoboth, Mass. His wife is unknown. He was not John Kingsley of Milton, whose wife was a Daniels, though often confused with said John of Milton. Eldad of Rehoboth; b in Dorchester, 1638 m in Rehoboth, 1662 Mehitable Morey. He d. in Swanson, Mass., Aug. 30, 1679. John of Rehoboth; b. there May 6, 1665; m. 1st July 1 1686, Sarah Sabin. He moved in 1708 to the place that was afterwards Windham., Conn. He had by his first wife ten children. Amos of Windham; b in Rehoboth Jan 18, 1696; d. April 23, 1787; m. Ruth Adams. Records from Henry S. Ruggles, Wakefield, Mass Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County Vol 12 Page 18 Eldad Kingsley, born in 1636, married, in 1662, at Rehoboth, Mehitable, a daughter of Roger Morey, of Rehoboth. They had a son, John Kingsley, born at Rehoboth May 6, 1665, who married, July 1686, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Sabin. Their son, Eldad Kingsley, born at Windham, Connecticut, January 19, 1707, married, January 20, 1733, Priscilla Buss (Bass). Eldad Kingsley died, January 20, 1787, leaving a son, Oliver Kingsley, born at Windham, Connecticut, January 24, 1734, married, in 1760, Mary, daughter of John Dewey, of Lebanon, Connecticut. Oliver Kingsley, died July 31, 1816. Of his children, Asahel Kingsley, born June 12, 1762, at Lebanon, Connecticut, married Naomi, daughter of Eliab Hill. Asahel Kingsley died, April 4, 1849, leaving a son, Shubael W. Kingsley, bor n at Columbia, October 5, 1805, married May 8, 1831, Mary, daughter of Abraham Loomis. Shubael W. Kingsley died, August 30, 1870. Of his children, the third son and sixth child was Arthur Eugene Kingsley, born at Lebanon, Connecticut, June 30, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of his native place, and at the age of fifteen entered upon the serious business of life, the earning of a livelihood as a farmer, in which pursuit he continued to be engaged until he was in his twenty-third year, when he determined upon mastering a trade. To this end he found employment with Cyrus Garigus, a builder, of Rockville, Connecticut, and so well-directed were his efforts that within two years he had become a competent mechanic, entering the service, as journeyman carpenter and joiner, of John G. Bailey, the leading contractor of Rockville, in which capacity he continued for four years when he was made foreman of the business, a position which he held for the ten years following. In 1881-82 he was engaged for a short time with the firm of Parker & Whiteley, at Rockville. In 1883, in conjunction with Benjamin Whiteley, he established his present business in Spencer, which he has conducted alone since 1884, when he purchased his partner's interest therein. He is a dealer in furniture and the leading undertaker of the vicinity, and in the conduct of both of these branches of business has kept abreast of the times, developing them from comparatively small enterprises to recognized leading industries. His services as a member of the board of selectmen of spencer for a period of three years and a park commissioner for a number of years were characteristically capable. He is a member of the Independent Order Odd Fellows and chairman of the board of trustees of his lodge. The family attend the Congregational Church. He married, February 17, 1870, Sarah E, daughter of the late James and Mary Stewart, of Rockville, connecticut. Mr and Mrs. Kingsley have a son, born September 1, 1877 Harry S. Kingsley, associated with his fathers business.

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