Dorothy (Unknown) Kinge (abt. 1601 - aft. 1684)

Born about 1601 in England

Wife of William (Kinge) King — married about 17 Feb 1616 in Sherborne, Dorset, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 28 Mar 1684 after about age 83 in Southold, Suffolk, New York Colony

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Disputed Origins

Her origins are disputed. See Research Notes.

Biography

Dorothy ________ King (surname unknown) was born about 1601, based on her age listed as 34 when she emigrated with her family of William King and five children from England in 1635 on the Marygould.^[1].^[2]

As the wife of William King of Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Dorothy raised eight children. She survived her husband and probably died in Southold, Long Island, New York, where she lived on land provided her by her son, Samuel, after William’s death.

Dorothy died after 28 March 1684, the date her commonage in land of Southold was recorded in the town records.^[3]

Research Notes

Disputed Origins

Disputed Birth:

Dorothy may have been born as a Hayne or Haynes and been christened on 17 Feb 1593 in Portisham, Dorset Co., England. At this point, it is only speculation that her parents are John Haynes and Alice Lambert.

• The date of christening in 1593, indicating an age of about 42 in 1635, conflicts with the age of 34 at emigration found in the The Great Migration source.

Edmund West (who relies on highly derivative sources such as unsourced family pedigrees) identifies Dorothy's father as Walter Hayne, not John, and places her birth at 1601 in Massachusetts, not England. (VERY unlikely.) He also claims that the wedding took place 17 Feb 1616 in Sherborne.^[4]

Disputed Marriage:

17 FEB 1616/7 Abbey Church of St. Mary, Sherburne, Dorsetshire, England

Robert Charles Anderson, in The Great Migration, questions whether the marriage in Sherburne pertains to the emigrating couple:^[5]

"In 1902 Lucy D. Akerly (and apparently Rufus King) took note of the marriage at Sherborne, Dorset, on 17 February 1615/6/7 of William King and Dorothy Hayne, and suggested that this marriage pertained to this immigrant [NYGBR 33:71]. In 1918 J. Gardner Bartlett stated (without providing any evidence or argumentation) that William King had two wives, of whom Dorothy was the second, and that he had four children with each of these wives.

"These two hypotheses are mutually exclusive. The English marriage record is certainly possible, but it seems a few years too early, based on both the approximate age of William and the ages of his children. Bartlett may have based his arrangement of the family on the apparent gap of six years between the birth dates of the fourth and fifth children. The gap is not, however, as great as this, and the total range of dates of birth for the eight children, from about 1623 to 1641, are well within the range of the fertility span of a single woman.

We do not subscribe to either of these hypotheses, and simply state that William had a single wife Dorothy, surname unknown."

In addition to the sources mentioned by Anderson, other genealogists have linked William King to Dorothy Hayne, not Haynes. Torry (New England Marriages Prior to 1700) places her birth in the year 1601^[6] and describes their wedding as having taken place in "Sherborne, Dorset in Eng 17 Feb 1616/17". Other secondary sources concur that William King and a Dorothy Hayne, who was born in 1601, married.^[7]

In the Great Migration, Anderson noted Lucy D. Akerly and Rufus King's hypothesis that Dorothy's surname may have been Hayne. The suggestion arose because of a record at Sherborne, Dorset, (less than 30 miles from the family's departure point of Wemouth) that showed a Dorothy Hayne marrying a William King on 17 Feb 1617/18. The names and geographic proximity are intriguing, but there is no further evidence indicating that this is the same couple. Anderson (and thus, Wikitree’s Puritan Great Migration project) thus considers Dorothy's surname and parents to be unknown.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, I-L, IV, pp. 174-177 AmericanAncestors.org and Ancestry.com
2. ↑ John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, (1874, reprint New York: Empire State Book Co., 1874), HathiTrust.org (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000362454 : accessed 5 Feb 2023)
3. ↑ Southold Town Records copied with explanatory notes - Vol. 1 Liber A & B - J. Wickham Case 1882 - page 406 of text (page 71 of Liber B): Dority King her comonage in Southold is a first lott. . . . Entred 1684, March 28. pr Benj: Yo. HathiTrust or Google Books
4. ↑ Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [1]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. HIGHLY derivative. Should not be relied upon.
5. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, I-L. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. Vol. 4, pp. 174-177 - p. 177: These two hypotheses are mutually exclusive Ancestry.com
6. ↑ Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004, page 440 Ancestry.com
7. ↑ [Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.]. The Millennium File is HIGHLY derivative and should not be relied upon.
8. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, I-L, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), IV: page 177. Digital copy from www.AmericanAncestors.org subscription site. Accessed 1 Oct 2016.

See also:

• John Arthur Tuthill and James McDougall Kortright, Tuthill Family: A family line from the 16th Century, Orange, California, 1936, 1980.

• Wikipedia Southold New York

• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Hannah_King_(1)

• Gen and Fam Hist of Central New York, Vol 3 pg 1157 FGS in poss of Ruby Henderson 562 Driggs Ave SLC UT

• Parent family not included in tree: http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Thomas_Hayne_and_Urith_Burley_(1)