Heman King

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31297588/heman-king

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DAR Ancestor# A066492- Added by E. Nickerson :

• Service: NEW YORK
• Rank: PRIVATE
• Birth: (BAPTISED) 15 Oct 1727 HARWICH BARNSTABLE CO MASSACHUSETTS
• Death: 21 Jan 1812 DUTCHESS CO NEW YORK
• Service Source: ROBERTS, NY IN THE REV, P 151; NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #750
• Service Description: 1) CAPT DAVID WATERBURY, COL HENRY LUDENTON, 7TH REGT, DUTCHESS CO, MILITIA Revolutionary War Project. = DAR- SAR Recorded Ancestor.

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From The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. VI:

https://archive.org/stream/mayflowerdescendv6mass#page/155/mode/1up

Jabez Snowe's Mark and Ebenezer King's Heman baptized on Oct. 15, 1727.

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1 MILT age 52 Dutches County Militia, Sevent Regiment.
2 DATE 1779

New York in The Revolution: Vol. I.The Militia

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DutchesCounty,Seventh Regiment, Page 151.
King, Heman.
History of Putnam County, New York: with biographical sketches of its prominent men. By William S. Pelletreau, A.M.
Chapter VI. Confiscation and sale of the shares of the patent belonging to Susannah Robinson and Mary Philipse. Chapter VI. ChapterII, Page96.
Sales in Lot. No. 9: Heman King, 284.

Chapter IX. Settlement and Population. page 122.
"Fredericksburg Precinct: Heman King, 8.

Chapter XI. Political division.Page no. 156.
Asessors of Fredericksburg: 1778; Heman King.

Chapter XXII. Town of Southeast.Page no. 421& 422
in 1754 two churches were comtemporanous. The people from the Oblong and the northern part of Fredericksburg attended the one, ,while the inhabitants of the southern portion, attended the other. This meeting house stood near the northwest corner of the Jacob Ellis farm,on thewest side of the road and directly oppiste the old buryingground.
Page 422-In an orchard to the north of this burying ground, are three tombstones, which mark respectively the graves of Heman King, who died January 21st, 1812, aged 85; Elizabeth, his wife, August 30th,1811, 81; and Jeduthan King, their son, Agust 6th, 1789, aged 21.

Chapter XXIII. Town of Southeast, Page 472.
The first is a farm sold by the commissioners of forfeiturers to Jacob Ellis, December 28, 1781. This farm is the northwest corner Lot No. 9,of Philipse Patent, and belonged to Roger Morris. The farm is described in the deed as :All that tract of land in Fredericksburg,now in possession of Jacob Ellis. Bginning at the Northwest corner ofa walnut sapling with stones around it, and running thence East 15 minutes North 26 chains to a large rock. Then South 5 degrees west, 16chains. Then South 23 1/2 degrees East 40 chains 40links to the first bounds containing 146 acres." The price being L146.
The second farm was sold by the commissioners to Heman King This was atract of 284 acres, and lay to the east of the above tract. HemanKingsold 60 acres of his farm to George Bele in May, 1815, and he in turn sold this with other land to the extent of 128 acres, to TillyFoster,April 1st, 1830.

Chapter XXVI. Town of Patterson. Page 662 & 663
Baptist Church.

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On Erskine's military map, made about 1780,the Baptist meeting house is laid down near Fredericksburg. The church,the date of whose building is unknown, stood on the north sideof theroad from Patterson to Carme, about half a mile west of where the Millbrook crosses it and about a mile and a half nothe of the present church at Towner's Four Corner.
Of The pastors who preached in this ancient church, and of the people who assembled there, no record remain. the church was constitued December 1st, 1790, as the Second Baptist Church of Frederickstown,with 30 members, and having as a teacher, Elder EnochFerris, whoremained till November 23d, 1793, having baptized 23 persons. Thechurch was incorporated September 15th, 1794, when HemanKing, Joseph Truesdell, and Rosell Wilcox were elected Trustees. The church appearsto have been in low state, and without a pastor till May1795, when Elder Simeon Smith was called, but no record was found of his dismissal.
A small manuscript book among the church papers contain notices of church meeting, held mostly at the house of Heman King, in the townofSoutheast.
Southeast, Feb. 18th, 1804. At a church meeting held at the house of Caleb Fowler, after singing and prayer, 1st Elder Ferris chosen Moderator and Wm. Townsend, Cler. 2nd, the Church examined and found stading fast, in the Faith, and in union one with another. 3rd, Sally Hiat gave a relation of her experience of a work of grace in her heart to satisfaction. 4th, Bro. Heman King appointed to provide for the Lord's Table, in this part of the Church. Close by Prayer."
The Following persons appear to have been connected with thechurch:Sally Hiat, Heman King, James Townsend, Polly Hiat, CalebFowler,Daniel Baldwin, Jane Drew, Abner Osborn, , Sylvester Ferris,RhodaFerris, Hezekiah Rowland, Edmund Fowler, Jonathan Fowler.

Note from cmf: clairefoltz@yahoo.com
1777 Tax List: Fredericksburgh Precinct, Philipse Patent (8)
from aol.com

August 30, 1788-Putnam County, New York, Land records

1790 Census: Frederickstown, Dutches, New York. (Heman King age 63.)
2 males over 16; 2 males under 16, 3 females

1800 Census: Southeast, Dutchess (now Putnam), New York
1 male over 45; 1 male 26-45: 1 male under 10.(This would be Jeduthan)
1 female over 45; 1 female 26-45; 2 females 10/16; 1 female under 10

1810 Census: Southeast, Dutchess (now Putnam), New York. Roll M252_30,image 140,Page 202
King Heman, 1male over 45; 1 male 26/44: one male 16/25-(This would be our Jeduthan;) 1male 10/15; 1male under 10
2 females over 45; 2 females 16/25; 3 females 10 and under.

Heman King's will.
Dated: March 28, 1805, Probated April 30, 1812.
Mentions: wife: Elizabeth
son: Herman
daughters: Phebe, Rhoda, Alice, Mercy, Elizabeth
deceased son: Ebenezer
son: Stephen
grandson: Jeduthan, son of my son Jeduthan
Sole Executor: Son Herman King
Witnesses: Zalmon Sanford, Benna Haskin, Abroham Mead.
Signed: Heman King.

He is buried in the old Tilly Foster (Ellis) Cemetery,Southeast,Putnam, N.Y.
Database: Title: Old Gravestones of Putnam county, New York
Author Barbara Smith Buys. Media: Book, Pages: 291.
We have a picture of his headstone.