Brief Life History of Horace
When Horace King was born on 8 January 1771, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Dan King, was 29 and his mother, Thankful Bronson, was 25. He married Anna Prior on 28 November 1792. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 28 October 1855, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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- Horace King, "United States Census, 1850"
- Horace King, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Early Connecticut Marriages
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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