When Mercy King was born on 12 September 1732, in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah King, was 52 and her mother, Sarah Reed, was 38. She married Capt Job Mead Sr before 1761. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 28 August 1812, in Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Old Amenia Burying Ground, Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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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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