Bathsheba King

Brief Life History of Bathsheba

When Bathsheba King was born on 5 September 1726, in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah King, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Reed, was 32. She married Joshua Mead in 1746, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died in September 1813, in Cairo, Greene, New York, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Ploča, Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Mead
1722–1763
Bathsheba King
1726–1813
Marriage: 1746
Joshua Mead
1752–1773
Bathsheba Mead
1754–1838

Sources (6)

  • Barshaba King, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Barshaba King, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Bathsheba King - birth: 5 September 1726; Bolton, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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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 (which means ‘king’ in Irish).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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