Brief Life History of Asahel
When Asahel King was born on 23 September 1718, in Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David King Sr, was 37 and his mother, Abigail Sackett, was 35. He married Rebecca Nash on 7 July 1744, in Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 30 October 1756, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 38, and was buried in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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- Asabel_ King, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Asahel King, "BillionGraves Index"
- Asahel in entry for Clocking King, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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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