Fourth Generation

260. Jonathan KING²²¹ was born on 17 October 1712 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.¹²⁵ He was born on 17 October 1712. He died on 15 March 1754 at the age of 41 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. Jonathan built "Kings Furnace," which stood on a stream tributary to the Taunton river on the road leading to Middleboro in the east part of Taunton. This furnace was owned and kept in operation by the Kings about 100 years. The English Parliament, when they heard theat the Americans were engaging in manufactures, prohibited in 1750, on penalty of two hundred pounds, "the erection of any mill for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel, in any of the colonies." Sanborn, "Genealogy of the Families of Kings," p. 16.

Jonathan KING and Phebe LEONARD were married on 22 June 1737 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA. Phebe LEONARD⁶⁵, daughter of Samuel LEONARD and Katherine DEAN, was born on 9 May 1714 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.²²⁰ She died on 3 April 1803 at the age of 88 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. Upon the death of Elnathan Walker, she moved to Middleborough and lived with her daughter, Phebe King Turner, wife of Rev. Caleb Turner, Pastor of the Congregational Church in Middleboro. She was listed as Phebe King when she married Elnathan Walker of Dighton.

Jonathan KING and Phebe LEONARD had the following children: