Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the King (and variant spellings) families who mainly came from England, Flanders, Germany (especially Bavaria and Wurtemburg), Ireland, the Netherlands, and possibly Scotland from 1600's-1800's. Some immigrated to Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (Long Island), Rhode Island, and Virginia in the 1600's. In the 1700's, some settled in Nova Scotia and Quebec (Canada),...

Alice Barnham (1592-1650), daughter of Benedict Barnham and Dorothea Smith, married Frances Bacon (1561-1626), son of Nicholas Bacon and Anne Cooke, in 1606. She married John Underhill in 1626 in London.

Chiefly ancestors of the authors, Dan Griggs and his wife, Diane Wolford, and the ancestors known descendants. Daniel Francis Griggs was born in 1948 at New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Howard Lemuel Griggs (1923-1985) and Roberta Frances McNall Griggs (b. 1921). Diane Kathy Wolford was born in 1960 at Kingston, New York, the daughter of Donald Eugene Wolford (1925-1989) and Robert Jean Dyer Wolford (b. 1926). Dan and Diane were married in 1993...

Nicholas Barnham was born in about 1455 in Hampshire, England. He died in 1485 in Leicestershire, England. Descendant Thomas Barnum, son of Francis Barnham and Elizabeth Lennard,was born in 1625 in Hollingbourne, Kent, England. He married Hannah in 1660 in Norwalk, Connecticut. They had ten children. He died in 1695 in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,...

John Messecar was born in about 1765 in Sussex County, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Slaight in 1785. They had seven children. He died in 1807 in Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ontario.