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- [S181] djohnson@c.net.gt, GEDCOM: Kingsley 75434, (Name: Ancestry.com;), editedIs this the same Johnson who sent me this e-mail on latest FTDNA results?, 75434.
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Is this the same Johnson who sent me this e-mail on latest FTDNA results? From: Richard Johnson [mailto:rj47@frontier.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:16 PM To: wetzupdoc@me.com Subject: FTDNA Family Finder match Hello, A bit of a puzzle. I am a descendant of Christina Wetzel who married Nicholas Woolf (var. spellings). I believe they were in Frederick Co., Maryland. Their daughter Margaret Woolf born about 1766 married John Westfall. That probably happened in the area that would become Harrison Co., Virginia and later would be part of West Virginia. Their son Stephen Westfall married Elizabeth 'Betsy' Morrison, 18 Jul 1818, in what was then Mason Co., Virginia. That area became part of Jackson Co., (West) Virginia in 1831. Their daughter, Jemima Westfall, married Chester S. Tenney on 2 March 1856 in Jackson Co., West Virginia. Chester died at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain/Farm in May of 1864. Their daughter Elizabeth Ellen Tenney was my great grandmother. She had my grandfather by a Shamblin and then married William Henry Riffle 22 Nov 1888 in Jackson Co., West Virginia. She appears to have died between 1896 and 1900. I've never found a grave or death record for her. All that said there must be a much more recent relationship to explain the strength of our match. Hope to hear from you, Richard Johnson
The following notes courtesy of Peter Blackwell, posted on Kingsley GenForum 2/16/00 at http://genforum.genealogy.com/kingsley/messages/246.html :
Among the people who came to Plymouth in 1630 were two brothers, John and Stephen Kingsley, who came from Hampshire, England. In 1635, John Kingsley left Plymouth and moved north to Dorchester in the developing Boston area with a friend of Cotton Mather. He was followed by Stephen who by 1640 was the owner of a valuable property in the Braintree area. There he became a Court Deputy in Braintree and Milton from 1650 to 1666 and was also trustee of estates until his death in 1673. His family was to go on to found several towns in the Connecticut area.
John, along with seven others was a pillar of a new church founded on August 23, 1636 and was among the last survivors.
John Kingsley acquired the first grant of land in Taunton, MA area in 1645 and relocated there. The next year he became a shareholder in Great Lots (?). Three years later he moved to Rehoboth in Bristol County, MA.
The area around Rehoboth would eventually witness "King Philip's War".
The first generation of settlers who had worked out an uneasy alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag Indians, were now replaced by people who wanted to expand their opportunities for development. The culture of the Indians differed greatly to that of the settlers in regards to the use of the land. A continuing problem was the trampling of Native cornfields by the colonists' livestock. While the colonists were legally responsible for the damage, such laws were difficult to enforce in remote areas such as Rehoboth and Taunton. Increased competition for these resources of land for planting, hunting and fishing caused much friction between the two groups.
In 1662, in an arrogant attempt to exert control, the Plymouth Court summoned Wampanoag leader, Wamsutta, son of Massasoit, to Plymouth. Major Josiah Winslow, with a small force of men, took Wamsutta at gunpoint. Soon after questioning, Wamsutta became ill and died. His death greatly angered the Wampanoag.
Wamsutta's brother, Metacom (also called Philip) succeeded him. Plymouth's continued unyielding policy toward Native leaders, as well as the events surrounding the murder of Sassamon, a liaison between the two groups, caused the breakdown in relations that led to war.
In 1675, hostilities broke out in the town of Swansea, and the war spread as far north as New Hampshire, and as far southwest as Connecticut. Not all the native peoples, however, sided with Philip. Most natives who had converted to Christianity fought with the English or remained neutral. The English, however, did not always trust these converts and interned many of them in camps or outlying islands.
Native soldiers fighting on the side of the colonists helped turn the tide of the war, which ended in 1676 when Philip was killed by a Wampanoag fighting with Captain Benjamin Church in the Great Swamp of southern Rhode Island.
The strain connected with the difficult relationships with the Indians over almost a thirty year period ending with the death of Philip caused John's health to suffer and he asked for relief in that year. He moved to Bristol, Rhode Island and died in 1678.
More About JOHN KINGSLEY:
Emigration: Bet. 1630 - 1634, Hampshire, England to Taunton, MA26
Fact 1 (2): Abt. 1634, Taunton, MA owned 12 acres per Baylies Historical Memoir of New Plymouth, Vol. 1, pt. 1, p.28626
Fact 2 (2): 1636, Was an organizer of the First Church of Dorchester (one of seven)26
Fact 3 (2): August 23, 1636, First church gathering, Dorchester (John was seventh signer)26
Will: Lists only children Edward, Enos and Freedom; mentions "to be buried by my wife Alice in the North corner of my house lott".26
More About ELIZABETH STOUGHTON:
Fact 1 (2): She was the second Church of Dorchester member when her marriage covenant was signed26
Child of JOHN KINGSLEY and ELIZABETH STOUGHTON is:
6. i. EDWARD ELDAD6 KINGSLEY, b. 1638, Providence, RI; d. August 30, 1679, Rehoboth, Bristol County, MA.
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Dorcas Paine was born c1669 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts to Thomas & Mary (Snow) Paine. She died on October 30, 1707.
- [S181] djohnson@c.net.gt, GEDCOM: Kingsley 75434, (Name: Ancestry.com;), 75434.
The son NATHAN KINGSLEY, age 15 and his younger brother along with a son of Mr. Slocum's heard a shot, going to the door of the cabin, she saw Indians scalping the older Kingsley boy and taking the younger brother captive, along with her young son, he being her lame son, so they exchanged the lame boy for her daughter named Frances age seven.
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- Scalped and killed by Indians at the age of 15 (cf
d. Abt 1822, Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, USA 
