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Was she the wife of major Robert King? Because Major Robert King lived in Stafford County Virginia. She lived in Calvert county Maryland, which is 74 miles away. It’s not impossible. But I’m just questioning the authenticity of this connection was she the mother of Mary B Rowley? Anybody who has any authenticity for this please share.

If you go on Maj. Kings page, the profile photo is a Sons of the American Revolution document. It states that he had a child with Sarah (Brook).

Now that I’ve font through it, I would recommend someone with better resources should verify it, as well. There are some inconsistencies. Her marriage dates don’t add up. 30 years old married 3x, though not uncommon, I read that she married King around 1766-1758. That would make her only a couple years old at the time of her marriage.

  • 1755-1758

Agree with you both.

Elizabeth Smith was born 1655 in Maryland and died 1686 in Maryland.

Her biography is noted in Capt. Richard Smith

Captain [Richard] Smith was married three times. His first wife was Elizabeth Brooke, the youngest daughter of Robert Brooke. His second wife was Barbara, the daughter of Captain Henry Morgan and widow of John Rousby. His third wife, whom he married in 1697, was Johanna Lowther, widow of Col. Lowther and daughter of Charles Sommerset, Esq., an English gentleman.

And her "vital statistics" are confirmed in Mike Marshall's database:

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I3979...

I've detached her as wife of Maj. Robert King, Jr. and mother of Mary Rowley & Dorothea "Dorothy" (King) Waller

So far I am concluding that Mary & Dorothy were NOT sisters and were NOT the daughters of "Maj. John."

John of Stafford Jr. (d. 1690) (married Mary) was the son of John of Stafford Sr. (d. 1693) (married Johanna 'Hannah' perhaps Scarborough), and there are will extracts. The only girl in the bunch was an Ann from John Jr.

Dorothy married a wealthy and pedigreed man; it seems unlikely she'd be from such obscure Virginia family. More likely from England?

The geography does not fit to make them sister or from Stafford.

Ancestral pilgrimage along life's pathway. By Roy Stevenson King
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89066145210?urlappend=%3Bseq=83%3Bow...

Thank you Miss Erica. Very well.

Some definitive proof that Dorothy (King) Waller & Mary (King) Rowley don't belong to Robert King, Jr. (d. 1690) is that I've found the profile with his will. He named daughters: Sarah, Hannah, Ann and Bowling grandchildren.

Glad for the cleanup!

Thank you, Erica!

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