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Last name King
First name Francis
Display name Francis King
Death date 1814
Birth place engl
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends
Bio notes British-born Quaker surveyor; employed by Ceres Land Co. to lay out Asylum, a colony for French refugees in Pa. (1795); led Quaker settlers to Ceres Twp., on Allegheny River in McKean Co., Pa. (1798).

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson 1800 Journal (continued)

Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

Some Account of Rachel Coope [edited by Joshua Sharpless]

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal A)

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)

William Allinson Diary, Volume 1