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 1765 - 1844 (78 years)
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| Name |
Roswell King |
| Birth |
3 May 1765 |
Windsor CT  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Burial |
1844 |
| Death |
15 Feb 1844 |
Roswell,Fulton Co, GA |
| Person ID |
I282 |
Georgia Revolutionary War Graves |
| Last Modified |
15 Dec 2017 |
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| Notes |
- King was born in 1765 in Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Sarah Fitch and Timothy King, an accomplished weaver and a naval commander during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
- At the age of 15, he joined the Connecticut Troops, Wells' Regiment whose records mistakenly record his name as Russel King.
- Later he settled in Darien, Georgia, when as a young man he was skilled in the construction business. King not only became a landowner and commission broker dealing in cotton, rice, and lumber but also served as a surveyor, justice of the peace, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, and Lieutenant in the local militia.
- His 1792 marriage to Catherine Barrington (1776-1839) in Darien produced nine children. Catherine was born in San Saville in 1776 to Joshua Barrington and Sarah Williams. Catherine passed away on 23 April 1839 in Ridge, GA.
- In the 1830's King moved his family to the Piedmont area around Vickery Creek, the area of the future town of Roswell. King had identified this as a good area for the construction of a cotton mill. He had the idea to combine the cotton production and cotton processing at the same location. The invention of the cotton gin made cultivation of short-staple cotton profitable in the uplands of the South.
King dammed the creek to power a cotton mill, which became fully operational by the latter half of the decade. The mill was incorporated as the Roswell Manufacturing Company by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on December 11, 1839 with his son Barrington King as company President. Other people named in the act included John Dunwoody and James Stephens Bulloch.
- King is buried in what is now referred to as Founders Cemetery along with his friends Dunwoody and Bulloch. Visitors will find only 23 marked graves, but at least 65 people were buried here.
Inscription from the Roswell King Monument, erected by his children:
He was the founder of the village which bears his name. A man of great energy, industry and perseverance, of rigid integrity, truth and justice. He early earned and long enjoyed the esteem and confidence of this fellow man.
- Grave marked 14 Oct 2017 by the Piedmont Chapter GA SAR.
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