Ancestry of
Stephen King

Author of The Stand

Shuah Conley

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• • 8th Great-grandmother of Stephen King — 11th Generation
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  • 1593 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Abraham Conley 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Heard
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1661 
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  John Heard (Ahnentafel No:796 )

  • Notes: 

  • Shuah (Conley) Heard's maiden name is also seen as Starbuck.

    Sources disagree whether Shuah was a daughter of Edward Starbuck or Abraham Conley. A land grant dated 06 MAY 1702 at Kittery and Berwick, Maine, points to the latter stating, "To John Heard confirmation all that land granted to his grandfather Abrah[a]m Conley."

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  • Spouse:
  • Richard Otis
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 5 Nov 1677

• Sources for Shuah Conley

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1916, Vol. 70, p. 185, makes the argument Shuah's maiden name is Conley.
  • ² Everett, Elizabeth Hawley, Hawley and Nason Ancestry: Including the Following Contributory Lines: Welles, Hollister, Treat, Boothe, Thompson . . ., Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher (1929), 65.
  • ³ New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Stephen King and Amy Poehler", (accessed 09/05/2014).
  • ⁴ Noyes, Sybil, et. al., Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1979), 321-322.
  • ⁵ Sumner, Edit Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families, Los Angeles, California: American Offset Printers (1959), 253.

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