Benjamin King; son of Ebenezer and Jerusha (Hathaway) King, was born about 1804 in Rensselaerville, Albany, New York. Benjamin was their first child not born in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was born in Rensselaerville after the family had stayed briefly in Hillsdale, Columbia, New York (photo attachment) where other King-Palmer-Greenleaf family members had moved out, soon after the 1800 US Census, for temporary settlements in Coeymans and Rensselaerville in Albany County, New York.

With Benjamin, the sons of Ebenezer King in the 1810 US Census for Locke, Cayuga, New York ages: under 10 (2: George b. 1810, Benjamin b. 1804), 10-15 (2: Beriah b. 1800, Isaac b. 1795), and 16-25 (4: Seth b. 1794, Thomas b. 1792, Consider b. 1789, Ebenezer b. 1788), is complete (photo attachment). Ebenezer King sold his 40 acre farm in lot 33 of Locke, Cayuga, New York to son Benjamin King on 09 May 1827 (cover photo).

Benjamin was age 46 in the 18 Sep 1850 US Census for Middlebury, Tioga, Pennsylvania where he was working as a carpenter near his namesake nephew Benjamin King; son of younger brother George Washington King, who was also working as a carpenter in the 09 Sep 1850 US Census for Chatham, Tioga, Pennsylvania (photo attachment).

Benjamin King married sometime after 1830 an unknown wife, and with her had a son who was age 5-9 in the 1840 US Census for Locke, Cayuga, New York, in which Benjamin and his brother George Washington King were neighbors and their parents Ebenezer and Jerusha (Hathaway) King were living in the household of widower Benjamin (cover photo attachment), who apparently married again later in 1840 or early in 1841 and by the time of the 1850 US Census had a daughter named Helen b. ~1841 and a son named Clay b. ~1844, and was a widower again (photo attachment).