See A New Look at the Family of John King of Weymouth, MA Bay Colony
Dorothy married a man named Barker and had Joseph and Susannah. It isn't known when they came to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mr. Barker may have died in England. Dorothy is on the list of members of the First Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay, apparently among a group who joined on 4 November 1639. R of the FC of D in NE 1636-1734, 4. Susannah was born about 1630.
John's second wife was Dorothy, widow of both Barker and Enoch Hunt. There is little to narrow down a date for John and Dorothy's marriage. Enoch Hunt was married to Sarah Palmer in Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, on 4 December 1609. John Hunt was probably their first-born, buried in Little Marlow as the son of Enoch on 17 February 1610(/11?). Following him was probably Ephraim, who is called Enoch's oldest son in a 1688 deposition. No baptism for him has been found, but maybe about 1613. He is usually said to have been born about 1610 based on his death record in February 1686/87, which says he was about 77. Another John was baptized in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, on 30 July 1615, son of Enoch. Peter was baptized in the same place on 4 July 1619, son of Enoch. The bishop's transcripts of Great Missenden parish records, which must be used given the lack of original parish records before 1694, appear to be missing between 1621 and 1623. The transcripts were contemporary baptism, marriage and burial records sent annually to the bishop. Enoch married Dorothy in New England and had a daughter Sarah, born in Weymouth on 14 June 1640, who was likely named in honor of Enoch's first wife. He supposedly returned to England where he died about 1647. The reason for the return and where he went in England aren't known. The transcript burial records for Great Missenden, if he had family business there, are missing between 1640 and 1643 and between 1648 and 1659. A 1688 deposition by Jonas Humphrey and Robert Randall, formerly residents of Wendover, England, says they knew Enoch, who lived in Titendon, Parish of Lee, Buckinghamshire, two miles from Wendover, before coming to New England with his oldest son Ephraim. The name "Titendon," if this is correct, has left no trace in Lee, even with locals.https://thelee.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Newsletter_2018-11-online.pdf It may refer to Missenden, which borders Lee to the south, where Wendover borders to the north. There are no Hunts in the parish register index for Lee in the 17th century. Ephraim gave a power of attorney in 1646 to "collect" land of John Hunt's in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Aspinwall, 50 In the appointment, John is described as being formerly of Winchmore Hill, "Agmondsham" (also Agmundisham, etc., now Amersham, Buckinghamshire). He surely was the John who was buried 13 November 1639 in the parish of Amersham, residence "Whithmore Hill" (as transcribed for the findmypast.co.uk website). The bishop's transcripts say "Winchmore Hill." He was likely the one who married Elizabeth Plater in Penn, which borders Winchmore Hill, on 13 May 1639. There was also a John Hunt who married widow Ann Newell in Hughenden in 1627 and had several children in Amersham, the last recorded in 1635. She was buried on 1 April 1639 in Amersham, suggesting this was the same John Hunt, and therefore not Ephraim's brother, since he would be too young. One of the children of John and Ann was John, baptized in 1635. He doesn't have a burial record before 1646. If he hadn't died, he would be entitled to John, Sr.'s, real estate. This date coincides roughly with Enoch's return to England. Was John his brother? Was Enoch involved in settling his estate, maybe as an heir or creditor? He may have had in interest in the Beaconsfield land, and if he died in England, it may have fallen on Ephraim, as oldest son, to settle Enoch's affairs.
There was still a John Hunt in Penn, appearing on voter rolls there. A List of the Names of the Persons, Together with the Places of Their Freehold and Abode, who Voted for Knights of the Shire for the County of Bucks, at the Last Election Held at Aylesbury, September the Second and Third, 1713 , (London: 1714), 53
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is also the problem of one of John, Jr.'s daughters marrying in 1662. Sarah King is recorded as having married Alexander Bogle in Weymouth in that year. She's called one of John's daughters in his will ("Sarah Bogle"). In order to accomodate that, researchers have said Sarah was born about 1647 and John, Jr., born about 1633. While a female marriage at 15 wasn't unheard of, it was rare enough to warrant skepticism. Her father certainly wasn't 14 when she was born. If he was born about 1627/28, the connection is less awkward. His parents, John and Mary, were married before they immigrated by 3 May 1631. John, Sr., was old enough to have married about 1625/26. Mary may also have been. Their son Samuel's birth isn't recorded, but he was older than his sister Mary, born in 1639. This leaves about a ten-year gap in which only one child of John and Mary was born between John and Mary, if we put John's birth early enough to have been Sarah's father.
The first recorded child of John, Jr., was John, b. 1659. His brother Samuel was very likely older, so born say about 1656/7. He was married in 1678. If Sarah was born about 1647, there was an extremely unusual twelve-year gap between her and John and maybe a decade between her and Samuel, unless there two different wives. Even if Samuel was born earlier, this gap is a red flag that shouldn't be ignored. It's possible she was the daughter of John's from a previous marriage, but that would put his birth no later than about 1627, leaving a possible decade between him and his brother Samuel's birth, raising the same red flag as above. Were there three or four more children of John, Sr., and John, Jr., (and a first wife) who are completely unknown? Possible, but the only reason to skew things in this way is if we force Sarah into a biological King connection. The circumstantial evidence favors John, Sr., marrying Mary in England just before they and Humphrey immigrated, say 1631, then having John, Jr., about 1633, Samuel about 1636, Mary about 1639 and so on. John, Jr., then married Esther Bayley about 1654/55 and they had Samuel, John and so on. Sarah may have been an orphan and adopted after John and Esther married.