The younger daughter of clergyman Francis Makemie, the founder of Presbyterianism in what later became the United States, she was prominent in 18th-century Virginia society.
According to "reliable tradition", Anne Makemie's first marriage was to a "Mr. Blair"; following his death, she married Robert King (1689–c.
[1] Reportedly "very patriotic" during the American Revolutionary War,[1] and refusing the British militia entry into her residence, she inherited much of her father's land and businesses following his death in 1708.
[5] She bequeathed a tract of land to each of four male relatives, so that they could vote for "real friends to the American Independence" come election time.
[7] She had no children[3] and is buried next to her father at the Makemie Monument Park in Accomack County, Virginia.