Richard Kimball (1-1)

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Category: Generation 1

Published on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 16:06

Written by Peter K Kimball

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Richard Kimball (1-1)

Born:  XX/XX/XXXX Rattlesden, Suffolk, England (?)

Married: (1) Ursula Scott in 1613 in England (Mother of all children)

            (2) Margaret (Cole) Dow on Oct 23, 1661

Died:  June 22, 1675 Ipswich, MA

Buried:  ??

Richard Kimball and family left England on the good ship Elizabeth from Ipswich, England on April 10, 1634.  The ship landed in Boston Harbor and he made his way to Watertown, MA with his family.  On May 6, 1635 he was declared a freeman and this allowed him to move elsewhere.

Richard Kimball was a wheelwright by trade.  A wheelwright is someone who makes wagon wheels, repairs wagons and other vehicles of the times.  His services were in large demand in the new country.  He left Watertown, MA to move to Ipswich, MA, where he was given a house lot and other privileges  on condition that he be the town wheelwright on Feb. 23, 1637.

Here he spent the remainder of his days.  He was given the house lot "next adjoining Goodwin Simons at the west end of town."  He was also granted at the same time "40 acres Beyond the North Riuer near the land of Robert Scott."  In 1639 he had liberty to pasture "two cows free."  

His services as wheelwright were appreciated by his townspeople, for he was permitted in January, 1649, "to fell such white Oaks as he hath occasion to use about his trade for the town use."

In 1664 he owned 43 shares in "Plumb Island."

His wife Ursula (Scott) Kimball apparently died in Ipswich, MA on Mar 1, 1660 although another record gives her death as June 17, 1656.  He remarried to Margaret (Cole) Dow, widow of Henry Dow of Hampton, NH.  There were no children from this marriage, although, from his will, Richard evidently held Margaret's children from her first marriage in great affection.

Richard Kimball made his will out on March 5, 1675 and died shortly thereafter on June 22, 1675 at over eighty years old.  Margaret Kimball his second wife did not long survive him, and died on Mar 1, 1676.

CHILDREN:

1.  Abigail (2-2), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England.  d. in Salisbury, MA June 17 1658

2.  Henry (2-3), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England 

3.  Elizabeth (2-1000), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1621  There is no record of her marriage.  She was alive in 1675

4.  Richard (2-4), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1623; d. Wenham, MA May 26, 1676

5.  Mary (2-5), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1625  In a deposition in 1665 she states that she is 36, which would give her birth as 1629.

6.  Martha (2-6), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1629

7.  John (2-7), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1631  d. May 6, 1698

8.  Thomas (2-8), b. Rattlesden, Suffolk, England, 1633  d. May 6, 1676

9.  Sarah (2-9), b. Watertown, MA, 1635  d. June 12, 1690

10.  Benjamin (2-10), b. Ipswich, MA, 1637  d. June 11, 1696

11.  Caleb (2-11), b. Ipswich, MA, 1639  d. 1682

Benjamin Kimball (2-10)

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Category: Generation 2

Published on Thursday, 20 October 2011 05:01

Written by Peter K Kimball

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Benjamin Kimball (2-10)

Richard Kimball, Benjamin Kimball

BORN: xx/xx/1637 in Ipswich, MA

MARRIED:  Mercy Hazeltine in April, 1661 in Salisbury, MA

DIED: June 11, 1696 in Bradford, MA

BURIED:  Bradford, MA Cemetery - gravestones still there

Benjamin Kimball was born around the time his father Richard Kimball moved from Watertown, MA to Ipswich, MA.  He was probably a resident of Exeter, NH in 1659 as a carpenter.  He moved to Salisbury, MA and was on a trial jury in 1662 there.  He lived in Rowley, MA in May 12, 1663 when he purchased land there from Elizabeth Starret of Haverhill, MA.  At this time Rowley contained the towns now known as Bradford, Georgetown and Groveland.  Benjamin's land was in Bradford.

On Feb. 20, 1668, at the first town meeting in Merrimac, afterwards called Bradford, he was chosen an overseer of the town.  He was called of that town in March 16, 1670 and March 15, 1674.  On January 6, 1675, he and his wife Mercy of Bradford, MA, sold forty acres of land to the inhabitants of that town for the use of the minister.  On Nov 3, 1667, he bough several tracts of land.  Among them was land which once belonged to his brother, Thomas Kimball (2-8), who was killed by the Indians on May 3, 1676.  

On May 16, 1683, residents of Bradford, MA and other nearby towns sent a petition to the General Court asking "that a troop be raised out of Andover, Bradford, Topsfield & Rowley Village," as "Newbury is far remote from us."  Benjamin Kimball's name is at the top of the list of signatures.  It was also signed by Richard Kimball, either the son, or nephew of Benjamin.  On May 17, 1683, the General Court concurred with the petition, and established "a Foot Compani and one of Hore," commissioning and appointing "Mr. John Osgood to be Capt. of the Troop... & Mr. Benj. Kimball, Cornet."  "Ben: Kimball" and others signed, July 9, 1690, a notice that they "are ready & voluntarily offer our selvis to serve God, our King & Country in ye designed Expedition for Canada."  This would have been the first expedition to take the fort at Louisburg, in Nova Scotia.  

His house was in the west parish of old Bradford, not far from the ancient cemetery.  He was a wheelwright and a farmer.

Mercy was the daughter of Robert Hazeltine.

His inventory (items he held when he died), showed that he was well off for the times.  The total amount of the estate was £1060.7s.  Among the assets was a one-fourth interest in a saw-mill in Haverhill, MA near the Amesbury line, that he bought from Matthew Harriman.  This interest was handed down in the family for several generations.  

 CHILDREN:

1.  Anna (3-1000), b. Dec 23, 1661 d. Jan 2, 1735

2.  Mercy (3-1001), b. Dec 27, 1663 d. Feb 5, 1664

3.  Richard (3-36), b. Dec 3, 1664 d. Jan 10, 1711

4.  Elizabeth (3-37), b. Jul 24, 1669 d. Bradford, MA Aug 24 1727

5.  David (3-38), b. Jul 26, 1671 d. Bradford, MA June 14, 1743

6.  Jonathan (3-39), b. Nov 26 1673 d. Bradford, MA Sep 30, 1749

7.  Robert (3-40), b. Mar 5, 1676 d. Bradford, MA Feb 24, 1743

8.  Abraham (3-41), b. Mar 24, 1678 d. Bradford, MA Feb 25, 1708

9.  Samuel (3-42), b. Mar 28, 1680 d. 1739

10.  Ebenezer (3-43), b. Sep 8, 1686 d. Bradford, MA Jan 23, 1715

11.  Abigail (3-44), b. Sep 8, 1686 d. Bradford, MA Jan 23, 1715