Benjamin Kimball
(Richard, John, Benjamin, Benjamin,Benjamin)

Benjamin was born in Ipswich, MA.  He was baptized on October 24, 1756 and died on June 20, 1822

He married on February 2, 1780 to Lois Warner of Londonderry, NH.  She died on October 15, 1799.

He married (2nd) on August 17, 1800 to Susanna Stone.  She died on March 19, 1801.

He married (3rd) on February 25, 1802 to Susanna Potter, who survived him.

He was a Revolutionary soldier, was five feet eight inches tall and of a dark complexion, aged twenty-three in 1780.  In his application for a pension he says on April 7, 1818 he was aged 61.  He was then of Ipswich.  He enlisted April 1775, and served until the end of the war in 1783.  He was a sergeant from July 14, 1780 until the close of the war.  He enlisted on January 1, 1776 in Col. Moses Little's Regt., Capt. Abraham Dodge's Co., served one year.  He served in Capt. Putnam's Co., Col Thayer's Co., in Regiment of Artificers, in 1778.  Was in Battle of Long Island at New York, at the taking of Burgoyne, and battles of Trenton and Princeton.

CHILDREN (Born in Ipswich, MA)

1.  Lucy (7), b. 5 Oct 1784

2.  Benjamin (7-1163), b. 30 Nov 1786; d. 29 Oct 1867

3.  Lois (7), b. 26 Aug 1788; m. 5 Sep 1816, John Ripley of Lynn, MA

4.  John W (7), b. 29 May 1791

5.  Joanna (7), b. 29 Aug 1794

6.  Infant (7), b. and d. Mar 1801

7.  Hannah L (7), b. 21 Apr 1803