Elizabeth Kimball

Notes:

Elizabeth was born in Bradford, MA on July 24, 1669 and died there on August 24, 1727.

She married Edward Carleton. He was born in Haverhill, MA on March 22, 1665. He was killed by an Indian while crossing the Merrimack river in 1711. (Another account gives the date as 29 Aug 1708.)

Elizabeth married Edward Carleton Abt 1690. Edward was born 22 Mar 1665, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died 1711, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Probate: 3 Jul 1696, Essex Co., Massachusetts; Estate inventory taken, real estate valued at £721, with another £339.0.7 in personal estate
• Probate: 9 Nov 1696, Essex Co., Massachusetts; Widow Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball named administratrix of his estate, bonded; inventory filed
• Probate: 21 Jan 1696/97, Essex Co., Massachusetts; Division of real estate
• Probate: 12 Oct 1708, Essex Co., Massachusetts; Further division of real estate; widow's third is divided among surviving heirs

Notes:

Benjamin was born in 1637, about the time that his father moved from Watertown to Ipswich, Massachusetts. He died in Bradford, MA, on June 11, 1696.

He was probably a resident of Exeter, NH in 1659, a carpenter by trade. Removed to Salisbury, MA, and was on the trial jury in 1662. Was a resident of Rowley, MA 12 May 1663, when he bought land in Rowley of Elizabeth Starret of Haverhill. At this time Rowley included within its limits the present Bradford, Georgetown and Groveland. his land was in what is now known as Bradford. On 20 Feb 1668, at the first town meeting in Merrimac, afterwards Bradford, he was chosen an overseer of the town. He was called of that town in 16 Mar 1670 and 15 Mar 1674. On 6 Jan 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 23 Nov 1667, he bought several tracts of land. Among them was land which once belonged to his brother Thomas Kimball, who was killed by Indians on May 3, 1676. On May 16, 1683, residents of Bradford 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. Richard Kimball, his brother, died in 1676. On May 17, 1683, the General Court concurred with the petition, and established "a Foot Compani and one of Horse," commissioning and appointing "Mr. John Osgood to be Capt. of the Troop....& Mr. Benj. Kimball, Cornet." "Ben: Kimbal" 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.

He married in Salisbury, MA, in April of 1661 to Mercy Hazeltine. She was the daughter of Robert and Ann (Langley) Hazeltine. (Robert Hazeltine and his brother John were among the earliest settlers of that part of Rowley that is now known as Bradford, and Robert had afterwards permission to ferry passengers across the Merrimack river. The first marriage recorded in the Rowley books is "Robert Hazeltine and Ann his wife were married 10mo. 23, 1639." Mercy was born "16, 8mo, 1642" (October 16, 1642), and died January 5, 1707-8. She was one of the first members received into the first church of Bradford, when she, with sixteen other women, were admitted on January 7, 1682-3. Her will, made May 14, 1706, was proven February 2m 1707-8. She gives the names of her children in the will.

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

The gravestones of Benjamin and Mercy Kimball may still be seen in the cemetery in Bradford.

Benjamin married Mercy Haseltine 16 Feb 1661, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Robert Haseltine and Ann Langley) was born 16 Oct 1642, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts; died 5 Jan 1708; was buried Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Probate: 2 Feb 1707/8, Essex Co., Massachusetts; Will proved and allowed
• Will: 14 May 1706, Essex Co., Massachusetts; To son David Kimball: anything lent to him from my estate to be given him; to daughter Hannah alias Barker: £15 in money or moveable estate, household furnishings; to my two youngest sons Samuel Kimball and Ebenezer Kimball: land or its value, livestock, farming and animal husbandry implements, household goods; to son Jonathan Kimball: forgiveness of all debts except 50s; to my three granddaughters Hannah Barker, Eliza alias Caltron, and Abigail alias Day: first refusal to some household goods that are otherwise to be Samuel and Ebenezer's; to my three daughters Hannah, Eliza, and Abigail: my wearing clothes; executors, sons Samuel and Ebenezer

Notes:

Name:
Her marriage record renders the last name "Hazelton." We adopt the spelling her father, Robert Haseltine used when he signed his will.

Buried:
Ancient Burying Ground

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1634; Ship Elizabeth
• Probate: 28 Sep 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; Richard Kimball was well to do for those early days. The inventory of his estate, which was taken 12 Jul 1675, and returned to court 28 Sep 1675, amounted to £737 3s 6d.
• Will: 5 Mar 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; The last will and Testament of Richard Kimball Sr of Ipswich in Essex in New England who although weake in body yet of perfect Memory Doe dispose of my lands & estate in maner & form as followeth-- Ips. To my Loveinge wife my will is that she dwell in my house and have Improvement of my ground and meadow belonging thereto with the use and increase of my whole stock of cattle, one whole yeare after my decease, and then at the years end, thety pound due her acording to contract at marriage to be payd her and that hous-hold stuff she brought with her. And to have liberty to live inthe parlor end of the house, the roome we now lodge in: and liberty for her nesessary vse of some part of seller: also the liberty of one cow in pasture, the executors to provide winter meate for the same, and to have one quarter part of the fruit of the orchard, and firewood as long as she lives ther., And if she desire to remove to her owne house, then to be sett in it with what she have by my executors and to be alowed forty shillings yearly as long as shee lives. And to my Eldest son Henry, my will is to give him three score and ten pounds to be payd Twenty pounds, a year & half after my decease, & the remaining part in the two years following after that. To my son Richard I give fforty pounds. To my son John I give twenty pounds. To my son Thomas I give Twenty five pounds to bee payd two years and a halfe after my decease, and to his children I give seaven pounds to be devided equally among them and paid as they come of age or at day of marriage, providing if any dyfore then their share to be distributed equally amongst the rest. And to my son Benjamin, besides the two oxen, allready received I give the sum of twenty five pounds, ten pound to be payd a yeare and halfe after my decease. The rest two years ffollowing, also to his children I give five pounds, equally e devyded, and payd, as they come of age, or at day of marriage, in case any dye before, that part to be equally divided to the rest. And to my son Caleb I give that peace of land knowne by the name of Tings lott, and all my land at Wattels neck with my marsh at the hundreds knowne by the name of Wiatts marsh, and all my working tools exsept two axes, all to be delivered present after my discease. Allsoe I give fourtene pounds to his seaven children equally to be devided, to be payd as they come of age or Day of mariage, and if any dye before, that part to be equally devided amongst the rest. To my son-in-law, John Severans, I give ten pounds to be pay'd two yeares & a halfe after my decease. And to my Daughter Elizabeth I give thirty pounds, ten pound to be payd, a year & halfe after my decease, and the other two parts, the following two years after that. To my Daughter Mary I give ten pounds, five pound to be payd a year & halfe after my decease, the other five pound the year after that. To my daughter Sarah I give forty pound, five pound to be payd the yeare & halfe after my decease and the rest five pound a yeare till it be all payd, also to her children I give seaven pounds ten shillings to be payed to them as they come ge or at day of marriage, if any dye before, that part to be equally devyded to the rest. And to my daughter Sarah above sd: I also give the bed I lye on with the furniture after one years use of it by my wife. To Thomas and Mary I give forty shillings apeece to be payd a yeare & halfe after my decease, and to Jeremiah I give fifteene pounds to be payd at the age of one & twenty. I give also eight pounds to the two Eldest daughters of Gyes Cowes (t he had by his first wife) to be payd and equally devided to them at the age of sixteene, if either of them dye before then the whole to be given to the one that remaines. I also give four pounds to my Couzen Haniell Bossworth, And doe ordaine & apoynt my two sons above sd. Richard and john Kimball to be my lawfull and sole executors. And my Couzen Haniell Bosworth above sayd to be my overseer that this my last will and Testament be duely and truly performed And thus I conclude with setting too my hand and seale the fifth of march 1674-5. Richard (his mark) Kemball Snr (SEAL) Signed & sealed after the enter- lining (and firewood) in the seventh line in the originall yn the presence of Moses Pengry Senr. Aron Pengry Sr.

Notes:

Richard came to this country in the ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, master, in 1634. He appears to have gone, soon after landing, to Watertown, Mass. He settled in a different part of the town from that occupied by Henry Kemball (1). According to Bond and other writers Richard and Henry were brothers. There is but little evidence to support this supposition, and it seems to be mainly founded on the fact that they both came over on the same vessel. Richard is said on the shipping list to be thirty-nine years old, but he was probably somewhat older. He was, however, in the prime of life, and soon became a prominent and active man in the new settlement.

He first settled in Watertown, and his home lot is thus given by Dr. Henry Bond: "Richard Kimball, six acres, bounded on the north by Cambridge, east by the land of W. Hamlet, south by the highway, and west by land of Edward White."

This lot was situated a long way from the centre of the town. It is now in Cambridge, which many years ago annexed the eastern part of Watertown. The lot was situated near what is now the corner of Huron avenue and Appleton street, and near springs of water.

He was proclaimed freeman on 6 May 1635, and was a proprietor in 1636-7. Soon after this date he was invited to remove to Ipswich, where they were in need of a competent man to act as wheelwright to the new settlement. Here he spent the remainder of his days. The town granted him a house lot, 23 Feb 1637, "next adjoining Goodwin Simons at the west end of the 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." On "the last day of the last month 1641" he is mentioned as "Among the Commoners of Ipswich." He was appointed one of the seven men on 1 Mar 1645. On the "22nd day of the tenth mo. 1647" he was allowed two Pounds for killing two foxes.

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."

19 Dec 1648, he contributed with others three shillings as his annual proportion toward the sum of £27, 7s, as a rate for the service of their military leader, Major David Dennison, then commander of the military forces of Essex and Norfolk counties.

In September, 1652, he was one of the appraisers of the estate of John Cross, one of the earliest settlers of Ipswich.

On the "25th day, 11 mo 1652," he and his son Richard, Wheelwrights, "for £14, seel 30 acres upland bounding on the land of Mr. John Winthrop," also another lot of land of ten acres of "medow." 1653 he was one of a committee of three to survey fences in the common fields north of the river. His brother-in-law, Thomas Scott, died Feb. 1653-4 and he was joint executor with Edmund Bridges of his will. On May 25, 1654, their official position was recognized by Thomas Scott, Jr., then a resident of Stamford, Conn.

In 1660 he was granted the right "to fell 20 white oak trees to make wheels for the townsmen their use." In 1664 he owned 43 shares in "Plumb Island."

Richard Kimball was of the parish of Rattlesden, county of Suffolk, England, as is shown by the following entry on the parish register:
" Henry Kemball ye sonne of Richard and Vrsula his wife baptized 1615 12 of August."

Ursula Scott, Richard's first wife, and mother of all his children, was the daughter of Henry Scott of Rattlesden. The Scott family had been in Suffolk county almost as long as the Kemball family. George Scott, grandfather of Henry, was buried at Bradsfield, St. George, 30 Aug 1562. Ursula was baptised at Rattlesden 14 Feb 1596-7, and married Richard Kemball in 1613. The will of Henry Scott, Ursula's father, serves to establish the relationship between the families.

"To Abigale Kemball my grandchild twenty shillings to be paid at 21 to Henrie Kemball my grandchild twenty shillings to be paid at 21 to Elizabeth Kemball my grandchild twenty shillings to be paid at 21 to Richard Kemball my grandchild twenty shillings to be paid at 21." He also mentions his wife Martha, and sons Roger and Thomas Scott. Thomas Scott came with his wife, Elizabeth (Strutt) Scott and children to this country on the same vessel as Richard and his family, and they brought Martha (Whatlock) Scott with them. Elizabeth Strutt was also of Rattlesden; her parents were probably Christopher and Anne (Waller) Strutt. She married Thomas Scott at Rattlesden, 20 Jul 1620. Among the children of Thomas Scott was Elizabeth, bapt. 18 Nov 1623, in Suffolk, and given in the shipping list as 9 years of age. This Elizabeth Scott married in Rowley, MA in 1647, John Spofford, from an ancient Yorkshire family (pre-dating 106, according to the records). John Spofford was the son of another John Spofford, who, in 1662, lost his ministery in Silkston, Yorkshire for "non-conformity." He was, of course, a Puritan. A daughter of John and Elizabeth (Scott) Spofford, Sarah Spofford, born 22 Mar 1661-2, married Richard Kimball(3). The passengers on the Elizabeth were very much an inter-related group; it also included Munnings, undoubtedly related to Richard Kimball.

Henry Scott's will was made "24 Sept. 1625 in the 21st year of James of England by Henry Scott of Rattlesden in the Co. of Suffolk and the diocese of Norwich." It was proved in the court of the Arch deacon of Sudbury 10 January 1624-5. As Thomas Scott settled in Ipswich this may have had some influence in causing Richard's removal from Watertown. Henry Scott was buried in Rattlesden 24 Dec. 1624. (Parish Register.)

Ursula (Scott) Kimball apparently died in Ipswich 1 Mar 1660, although another record gives her death as 17 June 1656. Richard Kimball married second, 23 Oct 1661, Margaret (Cole) Dow, widow of Henry Dow of Hamptom, New Hampshire. There were no children from this marriage, although, from his will, Richard evidently held Margaret Dow's children from her first marriage in great affection. (NEW&GR), (Hotten), (Spofford)

Richard married Ursula Scott 1613, Suffolk Co., England. Ursula died 1 Mar 1660, Ipswich, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Probate: 29 Sep 1674, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; Will proved
• Will: 25 Oct 1673, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Said to have been born 1609 in Bideford, Devon, England

Robert married Ann Langley 23 Oct 1639, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts. Ann died 26 Jul 1684, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

One Langley probated in Essex Co. before 1840, in 1712, and thus too late to be her parent (7 Nov 2017)