Benjamin Kimball b. 1637 d. 11 Jun 1696 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts: Wm. L. Gann's Genealogy Site

1637 - 1696 (59 years)

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Name	Benjamin Kimball [1]
Born	1637
Gender	Male
Died	11 Jun 1696	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
Probate	3 Jul 1696	Essex Co., Massachusetts [1]
	Estate inventory taken, real estate valued at £721, with another £339.0.7 in personal estate
Probate	9 Nov 1696	Essex Co., Massachusetts [2]
	Widow Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball named administratrix of his estate, bonded; inventory filed
Probate	21 Jan 1696/97	Essex Co., Massachusetts [3]
	Division of real estate
Probate	12 Oct 1708	Essex Co., Massachusetts [4]
	Further division of real estate; widow's third is divided among surviving heirs
Buried	Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
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.
Person ID	I2158	Wm L Gann Ancestors
Last Modified	31 Oct 2017

Father	Richard Kimball, b. Bef 1595, England , d. 22 Jun 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
Mother	Ursula Scott, d. 1 Mar 1660, Ipswich, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Married	1613	Suffolk Co., England
Family ID	F961	Group Sheet

Family Mercy Haseltine, b. 16 Oct 1642, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 5 Jan 1708 (Age 65 years)

Married 16 Feb 1661 Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts [5]

Children

	1. Hannah Kimball, b. 23 Dec 1661, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 2 Jan 1735 (Age 73 years)
	2. Mercy Kimball, b. 27 Dec 1663, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 5 Feb 1664 (Age 0 years)
	3. Richard Kimball, b. 3 Dec 1664, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 10 Jan 1711, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 46 years)
	4. Elizabeth Kimball, b. 24 Jul 1669, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 24 Aug 1727, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 58 years)
	5. David Kimball, b. 26 Jul 1671, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 14 Jun 1743, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 71 years)
	6. Jonathan Kimball, b. 26 Nov 1673, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 30 Sep 1749, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
	7. Robert Kimball, b. 5 Mar 1676, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 24 Feb 1744, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
	8. Abraham Kimball, b. 24 Mar 1678, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 26 Feb 1708, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 29 years)
	9. Samuel Kimball, b. 28 Mar 1680, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 30 Jun 1739 - Aug 1739 (Age 59 years)
	10. Ebenezer Kimball, b. 20 Jun 1684, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 23 Jan 1715, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 30 years)
	11. Abigail Kimball, b. 8 Sep 1686, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts , d. 29 Apr 1738, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 51 years)

Family ID F947 Group Sheet

Sources

[S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 305, pp. 203-4 (Reliability: 3), 31 Oct 2017.
[S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 305, p. 203 (Reliability: 3), 31 Oct 2017.
[S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 306, pp. 179-80 (Reliability: 3), 31 Oct 2017.
[S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 310, pp. 344-45 (Reliability: 3), 31 Oct 2017.
[S26897] Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850, Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp., (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005), Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0845110 (Reliability: 3), 30 Nov 2010.