Mercy (Hazeltine) Kimball (1642 - 1707)

Born 16 Oct 1642 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Kimball — married 16 Apr 1660 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1707 at age 64 in Bradford, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mercy Hazeltine, ^{[1] [2]}, daughter of Robert and Ann (Langley) Hazeltine. ^[3] 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 10 mo. 23, 1639." Mercy was born "16, 8 mo, 1642" (16 Oct 1642), ^[4] and died 5 Jan 1707-8. ^[4]

She was one of the first members received into the first church of Bradford, when she, with sixteen other women, were admitted 7 Jan 1682-3. ^[4] Her will, made 14 May 1706, was proven 2 Feb 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-fourth 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.

Marriage

Mercy Hazeltine was married to Benjamin Kimball on 16 April 1661 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
Children:

1. Anna, (3), b. 23 Dec 1661 d. 2 Jan 1734-5 m. 21 Apr 1682, Richard Barker
2. Mercy, (3), b. 27 Dec 1663 d. 5 Feb 1663-4
3. Richard, (3-36), b. 3 Dec 1664 d. 10 Jan 1710-1
4. Elizabeth, (3-37), b. 24 Jul 1669 d. 24 Aug 1727, Bradford, MA
5. David, (3-38), b. 26 Jul 1671 d. 14 Jun 1743, Bradford, MA
6. Jonathan, (3-39), b. 26 Nov 1673 d. 30 Sep 1749, Bradford, MA
7. Robert, (3-40), b. 5 Mar 1675-6 d. 24 Feb 1743, Bradford, MA
8. Abraham, (3-41), b. 24 Mar 1677-8 d. 25 Feb 1707-8, Bradford, MA
9. Samuel, (3-42), b. 28 Mar 1680 d. 1739
10. Ebenezer, b. 20 June 1684 d. 23 Jan 1715, Bradford, MA
11. Abigail, b. 8 Sep 1686 d. 23 Jan 1715, Bradford, MA

Headstone

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

Information from gravestone:

Mercy ye Wife of

BenIamin Kemball

Died January ye

5 1707. 8 & in ye

67 Year of her

Age

reader stand of

thy due distance keep

For in this bed

a friend of Christ Doth sleep.

Sources

1. ↑ James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1965, 1969, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1990, Baltimore, MD.
2. ↑ Blodgette, George Brainard, Revised, Edited and Published by Jewett, Amos Everett. Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, NH 1981, p 142 (on FamilySearch
3. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635: Vol. IV (I-L)" p.159. pub. Boston, MA., USA: NEHGS, Great Migration Study Project. Reprinted (subscription online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 9 Aug 2021.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} History of the Kimball Family: , Page 44-45.

• Morrison, Leonard A., and Stephen P. Sharples.History of the Kimball Family in America 1634 - 1897 (Published by Damrell & Upham, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897, 734 pages.)
• Hollinger, Lavisa Ferrin. A Genealogical Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Ferrin and Elizabeth Preston (Cherokee, Iowa, 1915) Page 44
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, database with images, FamilySearch (2 March 2020), Mercy Haseltine, Aug 1642; citing Birth, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #18505527, Ancient Burying Ground, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts, USA