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Ephraim Kimball (1660 - 1732)

Deacon Ephraim Kimball
Born in Wenham, Essex, Massachusettsmap
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Husband of — married 24 Nov 1685 in Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died at age 71 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusettsmap
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Biography

Ephraim was born in Wenham, Feb. 18, 1660.[1][2][3]

He married Mary Friend, daughter of Deacon James Friend, on 24 Nov. 1685.[1]

His will was made July 1, 1731 and proved Feb. 14, 1732.[1]

His will was written on July 1, 1731. in it he names:

  • wife Mary
  • eldest son Ephraim
  • son Ezra
  • son Nehemiah
  • son James, executor
  • daughter Mary Loverin
  • daughter Miriam Gouldsmith
  • daughter Elizabeth Potter
  • daughter Martha and Esther, both unmarried
  • grand daughter Mary Goldsmith [4]

Children of Ephraim and Mary Friend

  1. Mary b. 13 Oct. 1686 married John Lovering.
  2. Martha Kimball b. 24 Feb. 1688 married Ebenezer FIsh or Fisk
  3. Miriam b. 20 May 1691 married Hutton Goldsmith
  4. Ephraim b. 6 Sep. 1693. died 1752 in Boxford. married Mary Tarbox, daughter of Samuel Tarbox.
  5. James b. 21 Jan. 1695/6 married Mary Lovering.
  6. Esther Kimball b. 1 April 1698 married Nathaniel Dane.
  7. Ezra b. 25 Aug. 1700 married Elizabeth Waldron.
  8. Nehemiah Kimball b. 29 March 1702/3 married Mary Wentworth
  9. Elizabeth b. 2 June 1707 married Daniel Potter.[5]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 William Richard Cutter. Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 4 p. 1613. (Google eBook). Families of Middlesex County
  2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-9ZVQ : 3 November 2017), Joseph Kimball, 20 Jan 1661; citing Birth, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011143.
  3. Kimball Family: Morrison, Leonard Allison; Sharples, Stephen Paschall; History of the Kimball family in America from 1634 to 1897 and of its ancestors the Kemballs or Kemboldes of England : with an account of the Kembles of Boston, Massachusetts; Pub: 1897; Boston MA; Page52 https://archive.org/details/historyofkimball00byumorr/page/52/mode/2up?view=theater
  4. Case 15583: p.1-5:Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
  5. Children page 1613 Cutter.




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Mary Friend was born in 1666, Ephraim in 1660, marriage in 1665 is incorrect.
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