Abigail (Kimball) Severans (1617 - 1658)

Born 5 Nov 1617 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Wife of John (Severance) Severans — married 1635 in England

Descendants

Died 17 Jun 1658 at age 40 in Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Abigail (Kimball) Severans immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Abigail, daughter of Richard and Ursula (Scott) Kimball, was christened in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England in 1617 ^[1]; She married John Severans before 1637 in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, probably in Boston ^[2]; She died in Salisbury on 17 June 1658 (N.S.) ^[3]

Abigail's birth record is a secondary source, a primary source christening record in Suffolk, England is needed. The 'Colonial Families' doucument cited above also indicates she married John Severans in England in 1635. Other documents indicate her parents and siblings emigrated to New England in 1635 and John and Abigail followed in 1637.

Abigail died at the birth of her twin daughters, one unnamed, lived ten days, Elizabeth the second twin daughter died at age four.

From "History of the Kimball Family" ^[4]

Abigail(2), b. Rattlesden, County of Suffolk, England; d. in Salisbury, Mass., June 17, 1658. She married in England

John Severans, b. ----, d. April 9, 1682, of Salisbury, Mass., who is first styled a planter, afterwards a victualler and vintner. She is not mentioned in the list of passengers, with the others of her father’s family, on the Elizabeth. She was in the prime of life at the time of her death. Mr. Severans married, second, Oct. 2, 1663, Susanna, widow of Henry Ambrose. Mr. Ambrose, after having lived in Hampton, N.H., Salisbury, Charlestown, and Boston, died in Boston in 1658.

CHILDREN OF ABIGAIL AND JOHN SEVERANS

i. Samuel Severans(3), b. Sept. 19, 1637; d. young.

ii. Ebenezer Severans(3), b. March 7, 1639; d. 1667; unmarried.

iii. Abigail Severans(3), b. Jan. 7, 1641; Sept. 1, 1642.

iv. Abigail Severans(3), b. May 25, 1643; m. Nov. 29, 1664, John Church

v. Mary Severans(3), b. Aug. 5, 1645; m. Nov. 3, 1663, James Coffin of Nantucket.

vi. John Severans(3), b. Nov. 24, 1647; m. Mary -----.

vii. Joseph Severans(3), b. Feb. 14, 1649-50.

viii. Elizabeth Severans(3), b. April 8, 1652; d. Feb. 5, 1652-53.

ix. Benjamin Severans(3), b. Jan. 13, 1654-5.

x. Ephraim Severans(3), b. April 8, 1656.

xi. Dau. b. June 17, 1658; d. June 23, 1658.

xii. Elizabeth Severans(3), b. June 17, 1658; m. 1686, Samuel Eastman of Salisbury.

Her granddaughter, Abigail Eastman(5), b. July 10, 1737, daughter of Thomas(4) and Abigail (French) Eastman, m. Ebenezer Webster and was the mother of Daniel Webster(6) the statesman.

Abstract of Grandfather Henry Scott's Will

An abstract of the will of Henry Skott, citing Bury Wills Book, Pearle, L. 117^[5]

Henry Skott of Rattlesden, Suffolk, yeoman, 24 September 1623, proved 10 January 1624. To my wife Martha the house wherein I dwell &c. during term of her natural life; after that to my son Roger Skott and his heirs forever. To Abigail Kemball my grandchild forty shillings at her age of one and twenty years. To my grandchild Henry Kemball twenty shillings at age of one and twenty and the same sum each to grandchildren Elizabeth and Richard Kemball at same age. To son Thomas Skott five pounds within one year after my decease. To Mr. Peter Devereux, minister of Rattlesden, ten shillings. Wife Martha to be executrix.

Research Notes

• Abigail's 1617 birth/christening is lacking an England vital record
• son Adam is not sourced and is not listed in documentation herein. His birth is entered as same as daughter Elizabeth (were they twins)?
• in the childlist above the penultimate child was a daughter but gives conflicting 1658 birth dates.

Sources

1. ↑ 1617 Birth for Abigail Kimball in "Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775," ancestry.com, database online [subscription] Ancestry Record
2. ↑ By 1637 Marriage for Abigail Kimballl in "U,S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700," ancestry.com, database online with images [subscriotion] Ancestry Record
3. ↑ 1658 Death for Abigail Kimbal in "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH11-4PR : 17 January 2020), Abigail Severans, 1658.
4. ↑ Abigail Kimball in "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," Morrison, Leonard Allison & Sharples, Stephen Paschall, Vol. 1, Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1897.pg. 32
5. ↑ John Ward Dean, ed., The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 52 (1898):248 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898), image of p. 248 at InternetArchive.org.

• 1663 Marriage for Mary Severence in "The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America," Hussey & Robinson, publishers, Nantucket, Mass., Coffin, Allen, 1881, Archive.org internet archive
• Mary Severans and James Church in an Entry for Abigail Kimball Severens at "An American Family History," americanfamilyhistory.com Web URL