Millicent (Unknown) Kingsbury (abt. 1611 - aft. 1676)

Born about 1611 in England

Descendants

Died after Jun 1676 after about age 65 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Millicent the wife of Joseph Kingsbury of Dedham was probably born about 1611 in England.

Millicent's first name is known with certainty from her husband's will^[1]

Another Millicent "Eames" was listed by Anderson in "The Great Migration" as marrying William Sprague in 1634 or 1635.^[2]

Arthur Murry Kingsbury in his work on the family listed her as "possibly an Ames" which is shown as her current last name.^[3]

The church at Dedham was founded 8 November 1638. During the following months, before 24 April 1639 several persons were admitted. The fifth person was "ye wife of Joseph Kingsbury who appeared to ye church a tender harted soule full of feares & temptations, but truly breathing after Christ." Joseph on the other hand remained "stiffe & unhumbled & not clering hims' to satisfaction neither being zelous of his hart in respect of thos evills we feared in him remained long under ye admonition of ye co'pany" Mary and Elizabeth the daughters of "or sister ye wife of Joseph Kingsbury" were baptized 5 3m (May) 1639. Joseph, son of sister Kingsbury, wife of Joseph, was baptized 21 12m (Feb) 1640. Joseph, after repentance and humbling himself was received into fellowship 9 2nd month (April) 1641. Thereafter "John ye sone of our br: Josephe Kingsbury & our sister his wife was baptised 20d 6m. 1643, and Nathaniell ye sone of br: Joseph Kingsbury was baptised 7d 2m, 1650. There is no record (in the printed records) of Eleazer's baptism.^[4]

She died after her husband, whose will was probated 01 Jun 1676, probably in Dedham (then) Suffolk County, Province of Mass. Bay.

Sources

1. ↑ Kingsbury, Frederick John. The genealogy of the descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Press, 1905) p. 83-85;
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, _Great Migration- Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F_ (2005) page 389 public image
3. ↑ Arthur Murray Kingsbury, Kingsbury Genealogy; the Genealogy of the Descendants of Joseph Kingsbury of Dedham, Massachusetts, Together with the Descendants in Several Lines of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Our Canadian Cousins. (Minneapolis, 1962) pp. 14-15
4. ↑ Hill, Don Gleason (ed.), The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths and Admissions to the Church and Dismissals therefrom, Transcribed From the Church Records in the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845, (Dedham, Mass.: 1888) Vol. 2, pp. 1, 14, 7, 20, 24, 25, 27, 31

See Also

• Addison Kingsbury and Joseph Addison Kingsbury, A Pendulous Edition of Kingsbury Genealogy, Gathered by Rev. Addison Kingsbury (Pittsburgh, Murdoch-Kerr Press, 1901), p. 13. ("Joseph [Kingsbury] married Millicent Ames in England, 16__; came to America 1628, made freeman in Massachusetts Colony 1641; settled in Dedham...")

• Dean, John Ward, "Genealogy of the Kingsburys of Dedham, Mass." Vol. 16(1862):338 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) (Names wife as Millicent with no surname given)