Benjamin
Kimball
Born in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Ancestors 
Son of Jonathan Kimball
and Elizabeth (Little) Kimball
Brother of
Jonathan Kimball Jr, Nathaniel Kimball, Daniel Kimball, Elizabeth (Kimball) White [half], True Kimball [half], Martha Kimball [half] and Joseph Kimball [half]
Husband of
Sarah (Little) Poor
— married
1761 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire
Descendants 
Father of
Benjamin Kimball, Jonathan Kimball, Tamar (Kimball) Merrill, Elizabeth (Kimball) Little, Benjamin Kimball, Abigail (Kimball) Merrill and Sarah (Kimball) Webster
Died
at age 38
in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Dec 2015
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Biography
Captain Benjamin Kimball served with 1st New Hampshire Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Captain Benjamin Kimball was was Killed in Action during the American Revolution.
Benjamin Kimball is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A065924.
Benjamin Kimball was born in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, on 05 August 1741. He was the son of Jonathan Kimball (1720-1807) and Elizabeth (Little) Kimball (1719-1753).[1][2]
Benjamin married Sarah (Little) Kimball (1747-) about 1761, in Plaistow, New Hampshire.[3]
He served New Hampshire in the American Revolution as a 1st Lieutenant with Captain Samuel Gilman and Colonel Enoch Poor, and as a Captain on the 1st Regiment Continental Line, with Colonels John Stark and Joseph Cilley at Ticonderoga.[4][5]
After his death, his widow Sarah petitioned for a pension based on his Revolutionary War Service.
- "He continued faithfully to serve his Country unimpeached until the unhappy 22nd Day of August A. D. 1779... when he was unfortunately killed by an accidental shot, leaving your Petitioner a widow with a large family of young children far from being in affluent circumstances."
Sources
- ↑ 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; Page 325-326 https://archive.org/details/historyofkimball00byumorr/page/324/mode/2up?view=theater
- ↑
Birth Registration:
"New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
Citing Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,010.
FamilySearch (accessed 27 January 2022)
Benjamin Kimball birth 5 Aug 1741 in Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. - ↑
Marriage:
"New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
Citing , Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,273.
FamilySearch (accessed 27 January 2022)
Benjamin Kimball marriage to Sarah Little in abt 1761. - ↑ DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed April 26, 2017), "Record of BENJAMIN KIMBALL", Ancestor # A065924.
- ↑
Military:
"New Hampshire Revolutionary War Records, 1675-1835"
Citing New Hampshire, United States, Military Service, New Hampshire State Archives, Division of Records Management and Archives, Concord; FHL microfilm 005833018.
FamilySearch (accessed 27 January 2022)
FamilySearch Image Image number 00408
Name: Benjamin Kimball; Military Service Place: New Hampshire, United States; Death Date: 23 Aug 1779; Mil Rank: Captain; Event Place Sup: Muster rolls and petitions, 1777-1793, Rolls; Event Place Year Range: 1175-1933.
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Categories: 2nd Regiment, New Hampshire Militia, American Revolution | American Revolution Militia Officers | Killed in Action, United States of America, American Revolution | Plaistow, New Hampshire | 1st New Hampshire Regiment (1775), Continental Army, American Revolution | Killed in Action, American Revolution | NSDAR Patriot Ancestors | NSSAR Patriot Ancestors
1. Benjamin b 05 October 1762 2. Jonathan b 22 October 1764 3. Tamar b 06 July 1766 4. Elizabeth b. Jan 27, 1769; d. March 4, 1843; m. Nov. 13, 1786, Amos Little of Warren, New Hampshire; d. 06 April 1842 5. Benjamin b. Jan 1 1771 6. Abigail, b. 04 December 1773 7. Sarah, b. 1780; d. 16 August 1865. May we collaborate? -- Janine