John Kimball (1631 - 1698)

Born 5 Oct 1631 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Bradstreet) Kimball — married 6 May 1655 in Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 6 May 1698 at age 66 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

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

John Kimball, son of Richard Kimball (abt.1595-1675) and Ursula (Scott) Kimball (1598-bef.1661) ^[1] was born about 1631 in England.^[2]

His parents most likely married in or near Rattlesden, Suffolk, England about 1615, as their oldest son, Henry Kimball, was baptized 12 Aug of that year.^[3] Although the Rattlesden records for the years 1615 to 1634 seem complete, no other records can be found for the couple or their children in that parish. It is assumed that the children, including John, were born and baptized there, but no records can verify that.

John was born about 1631 as the passenger list in 1634 listed his age as 3.^[4] In a deposition made in 1666, John stated that he was 35 years old, and in a deposition of 1684 he was 53 years old. (p. 39)^[1]

Emigration

Richard Kemball and his wife, Ursula (Scott), and seven of their children (Henry, 15; Richard, 11; Mary, 9; Martha, 5; John, 3; Thomas, 1; Elizabeth, 13) embarked on the ship Elizabeth out of Ipswich the last of April in 1634, the adults taking the Oath of Allegiance at the Ipswich Customs House before sailing.^[4]

The original Ipswich Custom House documents have been digitized and can be found at FindMyPast.com. The adults are found on folio 102 (p. 1) and the children on folios 104-05 (pp. 3-4).^[5]

Life in New England

He settled in Ipswich, Mass., and died there May 6, 1698.

By trade, John Kimball was a wheelwright, but by occupation he appears to have been also an extensive farmer. He frequently bought and sold land, and there are a number of deeds on record at Salem bearing his name:^[6]

• 1664: He had a share and a half in Plum Island.
• October 16, 1665 -- John Kimball was appointed one of the executors of the will of Bridget Bradstreet. In her will she mentions her daughter, Mary Kemball whom she bequeaths my ould bible, my cloth waskate, my stamell peticote, on boulster and on palow, on peuter dish and on candlestick."
• 1673: March 8: Joined the church by taking the covenant.
• 1679: Noted as a voter in Town affairs.

In 1676, John's father, Richard Kimball, Sr., died and left "To my son John I give twenty pounds."^[7]

John died 6 May 1698.^[8] "KIMBALL, John, sr., May 6, 1698."

Marriage and Children

John Kimball married Mary Bradstreet after July 1655 when the will of her father Humphrey Bradstreet, names her Mary Bradtreet, and 1657, the year John and Mary's first child was born.^[9]

Mary was born in England in 1633 came over on the same ship Elizabeth in 1634, with her and her father and mother (p. 40) ^[1], (p. 437)^[10]

Disputed marriage: While some interpret the Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to suggest that Mary Bradstreet Kimball died by Oct. 1666 when a John Kimball married Mary Jordan,^[11] the History of the Kimball Family (p 40) states this interpretation is in error; and that it was John, son of this John's brother Henry Kimball, who married Mary Jordan in 1666.^[1]

Children: ^[1]

1. John born Nov. 5, 1657; died Feb. 24, 1657-8.
2. Mary born Dec. 10, 1658; married May 17, 1682, Deacon Thomas Knowlton of Ipswich, MA.
3. Sarah, born July 29, 1661; died 1724: married John Potter of Ipswich, MA.
4. Hannah born ___ ; died young.
5. Rebecca, born Feb. ___, 1663-4; married Jan. 21, 1689, Thomas Lull.
6. Richard, born Sept. 22, 1665; died May 26, 1716; married first Lydia Welles; married second Sarah Waite.
7. Elizabeth, born Sept. 22, 1665.
8. Abigail born March 22, 1667; married 1st, Oct. 14, 1689, Isaac Esty of Topsfield, MA; married second, April 25, 1718, William Poole.
9. John born March 16, 1668; died May 4, 1761 at Preston, CT; married Sarah Goodhue, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Whipple) Goodhue.
10. Benjamin born July 22, 1670; died May 28, 1716; married Mary Kimball, daughter of John and Sarah Kimball of Boxford, MA.
11. Moses, born Sept., 1672; died Jan. 23, 1750; married Susanna Goodhue, his sister in law.
12. Aaron born Jan., 1674; died probably before his father, as he is not mentioned in the latter's will.
13. Joseph, born Jan. 24, 1675; died 1761; married Sarah Warner.

Estate

His will was made March 18, 1697-8.^[12]

In it he mentions his sons: Richard, John, Moses, Benjamin, and Joseph and his six daughters: Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Rebekah, Elizabeth, and Abigail.

"March the eighteen one thousand sixe hundred ninty and seven eight The Last will and Testiment of John kimbal senor of Ipswich…

Item I give to my Suns Richard: John and mosis: Kimball sixe shillins a peece in mony: which is all I intend for them having a deed of gift givene before what I then intended out of my Estat only my will is that mosis shal have my younge baye horse

It my will is that my sixe dafters mary: sarah: Hannah: Rebekah: Elisabeth: and Abigal: shal have forty shillns a peece in mony paid too them by my Exsecutor at my decease

Itm my will is that my suns Benjamin : and Joseph kimbal shal have and injoye all my moveable [  ? ] stock and husbandry utensils: and houshould goods: and corne and [  ? ] too bee equally devided betwene them at my decease by my too frinds ensine [  ? ] and John warner: excepting one steer of three years ould I give to my sun Benjamin: and my beste cubbard I give for my sun benjamins wife: in consideration of what thay have dune or may doe for mee in my age and weaknes.

Itm I doe constitute and apointe my too suns Benjamin and Joseph Kimball my exsecutors to this my last will…

his hand

John X Kimbal

mark

In presence of...

[  ? ] wallis

John warner

Edward neland

His real estate had all been given away before this time, and his personal property was estimated at £131. 9s. 11d., consisting mainly of animal stock. (p. 40)^[1]

An Inventory of the personal estate of John kimbal senr of Ipswich who deseased may the 6… one thousand sixe hundred ninte eight…

Quick stock: six oxen 24£: eight cows 26£: 13 young
 : catle.................................................................18£-10s:

29 shepp 6£: 12 swine 5£..............................79- 10- 00

Husbandry utencels.......................................06- 08- 00

Peuter brase and Iron...................................03- 17- 00

Wooden ware.................................................02- 18- 00

Corne and four sacks and a fane [?]............02- 06- 00

Bedsted and beding and linning..................15- 18- 00

Waring clothes................................................05- 15- 00

Books...............................................................01- 00- 00

In money.........................................................25- 00- 00

Deets dew to the estate in money...............05- 16- 00

Deets due to the estate in paye...................08- 01- 11

The total Sume.............................................131- 09- 11

Funeral charges..............................................08- 00- 00

More deets dew from the estate..................12- 16- 01"^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 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, Vol. 1, Boston: Damrell & Upham, (1897), [https://archive.org/stream/historyofkimball00morr#page/34/mode/2up/ pp. 27-9; 34, 39-41
2. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, "Richard Kimball," in The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, pp. 158-59 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005); image of p. 158 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.)
3. ↑ J. R. Olorenshaw, Notes on the History of the Church and Parish of Rattlesden, in the County of Suffolk : Together with a Copy of the Parish Registers from 1558 to 1758, and Index of the Marriages (Peterborough: Geo. C. Caster, 1900) p. 243; citing "Whotlocke, Robert, knacker, of Rattlesden, Suffolk," NCC will register Bradstritt 125, Norfolk Record Society vol. 28; image 292 of 415, p. 259 (FamilySearch.org).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} James Savage, "More Gleanings for New England," in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 10 (1849):141 (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1849); image 459 of 684, pp. 141-42 HathiTrust.org.
5. ↑ The National Archives, London, England, ref # CO 1/8, folios 102-05; "Early Passenger List To New England - Elizabeth," Early Emigration from Britain 1636-1815; folio 102-05, pp. 1-4 by subscription FindMyPast.com.
6. ↑ G.F. Kimball, The Kimball Family News, Volumes 3-4, 1902, p 237
7. ↑ "Kimball, Richard Senr," Essex County Registry of Deeds, Docket No. 15723; Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-188, Essex Cases 14000-15999; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives; images of p. 15723:2 by subscription AmericanAncestors.org.
8. ↑ Vital Records of Ipswich Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1910, p 603:
9. ↑ Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute Press, 1888, p 65
10. ↑ Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Genealogical Publishing Co. (Jan 1, 1985), p ??: "KIMBALL, John (1631-1698) & Mary BRADSTREET (1633-1665); b. 1657 Rowley"
11. ↑ Vital Records of Ipswich Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1910, p 254: KIMBALL, John, and Mary Jordan, Oct. 8, 1666. CTR
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Essex County Registry of Probate- Docket No. 15624

See also:

• Blodgette, George Brainard and Amos Everett Jewett. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, (1933). Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, New Hampshire. 1981. Page 34. Available digitally at: FamilySearch