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Update as to Origins
Until recently, the association of Henry Kingsbury of Assington and Boston, as Henry, the son of James of Boxford, Suffolk, England has been elusive. In 2007, Robert Charles Anderson believed the immigrant was related to the Kingsburys from that area, but he could not further define that relationship.[1] A Spring 2021 article[2] by Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy in New England Historical and Genealogical Register shows they are indeed the same man. See Research Notes.
Biography
Henry Kingsbury[3] was probably born Boxford, Suffolk, England, say 1588[4] (listed second in his father's will), herein son of James and Anne (Francis) Kingsbury who married at Boxford, 1584.
Henry married (1) in Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk,[5] 5 December 1613, Jane Warren ("Jane Waryn").[6] Her ancestry is unknown, but she may have been somehow related to Susan Warren, the mother of Thomas French, Sr.[7] Henry and Jane are, or are most likely, the parents of Henry Kingsbury, born about 1615,[8] whose wife Susanna was otherwise Susan French, a granddaughter of Jacob[9] and Susan (Warren) French of Assington, Suffolk.
The 1616 will of John Coe of Little Cornard, Suffolk, mentions James and Anne Kingsbury as "of Assington" and their children; Coe separately called out his "Godchild, the sonne of Henry Kingsbury."[10]
The 3 May 1622 will of James Kingsbury of Boxford, proved 9 April 1622 mentions son Henry Kingsbury and, immediately following, a grandson of the same name,[11]
- To Henrie Kingsberie, my sonne, one bullock of a year old, one mare and colt of five years of age and eight bushels of barely, bing now in his hands. To Henrie Kingsberie, my grandchild, a one year old Bullock.
"Henerie Kingsberie," the elder, married (2) Assington, 18 May 1621[12] Margaret Alabaster. She is presumed the Margaret Blyth who married earlier, at Assington, 8 July 1618, Thomas Alabaster; he was buried 18 September 1620.[13] Thomas Alabaster was the son of Bridget (Winthrop) Alabaster of Hadleigh, an aunt to Governor John Winthrop.[14]
Henry and Margaret were the parents of two children baptized Assington, September 1622 and August 1624.[15] This is the young family, Henry, Margaret and their two children, who immigrated in 1630 aboard the Talbot, as part of Winthrop's fleet. They settled Boston; Henry served the Governor's family through at least 1636 in different capacities, frequently involving livestock.[16]
Prior to immigration, on 5 May 1629, from "his house in Asington," Henry Jacie (presumably otherwise Henry Jessey, a dissenter and Jacobite)[17] wrote to John Winthrop regarding an assault on "our honest Neighbor goodman Kingsbury" leaving the man unable to travel with Winthrop. Jacie wrote, in part,[18]
- Mr. Gurdon[19] riding toward Dedham this morning ... cald at the house of our honest Neighbor goodman Kingsbury: and there preceiving how ill he was being in bed then, he wished them there to send or me to come thither to see, and here how it was with him, that I might write .. to certify you thereof ... according to his wives Relation to me ... he is in great weakness ... he is not able to go about his ordinary work ...
- Now he fearing things should not be rightly carried, (being not able to go thither ...) desires your Worships direction what course might be thought best ...
- As for himself he is nowayes able to go to London for My Lords assistance to take his oath etc. But if need be his Brother would be willing to go for him ...
In November 1629, Margaret Winthrop wrote to her husband in London that "Kingesbery will go for New England, his wife and two children."[20]
On 28 April 1630, John Winthrop wrote that "Henry Kingsbury hath a child or two in the Talbot sick of the measles, but like to do well."[21]
In New England, Henry and Margaret Kingsbury were admitted as members #25 and #26 of the Boston Church. Margaret's admission is marked "dead since" suggesting she died within a few years of immigration.[22]
On 9 December 1630, John Winthrop, Jr., mentioned "goodman Kingsbury of Assington" in a letter to his father, [23] and in [1634],[24] Ephraim Child referred to Henry Kingsbury as a servant of John Winthrop in a letter,[25]
- The last night late, goodman pease sent your seruant henry Kingsbury for a payre of bullocks. I went this morning with him to looke them, but could not find them, so he went without them.
"Hen: Jacie" [Henry Jacie][26] wrote to John Winthrop, Jr., in about February, 1634/5[27] in part,
- Now Sir since your going to york, I have found H. Kingsburies letter (which I could not light on) the bookes he desired me to procure him were these 3. 1 A Treatise of Faith ... 2 Perkins Principles. 3. The sweet Posie for Gods Saints ... He writ that he would pay for them.
A tailor's invoice, "ca 1636" billed John Winthrop for a long list of items including "for Henry Kinsbury, a sute ... 4s 6d."[28] On 15 January 1635[/36], John Winthrop's daughter, then Mary (Winthrop) Dudley, asked her mother for yard-goods and accessories, "you send by Henry Kinsbury or any other Convenient messenger."[29]
Anderson reported the last notice[30] of Henry Kingsbury is found in a 3 July 1636 letter from Adam Winthrop to John Winthrop, Jr., his brother,[31]
- I did ask henry kinkgesbery whether he had bout any gotes for mr. jase. he told me he had boute non becas that there was som com from ingland for him: and those he would haue boute but that they ware both dere and apt to dye fudor word the tould me he wold send you thare of.
Henry either died or returned to England some time after July 1636. Brief notice in the September 1636 Dedham town records may offer clues.[32] The record refers to both John Kingsbury (for Dedham) and Henry Kingsbury (subject of correspondence). Kingsbury's time in service to Winthrop is coming to an end; Winthrop asks that he be permitted to reside at Dedham through the end of that service. Parts of the record were damage or otherwise unreadable.[33]
- Dedham [_____] month Called September [1636]
- Assembled whose names are vnderwritten viz
- Edward Alleyn, Abraham Shawe, Samuell Morse, Philemon Dalton, John Kingsbery, Lambert Genere, Richard Eurard, John Coolidge, Thomas Hastings, John Gaye, John Haward, Thomas Bartlet, John Rogers, Daniell Morse
- ...
- 4. A note Received from ye Worpll John Winthrop deputy Go [____] in Recomendacon of his servant Henry Kingsbery ye [____] to sit [_____] wth vs: was Reade, And his Request condecended vnto only Respited vntill expiracon of ye tyme of his s[_____] wch is ______ next not to violate our order formerly [_____] in that behalfe.
Family
Henry Kingsbury is presumed the man who married 5 December 1613, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, England, Jane Warren, whose ancestry is not known. He married (2) 18 May 1621, Assington, Suffolk, the widow Margaret (Blyth) Alabaster.
Henry and Jane (Warren) Kingsbury are as well presumed the parents of one child:
- 1. Henry Kingsbury, born about 1615; immigrated New England, resided Ispwich and Haverhill.
Henry and Margaret (Byth) Kingsbury were the parents of two children baptized Assington,[34]
- 2. James Kingsbury, baptized 1 September 1622; immigrated to New England with parents in 1630; no further record
- 3. Sarah Kingsubry, baptized 1 August 1624; immigrated to New England with parents in 1630; no further record
Research Notes
In the 1630s, three Kingsbury immigrants arrived at Massachusetts Bay Colony--Henry Kingsbury, who was known of Assington, England, and Boston, Massachusetts, and two brothers, John and Joseph Kingsbury, who settled at Dedham. A younger Henry Kingsbury (b. about 1615), nephew of John and Joseph, arrived also, settling at Ipswich and Haverhill.
The 1622 English will by James Kingsbury of Boxford, Suffolk, England, calls out eight children, including sons Henry, John, and Joseph. Of this will, the 1905 authors Kingsbury and Talcott wrote, "Here we have the names of the three brothers who came to New England, Henry, John and Joseph ...";[35] a Kingsbury descendancy chart is included, reporting all as sons of James of Boxford, deceased 1622.[36] In the will, James also makes a bequest to his grandson Henry. In the context of the document, it is apparent this particular grandson is the child of James' son, Henry.
As late as 2005, writing about the origins of immigrant John Kingsbury and his brother Joseph, Anderson did not follow the 1905 findings by Kingsbury and Talcott, writing that "'Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott's proposed English origin [for the brothers, John and Joseph] may well be correct," adding,[37]
- All of these men [brothers John and Joseph Kingmsan, and "kinsman" Henry of Ipswich] were almost certainly closely related to Henry Kingsbury {1630, Boston} ... who is known to be from Assington, Suffolk ... However the names John, James and Henry are so common in this Kingsbury family that further evidence should be sought in support of this identification. In any case, these Kingsbury immigrants must have come from this small cluster of west Suffolk parishes.
In 2021 authors Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy published a related account, "Three French Daughters ..." in which they did subscribe to the 1905 conclusions and considered three of the immigrants--Henry (of Assington and Boston), John and Joseph Kingsbury, both of Dedham--to have been brothers.[38]
Of the younger immigrant, Henry Kingsbury, the authors wrote, "[he] had two uncles who came to New England and settled at Dedham," This Henry Kingsbury, b. about 1615, is recognized by the authors as a son of Henry of Assington and Boston--the "grandson" by that name mentioned in James Kingsbury's 1622 will,[39] thus by association, the three brothers are all sons mentioned in the will of James Kingsbury of Boxford.
Key to the analysis by Byrnes and Hardy was their argument that Henry of Assington and Boston had an earlier marriage to Jane Warren, identifying them as the parents of younger immigrant, Henry of Ipswich and Haverhill. Anderson had assumed the elder Henry first married in 1621, and further reporting his birth as "about 1596," based on that marriage date. Thus Anderson pictured the man of Assington as probably too young and certainly not married soon enough to have been the father of Henry, born about 1615.
Sources
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration- Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L (2005), p. 187.
- ↑ Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Anderson presumed Henry's 1621 marriage to have been his first, and thus reported his birth as "Before 1696," Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Byrne and Hardy estimated his birth as "early 1580s, based on his first marriage in 1613, Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 38 for select transcribed Stoke by Neyland parish marriage records; digital images, Hathi Trust; he is recorded as "Henery Kingsberry."
- ↑ Citing "Threlfall, 'Thomas French of Assington' [note 1] Register 142:250-252," Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors. Authors note: "Threlfall was unable to reliably sort the Warrens in surviving records."
- ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and files of quarterly courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (1911-1975), 4:117, for deposition of "Henry Kingsbery" of 27: 1: 1668 in "Mr. Symon Bradstreet v. John Gage"; digital images Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112, 117-18; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "Cope 49" for the will of "John Coe of Little Cornd," Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 53-54; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Citing "Harrold 30," Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 52-53; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 31 for select transcribed Assington parish marriage records; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Referring to the "Register at Assington," Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 79; digital images, Hathi Trust; calling her "the widow Margaret (Blyth) Alabaster, Byrne and Hardy cite "Anderson, Winthrop Fleet [note 26], 427-428 (Henry Kingsbury)," Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 79; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 30; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ "Henry Jessey [or Jacie])"' Wikipedia.
- ↑ Winthrop Papers: Volume II (1623-1630) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1931), p. 87-89; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Citing "Muskett, 286, 287, 288," editor notes, "Brampton Gurdon of Assington, high sheriff of Suffolk in 1628 ... associated with Winthrop as county magistrate ... Jacie was chaplain in his family at the time this letter was written," Winthrop Papers: Volume II (1623-1630) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1931), p. 88n; digital images, Hathi Trust; see also, "Henry Jessey," Wikipedia, citing "Gospel Magazine November 1963 biography (PDF)" for "He was vicar of Assington, or simply resident in the family of Brampton Gurdon." [This source is otherwise, "Spritual Biography: Henry Jessey ... 1601-1662," The Gospel Magazine No. 1334 (New Series):488-492; digital images, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Citing "WP 2:169," Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "WP 2:225," Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "BChR." "Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "WP 2L326,"Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ The letter is undated, but published among those dated 1634, Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 143-144; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Citing "WP 3:144," "Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Citing "WP 3:188," "Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1131; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 188; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 219-220; digital images, Hathi Trust; reference to this invoice as "WP 3:220" in "Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 219-220; digital images, Hathi Trust; reference to letter as"WP 3:223" in Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1132; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 1995, 3 vols., 2:1131-1133, in particular, p. 1133; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Winthrop Papers: Volume III (1631-1637) ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1943), p. 283; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ According to Byrne and Hardy, both Henry Kingsbury (d. after 1636) and Henry Kingsbury, b. 1615, served Governor Winthrop and/or his family, and it is not clear which of the two Henrys this record is about, Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):112; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Don Gleason Hill, ed., Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts: 1636-1659 Dedham Town Records (Dedham: Dedham Transcript, prt., 1892), multiple vols., 3:22-23; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ Kingsbury, Frederick John. The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1905), Page 30.
- ↑ Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. 22; digital images, Hathi Trust;
- ↑ As a pull out, this chart is viewable in the InternetArchive edition, see Kingsbury and Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass. (Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1905), p. n74 (between pages 44 and 45); digital images, InternetArchive.
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, 2005, 183-188, in particular, p. 187; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, p. 114; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- ↑ Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021):105-119, in particular, 113 and 113n; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
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