Thomas KIMBALL

1633 - 1676  (43 years)

• Name	Thomas KIMBALL
  Born	1633	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	10 Apr 1634	“Elizabeth”
  Occupation	Mechanic, farmer, constable
  Will Notes	Probate: 27 JUN 1676 Essex County, Massachusetts Note: Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Kimball of Ipswich Essex Probate Docket # None Administration on the estate of Thomas Kimboll, who was slain by the Indians, was granted 27:4:1676, to Mary, the relict, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, leaf 94. Inventory of the estate of Thom. Kimall, taken May 18, 1676, by Shu. Walker and Samuell Gage: wearing apparill, all ye Indians left, £1. 10 s: Tabel lining, 1 sheete, 3 pillowberes, £1. 15 s.: vallence and Curtaine and 4 Cushins, 10 s.; 2 Rugs, 2 Blankets, and a parcill of old beading, £ 3, 5 s.; peatar,£ 3 3 s,: 1 Iron pot, 1 warming pan, 2 tubs, 2 barills, £1, 10 s.: saddle and pillion and a parcill of sheeps wool, £1 5 s.; Tools for his traid and utensils for husbandry, £5; six oxen, five Cowes, two heifers of 3 yere old, 3 steres of 2 yere old, 2 yerlings, 5 Calves, £66 15 s.; a horse and a mare and a coult, £6 ; 12 swine, £7; 7 shepe, £2; housing and about 422 acres land and medow, £450; glass, £1 10s.; Corne and provisions, £3; 5 yards of Cloath, £1; total £556 3s. Wearing cloaths of Goody kimballs, £3 16s.; cloaths of Joanna Kimball, £2 10 s. Debts due from estate: Gilbort Wilford's estate, £1 li; Daniell Boreman, 1£; John Wicom, £1. Joseph Bond, £1. 2 s.; Ensigne Chandler, £1. 10 s.; by John Kimball, £12 ; total, £17 li 12 s.; Debts due from estate: Mr. wainwright, £9 18 s. 6 d.; Capt. Gerish, £9 9 s. 1 d.; Sergent Wait, £6 18 s.; John Pickard, £1. 10 s.; Stephen Webster, £1. 10 s. ; Will. Barker, £2. 16 s.; Deacon Jewit, 18 s.; David Haseltine, £1. 1 s.; Hunt of Ipswich, £1. 2 s.; Decon Goodhue, £1.; Mr Cobbit, 10 s.; Shu. Walker, 12 s.; Joseph Hardy, £1. 10 s.; Nath. Gage, 15 s.; Samuel Haseltine, £2. 2 s.; Francis Jordon, 2 s. 6 d.; Josiah Gage, 18 s.; John Stickne, £3 ; Mr. Buship, at present not known; Anthony Somersby, £1. 5 s.; Phillip Fouler, 6s.; total £50 8 s. 1 d. Attested in Ipswich court Sept 26, 1676 by Mary relict of Thomas Kimball. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 25, leaf 124. An inventory brought in, amounting to £520 clear estate was ordered Sept 26, 1676, to the eight children and widow as follows; to Richard the eldest son, £80 , and to the rest of the children, £40 each, and the remainder of the estate to the widow, the land to stand bound for the payment of the childrens portions. Source: Ipswich Quarterly Court records, vol 5, page 284
  Immigrant?	Y
  Cause of Death	Killed by Indians
  Died	3 May 1676	Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts
  Buried	unknown   [1]
  Person ID	I4891	Main
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Richard KIMBALL,   b. 10 Apr 1595, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England ,   d. 22 Jun 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Ursula SCOTT,   b. Abt 1597, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England ,   d. 1 Mar 1660, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Married	23 Oct 1615	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F12308	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary SMITH,   b. Abt 1634, England ,   d. 20 Nov 1688, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 54 years)
  Married	Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Children	+ 1. Thomas KIMBALL,   b. 1665, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 Jan 1732, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 67 years)
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2012
  Family ID	F13150	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  Thomas was one year old when he came to New England with his parents. He later went to Ipswich. Massachusetts, and was living in Hampton, New Hampshire, 20 Oct. 1653, and was an owner of mill property there on Oyster river. He made his home at that place as late as 1660. He afterwards removed to that portion of Rowley, which is included in the present town of Bradford, Massachusetts. Previous to 1675 the section where Thomas and his brother Benjamin lived was within the limits of Rowley, but the locality was called Merrimack when Thomas was elected a constable on 20 Feb. 1668-9. His house was one of the legal places for posting and "publishing any orders or other business of public concernment to the whole town." His house was situated on the Boxford road, and its situation can still be located. At that place he lived and prospered for about ten years. He was a mechanic and a thrifty farmer, owning over four hundred acres of land and a large amount of personal property, as is shown by the inventory of his estate. Thomas Kimball married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith of Ipswich, as is shown by the following note from the records at Salem: "18 Nov. 1686 Richard and Benjamin Kimball of Bradford did covenant to and with the Selectmen of Ipswich that they would take Thomas Smith and his wife to Bradford to the house of Mary Kimball the widow of Thomas Kimball and provide their Meate, drink, washing, lodgeing, clothes and attendance with all things necessary for persons in such a condition for the space of one year beginning at the date hereof, the price for a year to be £25." "8 Dec. 1681 Agreed with Richard Kimball of Bradford to allow unto him further keeping and providing for his grandfather Thomas Smith for the year ensuing £13." According to this Joanna Smith had probably died during the year. At that time the skulking Indians continually annoyed the white inhabitants. The Merrimac river was a pathway; the Indians could make rapid sallies upon the settlements and make their escape without penetrating the forests. Haverhill had been attacked with all the cruelty of the savages. On the night of 2 May 1676, three well known 'converted' (half civilized) Indians, Peter, Andrew, and Simon, were intending to kill some parties in Rowley, but the night being far advanced, they wreaked their vengeance upon the Kimball's. Thomas Kimball was killed by Simon, and his wife and five children, namely, Joanna, Thomas, Joseph, Priscilla, and John were taken captive and carried forty miles into the wilderness, where they remained forty-one days, and were freed without ransom by the friendly offices of the chief Wanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians. Her own life and that of her infant were threatened, and twice were the fires lighted to burn them. They reached their home 13 June 1676. Great was the anguish of their friends during their captivity, and on 3 May 1676, her pious parents in Ipswich asked prayers on the Sabbath that they might be delivered. Subsequently she addressed a petition to the Governor and Council that she might be protected from Simon, the Indian, who had threatened to kill her and her children if she returned to her own house. The three Indians were seized and confined in jail, but escaped and pursued their course of blood most mercilessly thereafter, and their subsequent fate is unknown. They were semi-civilized and had worked for and lived a great deal with the white people. The name of Thomas Kimball occurs very frequently on the early records of the town of Merrimack. Until the time of his death he always held some town office, being frequently selectman. Thomas had a share and a half of Plum Island, &c., 1664. 8

  
  

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