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- s/o Richard KEMBALL (b 4 Jan 1564/65 in Brettenham, Suffolk, England) & Elizabeth _____ (b 1567 in Brettenham, Suffolk, England)
m2 Margaret COLE DOW
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The common ancestor of the great majority of Kimball's in this country was Richard Kimball.
RICHARD KIMBALL
Richard Kimball was of the parish of Rattlesden, county of Suffolk, England, as is shown by the following entry on the parish register: Henry Kemball ye sonne of Richard and Vrsula his wife baptized 1615 12 of August.
Richard Kemball came to this country in the ship Elizabeth, William Andrews, master, in 1634. He appears to have gone, soon after landing, to Watertown, Massachusetts. He settled in a different part of the town from that occupied by Henry Kemball. According to Bond and other writers Richard and Henry were brothers. There is but little evidence to support this supposition, and it seems to be mainly founded on the fact that they both came over on the same vessel. Richard is said on the shipping list to be thirty-nine years old, but he was probably somewhat older. He was, however, in the prime of life, and soon became a prominent and active man in the new settlement.
He first settled in Watertown, and his home lot is thus given by Dr. Henry Bond: Richard Kimball, six acres, bounded on the north by Cambridge, east by land of West Hamlet, south by the highway, and west by land of Edward White.
This lot was situated a long way from the center of the town. It is now in Cambridge, which many years ago annexed the eastern part of Watertown. The lot was situated near what is now the corner of Huron Avenue and Appleton Street, and near a spring of water.
He was proclaimed freeman on 6 May 1635. Was a proprietor in 1636-7. Soon after this date he was invited to remove to Ipswich, where they were in need of a competent man to act as wheelwright to the new settlement. Here he spent the remainder of his days. The town granted him a house lot, 23 Feb. 1637, next adjoining Goodwin Simons at the west end of the town. He was also granted at the same time "40 acres Beyond the North River, near the land of Robert Scott." In 1639 he had liberty to pasture "two cows free." On "the last day of the last month 1641" he is mentioned as "Among the Commoners of Ipswich." He was appointed one of the seven men 1 March 1645. On the 22d day of the tenth mo. 1647 he was allowed two Pounds for killing two foxes.
His services as wheelwright were appreciated by his townspeople, for he was permitted in January 1649, "to fell such white Oaks as he hath occasion to use about his trade for the town use."
19 December 1648, he contributed with others three shillings as his annual proportion towards the sum of £27, 7s, as a rate for the services of their military leader, Major David Dennison, then commander of the military forces of Essex and Norfolk counties.
In September 1652, he was one of the appraisers of the estate of John Cross, one of the earliest settlers of Ipswich.
On the 25, day 11 mo 1652, he and his son Richard, Wheelwrights, "for £14. sell 30 acres upland bounding on land of Mr. John Winthrop," also another lot of land of ten acres of "medow".
In 1653 he was one of a committee of three to survey fences in the common fields north of the river. His brother-in-law Thomas Scott died Feb. 1653-4 and he was joint executor with Edmund Bridges of his will. On 25 May 1654, their official position was recognized by Thomas Scott, Jr., then a resident of Stamford, Connecticut.
In 1660 he was granted right 'to fell 20 white oak trees to make weels for the townsmen their use. In 1664 he owned 43 shares in Plumb Island.
Richard Kimball married second, 23 October 1661, Margaret Dow, widow of Henry Dow of Hampton, New Hampshire.
Having thus made his will he waited for the coming of the messenger who would sunder all earthly ties and take him on his eternal journey. The angel delayed not long his coming. On the twenty-second of the following June the earthly pilgrimage of Richard Kimball ended, and, aged more than eighty years, he joined the great majority.
His wife did not long survive him, but died the succeeding spring, 1 March 1676. Richard Kimball was well to do for those early days. The inventory of his estate, which was taken 12 July 1675, and returned to court 28 Sept. 1675, amounted to £737 3s. 6d. He had already given to his children at their marriages.
He had a houselot granted to him in Ipswich, 23 February 1637, adjoining goodman Simons, "att ye west end of ye town." He was a commoner, 1641; one of Major Denison's subscribers, 1648; had a share and a half in Plum Island, &c., 1664. He had a farm in the northerly part of the town, near Prospect Hill, having the farm that Thomas Emerson sold to Joseph Jewett on the northwest. He also possessed a lot on the Town Hill. The inventory of his property, June 17, 1676, amounted to £986, 5; of which his house with 132 acres of land valued at £370.
- 1634: Came from Ipswich, England on the Elizabeth (which left 10 April 1634), arrived in Boston on 12 Nov 1634, included the following:
Richard, 39
Ursula, [no age] wife of Richard.
Also on this ship were the following children of Richard and Ursula:
Henry, 15
Richard, 11
Mary, 9
Martha, 5
John, 3
Thomas, 1
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The ship Elizabeth sailed from Ipswich, England in April, 1634 with William Andrews, Master. On board were Richard and Ursula Kimball and their children, Ursula’s mother Martha Whatlock Scott and her brothers Roger and Thomas Scott. Humphrey and Bridget Bradstreet sailed on the same ship. They arrived in July at Boston.
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