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An American Family History

Susanna Fiske Kilburn

The town of Ipswich was established on August 5, 1634, from common land called Agawam. On October 18, 1648, that portion called the "Village" at the New Meadows was set off as Topsfield. The boundary line between Ipswich and Topsfield was established, February 28, 1694.

Susanna Fiske Kilburn was born on March 18, 1700 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Joseph Fiske and Susannah Warner.

She married Cornet Jedediah Kilburn on March 22, 1723 in Ipswich. Jedediah was born on April 20, 1699. His parents were Samuel Kilburn and Mary Foster. His brother David Kilburn, married Susanna's sister Ruth Fiske Estey Kilburn.

Their children were Jedediah Kilburn (1725, married Hannah Platts), Samson Kilburn (1729), Elizabeth Kilburn (1732), Abigail Kilburn Smith (1733), Hannah Kilburn (1735), and Hannah Kilburn (1739).

Jedediah died on February 4, 1759. and Susanna died on September 27, 1764. They both died in Rowley.

Children of Joseph Fiske
and Susannah Warner
  • Joseph Fiske
  • Hannah Fiske Platts
  • Susanna Fiske Kilburn
  • Sarah Fiske
  • Elizabeth Fiske Dwinnell
  • Ruth Fiske Estey Kilburn
  • Abigail Fiske
  • Joseph Fiske
  • Mark Fiske
  • John Fiske
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    Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine by George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909

     
    Kilburn is also spelled Kelbourn, Kilbon, Kilborn, Kilbourn and Kilbourne

    Jedediah [Kilburn], son of Samuel and Mary (Foster) Kilborn, was born April 20, 1699, in Rowley. He was married, March 22, 1724, to Susannah Fiske, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was known as Cornet Kilbourne by reason of his rank in the militia, and the records state as follows: "Cornet Jedediah Kilbourne died February 4, 1759, aged sixty." His widow, Susannah Kilbourne, died September 27, 1764.

    Their children, all born in Rowley, were:
    1. Jedediah, married Hannah Platts [daughter of James Platts and Mercy Wheeler], of Rowley, November 4, 1749, removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire, then to Henniker, where he died in 1820. His children were: Nathan, Eliphalet, Lucy, Mercy, Hannah, Jedediah, Nathaniel and Susan.
    2. Sampson (q. v.)
    3. Abigail, married Jonathan Smith, Esq., of Danvers, Massachusetts, and her son, Jedediah Kilbourne Smith, was a senator and councillor in the New Hampshire legislature for many years, and served from 1807 to 1809 as a representative from New Hampshire in the United States congress.
    4. Hannah, born 1734, died 1737.

    A cornet is the officer who carried the colors in a cavalry troop.

     

         

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