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An American Family History

Elizabeth Kimball
Various spellings of Kimball:
Kemball, Kembolde, Kembold

Children of Richard Kimball, Sr.
and Ursula Scott
  • Henry Kimball
  • Abigail Kimball Severens
  • Elizabeth Kimball
  • Richard Kimball, Jr.
  • Mary Kimball Dutch
  • Martha Kimball Fowler
  • John Kimball
  • Thomas Kimball
  • Sarah Kimball Allen
  • Cornet Benjamin Kimball
  • Caleb Kimball

    • 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.

    Elizabeth Kimball was born in 1621 in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England. Her parents were Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott.

    She inherited 40 schillings from her grandfather, Henry Scott, which she would receive when she turned 21. Henry died in 1623.

    She came to America with her family on the ship Elizabeth in 1634.

    When her father died she received

    thirty pounds, ten pounds to be payd, a year & halfe after my decease, and that the other two parts,the two following years after that.

    She died unmarried in 1675.

    Rattlesden is a village in Suffolk in eastern England. St. Nicholas church dates from the 13th century. The village was a center of Puritanism in the 16th and 17th centuries.

    Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.

    During the 17th and 18th centuries an adult unmarried woman was considered to have the legal status of feme sole, while a married woman had the status of feme covert. A feme sole could own property and sign contracts. A feme covert was not recognized as having legal rights and obligations distinct from those of her husband and could not own any property. When a woman became a widow she became a feme sole again.

         

     

         

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