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An American Family History |
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Mary Kimball Dutch |
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Mary Kimball Dutch was born in 1625 in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England. Her parents were Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott. She married Robert Dutch who was born in 1621 in Bridport, Dorset, England. His parents were Osmund (Osmand) and Grace Dutch. Their children were John Dutch, (1646), Robert Dutch (1647), Samuel Dutch (1650), Mary Dutch (1652), Caleb Dutch (1659), and Benjamin Dutch (1665). Robert was presented at Court in September, 1653, "for reproachfull speeches against mr wm Perkines in a publick towne meeting." Files, Vol. II. 86. When her father died in 1675 she received “ten pounds, five pounds to be payd a year & halfe after my decease, the other five pound the year after that.” Robert was a soldier in King Philip's War of 1675 with Captain Moseley. In the Bloody Brook battle, he was wounded, beaten, stripped, and left for dead, but he recovered. Mary died on July 12, 1686 and Robert died August 21, 1686. |
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History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport
By John James Babson, Samuel Chandler
Published by Procter Brothers, 1860 |
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| Robert Dutch had a wife Mary, and sons John, Robert, Samuel, and Benjamin, and a daughter Mary, born here. He bought land of John Coit, jun; which he probably improved in fishing and agricultural employments. In 1656, he sold to Edward Haraden his house and thirty acres of land on Planter's Neck, with the stage, and all appurtenances belonging to it; and twelve acres upon the Meeting-house Neck, with a barn and orchard; the whole comprising all his possessions in Gloucester. He afterwards lived in Ipswich, and was a soldier in the Indian war of 1675. In one of the skirmishes with the savages, he was wounded, beaten, stripped, and left for dead; but he recovered, and was soon joined and relieved by bis friends. He died before 1691. | |||||
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