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An American Family History

Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott

 

Immigrant Ancestors

 
 
Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England
Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
 

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.

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.

Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott married in 1611 in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England. The oldest eight children were born in England. 

The family immigrated to American in April, 1634 on the ship “Elizabeth.” 

Henry Kimball was baptized on August 12, 1615. Abigail Kimball Severens was born before 1616. Elizabeth Kimball was born in 1621. Richard Kimball, Jr. was born in 1623. Mary Kimball Dutch was born in 1625. Martha Kimball Fowler was born in 1629. John Kimball was born in 1631. Thomas Kimball was born in 1633.

The family first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. “The home lot of Richard Kimball was six acres on the Cambridge line, now in the city of Cambridge, near the corner of Huron avenue and Appleton street.”

Sarah Kimball Allen was born in 1635.

They moved to Ipswich in about 1637. The town gave him a house lot and forty acres beyond the North river on February 23, 1637.

Benjamin Kimball was born in 1637. Caleb Kimball was born in 1639.

In September, 1649 the Essex Court admonished "Joseph Fowler [Martha Kimball’s husband], Thomas Cooke, Thomas Scott [a cousin], and two of ye sons of Richard Kimball [John and Thomas], for goeing into ye woods, shouting and singing, taking fire and liquors with them, all being at unseasonable time in ye night, occasioning yr. wives and some other to go out to them.“ 

Ursula died on March 1, 1659 and Richard married Margaret Cole Dow in 1661.

Richard died on June 22, 1675 in Ipswich.

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.

Various spellings of Kimball:
Kemball, Kembolde, Kembold

     

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