“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
The use of the term ye to mean the derives from Early Modern English, in which the was written "þe," employing the Old English letter thorn: "þ."
Ye is also the plural of thou.
Essex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643 by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when it ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires."
The town common (commons) was a small, open field at the center of the town which was jointly owned. It was used as a marketplace, a place for the militia to drill, or for grazing livestock.
John Kimball was born in 1631 in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England. His parents were Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott. He was three years old when he came with his parents and siblings to America on the ship Elizabeth.
He was a wheelwright and farmer and settled with his family in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachustts.
In September, 1649 the Essex Court admonished
Joseph Fowler [Martha Kimball’s husband], Thomas Cooke, Thomas Scott, 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.
He married probably Mary Bradstreet in 1655 in Massachusetts.Their children and life together are described in detail in the section on John and Mary Kimball.
John may have married Mary Jordan on October 8, 1666.
John Kimball was appointed as an executor of Bridget Bradstreet's will that was proved March 28, 1666.
He took the covenant in the church on March 8, 1673 in Ipswich.
He inherited twenty pounds from his father in 1675 and was appointed a tax collector the same year.
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.
Old Style Calendar
Before 1752 the year began on Lady Day, March 25th,. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year. Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are used to indicate whether the year has been adjusted. Often both dates are used.
Various spellings of Kimball:
Kemball, Kembolde, Kembold
Europeans who made the voyage to America faced a difficult journey of several months.
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.
