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.
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."
Moses Kimball was born in September, 1672 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of John and Mary Kimball. Reseachers differ on whether it was Mary Bradstreet or Mary Jordan. He was a tailor.
On March 28, 1696 his father sold him a house and orchard and an acre of land in Ipswich when he married Susannah. He was also given the
right to pasture three cows in the pasture of Richard Kimball, that was his father John's.
Their children included:
Moses Kimball (1697, married his cousin Mary, daughter of Joseph Kimball),
Ebenezer Kimball (1699, died age 22),
Susanna Kimball Sutton (1701, married William Sutton),
Ezekiel Kimball (1705),
Katherine Kimball Pindar (1706, married John Pindar),
Mary Kimball Smith (married Daniel Smith),
John Kimball (about 1710, married Jane Beady),
Sarah Kimball Leatherland (1713, married John Leatherland),
Joseph Kimball (1715, died age 15),
and Aaron Kimball (1718, married Sarah Rindge).
In 1721 their son, Ebenezer, died of smallpox during the severe outbreak that year.
He died suddenly in his tailor shop on January 23, 1749/50 when he was 77 years old.
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.
The Massachusetts Bay Company was a trading company chartered in 1629 to settle an English colony in New England. Puritan leaders saw it as a religious and political refuge. About 900 colonists arrived in 1630.
In 1721, Boston had a terrible smallpox epidemic. Citizens fled the city and spread the disease to the other colonies. Inoculation was introduced during this epidemic by Zabdiel Boylston and Cotton Mather.
