Various spellings of Kimball:
Kemball, Kembolde, Kembold
A cornet is the officer who carried the colors in a cavalry troop.
King Philip’s War was a bloody and costly series of raids and skirmishes in 1675 and 1676 between the Native American people and the colonials. King Philip was the Native American leader Metacom.
Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts was first settled in 1639.
Cornet Benjamin Kimball was born in 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His parents were Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott. He was a wheelwright, carpenter and farmer.
He married Mercy Hazeltine in April 1661. Mercy was born in 1642. She was the daughter of Robert and Ann Hazeltine of Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. Mercy's sister Anna married Caleb's brother, Caleb Kimball.
They were well off. The total amount of his estate was one thousand and sixty pounds, seven shillings. Among the assets was a quarter interest in a sawmill in Haverhill, near the Amesbury line.
Their children included:
Anna Kimball Barker (1661, married Richard Barker),
Mercy Kimball (1663, died at 1 month),
Richard Kimball (1664),
Elizabeth Kimball Carleton (1669, married Edward Carlton),
David Kimball (1671, married Elizabeth Gage),
Jonathan Kimball (1673, married Lydia Day),
Robert Kimball (1676),
Abraham Kimball (1678),
Samuel Kimball (1680),
Ebenezer Kimball (1684, married Ruth Eaton), and
Abigail Kimball Day (1684, married Moses Day).
They resided in Exeter, New Hampshire, Salisbury and finally Rowley. He bought his land in Rowley on May 12, 1663 The land was later became the town of Bradford. His house was in the west part of Bradford.
At the first town meeting of Merrimack (later Bradford), February 20, 1668, he was elected an overseer of the town.
On January 7, 1683, Mercy was one of the first members of the first church in Bradford. During King Philip's War, Benjamin was a soldier in 1683 and 1684 in Captain Samuel Appleton's company. He was coronet of the horse troops.
He died June 11, 1696. Mercy died in 1707/08. They are buried in the old graveyard.
Mary White Rowlandson,Talcot
was captured by Native Americans
during King Philip's War
(1675-1676).
A sawmill was an important developmental step in a community. Before sawmills, boards could only be sawn by two men with a whipsaw. In a sawmill, the circular motion of a water wheel was changed to the back-and-forth motion of the saw blade with a pitman arm.
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 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.
