 |
|||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Henry Kimball |
|||||||||||||
|
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."
― Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|||||||||||||
|
Henry Kimball was baptized on August 12, 1615 in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England. His parents were Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott. He inherited 40 schillings from his grandfather, Henry Scott, which he would receive when he turned 21. Henry died in 1623. He came to America with his family on the ship Elizabeth in 1634. At first he settled in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. In 1638 he was made freeman. He married Mary Wyatt about 1640. She was a daughter of John and Mary Wyatt, who came to America in the same ship he did. Henry and Mary made their home in Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts. Henry and Mary's children included: About 1646 he moved to Ipswich and in 1655, he moved to Wenham. In 1656 he was chosen to look after the swine and to make sure they were yoaked & ringed or shutt up by April 1st." That year he also went to court to sue for damages to his corn crop. In 1659, he contributed the equivalent of £3 towards the minister's salary in wheat and Indian corn. In 1660 he contributed 10 shillings for a new meeting-house. In 1660 he was chosen constable in Wenham and again in 1669. Mary died at Wenham. August 12, 1672. His second wife was Elizabeth Black. She brought to the marriage a house and 12 acres of land valued at £40, which was her former husband's. It became Henry's because married women could not own property. He was a soldier in King Philip's War. When his father died in 1675 he received
In 1675 his son Caleb also died at Bloody Brook. Henry, Jr, was also a soldier in the war. When he was 60 years old, he died in 1676 in Wenham. June 16, 1676, an inventory of his estate was taken. It amounted to £177.11.00. After Henry died two of Henry's sons, Richard and John, gave Elizabeth the property that she had brought to the marriage. Elizabeth later married Daniel Kilham.
|
|
|||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
