Kilburn is also spelled Kelbourn, Kilbon, Kilborn, Kilbourn, Kilbourne, and Killburn.
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."
George Kilburn was born about 1612 in England. He was the son of Thomas Kilburn.
He came to Roxbury as early as 1638. He moved to Rowley, where he became a proprietor. He was admitted a freeman there May 13, 1640.
He married Elizabeth Barker.
Mary Kilburn (1649),
Joseph Kilburn (1652-53, married Mary Trumball),
Jacob Kilburn (1654),
Samuel Kilburn (married Mary Foster),
Isaac Kilburn (1659, married Mary Cheney) and
Elizabeth Kilburn (1663, married Ephraim Curtis).
He died October 14, 1685.
Any man entering a colony or becoming a a member the church, was not free. He was not forced to work, but his movements were carefully observed to see if they followed the Puritanical ideal. After this probationary period, he became a "freeman." Men then took the Oath of a Freeman where they vowed to defend the Commonwealth and not to overthrow the government.
Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts was first settled in 1639.
Samuel Kilburn was born on January 9, 1656 in Rowley, Massachusetts.
He married Mary Foster on November 12, 1682,
Hannah Kilburn (1683, married Judah Clark),
Samuel Kilburn (1687, married Mary Lovell), David Kilburn (1688/89, married Ruth Fiske),
Maria Kilburn (1696, died young), Jedediah Kilburn (1699, married Susannah Fiske),
Eliphalet Kilburn (1706, married Jane Frazer Prime).
died April 22, 1722, leaving a will in the court at Ipswich.
