Abigail KIMBALL

1617 - 1658  (40 years)

• Name	Abigail KIMBALL
  Birth	5 Nov 1617	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Female
  Reference Number	1046817
  Reference Number	1068712
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Kimball-184
  Death	17 Jun 1658	Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Person ID	I343	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Richard KIMBALL,   b. Abt 1595, England d. 22 Jun 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Ursula SCOTT,   b. 14 Feb 1598, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England d. Bef 23 Oct 1661, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age < 63 years)
  Marriage	1615	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F79	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John SEVERANCE,   b. Abt 1612, England d. 9 Apr 1682, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1635	England
  Children	1. Samuel SEVERENCE,   b. 19 Sep 1637, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 1637, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts   2. Ebenezer SEVERENCE,   b. 7 Mar 1639, Salisbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Apr 1667, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 28 years)   3. Abigail SEVERENCE,   b. 7 Jan 1641, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Abt Mar 1641, Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 0 years)   4. Abigail SEVERANCE,   b. 25 May 1643, Salisbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. Aft 15 Aug 1683, Salisbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age > 40 years) + 5. Mary SEVERANCE,   b. 5 Aug 1645, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 28 Jul 1720, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 74 years)   6. John SEVERANCE, Jr,   b. 24 Nov 1647, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Abt 1711, Bedford, Westchester, New York Colony (Age 63 years)   7. Joseph SEVERENCE,   b. 14 Feb 1649, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America d. 1665, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 15 years)   8. Joseph SEVERENCE,   b. Abt 14 Feb 1649, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, British America d. Abt 1725, Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British America (Age 75 years)   9. Elizabeth SEVERENCE,   b. 8 Apr 1652, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 23 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 6 years)   10. Benjamin SEVERENCE,   b. 13 Jan 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 22 May 1717, Newtown, Queens, New York Colony (Age 63 years)   11. Ephraim SEVERANCE,   b. 8 Apr 1656, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. 24 Oct 1734, Kingston, Rockingham, Colony of New Hampshire, British Colonial America (Age 78 years)   12. Elizabeth SEVERENCE,   b. 17 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 5 Jul 1662, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 4 years)   13. Unknown SEVERENCE,   b. 17 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 23 Jun 1658, Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F73	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Photos		1927 Severance Genealogy
  		Abigail Kimball in entry for Richard Kimball Family in “Colonial Familes of America”
  		lowest numbered Abigail Kimball; target of merges

  
  

• Notes

  [[Category:Salisbury, Massachusetts]] [[Category:Rattlesden, Suffolk]] [[Category:Puritan Great Migration Minor Child]] == Biography == {{PGM Minor Child}} Abigail, daughter of Richard and Ursula (Scott) Kimball, was christened in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England in 1617 1617 Birth for Abigail Kimball in "Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775," ancestry.com, database online [subscription] [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61175/images/colonialfamiliesiv-002956_314?pId=75622 Ancestry Record]; She married John Severans before 1637 in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, probably in Boston By 1637 Marriage for Abigail Kimballl in "U,S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700," ancestry.com, database online with images [subscriotion] [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/166636:3824 Ancestry Record]; She died in Salisbury on 17 June 1658 (N.S.) 1658 Death for Abigail Kimbal in "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH11-4PR : 17 January 2020), Abigail Severans, 1658. Abigail's birth record is a secondary source, a primary source christening record in Suffolk, England is needed. The 'Colonial Families' doucument cited above also indicates she married John Severans in England in 1635. Other documents indicate her parents and siblings emigrated to New England in 1635 and John and Abigail followed in 1637. Abigail died at the birth of her twin daughters, one unnamed, lived ten days, Elizabeth the second twin daughter died at age four. From "History of the Kimball Family" Abigail Kimball in "History of the Kimball family in America, from 1634 to 1897 : and of its ancestors the Kemballs or Kemboldes of England; with an account of the Kembles of Boston, Massachusetts," Morrison, Leonard Allison & Sharples, Stephen Paschall, Vol. 1, Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1897.[https://archive.org/stream/historyofkimball00morr#page/32/mode/2up pg. 32] Abigail(2), b. Rattlesden, County of Suffolk, England; d. in Salisbury, Mass., June 17, 1658. She married in England John Severans, b. ----, d. April 9, 1682, of Salisbury, Mass., who is first styled a planter, afterwards a victualler and vintner. She is not mentioned in the list of passengers, with the others of her father s family, on the Elizabeth. She was in the prime of life at the time of her death. Mr. Severans married, second, Oct. 2, 1663, Susanna, widow of Henry Ambrose. Mr. Ambrose, after having lived in Hampton, N.H., Salisbury, Charlestown, and Boston, died in Boston in 1658. CHILDREN OF ABIGAIL AND JOHN SEVERANS : i. Samuel Severans(3), b. Sept. 19, 1637; d. young. : ii. Ebenezer Severans(3), b. March 7, 1639; d. 1667; unmarried. : iii. Abigail Severans(3), b. Jan. 7, 1641; Sept. 1, 1642. : iv. Abigail Severans(3), b. May 25, 1643; m. Nov. 29, 1664, John Church : v. Mary Severans(3), b. Aug. 5, 1645; m. Nov. 3, 1663, James Coffin of Nantucket. : vi. John Severans(3), b. Nov. 24, 1647; m. Mary -----. : vii. Joseph Severans(3), b. Feb. 14, 1649-50. : viii. Elizabeth Severans(3), b. April 8, 1652; d. Feb. 5, 1652-53. : ix. Benjamin Severans(3), b. Jan. 13, 1654-5. : x. Ephraim Severans(3), b. April 8, 1656. : xi. Dau. b. June 17, 1658; d. June 23, 1658. : xii. Elizabeth Severans(3), b. June 17, 1658; m. 1686, Samuel Eastman of Salisbury. Her granddaughter, Abigail Eastman(5), b. July 10, 1737, daughter of Thomas(4) and Abigail (French) Eastman, m. Ebenezer Webster and was the mother of Daniel Webster(6) the statesman. === Abstract of Grandfather Henry Scott's Will ===An abstract of the will of Henry Skott, citing ''Bury Wills Book, Pearle, L. 117''John Ward Dean, ed., ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register'', 52 (1898):248 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1898), [https://archive.org/details/newenglandhisto72unkngoog/page/248/mode/2up image of p. 248] at ''InternetArchive.org''.:Henry Skott of Rattlesden, Suffolk, yeoman, 24 September 1623, proved 10 January 1624. To my wife Martha the house wherein I dwell &c. during term of her natural life; after that to my son Roger Skott and his heirs forever. To Abigail Kemball my grandchild forty shillings at her age of one and twenty years. To my grandchild Henry Kemball twenty shillings at age of one and twenty and the same sum each to grandchildren Elizabeth and Richard Kemball at same age. To son Thomas Skott five pounds within one year after my decease. To Mr. Peter Devereux, minister of Rattlesden, ten shillings. Wife Martha to be executrix. == Research Notes== * Abigail's 1617 birth/christening is lacking an England vital record* son Adam is not sourced and is not listed in documentation herein. His birth is entered as same as daughter Elizabeth (were they twins)?* in the childlist above the penultimate child was a daughter but gives conflicting 1658 birth dates. == Sources == * 1663 Marriage for Mary Severence in "The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America," Hussey & Robinson, publishers, Nantucket, Mass., Coffin, Allen, 1881, Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/coffinfamilylife00coff/page/55/mode/1up internet archive]* Mary Severans and James Church in an Entry for Abigail Kimball Severens at "An American Family History," americanfamilyhistory.com [http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Kimball%20Family/KimballAbigailSeverens.html#JohnChurch Web URL]