Benjamin KIMBALL

1637 - 1696  (59 years)

• Name	Benjamin KIMBALL
  Nickname	Cornet Benjamin
  Birth	12 May 1637	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Kemball
  Reference Number	1020119
  Reference Number	60
  Reference Number	998801
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Kimball-129
  Death	11 Jun 1696	Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I367	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	Mercy HAZELTINE,   b. 16 Oct 1642   d. 5 Jan 1707 (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	16 Apr 1660	Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Family ID	F333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Photos		Benjamin Kimball Image 1
  		Kimbail-2 and Kimball-129 appear to represent the same person because: same use Kimball as low

  
  

• Notes

  [[Category:Ancient Burying Ground, Bradford, Massachusetts]] == Biography==Carpenter and allied families : genealogical and biographical; pg 89-91 Benjamin Kimball "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLG-C5K : 4 December 2014), David Kimball, 26 Jul 1671; citing Merrimack Village, Essex, Massachusetts, 148; FHL microfilm 877,468., born in 1637, about the time that his father moved from Watertown to Ipswich, Massachusetts. He died in Bradford, MA, 11 June 1696. He was probably a resident of Exeter, New Hampshire in 1659, a carpenter by trade. Morrison, Leonard A., and Stephen P. Sharples. ''[[Space:History_of_the_Kimball_family_in_America%2C_from_1634_to_1897|History of the Kimball Family in America 1634 - 1897]]'' (Published by Damrell & Upham, Boston, Massachusetts, 1897, 734 pages.), Rec. Date: 29 Mar 2015. Cit. Date: 29 Mar 2015[https://archive.org/details/historyofkimball01morr/page/88 | Page 44] Removed to Salisbury, Massachusetts, and was on the trial jury in 1662. Was a resident of Rowley, Massachusetts 12 May 1663, when he bought land in Rowley of Elizabeth Starret of Haverhill. At this time Rowley included within its limits the present Bradford, Georgetown and Groveland. His land was in what is now known as Bradford. On 20 Feb 1668, at the first town meeting in Merrimac, afterwards Bradford, he was chosen an overseer of the town. He was called of that town in 16 Mar 1670 and 15 Mar 1674. On 6 Jan 1675 [check date], he and his wife Mercy of Bradford, MA, sold forty acres of land to the inhabitants of that town for the use of the minister. On 23 Nov 1667, he bought several tracts of land. Among them was land which once belonged to his brother, Thomas Kimball, who was killed by the Indians on 3 May 1676. On 16 May 1683, residents of Bradford and other nearby towns sent a petition to the General Court asking "that a troop be raised out of Andover, Bradford, Topsfield & Rowley Village," as "Newbury is far remote from us." Benjamin Kimball's name is at the top of the list of signatures. It was also signed by Richard Kimball, either the son, or nephew of Benjamin. Richard Kimball, his brother, died in 1676. On 17 May 1683, the General Court concurred with the petition, and established "a Foot Compani and one of Horse," commissioning and appointing "Mr. John Osgood to be Capt. of the Troop...& Mr. Benj. Kimball, Cornet." "Ben: Kimball" and others signed, 9 Jul 1690, a notice that they "are ready & voluntarily offer our selvis to serve God, our King & Country in ye designed Expedition for Canada." This would have been the first expedition to take the fort at Louisburg, in Nova Scotia. His house was in the west parish of old Bradford, not far from the ancient cemetery. He was a wheelwright and a farmer. He married in Salisbury, MA, Apr 1661, [[Hazeltine-10|Mercy Hazeltine]], daughter of Robert and Ann (Langley) Hazeltine. George Brainard Blodgette and Amos Everett Jewett, ''Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts'' (Origninal publication: Amos Everett Jewett, Rowley, MA, 1933. Reprinted by the New England History Press, Somersworth, NH 1981, NS1047383 James Savage, ''A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register.'' (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1965, 1969, 1977, 1981, 1986, 1990, Baltimore, MD (Robert Hazeltine and his brother John were among the earliest settlers of that part of Rowley that is now known as Bradford, and Robert had afterwards permission to ferry passengers across the Merrimack river. Mercy was born "16, 8mo, 1642" (16 Oct 1642), and died 5 Jan 1707-8. She was one of the first members received into the first church of Bradford, when she, with sixteen other women, were admitted 7 Jan 1682-3. Her will, made 14 May 1706, was proven 2 Feb 1707-8. She gives the names of her children in the will. His inventory showed that he was well off for the times. The total amount of the estate was £1060.7s. Among the assets was a one-fourth interest in a saw-mill in Haverhill, Massachusetts, near the Amesbury line, that he bought from Matthew Harriman. This interest was handed down in the family for several generations. The gravestones of Benjamin and Mercy Kimball may still be seen in the back part of the Old Burying Ground in Bradford.Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34271250/benjamin-kimball : accessed 13 September 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Kimball (12 May 1637–16 Jun 1696), {{FindAGrave|34271250}}, citing Ancient Burying Ground, Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Paul M. Noyes (contributor 46923082). === Children ===# [[Kimball-61|Anna]], (3), b. 23 Dec 1661 d. 2 Jan 1734-5 m. 21 Apr 1682, Richard Barker # [[Kimball-485|Mercy]], (3), b. 27 Dec 1663 d. 5 Feb 1663-4 # [[Kimball-491|Richard]], (3-36), b. 3 Dec 1664 d. 10 Jan 1710-1 # [[Kimball-67|Elizabeth]], (3-37), b. 24 Jul 1669 d. 24 Aug 1727, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-438|David]], (3-38), b. 26 Jul 1671 d. 14 Jun 1743, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-411|Jonathan]], (3-39), b. 26 Nov 1673 d. 30 Sep 1749, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-498|Robert]], (3-40), b. 5 Mar 1675-6 d. 24 Feb 1743, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-426|Abraham]], (3-41), b. 24 Mar 1677-8 d. 25 Feb 1707-8, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-501|Samuel]], (3-42), b. 28 Mar 1680 d. 1739 # [[Kimball-421|Ebenezer]], (3-43), b. 20 June 1684 d. 23 Jan 1715, Bradford, MA # [[Kimball-445|Abigail]], (3-44), b. 8 Sep 1686 d. 23 Jan 1715, Bradford, MA == Sources == : '''See also:''' * "A Noble Son" by Spencer W. Kimball in my personal library.* Charles Henry Pope, ''Pioneers of Massachusetts'', Genealogical Publishing House, Baltimore,MD: 1986 (originally 1900)* Source S32: Repository: [[#REPO6]]: Title: Ancestral File (TM): Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Repository REPO6: Name: Family History Library* Hoyt, David W. ''[[Space:The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts|The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts]]'' (Providence, Rhode Island, 1897) - see Person No. 11, Page 224, 226* ''[[Space:Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850|Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850]]'' - [http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salisbury/aMarriagesK.shtml Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts Marriage Records] - ''showing Benjamin Kimball and Marcy Haselton married 16: [2m; 1661].''* Stearns, Ezra S. ''[[Space:Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire|Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire]]'' (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908);[https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalfami01stea#page/10/search/benjamin+kimball vol. 1, p. 10]* Hollinger, Lavisa Ferrin. ''[[Space:A Genealogical Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Ferrin and Elizabeth Preston|A Genealogical Record of the Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Ferrin and Elizabeth Preston]]'' (Cherokee, Iowa, 1915) [https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalreco00holl#page/n110/mode/1up Page 44] * Ancestral File Number: 22B0-LB