"Thomas Kimball, son of Richard Kimball, born in Rattlesden, Suffolk county, England, 1633, was one year old when he came to New England with his parents. He later went to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was living October 20, 1653, the owner of a mill property on Oyster river there.
He had his home there as late as 1660, and afterward removed to that portion of Rowley later included in the present town of Bradford, Massachusetts. This part of Rowley was originally known as Merrimac.
Thomas Kimball was elected constable in Rowley in 1669. His home was on the road to Boxford. He lived there tne years. He was a mechanic as well as farmer, and owned over four hundred acres of land at the time of his death.
He was a victim of Indian raiders in King Philip's war. On the night of May 2, 1676, three well known "Praying Indians" who had turned against the whites, Peter, Andrew and Simon, so they had been christened, started for Rowley on an errand of murder, but failing to reach their destination early enough for their purposes they sought the home of Thomas Kimball in Merrimac when the night was far advanced, and killed the father.
The mother and five children were taken into captivity and carried forty miles into the forest. The lives of Mrs. Kimball and her baby were frequently threatened, and twice the fire was lighted to burn them at the stake. Through the friendly offices of Wanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians, they were freed after forty-one terrible days in captivity, and reached their desolated home June 13, 1676. The prayers of the congregation at Ipswich were asked May 3, 1676, for the safety of the captives.
Subsequently the widow petitioned the general court for protection from Simon, the Indian who murdered her husband and threatened to kill her and her children if they returned to their home. Accordingly the three Indians were seized and put in jail, but they escaped and continued their murderous course most mercilessly thereafter, we are told.
They were well known, for they had lived a great deal in the settlements and worked for the colonists. Thomas Kimball served the town of Merrimac as selectman and in other offices.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith, of Ipswich. Joanna died about 1681.
The children of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball: 1. Elizabeth, born Hampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1658, died December 27, 1658. 2. Richard, born Hampton, 1660, died Bradford, Massachusetts, January 21, 1732-3. 3. Joseph, born 1662, died 1699; was impressed into His Majesty's service in 1689 and again in 1690. 4. Mary, born about 1663; married March 22, 1682-3, Thomas Reddington, of Boxford, Massachusetts; six children. 5. Hannah, born January 27, 1661, died before 1699. 6. Thomas, born 1665, died June 30, 1732, in Bradford. 7. Ebenezer, born April 20, 1668. 8. John, born October 14, 1675; removed to Piscataquis, East Jersey. 9. Joanna, died April 10, 1690; married Joshua Morse, of Newbury, Massachusetts who died March 20, 1691.
SOURCE: "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity", by Ellery Bicknell Crane. Lewis Publishing, New York-Chicago, 1907. p. 10
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"Three well-known converted Indians [not so converted-HSB] named Symon, Andrew, and Peter, it is stated in the History of Haverhill, Mass., lived among the settlers worked for them, and became semi-civilized. These Indians intended to kill some one at Rowley; but the night being far advanced, they decided to stay where they were and attack Mr. Kimball, whom they killed, and took captive his wife and five children, one an infant. They were carried by them forty miles into the wilderness, but by the influence of Wannalance_, chief of the Pennacooks, who was on friendly terms with the English, Mrs. Kimball and her five children were suffered to return to their home, being freed without ransom, which they reached June 13, 1676, after an absence of forty-one days. Twice herself and an infant were threated with death, the fires having been kindled to burn them; but by some providential influence their lives were spared.
"May 3, 1676, a note was handed in on the Sabbath by the pious parents of Goodwife Kimball, that she, and her five children, taken at Bradford by Indians who killed her husband, might be delivered." ---FELT. History of Ipswich.
Shortly after her return she presented the followign petition to the Governor and Council: ----
"To the Hon. Governor and Council, The humble petition of Mary Kimball sheweth that Simon, the Indian who killed my husband, Thomas Kimball, hath threatened to kill me and my children if ever I goe to my own house, So that I date not goe to looke after what little I have there left, for fear of my life being taken away by him; and therefore doe humbly entreate the Hon. Governor and Council that some course may be taken, as God shall direct, and your wisdoms shall think best to secure him; for I am in continual fear of my life by him; and if any course may be taken for the recovery of what is yet left in their hands of my goods that they have not destroyed (as there was two kettells and two or three baggs of linnen when I came from them) that I might have it restored, leaving myself and my concernes under God to your wisdom. Remain your humble suppliant
Mary Kimball"
(The three Indians were on the point of making peace with the inhabitants, when they were seized and secured in jail, but afterwards made their escape, and committed their depredations more vigorously than ever. Tradition or history reveals not their ending.)"
SOURCE: "The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., [Vol. I is handwritten in] With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Alled Families. 1592-1887; Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke; Printed for the Author by John Wilson and Son, University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1889.
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NOTES ON CHILDREN: Some of the children who are buried at the Old Burial Ground, I do not have access to their site, so cannot, at this time, add them. They are:
Capt. Richard Kimball
Find A Grave Memorial# 18149447
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Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Kimball of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
Administration on the estate of Thomas Kimboll, who was slain by the Indians, was granted 27:4:1676, to Mary, the relict, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, leaf 94.
Inventory of the estate of Thom. Kimall, taken May 18, 1676, by Shu. Walker and Samuell Gage:
wearing apparill, all ye Indians left, £1. 10 s:
Tabel lining, 1 sheete, 3 pillowberes, £1. 15 s.;
vallence and Curtaine and 4 Cushins, 10 s.;
2 Rugs, 2 Blankets, and a parcill of old beading, £ 3 , 5 s.;
peatar,£ 3 3 s;
1 Iron pot, 1 warming pan, 2 tubs, 2 barills, £1 , 10 s.; saddle and pillion and a parcill of sheeps wool, £1 5 s.; Tools for his traid and utensils for husbandry, £5;
six oxen, five Cowes, two heifers of 3 yere old, 3 steres of 2 yere old, 2 yerlings, 5 Calves, £66 15 s.;
a horse and a mare and a coult, £6 ; 12 swine, £7 ; 7 shepe, £2;
housing and about 422 acres land and medow, £450;
glass, £1 10s.;
Corne and provisions, £3;
5 yards of Cloath, £1;
total £556 3s.
Wearing cloaths of Goody kimballs, £3 16s.;
cloaths of Joanna Kimball, £2 10 s.
Debts due from estate: Gilbort Wilford's estate, £1 li;
Daniell Boreman, 1£;
John Wicom, £1.
Joseph Bond, £1. 2 s.;
Ensigne Chandler, £1. 10 s.;
by John Kimball, £12;
total, £17 li 12 s.;
Debts due from estate:
Mr. Wainwright, £9 18 s. 6 d.;
Capt. Gerish, £9 9 s. 1 d.;
Sergent Wait, £6 18 s.;
John Pickard, £1. 10 s.;
Stephen Webster, £1. 10 s.;
Will. Barker, £2. 16 s.;
Deacon Jewit, 18 s.;
David Haseltine, £1. 1 s.;
Hunt of Ipswich, £1. 2 s.;
Decon Goodhue, £1.;
Mr Cobbit, 10 s.;
Shu. Walker, 12 s.;
Joseph Hardy, £1. 10 s.;
Nath. Gage, 15 s.;
Samuel Haseltine, £2. 2 s.;
Francis Jordon, 2 s. 6 d.;
Josiah Gage, 18 s.;
John Stickne, £3 ;
Mr. Buship, at present not known;
Anthony Somersby, £1. 5 s.;
Phillip Fouler, 6s.;
total £50 8 s. 1 d.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept 26, 1676 by Mary relict of Thomas Kimball.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 25, leaf 124.
An inventory brought in, amounting to £520 clear estate was ordered Sept 26, 1676, to the eight children and widow as follows;
to Richard the eldest son, £80,
and to the rest of the children, £40 each, and the remainder of the estate to the widow, the land to stand bound for the payment of the childrens portions.
Source: Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, page 284
He had his home there as late as 1660, and afterward removed to that portion of Rowley later included in the present town of Bradford, Massachusetts. This part of Rowley was originally known as Merrimac.
Thomas Kimball was elected constable in Rowley in 1669. His home was on the road to Boxford. He lived there tne years. He was a mechanic as well as farmer, and owned over four hundred acres of land at the time of his death.
He was a victim of Indian raiders in King Philip's war. On the night of May 2, 1676, three well known "Praying Indians" who had turned against the whites, Peter, Andrew and Simon, so they had been christened, started for Rowley on an errand of murder, but failing to reach their destination early enough for their purposes they sought the home of Thomas Kimball in Merrimac when the night was far advanced, and killed the father.
The mother and five children were taken into captivity and carried forty miles into the forest. The lives of Mrs. Kimball and her baby were frequently threatened, and twice the fire was lighted to burn them at the stake. Through the friendly offices of Wanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians, they were freed after forty-one terrible days in captivity, and reached their desolated home June 13, 1676. The prayers of the congregation at Ipswich were asked May 3, 1676, for the safety of the captives.
Subsequently the widow petitioned the general court for protection from Simon, the Indian who murdered her husband and threatened to kill her and her children if they returned to their home. Accordingly the three Indians were seized and put in jail, but they escaped and continued their murderous course most mercilessly thereafter, we are told.
They were well known, for they had lived a great deal in the settlements and worked for the colonists. Thomas Kimball served the town of Merrimac as selectman and in other offices.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith, of Ipswich. Joanna died about 1681.
The children of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball: 1. Elizabeth, born Hampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1658, died December 27, 1658. 2. Richard, born Hampton, 1660, died Bradford, Massachusetts, January 21, 1732-3. 3. Joseph, born 1662, died 1699; was impressed into His Majesty's service in 1689 and again in 1690. 4. Mary, born about 1663; married March 22, 1682-3, Thomas Reddington, of Boxford, Massachusetts; six children. 5. Hannah, born January 27, 1661, died before 1699. 6. Thomas, born 1665, died June 30, 1732, in Bradford. 7. Ebenezer, born April 20, 1668. 8. John, born October 14, 1675; removed to Piscataquis, East Jersey. 9. Joanna, died April 10, 1690; married Joshua Morse, of Newbury, Massachusetts who died March 20, 1691.
SOURCE: "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity", by Ellery Bicknell Crane. Lewis Publishing, New York-Chicago, 1907. p. 10
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"Three well-known converted Indians [not so converted-HSB] named Symon, Andrew, and Peter, it is stated in the History of Haverhill, Mass., lived among the settlers worked for them, and became semi-civilized. These Indians intended to kill some one at Rowley; but the night being far advanced, they decided to stay where they were and attack Mr. Kimball, whom they killed, and took captive his wife and five children, one an infant. They were carried by them forty miles into the wilderness, but by the influence of Wannalance_, chief of the Pennacooks, who was on friendly terms with the English, Mrs. Kimball and her five children were suffered to return to their home, being freed without ransom, which they reached June 13, 1676, after an absence of forty-one days. Twice herself and an infant were threated with death, the fires having been kindled to burn them; but by some providential influence their lives were spared.
"May 3, 1676, a note was handed in on the Sabbath by the pious parents of Goodwife Kimball, that she, and her five children, taken at Bradford by Indians who killed her husband, might be delivered." ---FELT. History of Ipswich.
Shortly after her return she presented the followign petition to the Governor and Council: ----
"To the Hon. Governor and Council, The humble petition of Mary Kimball sheweth that Simon, the Indian who killed my husband, Thomas Kimball, hath threatened to kill me and my children if ever I goe to my own house, So that I date not goe to looke after what little I have there left, for fear of my life being taken away by him; and therefore doe humbly entreate the Hon. Governor and Council that some course may be taken, as God shall direct, and your wisdoms shall think best to secure him; for I am in continual fear of my life by him; and if any course may be taken for the recovery of what is yet left in their hands of my goods that they have not destroyed (as there was two kettells and two or three baggs of linnen when I came from them) that I might have it restored, leaving myself and my concernes under God to your wisdom. Remain your humble suppliant
Mary Kimball"
(The three Indians were on the point of making peace with the inhabitants, when they were seized and secured in jail, but afterwards made their escape, and committed their depredations more vigorously than ever. Tradition or history reveals not their ending.)"
SOURCE: "The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., [Vol. I is handwritten in] With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Alled Families. 1592-1887; Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke; Printed for the Author by John Wilson and Son, University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1889.
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NOTES ON CHILDREN: Some of the children who are buried at the Old Burial Ground, I do not have access to their site, so cannot, at this time, add them. They are:
Capt. Richard Kimball
Find A Grave Memorial# 18149447
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Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Kimball of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
Administration on the estate of Thomas Kimboll, who was slain by the Indians, was granted 27:4:1676, to Mary, the relict, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, leaf 94.
Inventory of the estate of Thom. Kimall, taken May 18, 1676, by Shu. Walker and Samuell Gage:
wearing apparill, all ye Indians left, £1. 10 s:
Tabel lining, 1 sheete, 3 pillowberes, £1. 15 s.;
vallence and Curtaine and 4 Cushins, 10 s.;
2 Rugs, 2 Blankets, and a parcill of old beading, £ 3 , 5 s.;
peatar,£ 3 3 s;
1 Iron pot, 1 warming pan, 2 tubs, 2 barills, £1 , 10 s.; saddle and pillion and a parcill of sheeps wool, £1 5 s.; Tools for his traid and utensils for husbandry, £5;
six oxen, five Cowes, two heifers of 3 yere old, 3 steres of 2 yere old, 2 yerlings, 5 Calves, £66 15 s.;
a horse and a mare and a coult, £6 ; 12 swine, £7 ; 7 shepe, £2;
housing and about 422 acres land and medow, £450;
glass, £1 10s.;
Corne and provisions, £3;
5 yards of Cloath, £1;
total £556 3s.
Wearing cloaths of Goody kimballs, £3 16s.;
cloaths of Joanna Kimball, £2 10 s.
Debts due from estate: Gilbort Wilford's estate, £1 li;
Daniell Boreman, 1£;
John Wicom, £1.
Joseph Bond, £1. 2 s.;
Ensigne Chandler, £1. 10 s.;
by John Kimball, £12;
total, £17 li 12 s.;
Debts due from estate:
Mr. Wainwright, £9 18 s. 6 d.;
Capt. Gerish, £9 9 s. 1 d.;
Sergent Wait, £6 18 s.;
John Pickard, £1. 10 s.;
Stephen Webster, £1. 10 s.;
Will. Barker, £2. 16 s.;
Deacon Jewit, 18 s.;
David Haseltine, £1. 1 s.;
Hunt of Ipswich, £1. 2 s.;
Decon Goodhue, £1.;
Mr Cobbit, 10 s.;
Shu. Walker, 12 s.;
Joseph Hardy, £1. 10 s.;
Nath. Gage, 15 s.;
Samuel Haseltine, £2. 2 s.;
Francis Jordon, 2 s. 6 d.;
Josiah Gage, 18 s.;
John Stickne, £3 ;
Mr. Buship, at present not known;
Anthony Somersby, £1. 5 s.;
Phillip Fouler, 6s.;
total £50 8 s. 1 d.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept 26, 1676 by Mary relict of Thomas Kimball.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 25, leaf 124.
An inventory brought in, amounting to £520 clear estate was ordered Sept 26, 1676, to the eight children and widow as follows;
to Richard the eldest son, £80,
and to the rest of the children, £40 each, and the remainder of the estate to the widow, the land to stand bound for the payment of the childrens portions.
Source: Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, page 284
"Thomas Kimball, son of Richard Kimball, born in Rattlesden, Suffolk county, England, 1633, was one year old when he came to New England with his parents. He later went to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and to Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was living October 20, 1653, the owner of a mill property on Oyster river there.
He had his home there as late as 1660, and afterward removed to that portion of Rowley later included in the present town of Bradford, Massachusetts. This part of Rowley was originally known as Merrimac.
Thomas Kimball was elected constable in Rowley in 1669. His home was on the road to Boxford. He lived there tne years. He was a mechanic as well as farmer, and owned over four hundred acres of land at the time of his death.
He was a victim of Indian raiders in King Philip's war. On the night of May 2, 1676, three well known "Praying Indians" who had turned against the whites, Peter, Andrew and Simon, so they had been christened, started for Rowley on an errand of murder, but failing to reach their destination early enough for their purposes they sought the home of Thomas Kimball in Merrimac when the night was far advanced, and killed the father.
The mother and five children were taken into captivity and carried forty miles into the forest. The lives of Mrs. Kimball and her baby were frequently threatened, and twice the fire was lighted to burn them at the stake. Through the friendly offices of Wanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians, they were freed after forty-one terrible days in captivity, and reached their desolated home June 13, 1676. The prayers of the congregation at Ipswich were asked May 3, 1676, for the safety of the captives.
Subsequently the widow petitioned the general court for protection from Simon, the Indian who murdered her husband and threatened to kill her and her children if they returned to their home. Accordingly the three Indians were seized and put in jail, but they escaped and continued their murderous course most mercilessly thereafter, we are told.
They were well known, for they had lived a great deal in the settlements and worked for the colonists. Thomas Kimball served the town of Merrimac as selectman and in other offices.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith, of Ipswich. Joanna died about 1681.
The children of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball: 1. Elizabeth, born Hampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1658, died December 27, 1658. 2. Richard, born Hampton, 1660, died Bradford, Massachusetts, January 21, 1732-3. 3. Joseph, born 1662, died 1699; was impressed into His Majesty's service in 1689 and again in 1690. 4. Mary, born about 1663; married March 22, 1682-3, Thomas Reddington, of Boxford, Massachusetts; six children. 5. Hannah, born January 27, 1661, died before 1699. 6. Thomas, born 1665, died June 30, 1732, in Bradford. 7. Ebenezer, born April 20, 1668. 8. John, born October 14, 1675; removed to Piscataquis, East Jersey. 9. Joanna, died April 10, 1690; married Joshua Morse, of Newbury, Massachusetts who died March 20, 1691.
SOURCE: "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity", by Ellery Bicknell Crane. Lewis Publishing, New York-Chicago, 1907. p. 10
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"Three well-known converted Indians [not so converted-HSB] named Symon, Andrew, and Peter, it is stated in the History of Haverhill, Mass., lived among the settlers worked for them, and became semi-civilized. These Indians intended to kill some one at Rowley; but the night being far advanced, they decided to stay where they were and attack Mr. Kimball, whom they killed, and took captive his wife and five children, one an infant. They were carried by them forty miles into the wilderness, but by the influence of Wannalance_, chief of the Pennacooks, who was on friendly terms with the English, Mrs. Kimball and her five children were suffered to return to their home, being freed without ransom, which they reached June 13, 1676, after an absence of forty-one days. Twice herself and an infant were threated with death, the fires having been kindled to burn them; but by some providential influence their lives were spared.
"May 3, 1676, a note was handed in on the Sabbath by the pious parents of Goodwife Kimball, that she, and her five children, taken at Bradford by Indians who killed her husband, might be delivered." ---FELT. History of Ipswich.
Shortly after her return she presented the followign petition to the Governor and Council: ----
"To the Hon. Governor and Council, The humble petition of Mary Kimball sheweth that Simon, the Indian who killed my husband, Thomas Kimball, hath threatened to kill me and my children if ever I goe to my own house, So that I date not goe to looke after what little I have there left, for fear of my life being taken away by him; and therefore doe humbly entreate the Hon. Governor and Council that some course may be taken, as God shall direct, and your wisdoms shall think best to secure him; for I am in continual fear of my life by him; and if any course may be taken for the recovery of what is yet left in their hands of my goods that they have not destroyed (as there was two kettells and two or three baggs of linnen when I came from them) that I might have it restored, leaving myself and my concernes under God to your wisdom. Remain your humble suppliant
Mary Kimball"
(The three Indians were on the point of making peace with the inhabitants, when they were seized and secured in jail, but afterwards made their escape, and committed their depredations more vigorously than ever. Tradition or history reveals not their ending.)"
SOURCE: "The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., [Vol. I is handwritten in] With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Alled Families. 1592-1887; Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke; Printed for the Author by John Wilson and Son, University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1889.
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NOTES ON CHILDREN: Some of the children who are buried at the Old Burial Ground, I do not have access to their site, so cannot, at this time, add them. They are:
Capt. Richard Kimball
Find A Grave Memorial# 18149447
~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~
Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Kimball of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
Administration on the estate of Thomas Kimboll, who was slain by the Indians, was granted 27:4:1676, to Mary, the relict, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, leaf 94.
Inventory of the estate of Thom. Kimall, taken May 18, 1676, by Shu. Walker and Samuell Gage:
wearing apparill, all ye Indians left, £1. 10 s:
Tabel lining, 1 sheete, 3 pillowberes, £1. 15 s.;
vallence and Curtaine and 4 Cushins, 10 s.;
2 Rugs, 2 Blankets, and a parcill of old beading, £ 3 , 5 s.;
peatar,£ 3 3 s;
1 Iron pot, 1 warming pan, 2 tubs, 2 barills, £1 , 10 s.; saddle and pillion and a parcill of sheeps wool, £1 5 s.; Tools for his traid and utensils for husbandry, £5;
six oxen, five Cowes, two heifers of 3 yere old, 3 steres of 2 yere old, 2 yerlings, 5 Calves, £66 15 s.;
a horse and a mare and a coult, £6 ; 12 swine, £7 ; 7 shepe, £2;
housing and about 422 acres land and medow, £450;
glass, £1 10s.;
Corne and provisions, £3;
5 yards of Cloath, £1;
total £556 3s.
Wearing cloaths of Goody kimballs, £3 16s.;
cloaths of Joanna Kimball, £2 10 s.
Debts due from estate: Gilbort Wilford's estate, £1 li;
Daniell Boreman, 1£;
John Wicom, £1.
Joseph Bond, £1. 2 s.;
Ensigne Chandler, £1. 10 s.;
by John Kimball, £12;
total, £17 li 12 s.;
Debts due from estate:
Mr. Wainwright, £9 18 s. 6 d.;
Capt. Gerish, £9 9 s. 1 d.;
Sergent Wait, £6 18 s.;
John Pickard, £1. 10 s.;
Stephen Webster, £1. 10 s.;
Will. Barker, £2. 16 s.;
Deacon Jewit, 18 s.;
David Haseltine, £1. 1 s.;
Hunt of Ipswich, £1. 2 s.;
Decon Goodhue, £1.;
Mr Cobbit, 10 s.;
Shu. Walker, 12 s.;
Joseph Hardy, £1. 10 s.;
Nath. Gage, 15 s.;
Samuel Haseltine, £2. 2 s.;
Francis Jordon, 2 s. 6 d.;
Josiah Gage, 18 s.;
John Stickne, £3 ;
Mr. Buship, at present not known;
Anthony Somersby, £1. 5 s.;
Phillip Fouler, 6s.;
total £50 8 s. 1 d.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept 26, 1676 by Mary relict of Thomas Kimball.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 25, leaf 124.
An inventory brought in, amounting to £520 clear estate was ordered Sept 26, 1676, to the eight children and widow as follows;
to Richard the eldest son, £80,
and to the rest of the children, £40 each, and the remainder of the estate to the widow, the land to stand bound for the payment of the childrens portions.
Source: Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, page 284
He had his home there as late as 1660, and afterward removed to that portion of Rowley later included in the present town of Bradford, Massachusetts. This part of Rowley was originally known as Merrimac.
Thomas Kimball was elected constable in Rowley in 1669. His home was on the road to Boxford. He lived there tne years. He was a mechanic as well as farmer, and owned over four hundred acres of land at the time of his death.
He was a victim of Indian raiders in King Philip's war. On the night of May 2, 1676, three well known "Praying Indians" who had turned against the whites, Peter, Andrew and Simon, so they had been christened, started for Rowley on an errand of murder, but failing to reach their destination early enough for their purposes they sought the home of Thomas Kimball in Merrimac when the night was far advanced, and killed the father.
The mother and five children were taken into captivity and carried forty miles into the forest. The lives of Mrs. Kimball and her baby were frequently threatened, and twice the fire was lighted to burn them at the stake. Through the friendly offices of Wanalancet, of the Pennacook Indians, they were freed after forty-one terrible days in captivity, and reached their desolated home June 13, 1676. The prayers of the congregation at Ipswich were asked May 3, 1676, for the safety of the captives.
Subsequently the widow petitioned the general court for protection from Simon, the Indian who murdered her husband and threatened to kill her and her children if they returned to their home. Accordingly the three Indians were seized and put in jail, but they escaped and continued their murderous course most mercilessly thereafter, we are told.
They were well known, for they had lived a great deal in the settlements and worked for the colonists. Thomas Kimball served the town of Merrimac as selectman and in other offices.
He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna Smith, of Ipswich. Joanna died about 1681.
The children of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball: 1. Elizabeth, born Hampton, Massachusetts, December 5, 1658, died December 27, 1658. 2. Richard, born Hampton, 1660, died Bradford, Massachusetts, January 21, 1732-3. 3. Joseph, born 1662, died 1699; was impressed into His Majesty's service in 1689 and again in 1690. 4. Mary, born about 1663; married March 22, 1682-3, Thomas Reddington, of Boxford, Massachusetts; six children. 5. Hannah, born January 27, 1661, died before 1699. 6. Thomas, born 1665, died June 30, 1732, in Bradford. 7. Ebenezer, born April 20, 1668. 8. John, born October 14, 1675; removed to Piscataquis, East Jersey. 9. Joanna, died April 10, 1690; married Joshua Morse, of Newbury, Massachusetts who died March 20, 1691.
SOURCE: "Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts : with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity", by Ellery Bicknell Crane. Lewis Publishing, New York-Chicago, 1907. p. 10
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"Three well-known converted Indians [not so converted-HSB] named Symon, Andrew, and Peter, it is stated in the History of Haverhill, Mass., lived among the settlers worked for them, and became semi-civilized. These Indians intended to kill some one at Rowley; but the night being far advanced, they decided to stay where they were and attack Mr. Kimball, whom they killed, and took captive his wife and five children, one an infant. They were carried by them forty miles into the wilderness, but by the influence of Wannalance_, chief of the Pennacooks, who was on friendly terms with the English, Mrs. Kimball and her five children were suffered to return to their home, being freed without ransom, which they reached June 13, 1676, after an absence of forty-one days. Twice herself and an infant were threated with death, the fires having been kindled to burn them; but by some providential influence their lives were spared.
"May 3, 1676, a note was handed in on the Sabbath by the pious parents of Goodwife Kimball, that she, and her five children, taken at Bradford by Indians who killed her husband, might be delivered." ---FELT. History of Ipswich.
Shortly after her return she presented the followign petition to the Governor and Council: ----
"To the Hon. Governor and Council, The humble petition of Mary Kimball sheweth that Simon, the Indian who killed my husband, Thomas Kimball, hath threatened to kill me and my children if ever I goe to my own house, So that I date not goe to looke after what little I have there left, for fear of my life being taken away by him; and therefore doe humbly entreate the Hon. Governor and Council that some course may be taken, as God shall direct, and your wisdoms shall think best to secure him; for I am in continual fear of my life by him; and if any course may be taken for the recovery of what is yet left in their hands of my goods that they have not destroyed (as there was two kettells and two or three baggs of linnen when I came from them) that I might have it restored, leaving myself and my concernes under God to your wisdom. Remain your humble suppliant
Mary Kimball"
(The three Indians were on the point of making peace with the inhabitants, when they were seized and secured in jail, but afterwards made their escape, and committed their depredations more vigorously than ever. Tradition or history reveals not their ending.)"
SOURCE: "The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, of Lynn, Mass., [Vol. I is handwritten in] With an Appendix, Containing Twenty-Three Alled Families. 1592-1887; Compiled by a Descendant, Harriet Ruth (Waters) Cooke; Printed for the Author by John Wilson and Son, University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1889.
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NOTES ON CHILDREN: Some of the children who are buried at the Old Burial Ground, I do not have access to their site, so cannot, at this time, add them. They are:
Capt. Richard Kimball
Find A Grave Memorial# 18149447
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Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Kimball of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
Administration on the estate of Thomas Kimboll, who was slain by the Indians, was granted 27:4:1676, to Mary, the relict, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, leaf 94.
Inventory of the estate of Thom. Kimall, taken May 18, 1676, by Shu. Walker and Samuell Gage:
wearing apparill, all ye Indians left, £1. 10 s:
Tabel lining, 1 sheete, 3 pillowberes, £1. 15 s.;
vallence and Curtaine and 4 Cushins, 10 s.;
2 Rugs, 2 Blankets, and a parcill of old beading, £ 3 , 5 s.;
peatar,£ 3 3 s;
1 Iron pot, 1 warming pan, 2 tubs, 2 barills, £1 , 10 s.; saddle and pillion and a parcill of sheeps wool, £1 5 s.; Tools for his traid and utensils for husbandry, £5;
six oxen, five Cowes, two heifers of 3 yere old, 3 steres of 2 yere old, 2 yerlings, 5 Calves, £66 15 s.;
a horse and a mare and a coult, £6 ; 12 swine, £7 ; 7 shepe, £2;
housing and about 422 acres land and medow, £450;
glass, £1 10s.;
Corne and provisions, £3;
5 yards of Cloath, £1;
total £556 3s.
Wearing cloaths of Goody kimballs, £3 16s.;
cloaths of Joanna Kimball, £2 10 s.
Debts due from estate: Gilbort Wilford's estate, £1 li;
Daniell Boreman, 1£;
John Wicom, £1.
Joseph Bond, £1. 2 s.;
Ensigne Chandler, £1. 10 s.;
by John Kimball, £12;
total, £17 li 12 s.;
Debts due from estate:
Mr. Wainwright, £9 18 s. 6 d.;
Capt. Gerish, £9 9 s. 1 d.;
Sergent Wait, £6 18 s.;
John Pickard, £1. 10 s.;
Stephen Webster, £1. 10 s.;
Will. Barker, £2. 16 s.;
Deacon Jewit, 18 s.;
David Haseltine, £1. 1 s.;
Hunt of Ipswich, £1. 2 s.;
Decon Goodhue, £1.;
Mr Cobbit, 10 s.;
Shu. Walker, 12 s.;
Joseph Hardy, £1. 10 s.;
Nath. Gage, 15 s.;
Samuel Haseltine, £2. 2 s.;
Francis Jordon, 2 s. 6 d.;
Josiah Gage, 18 s.;
John Stickne, £3 ;
Mr. Buship, at present not known;
Anthony Somersby, £1. 5 s.;
Phillip Fouler, 6s.;
total £50 8 s. 1 d.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept 26, 1676 by Mary relict of Thomas Kimball.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol 25, leaf 124.
An inventory brought in, amounting to £520 clear estate was ordered Sept 26, 1676, to the eight children and widow as follows;
to Richard the eldest son, £80,
and to the rest of the children, £40 each, and the remainder of the estate to the widow, the land to stand bound for the payment of the childrens portions.
Source: Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol 5, page 284
Gravesite Details
NOT in Wenham Cemetery, Wenham, Essex, Mass.
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