Notes of Interest:
Richard and Ursula Scott Kimball came to Watertown, Massachusetts with their six children on the "Elizabeth" in 1634. He was made a freeman in 1635. They settled in Ipswich, Mass. in 1638. He soon became a prominent and active man in the new settlement. He was a wheelwright. A good wheelwright in a town was of great importance. The town of Ipswich had invited Richard and his family to move to Ipswich; and the officials of the town granted him a house lot and forty acres of land. In 1639 he had liberty to pasture "two cows free." He seems to have been much appreciated for his services as a wheelwright, for he was permitted in 1649 to "fell such white oaks as he hath occasion to use about his trade for the town use."
Richard's second wife was Margaret Cole, widow of Henry Dow. She was from New Hampshire.
1)The kimball family in America: Rattlesden P.R.pp.240,243,259. Hitcham Par. Reg--History fo the Parish of Buxhall. Am.Pub.F. Vol 31 p.167.Last Will and Testament of Richard Kimball
The last will and testament of Richard Kimball senr of Ipswich in Essex in new England who although weake in body yet of perfect memory doe dispose of my
lands and estate in maner & form as followeth.To my Loveinge wife my will is that she shall dwell in my house and have the Improvement of my ground and meadow belonging thereto with the use and
increase of my whole stock of cattle, one whole yeare after my decease, and then at the years end, the forty pound due to her according to contract at
marriage to be payd her and that hous-hold stuff she brought with her. And to have liberty to live in the parlor end of the house, the roome we now lodge in:
and liberty for her nesessary vse of some part of sellar: also the liberty of one cow in the pasture, the executors to provide winter meate for the same, and to
have a quarter part of the fruit of the orchard, and firewood as long as she lives ther. And if she desire to remove to her owne house, then to be sett in it with
what she have by my executors and to be alowed forty shillings yearly as long as shee lives.And to my Eldest son Henry, my will is to give his three score and ten pounds to bee payd Twenty pounds a year and half after my decease, and the
remaining part in the two years following after that.To my son Richard I give fforty pounds.
To my son John I give twenty pounds.
To my son Thomas I give Twenty five pounds to bee payd two years and a halfe after my decease, and to his children I give seaven pounds to be devided
equally among them and payd as they come of age or at day of marriage, provided if any dye before their share to be distributed equally amongst the rest.And to my son Benjamin, besides the two oxen already received I give the sum of twenty five pounds, ten pounds to be payd a yeare and a halfe after my
decease. The rest the two years ffollowing, also to his children I give five pounds, equally to be devyded, and payd, as they come of age or at day of marriage,
in case any dye before, that part to be equally divided to the rest.And to my son Caleb I give that peace of land knowne by the name Tings lott, and all my land att Wattells neck with my marsh at the hundreds knowne by
the name of Wiatts marsh, and all my working tools exsept two axes all to be delivered present after my discease also I give fourteen pounds to his seven
children equally to be devided to be payd as they come of age or at Day of mariage, and if any dye before, that part to be equally devided amongst the rest.To my son-in-law John Severns, I give ten pounds to be payd two years & a halfe after my decease.
And to my Daughter Elizabeth, I give thirty pounds, ten pound to be payd, a year & halfe after my decease, and the other two parts, the two following years
after that.To my Daughter Mary I give ten pounds, five pound to be payd a year & halfe after my decease, the other five pound the year after that.
To my daughter Sarah I give forty pound, five pound to be payd the yeare & halfe after my decease and the rest five pound a yeare till it be all payd, also to
her children I give seaven pounds ten shillings to be payd to them as they come of age or at day of marriage if any dye before, that part to be equally devyded
to the rest.And to my daughter Sarah above "sd"; I also give the bed I lye on with the furniture after one years use of it by my wife.
To my wives children viz. Thomas, Jerimiah, and Mary.
To Thomas and Mary I give forty shillings apiece to be payd a yeare & halfe after my decease, and to Jerimiah I give fifteene pounds to be payd at the age of
one and twenty. I give also eight pounds to the two Eldest daughters of Gyes Cowes (that he had by his first wife) to be payd and equally devided to them at
the age of sixteene, if either of them dye before then the whole to be given to that that remaines.I also give four pounds to my Couzen Haniell Bossworth, and doe ordaine and apount my two sons above sd. Richard and John Kimball to be my lawfull and
sole executors.And my Couzen Haniell Bosworth above sayd to be my overseer that this my last will and Testament be duely and truly performed And thus I conclude with
setting too my hand and seale the fifth of march 1674-5.Richard Kemball
& a mark
& a seale.Witnesses: Moses Pengry Senr.
Aren Pengry Senrpr. In court at Ypswich 28 Sep 1675.
Sources: History of the Kimball family in America, from 1634 to 1897 by Morrison, Leonard A. - 1897; Genealogical Record of the Descendants of John Spofford
and Elizabeth Scott - 1888; Pioneers of Massachusetts by Pope, Charles - 1900; PAF - Kimball; Wason website; Churchyard / Orr - Family Museum
Rattlesden Parish Reg, pgs. 240,241,243,248,263,267,269,225,305.
Kimball Temple Record Book 10 pg. 19; Kimball News Vol 3 pg 200.
Archive Family Group Sheet submitted by S. Farnham Kimball