KIMBALL, Abigail

1617 - 1658  (40 years)

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• Name	KIMBALL, Abigail  [1]
  Birth	5 Nov 1617	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Jun 1658	Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I8203	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	KIMBALL, Richard,   b. 10 Apr 1595, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England d. 22 Jun 1675, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	SCOTT, Ursula,   b. 14 Feb 1598, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England d. 1 Mar 1660, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1615	Rattlesden, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F2100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	SEVERANCE, John,   b. Abt 1612, England d. 8 Apr 1682, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	England   [1]
  Children	+ 1. SEVERANCE, Abigail,   b. 25 May 1643, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. Bef 1683, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age < 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1123	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 5 Nov 1617 - Rattlesden, Suffolk, England Death - 17 Jun 1658 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - - England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Abigail Kimball and John Severans M __ F Richard M Ursula Scott

  
  

  External Links

  WikiTree: John Severance (1612-1682) John Severans married Abigail Kimball in England. They were in Boston by May 17 1637 and settled in the Merrimac Plantation, now Salisbury, Massachusetts, after a brief stay in Boston. John received land in the first division of the plantation in 1639 and later divisions in 1640 and 1654, near modern Salisbury Square. John and Abigail had 13 children. Sadly, Abigail died on June 19,1658 in Salisbury, just two days after giving birth to their youngest daughter, Elizabeth.  John was actively involved in the community, recorded as a planter in 1637 and later as a Vintner and Victualer (Tavern Keeper). He joined The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts in 1641-2, a military and social organization. He also served as a Cornet, an officer in the horse cavalry, and was involved in the town's governance as a selectman and on various committees. After Abigail's death, John married Susanna, the widow of Henry Ambrose.

  
  

• Notes

  The Genealogical and Family History of the County of Jefferson, New York, in providing the paternal lineage of a remote descendant of John Severns/Severance/etc. gives the name of John's first wife as Ursula Kimball, stating that she was probably the daughter of Richard and Ursula Kimball of Watertown, Massachusetts. Most geneaologies on ancestry.com, however, give her name as Abigail, as do a couple of other secondary sources. There is a Massachusetts marriage record indexed on ancestry.com for a 1635 wedding of John "Severence" to Abigail Kimball. The groom's birth year of 1609 corresponds to a similar record for his eventual second marriage. Abigail's birth year is shown as 1617. Those bearing the name Kimball in the United States are likely to be descendants of either Henry Kimball or Richard Kimball, English immigrants who presumably changed the spelling of their original family name at some point from Kembal or Kemble after arriving in the New World, as the surname Kimball was said to be unknown, or virtually so, in England. Henry and Richard "Kemball,", both of Rattlesden, Suffolk, appear on a passenger list for a transatlantic crossing on the ship Elizabeth sailing in mid-April 1634 from Ipswich, Suffolk, to Massachusetts Bay. Richard "Kemball," age 39, was accompanied by his wife Ursula (age not listed) and children Henry (15), Richard (11), Mary (9), Martha (5), John (3) and Thomas (1). (Henry "Kemball", age 44, was accompanied by his own wife and two daughters.) Notice that there is no mention on the Elizabeth's passenger list of a daughter of Richard's by the name of Abigail (or Ursula). Abigail was probably old enough by then to have traveled independently. I cannot find her on any known passenger list. Her parents settled in Watertown, Massachusetts for a few years at most and then apparently moved to Ipswich, where her father received a land grant. Several more children were added to the family after arriving in America. According to page 169 of John Farmer's "A Geneological Register of the First Settlers of New England" (published in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1829), Richard Kimball died in 1675. His last will and testament, made shortly before he died, mentioned six sons, namely Henry, Richard, John, Thomas, Benjamin and Caleb, and three daughters, namely Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah. These were probably all of his children still living at that time. There was also a bequest to John "Severans," whom the testator identified as his son-in-law. This is consistent with an abstract from the vital records of Salisbury, Massachusetts available on ancestry.com indicating that Abigail, wife of John "Severans," had died years earlier, in 1658.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1684] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 704.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: HDG.