Esther Kimball

Esther married Edmund A. Currier on 20 Dec 1815 in Wells, York, Maine. Edmund (son of Abraham Currier and Lydia Kimball) was born about 1789 in Kennbunkport, Maine; died on 4 Aug 1872; was buried in Hope Cemetery, Kennebunk, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Cyrus M. Currier was born about 1833 in Kennebunk, York, Maine; died on 21 Aug 1900 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Notes:

Following his death, his widow had to sell off part of his estate. The account of that sale, dated 19 Apr 1825, lists Esther Currier among the "heirs to the estate of Israel Kimball junr. decd." [York County probate docket #10907, citation details below]

Israel married Elizabeth "Betsey" Evans on 21 Mar 1796 in Wells, York, Maine. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Evans and Elizabeth Ricker) was born on 15 Feb 1772; died after 21 Mar 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Wells, York, Maine
• Alternate death: Aft 29 Jan 1824

Notes:

The generally well-done Ancestry of Pam & Jeff Martin site asserts that Israel Kimball was married twice, first to Elizabeth "Betsey" Evans and secondly to Betsy Durrell. But Harold Clarke Durrell's "Philip Durrell and His Descendants" (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 133:40, 1979) indicates that Betsy Durrell (1782-1869) married a different Israel Kimball, the one who was a son of Isaac³ (Richard², Caleb¹) and Sarah Stone. Which leads us to believe that our Israel Kimball was married only once, and that his one and only wife was Betsey, said to have died in Kennebunk 11 Mar 1843, a daughter of Benjamin Evans and Elizabeth Ricker.

Notes:

Date of intention.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1822

Israel married Eleanor Dennett on 19 Dec 1771. Eleanor (daughter of Thomas Dennett and Mary Bartlett) was born on 10 Jul 1753 in Kittery, York, Maine; died on 30 Sep 1838 in Kennebunkport, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Arundel, York, Maine
• Alternate death: 1823

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Nov 1743, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire

Notes:

From his Find a Grave page [citation details below]:

He was a private in Captain Wood's Company, Colonel Hubbard's Massachusetts Regiment and was transferred in December 1775 to Captain Gridley's Company, Colonel Gridley's Regiment of Artillery. He served for eight months. He then enlisted in the spring of 1776 in Lyman, ME and served four months as a private in Captain Wells' Company which was in the regiment led by Colonel Francis of Massachusetts. His pension was granted based on this service on 7 Aug. 1832

Benjamin married Elizabeth Ricker on 16 Dec 1771 in Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire. Elizabeth (daughter of Ephraim Ricker and Elizabeth Mardin) died on 19 Jun 1776 in Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Hannah Shackley on 6 Aug 1740. Hannah (daughter of Richard Shackley and Hannah Hodsdon) was born before 26 Apr 1713; was christened on 26 Apr 1713 in Berwick, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berwick, York, Maine
• Alternate birth: 21 Apr 1713

Thomas married Mary Bartlett. Mary (daughter of Nathan Bartlett and Shuah Heard) was born on 1 Mar 1718 in Kittery, York, Maine; died between 8 Dec 1798 and 16 Apr 1804 in Kittery, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 29 Oct 1704, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

Joseph married Keziah Hall. Keziah (daughter of John Hall and Esther Chesley) was born in 1705 in Greenland, Rockingham, New Hampshire; died in 1808; was buried in Hope Cemetery, Kennebunk, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Keziah Wentworth Hall" in many online databases, but we have seen no evidence that she had any middle name at all.

The Chesleys did marry into the Wentworths -- Philip¹'s grandson James Chesley married the immigrant William¹ Wentworth's granddaughter Tamsen Wentworth, a year before Keziah's birth. And because the Wentworths were a family on the rise by 1705, it's possible that Keziah was given Wentworth as a middle name in order to underscore the connection. But generally the smart bet is to assume that eighteenth-century middle names were invented by bad genealogists in later years.

Notes:

The diary of schoolmaster Joseph Tate (citation details below), reports, in an entry dated 16 Dec 1771, that the Elizabeth Ricker who was marrying Benjamin Evans on that day was "Illegal Begotten by Ephraim Ricker Junr. She was Daughter of Elizabeth Mardin."

(He was Ephraim Ricker, Junior at the time because his uncle Ephraim Ricker (1695-1773) was still living at Somersworth.)

Ephraim married Elizabeth Mardin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She may have been the Elizabeth Mardin baptized at the First Church of Dover, New Hampshire by the Rev. Jonathan Cushing on 25 Mar 1739, daughter of John Mardin.