Richard Kimball

Abt 1595 - 1675  (~ 80 years)

• Name	Richard Kimball  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1595  [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Jun 1675	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I13886	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Dec 2020

  
  

  Family	Ursula Scott,   b. Bef 14 Feb 1597   d. Bef Oct 1661, Massachusetts (Age < 64 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1614  [4, 5]
  Children	1. Henry Kimball,   b. Bef 12 Aug 1615   d. Bef 17 May 1676, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 60 years)   2. Benjamin Kimball,   b. Abt 1637, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts d. 11 Jun 1695, Bradford, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 58 years)   3. Abigail Kimball   d. 17 Jun 1658   4. Richard Kimball,   b. Abt 1623, Rattlesden, Suffolk, England d. 1676, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F8679	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived with his wife in 1634 on the Elizabeth. First at Watertown, then at Ipswich in 1637. He was a wheelwright. Direct descendants of Richard Kimball and Elizabeth Scott include U.S. Constitution signer Nathaniel Gorham, abolitionist and feminist Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, Pillsbury Company founders John Sargent Pillsbury and Charles Pillsbury, Macy’s deparment store founder Rowland H. Macy, Folger coffee company founder J. A. Folger, Barnes & Noble co-founder William Robbins Barnes, Folger Shakespeare Library founder Henry Clay Folger, Theodore Roosevelt’s wife Edith (Carow) Roosevelt, Life With Father author Clarence Day, short story writer O. Henry, television and film actor William H. Macy, singer-songwriter James Taylor, Charles Manson victim Abigail Folger, stage, television, and film actor John Lithgow, film actor Mickey Rourke, actor and comedian Amy Poehler, and poet and antisemite Ezra Pound.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1923] John Brooks Threlfall, "John Wyatt of Ipswich, Massachusetts and His Wife Mary (_____) Riddlesdale." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:213, July 1989. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S1427] The Ancestry of Phoebe Tilton, 1775-1847, Wife of Capt. Abel Lunt of Newburyport, Massachuetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1947. [S630] Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury by Mary Lovering Holman. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1938. [S2088] History of the Kimball Family in America from 1634 to 1897 by Leonard Allison Morrison and Stephen Paschall Sharples. Boston: Daniel & Upham, 1897.