Mary Kimball

This profile is Mary Cooley, 1st wife of the 2nd Richard Kimball, and mother of his children.

Old notes for Mary Smith here: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000083548048904&

Family

From https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_063.html#P89039

Family of Ursula Scott (780) & Richard Kimball

1945. Richard Kimball. Born ca 1623 in Rattlesden, Suffolk.69 Richard died on 26 May 1676 in Wenham, MA.69 Occupation: Wheelwright and yeoman.

Richard first married Mary Cooley, daughter of John Cooley (ca 1597/8-Mar 1653/4) & Elizabeth Antrobus (ca 1598-). Born ca 1628 in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Mary was baptized in St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 23 Mar 1628. Mary died on 2 Sep 1672 in Wenham, MA.69

It isn’t clear what makes the connection between Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Cooley, and Mary, the wife of Richard Kimball. John’s will did not name his daughters. Note: Anderson suggests that John Cooley may have had a daughter Mary ___ who became first wife of Richard Kimball. This appears to be based on the fact that Richard sold land and his dwelling house, which was that of John Cooley deceased, to Caleb Kimball.

Their children include:

• 4835i. John Kimball (ca 1650-15 Apr 1721)
• 4836ii. Samuel Kimball (ca 1651-3 Oct 1716)
• 4837iii. Thomas Kimball (12 Nov 1657-16 Oct 1732)
• 4838iv. Ephraim Kimball (18 Feb 1660-16 Jan 1731/2)
• 4839v. Caleb Kimball (9 Apr 1665-25 Jan 1725/6)
• 4840vi. Capt. Chrisotpher Kimball (ca 1668-ca 1705)
• 4841vii. Richard Kimball (7 Jul 1671-8 Oct 1672)
• 4842viii. Nathaniel Kimball (ca 1676-7 Sep 1735)

Richard second married Mary Morris (2179) , daughter of John Morris & Anne Holyoke (892) (ca 1587/8-aft 1627). Mary died in between 23 Sep 1670 and 30 Sep 1671 in Salem, MA. She was John Mansfield’s widow.

Biography

From https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LKVM-MYF

Mary's husband Richard came to Watertown from England when he was about 11. He lived in Watertown with his family for a short time until he moved with his father to Ipswich about 1637. It was here in Ipswich that he likely met and married his first wife Mary.

It is likely that sometime after the birth of Samuel, Mary moved with her husband Richard to Wenham. They likely lived in Wenham, more or less, until their deaths, roughly 20 years.

There are several children listed in Wenham vital records as belonging to Richard. Unfortunately, they don't list the child's mother, only the father:

• Kimball, Thomas, s. Richard, Nov. 12, 1657. CTR
• Kimball, Ephraim, s. Richard, Feb. 18, 1660. CTR
• Kimball, Caleb, s. Richard, Apr. 9, 1665. CTR

To my knowledge, the only original record with Mary's name on it that we have found was her death record, published in Wenham vital records:

• Kimball, Mary, w. Richard, Sept. 2, 1672. CTR

She died before her husband, and he remarried after her death, another woman named Mary.

Wenham was first settled in 1635 and officially incorporated in 1643, but I don't think that Richard and Mary came until the 1650s. Wenham was originally a part of Salem and was the first town to be set off from Salem. Because many of its early settlers came from Suffolk County in England, it is presumed that the name of the town derives from two small villages there—Great Wenham and Little Wenham. Wenham means "home on the moor". A church was formed in October 1644, with John Fiske as pastor and seven families as members. Wenham provided volunteers in King Philip's War in the 1670s.

Mary's husband Richard is mentioned briefly in his father's entry in The Great Migration series. See source attached below. This series is the "gold standard" of all sources related to early New England settlers. According to this source, Richard's first wife Mary may have been Mary Cooley, daughter of John Cooley of Ipswich. On 6 July 1665 Richard Kimball of Wenham sold to Caleb Kimball of Ipswich "my dwelling and land about it, containing one acre...which was late John Coolye's deceased." This is not a "smoking gun," because maybe Richard bought the property instead of inheriting it. But perhaps Mary's maiden name may have been Cooley.

Citations

• link to Great Migration, Vol 2, C-F Page 226

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