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Henry Kingsbury (c. 1615–1678), son of Henry Kingsbury and Jane Warren
Susan French (bp. 1616–1679), daughter of Thomas French and Susan Riddlesdale
Henry Kingsbury was the son of Henry Kingsbury and Jane Warren. [1] He was born about 1615 in county Suffolk. He died on 1 October 1678 in Haverhill. [1] Byrne and Hardy argue that Henry's wife Susan was the daughter of Thomas French and Susan Riddlesdale. [1]
Susan, the daughter of Thomas French and Susan Riddlesdale, was baptized on 22 April 1616 in Assington. [1] She died on 21 February 1678/9 in Haverhill. [2]
In 1669 Henry deposed that he was 54 years old. [2]
On 27 March 1669, Alexander Sessions deposed about some hogs he saw in 1665. He said that Goodman Kingsbury's son said that they were his uncle Gage's hogs. [3, 4: 117]
Henry had two uncles who came to New England: his uncle John Kingsbury and John Gage, whose wife Amy was probably a sister of Susan Riddlesdale. [1]
Henry was in Ipswich from 1658 to 1660. [2] Shortly after he went to Rowley, where he was living from 1662 to 1667. He finally settled in Haverhill. [2]
Children of Henry Kingsbury and Susan French: Children are listed in Kingsbury and Talcott. [4] Order unknown.
i. John Kingsbury died on 23 January 1670/1 in Haverhill. [2] He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Matthias and Letice Button of Ipswich and Haverhill. [4] She died on 20 December 1677. [2] She married second Peter Green on 11 December 1672. [2]
The April 1673 court ordered everyone who had transferred land to John Kingsbury to give a deed to the administratrix [his widow] of his estate. [3, 5: 153] The April 1678 court noted that John's wife and administratrix had married as her second husband Peter Green and was now dead. It approved an agreement between Peter and John's father Henry Kingsbury that Henry would take charge of John's two chldren and their portions of 40 acres of land would be in his hands. [3, 6: 431]
ii. Susannah Kingsbury was probably born in 1641/2. [1] She died on 5 December 1718 in Newbury. [5][6] She married Joseph Pike on 29 January 1661/2. [1][5][6] Joseph, the son of John and Mary (Turvell) Pike, was born on 25 December 1538. [6] He was killed by Indians on 4 September 1694 in Haverhill. [5]
iii. Ephraim Kingsbury was killed by the Indians on 2 May 1676 in Haverhill. [2]
iv. James Kingsbury married Sarah Button, the sister of his brother John's wife, on 6 January 1673. [4]
James moved to Plainfield.
On 13 November 1699, James Major James Fitch, Joseph Spalding, Richard Adams, Joshua Whitney and Benjamin Spaulding signed a petition to incorporate Plainfield and hire a minister. [7]
Administration on the estate of Daniel Button, who died intestate, was granted to John Bartlett, Sr. on 27 March 1677. "The estate was to be ordered according to his mid, a cow to James Kingsbury and the rest of the estate to the rest of his brothers and sisters." [3, 6: 252][8]
v. Samuel Kingsbury died on 26 September 1698 in Haverhill. [4] He married Huldah Corliss on 5 November 1679. [4] Huldah, the daughter of George and Joanna (Davis) Corliss, was born on 18 November 1661 in Haverhill. [4] She married second Abraham Whittaker on 27 December 1704 in Haverhill. [4] Abraham, the son of Abraham and Hannah (Beane) Whittaker, was born on 20 May 1683. [4]
vi. Lieutenant Joseph Kingsbury was born about 1657. He died on 9 April 1741. He married Love Ayer.
References:
1. Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands ... ," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175 (2021): 104–19.
2. John Ward Dean, "Henry Kingsbury and His Descendants," New England Genealogical and Historical Register 13 (1859): 157.
3. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).
4. Frederick John Kingsbury and Mary Kingsbury Talcott, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich (Hartford?: Case, Lockwood and Brainard, 1905).
5. Anne Borden Harding, "The John Pike Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 121 (1967): 164.
6. D. Alden Smith, "An Ahnentafel as a Record of Immigration and Mobility," NEHGS NEXUS 6: 20, 65.
7. Ellen D. Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, vol. 1 (Worcester, MA: Charles Hamilton, 1874).
8. George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920), 3: 124 (Daniel Button).
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