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Samuel Kinsley (d. 1662), probable son of Stephen Kinsley

Hannah Brackett (bp. 1635–1706), daugher of Richard Brackett and Alice Blower

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Samuel Kinsley was probably born in England. [1] He died on 21 May 1662 in Billerica. [2] He married Hannah Brackett. [3]

Hannah Brackett was baptized on 4 January 1634/5 in Boston. [4] She died on 3 July 1706 in Dunstable. She married first Samuel Kinsley. [5] She married second Deacon John Blanchard. [5] John died in 1694. [5] He married first Elizabeth Hills about 1657. [5] Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph and Rose (Clark) Hills, was born in 1627 and died about 1662. [5]

John Bracket and Samuel Kinsley, inhabitants of Billerica, along with other inhabitants, signed an agreement on land division and rating on 24: 12: 1661. [6]

Hannah was killed by Indians, along with her children Elizabeth and Nathaniel. [5]

Inventory papers for Samuel Kinsley are dated 17 (4) 1662. His estate papers refer to two daughers, age six and seven, and a newborn son. Hannah, his widow, and her father Richard Bracket were administrators. [7]

Samuel's father Stephen Kinsley left ten pounds each to the son and two daughters of his son Samuel in his will on 27 May 1673. The son was to receive the money at 21 and the daughters at 18. [8]

Children of Samuel Kinsley and Hannah Brackett:

i. Daughter Kinsley [1] was born about 1655 if she was seven in 1662. She was living on 27 May 1673.

i. Elizabeth Kinsley was born on 22 November 1657. She died on 3 July 1706 in Dunstable. She married John Cummings.

iii. Samuel Kinsley was born about 1662 in Dorchester. [1] He died in 1713. [3] He married Mary, the daughter of John Washburn [1] in 1690 in Bridgewater. [3] Mary was born in 1661. [3]

Children of John Blanchard and Hannah Brackett:

i. Josiah Blanchard (twin) was born on 15 March 1665 and he died young. [5]

ii. Benjamin Blanchard (twin) was born on 15 March 1665 and was living in 1693. [5]

iii. James Blanchard was born on 10 March 1666 and he died in February 1704. [5] He married Anna Blood on 1 March 1671. [5] Anna, the daughter of Nathaniel and Hannah (Parker) Blood, was born on 1 March 1671. [5]

James was a soldier of Captain William Tyng's snowshoe company and he died of "fatigue and exposure" while serving. [5]

v. Sarah Blanchard was born in 1670. [5] She married Robert Usher on 23 January 1694. [5]

vi. Captain Joseph Blanchard was born on 1 November 1672 and died in 1727. [5] He married Abiah Hassell on 25 May 1696. [5] Abiah, the daugher of Joseph and Anna (Perry) Hassell, was born on 13 May 1673 and died on 8 December 1746. [5]

vii. Mary Blanchard (twin) was born on 23 September 1674 and married first John Derbyshire and second Nathaniel Woods. [5]

viii. Nathaniel Blanchard (twin) was born on 23 September 1674. [5] Nathaniel, his wife Lydia and his daughter, were killed by Indians, along with his mother and stepsister Elizabeth, on 3 July 1706 in Dunstable. [5]

ix. Martha Blanchard was born in 1676 and died in November of that year. [5]

Endnotes:

1. Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), 249.

2. Vital records of Billerica, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1908), 374.

3. "New England Marriages to 1700," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, originally published as Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), vol. 2: 900.

5. Ezra S. Stearns, Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1911), 3–6.

6. Frederic Kidder, "Materials Toward a History of Billerica," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852), 86.

7: "Middlesex, County, MA: Abstracts of Court Files 1649–1675," database with images, AmericanAncestors, vol. 2, 9.

8. "Suffolk County, MA: Probate Papers," database with images, AmericanAncestors, 655.

Revised 08-Jun-2023

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