Kimball Genealogy

It is probable that very few people begin, more or less, extended genealogical researches with an adequate notion of what lies before them. A rather common curiosity to know who are the ancestors of one's self or one's friends, develops into a lively interest so soon as a trail is found and followed. Let difficulties arise, however, as they are sure to, and the trial of one's wits in the solution of a problem believed to be soluble has a fascination which one will hardly believe who has not experienced it.

The present pamphlet makes no claim to originality except in the fixing definitely of the lines of descent. Much of the information herein contained may be found in other works, which have been freely cited, but which are hardly accessible outside of a large genealogical library. The library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, in which most of the works cited may be found, is now excelled in the wealth of its genealogical works by but two, or at most three, libraries in the country.

The book has two main objects in transcribing and collecting data, to-wit: first, to wive the bare vital records, uninteresting as some of them may be, which are necessary to fix definitely the lines of descent; and, second, to add biographical sketches when the matter upon record is sufficiently full to allow of it. The length of individual sketches is dependent, therefore, not alone upon the prominence of the individual, but upon the amount of material that the accidents of history have left us. It cannot be claimed that the book is altogether free from errors, though care has been exercised to exchide them. The material has necessarily been gathered from many sources of different degrees of reliability, but some judgment has been used in selecting the matter introduced and in discarding other material.

For some lines, notably those of Church and Fuller, special investigations have been necessary, and the services of Mr. Horace E. Mather of Hartford, Conn., a professional genealogist, have been engaged. In some instances, the patience of town clerks in New England twits has been tamed in order to secure the important entries from the official records. To Mrs. Sutherland Orr (nee Florence Dean) of Ascot, Berks, England, Miss Carolyn Weston of Dalton, Mass., and Mrs. M. H. Walker of Green Bay, the compiler is under special obligations either for the loan of valuable papers or for an opportunity to transcribe genealogical data collected by others.

The greatest difficulties have been encountered in tracing the Pomeroys. The data secured are, however, of much interest and are given with considerable fullness. The Kimballs first settled at Watertown, Mass., and the first Kimball born in America was Sarah Kimball, who first saw the light in 1635.

Of the emigrant male ancestors of the family that have been found, fifteen came over before 1630, more than thirty came in the 1630's, and only six came later than 1650. Three came in the "Mayflower" to Plymouth, to-wit: George Soule, Thomas Rogers, and Francis Cooke, the latter an ancestor to two distinct lines of the family. All were signers of the "Mayflower Compact." In the next vessel, the "Fortune," came in 1621 Philip De la Noye, the Huguenot Pilgrim, and Robert Hicks. The "Ann," 1623, brought Experience Mitchell and Joshua Pratt. Both Mitchell and Hicks were like Cooke, ancestors each to two branches of the family. The wives and children of a number of Pilgrims came in the "Fortune" and "Ann." One of the family ancestors, William Wadsworth, went to the settlement of the other great English colony in Virginia in 1621. Inasmuch, however, as he settled later in Massachusetts, the family's history is but little connected with the fortunes of that colony.

While the majority of the forebears were of that sturdy middle class which has always been the strength of the English people, there were several among them who belonged to families of distinction at home. Abigail Downing was descended through the royal line from William the Conqueror. Her husband, Richard Montague, and the ancestor of Nathaniel Dickinson, both claimed descent from men who came into England with the Normans in 1066. The pedigree of John Richmond is also traced to one of the leaders under William the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings. His granddaughter, Sarah Richmond, was the first of eight Sarahs in the direct line to Winifred Sarah Weston Hobbs. Philip de la Noye, the Huguenot of the Plymouth Colony, was descended from one of the most distinguished families of France, the recorded pedigree of which extends to Charlemagne, Alfred the Great, and William the Conqueror, and includes many of the royal blood.

From Plymouth and Duxbury the ancestors of Sarah Weston emigrated to the west to found Bridgewater and Taunton. From the Massachusetts Bay Colony the maternal ancestors of Alonzo Kimball-Mather and Stoughton of Dorchester, Wads-worth of Cambridge, Gardner of Gloucester, Fuller and Emerson of Ipswich, and others-all emigrated to Connecticut, where they allied themselves with the Churchills, Montagues, Dickinsons, Churches, Smiths, Footes and other prominent Connecticut families, which played a leading role in the settlements of Hartford and Wethersfield. When dissension arose in church affairs they were the "withdrawers" who again marched away through the forest to found Hadley and Hatfield, and eventually to settle much of western Massachusetts.

This book is published through the generosity of Mr. A. W. Kimball, for distribution in the family, in order that the present and future generations may know how goodly is their heritage in ancestors who have wrought manfully and successfully amid privations and sacrifices, and by mighty hammer blows have welded a commonwealth whose foundations of liberty and justice are alike our pride and our bulwark. In some sense, the book is a memorial to the founders of the Green Bay branch of the Kimball family. Beside the more or less extended biographical sketches of the founders themselves, such sketches are included of the deceased members of the families of their descendants.

The Paternal Ancestry of Alonzo Kimball

• The Kimball Lineage

• The Witt Lineage

• The Carr Lineage

• The William Hayward Lineage

• The Rockwood (Rocket) Lineage

• The Albee Lineage

• The Cook Lineage

Maternal ancestry of Alonzo Kimball

• The Mather Lineage

• The Atherton Lineage

• The Stoughton Lineage

• The Wadsworth Lineage

• The Buttolph Lineage

• The Gardner Lineage

• The Fuller Lineage

• The Emerson Lineage

• The Wood Lineage

• The Hanchett Lineage

• The Langton Lineage

• The Prichard (Prichett) Lineage

• The Church Lineage

• The Churchill Lineage

• The Foote Lineage

• The Dickinson Lineage

• The Cowles (Cole) Lineage

• The Montague Lineage

• The Downing Lineage

• The Chileab Smith Lineage

• The Hitchcock Lineage

• The John Smith Lineage

• The Partridge Lineage

• The Root Lineage

• The Kilbourn Lineage

• The Ashley Lineage

• The Weston Lineage

• The Dela Noye Lineage

• The Soule Lineage

• The Nash Lineage

• The John Shaw Lineage

• The Phebe Watson Lineage

• The Hicks Lineage

• The Pratt Lineage

• The Dunham Lineage

• The Pomeroy Lineage

The Maternal Ancestry of Sarah Weston

• The Dean Lineage

• The Stephens Lineage

• The Kingsley Lineage

• The Abigail Leonard Lineage

• The Washburn Lineage

• The Elizabeth Mitchell Lineage

• The Cooke Lineage

• The Packard Lineage

• The Howard Lineage

• The Martha Hayward Lineage

• The Keith Lineage

• The Susanna Edson Lineage

• The Byram Lineage

• The Susanna Shaw Lineage

• The Mary Edson Lineage

• The Joseph Hayward Lineage

• The Hannah Mitchell Lineage

• The Cooke Lineage

• The Thomas Leonard Lineage

• The Mary Watson Lineage

• The Hicks Lineage

• The King Lineage

• The Whitman Lineage

• The Walker Lineage

• The Phillips Lineage

• The Brooks Lineage

• The Richmond Lineage

• The Rogers Lineage

The Descendants of Alonzo and Sarah Weston Kimball