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KENDALL
The Kendall Family goes back for many generations in
Cambridgeshire, England. John Kendall
(1580 – 1660) had ten children, and seven came to Massachusetts. They
all lived near each other, often in contiguous communities. I descend from Mabel and Thomas.
These Kendall children all came to Masachusetts:
1) Mabel (about 1606 – 1690) married William Reed and lived
in Woburn, Massachusetts
2) John (about 1608 – 1690) married Elizabeth and lived in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
3) Thomas ( about 1616 – 1681) married Rebecca and lived in
Reading, Massachusetts
4) Francis (1620 – 1706) married Mary Tidd and lived in
Woburn, Massachusetts
5) Elizabeth (1623 – 1696/7) married Morris Somes and lived
in Gloucester, Massachusetts
6) Bethiah (d. 1668.9) married Theophilus Phillips and lived
in Watertown, Massachusetts
7) Mary married Thomas Whitney and lived in Watertown,
Massachusetts
Mabel and her husband William Read, my 10th great
grandparents, came to Massachusetts on the Defence
with three children in 1635. They
settled in Woburn, where her brother Francis was living. Eventually they had a total of nine children
born in England, Dorchester, and Woburn.
William eventually returned to England and died at Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in 1656. Mabel married second to Henry
Summers on 21 November 1660 in Woburn. I
descend from her daughter, Abigail, born 1634 in Dorchester, who married Francis
Wyman as his second wife.
Mabel’s brother Thomas Kendall is my 9th great
grandfather. He first settled in
Charlestown with his brother Francis.
Later Thomas removed to Lynn and settled in the area that was later
known as Reading. This area became South
Reading, and later Wakefield. He was a
Deacon of the church and selectman for many years. He had ten daughters, and the Kendall name
was not passed on in his line as a surname.
However, Sewell’s History of Woburn, pages 619 - 620
remembers him like this:
“Francis Kendall remembers likewise in his
will the eight children of his brother Thomas (one of the first settlers of
Reading, and a deacon of the church there) who were living, when he, said
brother died. It seems that this brother
of Frnacis Kendall, of Woburn, Deacon Thomas Kendall of Reading, and Rebecca
his wife, had ten daughters, but no son that lived. But these daughters, in order to preserve
their maiden name, Kendall, among their posterity, directed, eath of them, when
married, that her first born son should have the given name Kendall, prefixed
to his surname; as Kendall Peirson, Kendall Boutwell, Kendall Eaton, Kendall
Briant, etc., etc, etc., which gave occasion to the following lines respecing these
daughters in a Poem written by Lillie Eaton, Esq., of South Reading, and
published with Flint's Historical Address upon the 200th anniversary of the
founding of Reading. In mentioning the
vernerable matron, their mother, he observes:
"She had ten daughters; and each one
When married, christened her first son
Kendall; and thus we many infer
Why 'tis these names so oft occur"
-- Flint's Address, p.
64"
Thomas Kendall and his wife, Rebecca, were originally buried
the old cemetery in Reading and then his grave was removed to the Wakefield Old
Burial Ground. His tombstone is
described in Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Sybols, 1650 – 1815,
by Allen Ludwig, Wesleyan University Press, 1999, page 84. His gravestone has no dates, and the epitaph is:
Fugit Hora [Time Flies]
Memento Te
Esse Mortalem [Remember that you are
mortal]
Upon ye
death of Thomas Kendel
Her in ye
Earth is layd on of ye 7 of this Church Foundation
So to
remaien tel ye powerful voice say ris, in her I a Gloris
Habitation
A Patarn of
piati & Love & for peace
But now alas
how short his race
Here we
mourn & mourn we moust
To se zion
sons like gold now laid
In dust
Rebecca’s epitaph reads:
Here lyeth
the mother of ten
Who had 175
grand and great-grandchildren
Some Kimball Sources:
A Mills and Kendall Family History: American Ancestry and Descendants
of Herbert Lee Mills and Bessie Delano Kendall, by Helen Schatvet
Ullman, Boston: Newbury St. Press, 2002
The Kendall Family in America, by William Montgomery Clemens,
reprinted by Higginson Book Company, 1919. Online at Archive.org
Notable descendant:
President Calvin Coolidge
The Deacon Thomas Kendall House survives at 1 Prospect
Street in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It
is a federal style house, but the central chimney and inner rooms date back to
Deacon Kendall, who lived there until 1681.
The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, but is
privately owned. See a photo at this
Wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Thomas_Kendall_House
My KENDALL genealogy:
Generation 1: John
Kendall of Cambridgeshire, England
Lineage A:
Generation 2: Mabel
Kendall, born 1606 in England, died 5 June 1690 in Woburn, Massachusetts;
married about 1625 in Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England to William Reed, son
of Thomas Reed and Mary Cornwall. He was
baptized on 18 April 1601 in Brocket Hall, and died 9 April 1656 in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Nine
children.
Generation 3: Abigail Reed married Francis Wyman
Generation 4: Nathaniel Wyman married Mary Winn
Generation 5:
Increase Wyman married Deborah Pierce
Generation 6:
Increase Wyman married Catherine Unknown
Generation 7: Jemima Wyman married Joshua Burnham
Generation 8: Jemima Burnham married Romanus Emerson
Generation 9: George
Emerson married Mary Esther Younger
Generation 10: Mary Katharine Emerson married George E.
Batchelder
Generation 11: Carrie Maud Batchelder married Joseph Elmer
Allen
Generation 12: Stanley Elmer Allen married Gertrude Matilda
Hitchings (my grandparents)
Lineage B:
Generation 2: Thomas Kendall, born about 1616 in England,
died 22 July 1681 in Reading, Massachusetts; married Rebecca about 1640 in
Charlestown, Massachusetts. Twelve
children.
Generation 3: Rebecca Kendall, born 10 February 1644 in
Reading, died 30 August 1713 in Reading; married 15 June 1665 in Reading to
James Boutwell, son of James Boutwell and Alice Unknown. He was born about 1642 and died 5 December
1716 in Reading.
Generation 4: Sarah
Boutwell married John Townsend
Generation 5: Sarah
Townsend married Brown Emerson
Generation 6: John
Emerson married Katherine Eaton
Generation 7: Romanus Emerson married Jemima Burnham (see
above)
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