Generation 1

ROBERT KINGSMAN (d. 1647) of Overton

Parents: See Stickney [Ref]

Robert Kingsman of Overton the elder, yeoman, wrote his will on 6 Apr 1647. It was proved in Jul 1647. He mentioned his son Robert Kingsman; Robert's son Robert; the children of his sons Philip and Thomas; the children of his sons-in-law Edward Carpenter, John Newman, Nathaniel Poole, Henry Fisher; his kinsman Robert Kingsman of Overton, yeoman; his kinsman Thomas Stevens of Lockbridge. [Ref]

Generation 2

ROBERT KINSMAN (d. 1664) of Ipswich

Parents: Stickney [Ref] suggests that Robert might have been the son of Robert Kingsman of Overton.

Robert Kinsman died on 28 Jan 1664 in Ipswich. [Ref]

He was a glazier: the inventory of his estate included “glass, lead, vise and tools belonging to the glazing trade”. [Ref]

Robert Kinsman came to New England on the Mary and John, arriving in Boston in May 1634. [Ref] He is on a 19 Dec 1648 list of taxpayers in Ipswich. [Ref] Robert Kinsman of Ipswich was made a freeman at the 6 Apr 1658 court at Ipswich. [Ref] On 13 Nov, “Robert Kinsman, being above threescore years of age and having the sciatica, was freed from training”. [Ref]

Robert Kinsman signed his will on 25 Jan 1664; it was proved on 28 Mar 1665. He mentions his son Robert; Isaac and Sarah the children of his daughter Mary; his daughter Mary, the wife of [?] Wardell; Daniel Roger; Mary and Susan Ring; his daughter Sarah, the wife of Samuel Younglove; his daughter Hannah; his daughter Martha, the wife of Jacob Foster; his daughter Tabitha Kinsman; his cousin Richard Nicolls. [Ref]

Children of Robert Kinsman:

1. Quartermaster Robert Kinsman was born about 1629. He died on 19 Feb 1712, age 83. [Ref] He married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Boreman. Robert Kinsman was a freeman on 11 Mar 1673/4 in Ipswich. [Ref] He was a soldier in King Philip's War on 24 Jun 1676. [Ref] He opposed the Andros tax and was excluded from holding office, fined and bound to good behaviour for a year. [Ref] He gravestone says: Here lieth buried/ye body of Quarter/master Robert/Kinsman who/died February ye/19, 1712, aged/83 years. [Ref]
2. Mary Kinsman married first Daniel Ring. [Ref][Ref] He died in Feb 1661. [Ref] She married second Uzall Wardwell on 3 May 1664 in Ipswich. [Ref] Uzall, the son of William and Alice Wardwell, was born on 7 Apr 1639 in Boston. [Ref] Uzall married second Grace Unknown. [Ref]
3. Sarah Kinsman married Samuel Younglove on 1 Aug 1660 in Ipswich. [Ref]
4. Hannah Kinsman married William Damford on 20 Mar 1670 in Ipswich. [Ref]
5. Martha Kinsman died on 15 Oct 1666. [Ref] She married Dea. Jacob Foster of Ipswich on 12 Jan 1658/9 [Ref] in Ipswich. [Ref] Jacob was the son of Reginald Foster 1.
6. Tabitha Kinsman married William Howard.

Generation 3

TABITHA KINSMAN

Parents: Robert Kinsman

Tabitha Kinsman possiby married William Howard. [Greene's [Ref] argument suggests that this is possible,and perhaps likely, but not proven.]

References

Cemeteries

Editors, "Ipswich Inscriptions," Essex Antiquarian 13, 1909, 58.

Court Records

Editors, "Ipswich Court Records and Files," Essex Antiquarian 12, 1908, 120.

Encyclopedias

Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.

Great Migration Project: http://www.greatmigration.org/. Entry for Robert Kinsman.

Family Genealogies

Forster, Edward Jacob, "Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster Family: Descendants of Reginald Fo(r)ster of Ipswich, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 30, 1876, 83-102.

Stickney, Lucy W., The Kinsman family : Genealogical record of the descendants of Robert Kinsman, of Ipswich, Mass. from 1634 to 1875, unknown, unknown, 1876.

Memorials

Parker, Frances J., "Samuel Baker Rindge," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 45, 1891, 3.

Notes

French, A. D. Weld, "Frenches in New and Old England," Notes and Queries Section, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 45, 1891, 84-5.

Public Records

Bodge, George, "Soldiers in King Philip's War," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 42, 1888, 95.

Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3, 1849, 243.

Wait, Luther, trans., "Ipswich Proceedings," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1848, 50-53.

Wills

Editors, "Will of Robert Kinsman," Essex Antiquarian 12, 1902, 107.