Kingsbury and Allied Families

KINGSBURY AND ALLIED FAMILIES A GENEALOGICAL STUDY WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Compiled and Privately Printed for MISS ALICE E. KINGSBURY BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. NEW YORK 193 ◄ To FreJe:iri(Qk John King§huiry 1 of W atell'llmll'y, C oll'.lllllledicut, A Schoftall' all'.lld G entleman, W ho Made the Study of Family Records a Pastime anJ W ove That Study and interest Info H is Life illll a Clb.airming W ay Never to be F oirgottellll, And to His Sollll, FireJ.eiridk John Kingshuiry 9 J:ir.9 of N ew H aven, Connecticut, Who Combined the Traits of His Fa.their's Progenitors with the Spontane_ous Warmth of Those of H is M other, A iathea Ruth ScoviH Kingshury Contents,_ PAGE Kingsbury 7 Scovill 31 Leavenworth 42 Johnson 47 Bunnell 53 First Clark Line 59 Dayton 63 Conkling 67 Schellinger 72 First Peck Line 79 Kitchell 85 Sheaffe 87 Dorman 92 Bronson 95 Humiston IOI Todd 106 Tuttle II3 Southmayd I I9 Root 123 Ellis 126 HiH 130 Second Clark Line 1 35 Stone 138 Denison 144 Ayer 148 Davies 152 Foote 160 Second Peck Line 167 Sutliff 172 Brockett 178 Hotchkiss 183 5 CONTENTS PAGE First Cooper Line 190 Chatterton 195 Lamson 198 King 206 Noble 2Il Dewey 215 Hawley 219 Uffoot 224 Curtiss 229 Booth 235 \Vheeler 245 Nichols 2 49 Hickox 256 Baldwin 261 Richards 266 \Velton 271 Upson 2 74 Andrews 276 Index· of Families 281 6 DAYTON SOUTHMEAD SCHELLING ER (.SOUTHMAYD) Kingsbury INGSBURY is an ancient English patronymic that dates back to the time of the Saxon Kings. The modern form is derived from the old "Cynges-burk," which means a stronghold, and refers to the King's castle. A surname of locality, Kingsbury is taken from the residence of the family at, or near, a parish of the name. There are four places of the name in England, one in Middlesex Cot1nty, eight miles from London, one in Hertfordshire, one in Warwickshire, and one in Somersetshire. Kingsbury in Warwickshire belonged to the famous Countess Godiva and her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia. Among the ancient members of the family are many clergymen and many Benedictines, one of the most learned orders in Europe. The Kingsburys appear to have been an eminently respectable people, occu pying a prominent and of ten leading place in the communities where they dwelt; conservative, of sound sense and judgment, and having a keen sense of humor; peace makers and peace lovers; not religious, preferring to suffer wrong rather than to do wrong; good advisers, relied on by their neighbors; dependable in all things; not ambitious-never striving to lead, but not shirking responsibility when put upon them; not reaching ronspicuous positions in Church or State, but frequently filling offices of much responsibility and usefulness. Most excellent citizens-the record is creditable-may it long continue. The first individual of the name that is known to us is Gilbert de Kings bury, who was the incumbent of St. Peter's Church, Kingsbury, Warwickshire, in 1300. His surname was ptobably derived from that place. In 1368 we find a William de Kingsbury mentioned in the will of Gervase de Wyllesford, Rector of Barnak in Northamptonshire, and, in County Suffolk, Rev. Thomas Kingsbury was rector of a parish during the reign of James I. '7 KINGSBURY At Halford, Kineton Hundred, Warwickshire, on the River Stone, in the southern part of the county, near the church is found the gravestone of Henry Kyngesberie, Rector, who died March 1, 1487. William de Kyngesbury appeared in Little Cornard in 1369. His name is on the Roll of Cuxton's Manor until 1412, when he held \i\Tattyscroft in the Manor of Little Cornard, the lordship of Thomas de Grey. In 1414 John de Kingesbury is found. Whether they came from Kingsbury Hall in Warwick shire, or from Kingsbury Episcopii in Somerset, or from Kingsbury in Middle sex, or were an offshoot from a Kingsbury family in Dorset is not known, but they were undoubtedly the ancestors of the family in County Suffolk, from which came Henry Kingsbury, probably the first of the name in America. Henry Kingsbury came to America in the "Talbot" of the Winthrop fleet, and he seems to be connected with the Winthrop family, but just how is not clear. He lived at Assington, England, next to Groton, the Winthrops' home. Gov ernor Winthrop wrote to his wife from aboard the "Arbella," riding at anchor at Cowes, March 28, 1630, before the departure from England, that "Henry Kingsbury hath a child or two in the 'Talbot' sick with measles, but like to do well." Again he wrote to his son, John, Jr., July 23, 1630, from Charlestown, Massachusetts : "Henry Kingsbury hath appointed money to be paid to you by (---)." To this John Winthrop, Jr., replied mentioning "Goodman Kings bury of Assington, etc." It appears that Thomas Kingsbury, a brother of Henry, was to embark for America with him, but never came. Henry Kingsbury married, at Assington, England, May 18, 1621, Mar garet Alabaster. They are believed to be the same "Henry and wife Margaret" who were admitted to the First Church, Boston, Massachusetts. As no further records of them appear, it is thought that the wife died here and that Henry Kingsbury returned to England. In the parish register of Assington, County Suffolk, England, are baptisms thus: 1622. James Kingsberie, the sonne of Henrie Kingsberie and Mar garet his wife, the first of September. 1624. Sarah Kingsbury, the daughter of Henry Kingsbury and Margaret his wife, the first of August. There is recorded also the marriage of Thomas Alabaster and Margaret Blyth, on July 8, 1618, and the burial of Thomas Alabaster, September 18, 1620. 8 KINGSBURY Therefore, it seems probable that his widow was the Margaret Alabaster who married Henry Kingsbury the following year. Thomas Alabaster was the son of Robert and Bridget' (Winthrop) Ala baster of Hadleigh. Bridget Winthrop was the daughter of Adam Winthrop, Esq., and an aunt of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts. This very ~ikely was the connection between the Henry Kingsbury, who came to America on the "Talbot" and the Winthrops. The Alabaster family were prominent in Suffolk County, memorial brasses having been placed in the Hadleigh church, one for Thomas Alabaster in 1592, an uncle of Thomas Alabaster of Assington. Henry Kingsbury, the progenitor of the Kingsbury family, whose history follows in these pages, is believed by some writers to be a son of Henry Kings bury, above-mentioned, by an earlier marriage, but no proof of this has been found. There is a record of Henry Kingsbury, who married at Stoke, County Suffolk, England, December 5, 1613, Jane Waryn, but there is no evidence that this was the Henry Kingsbury who later married Margaret Alabaster, or that Henry Kingsbury, of whom further, was his son. (Bardsley: Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames. Harrison: Sur names of the United Kingdom. M. K. Talcott: The Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich, pp. 20, 21, 89. A. Kingsbury: Kingsbury Genealogy, p. 14. Frederick John Kingsbury: The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Massachusetts, pp. 20, 21, 77-79.) I HENRY KINGSBURY, the first definitely known ancestor of the family in America, was born in England in 1615, and died at Haverhill, Massachusetts, October 1, 1687. He may have been a son of Henry Kingsbury, who came to America in the "Talbot," but nothing has been found to substantiate this. Henry Kingsbury was at Ipswich in 1628. The Hammatt Papers state that he was a commoner there in 1641. On February 8, 1648, he sold his farm at Ipswich, Massachusetts, con~isting of thirty-two acres, to Francis ,Safford for £5, and on December 19, of that year, he subscribed two shillings to the Major Denison Fund. In the same year he bought from Daniel Ladd of Haverhill, "house and land on High Street, Ipswich," and twelve years later, August 30, 9 KINGSBURY 166o, Henry Kingsbury and Susan, his wife, of Ipswich, sold house and land on High Street for two oxen in hand, £5 to be paid to Robert Paine and 40s. to Edmund Bridges, and the same year were recorded at Rowley, "late of Ipswich," where they sold six acres to Reginald Foster. Henry Kingsbury was one of the inhabitants of Ipswich, who signed a peti tion, May 17, 1658, stating that they had all taken the oath of fidelity, but were not freemen. They claimed the right to vote in town affairs, which had been questioned at the town meeting. In 1661-62-63, Henry Kingsbury was overseer for the Pentucket side for fences and highways in Rowley. His farm was on the Merrimac River in that part of Rowley, which afterwards became Bradford, Massachusetts. March 3, 1667-68, "it was voted and granted that Henry Kings bury shall have ten acres of land which is to be laid out unto him, adjoining to Mr. Ward's farm, to the west of Hawke's meadow path, not prejudicing any other man." In 1669 he gave a deposition in court and stated that he was fifty-four years of age. John Kingsbury, of Dedham, called Henry Kingsbury, of Haverhill, his kinsman and made him an equal devisee with the children of his brother Joseph. John Gage, of Ipswich, and Rowley, Massachusetts, was also of some relation ship to Henry Kingsbury. They were men of Suffolk County, England. Henry Kingsbury was one of the appraisers of John Gage's estate, March 26, 1673, and of .Jonathan Gage's estate, March 15, 1674-75.

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