C O NTENTS I KEMP TH E ESSEX C O U NTY (EN GLAND) KEMPS G WILLIAM KEMP , THE EN LISH COMEDIAN TH E PLANTIN G OF PLYMOUTH COLONY V R B M . WILLIAM KEMP OF DUX URY EDWARD KEMP OF DEDHAM , WENHAM , AND CHELMSFORD S K G AMUEL EMP , PRO ENITOR VIII JONATHAN KEMP OF THE FIRST GENERATION JOSEPH KEMP OF THE SECOND GENERATION BENJ AMIN KEMP OF THE THIRD GENERATION JOHN REED KEMP OF THE FOURTH GENERATION JAMES KEMP OF THE FIFTH GENERATION XIII WILLIAM KEMP OF THE SIXTH GENERATION XIV WARS OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD WA R OF THE REVOLUTION EN GAGEMENTS AT LEXIN GTON AND CONCORD XVII BATTLE O F B UN K ER H ILL Vll viii CONTENTS X VIII VVA R (N? 1 8 1 2 — 1 8 1 5 H N XI X AMERICAN ANCESTORS OF THE O . WILLIAM KEMP NE W Y K OF TROY , OR DESCENDANTS OF WILLI AM AND EDWARD KEMP OF PLYMOUTH AND MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONIES — 1 6 3 5 1 6 6 7 XX I DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL KEMP OF MASSACHUSETTS - BAY <3 0 LONY I 6 6 3 ~ I Q O 4 XX II COLONIAL MILITARY SERVICE XX III REVOLUTI ONARY WA R SERVICE XX I V APPENDIX KEM P te rm Kem N Old English , the p designated a soldier engaged in single combat . The name Kemp is derived from the S ax on word to Kem p or combat , which in Norfolk [County , England] - is retained to this day ; a foot ball match being called a ' camping or Kempz ng; and thus in Saxon a Kemper sig fi -at- I n ni es . a combatant , a champion , a man arms some parts of Scotland , the striving of reapers in the ' ” -fi d Kem z n Vida: E t m o harvest e l is still called p g. An y D C logical ictionary of Family and hristian Names , by A 1 8 . 1 2 . William rthur, New York , 5 7 , p 7 TH E ESSEX C O UN TY (EN GLAN D) KE MPS Finchi n fi e ld Hi ckfo rd H N g parish , undred , Essex n County , E gland , abou t a mile north of the parish ’ church , is a manorial mansion known as Spain s H all , which took its name from H ervey de H ispania (or Spain) . The estate of which the site of the hall i s a part came , as it is related , by marriage or otherwise , into the posses sion of the Kemp family . 2 my k emp fi mealugp o t h e h o f J hn Kemp , living in paris in the reign Ed I 1 2 2 A G ward ( 7 had by his wife , lice unter , a so n M named Nicholas , who married argaret , daughter of “ R . ichard de H ispania J ohn Kemp , their son , married o a daughter of Reymond , son of J ohn de Linc ln , b and had with her a considera le estate , in this parish , d o f R e m o n s . called y J ohn , their son , had also a son the same name , who by his Wife , Whose maiden name ’ R 1 1 . was Amesbury , had ichard , living in 3 7 His wife s C f name was atharine , of whom no o fspring is recorded ; M e k ell his second wife , argaret , daughter of Robert J , b 1 0 6 mercer of London , rought him in marriage , in 4 , k e ll and u s i c W E s . e s t es . the manors of J J illiam Kemp , q , A their son and hei r, had by his wife , lice Miles , a son ’ 1 2 was b Robert , who , dying in 5 4, uried in Kemp s Chapel , in this church ; having had , by his wife Anne A u ld e rfi e ld p of Kent , seven sons and three daughters , o f none of whose names occur i n records , except that William , the eldest son . He married Mary , daughter of b John Colt, and sister to Jane , wife of the cele rated ‘ o o fi s rin chancellor, Sir Th mas More . The p g of this A marriage was Robert , rthur, Henry , John , (which three G e C last died without issu e , ) and eorge , seat d at avendish f M r G C in Su folk ; also arge y , married to eorge avendish o ff W of Glemsf rd , in Su olk ; Anne , wife of Thomas right , No rwick M o o of ; and argaret , married to Th mas D wnes , s he after Whose decease married a second husband , R hb o r u h W named u s o g . The second wife of illi am Kemp , the father , was Mary , daughter of J ohn Maxey , Esq . , and widow of Yardley ; their marriage settle 1 2 ment bears the date of 5 4 . abs hemp cram ming$) 3 h e . t z Robert Kemp , Esq , eldest son , married Eli a beth , daughter of Clement Higham of Barrow H ill , in ff Su olk , chief baron of the exchequer , and had by her W b B illiam and Ro ert ; ridget , wife of Clement Paman , of f Chevington , in Su folk ; and D orothy married Ralph Lee of Sussex . William , the eldest son , was rendered remark of able by the voluntary pu nishment himself, for some impropriety of speech which he considered highly crim inal , and for which alleged offence he imposed a vow of silence during the term of seven years , to which he x u nde vi strictly submitted , with most e traordinary and 1 6 2 8 1 . 8 ating perseverance H e died in , having in 5 5 P c o - married hilippi , daughter and heiress of Francis Gunter, of Aldbury , in Hertfordshire , and had by her his only daughter J oan , married to J ohn B urgoyn e , o b Esq . , of Sutton , in Bedf rdshire . His rother Robert , who was of Gessing, in Norfolk , married Frances Min z gay , and had by her Robert , E dm und , Eli abeth , wife ” 1 of O utlaw , Isabel , etc . 1 o and o o a of ou n o f n an The Hist ry T p gr phy the C ty Essex , E gl d , by ' ’ 6 1 6 2 6 . Vl a e oma on on 1 8 6 vol. : Th s Wright , L d , 3 , i , pp 5 , 5 , 53 The o and n u o f ou n of n an P hili Hist ry A tiq ities the C ty Essex , E gl d , by p 62 6 6 6 a o V o an on on 1 68 v ol. a M r t , L d , 7 , ii , pp 3 , 3 3 , 3 4, 3 5 ; ls The isit n 8 8 . on o f a n 1 6 1 2 a . ca on o 1 ti s Essex , R ve , , by W lter C Met lfe , L d , 7 , pp 2 0 2 I . 3 , 3 4 «t he h emp fi m alouy WI LLIAM KEMP , THE EN GLISH C O MED IAN I LLIA M KEM P was a comic actor of high repu 1 ‘ tation . Like Tarlton , whom he succeeded as wel in the fau o u r of her Majesty [Q ueen Eli z abeth] as in ] ’ the opinion and good thoughts of the general audience , o he usually played the cl wn , and was greatly applauded f for his buf oonery , his extemporal wit , and his perform ance of the jig or grotesque dancing . Between the years 1 5 89 and 1 5 93 he belonged to a company under the management of the famous E dward Alleyn . A few B u rb ad e years later, he and Thomas Pope , Richard g , J ohn Hemings , Au gu stine Phillips , William Shakespeare , William Slye , and Nicholas Tooley formed the company ’ called the Lord Chamberlain s Servants . William Kemp ’s eminence and popularity as an actor are substantiated by many historical incidents . H e and William Shakespeare and Richard B u rb adge were more than once selected to entertain Q ueen Elizabeth and her court, and together received pecuniary rewards from her Majesty as tokens of her pleasure in witnessing 2 plays in which they had the principal parts . The plays 1 d d i n m 1 88 c a a on ie S . Ri h rd T rlt epte ber, 5 2 The follo win g en tries appe ar In the manu s cript accou n ts of the Tre a ‘ u o f am : to am K m am S a a and s rer the Ch ber Willi e p , Willi h kespe r , c a u a au n to o Ch amb erle n e u on Ri h rd B rb ge , serv tes the L rd y , p the Mar i 1 f r ou n celle s a an a at al . to c o twoe C w rr t d ted Whiteh l xv j , 594, s everall comedies or interlu des shewed by them before her M aj e sti e i n d nn c n ma t me a a Viz . u on St. S n a an o Christ s y l ste p ste , , p tephe s d ye I e tes fitbe 1 13 m m45 211 23 1 03 11 5 ’ were presented in Greenwich Palace , on Saint Stephen s 1 day and that of the Holy Innocents , in D ecember, 5 94 .