Family:Thomas Kimberly and Mary Seabrook (1)

Thomas Kimberly's second wife was named Mary (____) Preston, widow of William Preston who died in 1647. Mary was still a widow in April, 1660, "when she asked to be released from her office of sweeping the Meeting-House, doubtless because of her approaching marriage." By August, 1661, Thomas Kimberly is mentioned as having a wife. ^S1

In History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, written 1930-1932, Jacobus suggests that the second wife of William Preston may be Mary Seabrook, daughter of Robert Seabrook. This is based upon a Stratford deed where Robert Seabrook gifted property to his grandchildren. ^S2 However, in the 1950 Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, Jacobus writes: "It has been stated in many accounts that William Preston's second wife Mary was a daughter of Robert Seabrook, but the compiler doubts that this was so and believes that identification to have been based on a misinterpretation of a deed in Stratford." ^S3

1.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family. (Neenah, Wisconsin, United States: Privately Printed for James Cheney Kimberly by George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1950)
   p. 10.
2.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   pp 490, 523.
3.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Genealogy of the Kimberly Family. (Neenah, Wisconsin, United States: Privately Printed for James Cheney Kimberly by George Banta Publishing Company, Menasha, Wisconsin, 1950)
   p. 11.