Person:Ephraim Kempton (7)

Ephraim Kempton
d.Bef 12 Apr 1714 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
m. 28 Jan 1644/45
  1. Joanna Kempton1645 - 1728
  2. Patience Kempton1647 - 1648
  3. Ephraim Kempton1649 - Bef 1714
  4. Manassah Kempton1650/51 - 1737
  5. Ruth Kempton1654 - 1714
  • HEphraim Kempton1649 - Bef 1714
  • WMary ReevesAbt 1651 - Bef 1712/13
m. Bef 1674
  1. Ephraim Kempton1674 - 1758
  2. Stephen Kempton1675/76 -
  3. John KemptonAbt 1678 - Aft 1746
  4. Samuel Kempton1681/82 -
  5. Thomas KemptonAbt 1684 - Abt 1708
  6. Elizabeth Kempton1687 -
  7. Manassah KemptonAbt 1689 -
  8. Ruth KemptonAbt 1691 -
Facts and Events
Name Ephraim Kempton
Gender Male
Christening[1] 8 Apr 1649 Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage Bef 1674 Probably Salem, Mass., or possibly Boston, Mass.based on birth of eldest child
to Mary Reeves
Occupation[2] gunsmith
Death[1] Bef 12 Apr 1714 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Ancestral File Number MKS4-BK

From Great Migration Begins: He was largely raised by his grandfather Thomas Rawlins Sr. and then his uncle, Thomas Rawlins Jr., after both his parents died young.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
    1:78.

    'EPHRAIM KEMPTON ... gunsmith, baptized Scituate, MA 8 April 1649 (Register 57[1903]:83); died Salem, MA between 1 January 1712/3 (Essex Deed 26:148) and 12 April 1714 when he is called deceased in the deed of his son, Stephen (Essex Deed 44:57); married Scituate 7 November 1673 (Little Compton Families, 385) MARY REEVES, born Salem MA say 1650s, died after 1687 and before 1 January 1712/3 when her husband arranged life maintenance for himself but did not mention her (Essex Deed 26:148), daughter of JOHN and JANE (_____) REEVES...'

  2. Smith, Dean Crawford, and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2008)
    1:78, 79.

    p. 78: 'On 1 November 1676 Ephraim Kempton of Boston, gunsmith, ...'
    p. 79: 'In [a] ... document dated 8 December 1677 he is described as a gunsmith "of Boston, or now of Salem." '

  3.   Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    3:1560, entry for Thomas Rawlins.

    'On 8 June 1658, "Mannasses Kemton Senir" of Plymouth and "Thomas Rawlins Senir of Boston" agreed on the division of Ephraim and Joanna's estate and agreed to share responsibility for two children each [PCR 2:1:211; see also PCR 3:114]. Thomas Rawlings drew eldest son Ephraim and daughter Ruth. When Thomas Rawlings Sr. died, his son, Thomas, completed the job of raising the two Kempton children and left them part of his estate when he died [SPR Case #2097].'