Person:George Kilbourne (4)

"106. George²¹ Kilbourne, freeman 13 May, 1640; had an acre and half lot on Bradford Street, 1643. He was of Roxbury, 1638, and son of Thomas,¹ who came from Wood Ditton, County Cambridge, to Boston in the 'Increase,' 1635, and settled in Wethersfield, baptized at Wood Ditton, 12 Feb., 1612 (Savage) [Jacobus says, '… probate records of members of the Wethersfield family afford conclusive proof that the only surviving children of Thomas were the one son and four daughters who accompanied him to this country. Walter Goodwin Davis leaves George Kilbourn unattached, appearing first as a young apprentice at Roxbury, and later a 'farmer of small pretensions' at Rowley.' Hale, House, 653]. His wife was Elizabeth. He was mentioned in the will of James Barker, as 'brother,' 1678. He died 14 Oct., 1685, as shown by the inventory of his estate (Essex Probate).

"'George Kilborne, a man servant,' appears on the list of members of Rev. John Eliot's Church at Roxbury, with no indication of the date of his adherence thereto. It was possibly about the year 1636, and he was doubtless a young apprentice attached to one of the Roxbury settlers. In 1640 he was living in Rowley, to which new settlement several of his fellow parishioners had moved, and where he was made a freeman on May 13 of that year. Kilborne seems to have been a farmer of small pretensions, and his name seldom appears on the records of Essex County. He served on the Grand Jury in 1662, 1676 and 1682, on the Jury of Trials in 1671 and 1675, and on a jury of inquest in 1670. In 1677 he was among the citizens of Rowley who protested against raising Rev. Mr. Shepherd's salary. James Barker of Rowley, in his will made in 1678, twice mentions his 'brother George Kilborne.' His wife Elizabeth appeared as a witness against the wife of John How in 1663 for the quaint offense of 'wearing a silk scarf and a silver bodkin when she was a widow.' He died October 14, 1685, in Rowley, and his estate was presented for administration on November 24, His widow, 'Sist^r ye widow Kilborn," died February 14, 1697/8, according to the church record, the town record giving the date as February 13."

"George (Kilbourn), Roxbury 1636, freem. 13 May 1640, in the ch. rec. is call. serv. rem. to Rowley, by w. Eliz. had Mary, b. 3 May 1649; Joseph, 1 Feb. 1652; Jacob, 12 Jan. 1655, one of the flower of Essex in Lothrop's comp. k. by the Ind. 18 Sept. 1675, at Bloody brook; Samuel, 11 Sept. 1656; Isaac, 26 Jan. 1659; and Eliz. 1 Feb. 1663. He was s. of Thomas, bapt. at Wood Ditton, Co. Cambridge, 12 Feb. 1612."