Person:John Kempton (7)

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John Kempton
b.12 Dec 1735 Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
 
Parents and Siblings
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m. 12 Nov 1730
  1. John Kempton1735 -
  2. Oliver Kempton1738 -
  3. Sarah Kempton1741/42 -
  4. Bethiah Kempton1742/43 -
  5. Ruth Kempton1745 -
  6. Hannah Kempton1748 -
  7. George Kempton1751 - 1841
  8. Samuel Kempton1753 -
  9. Ephraim Kempton1755 -
  10. Bethia Kempton1757 -
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m. 1 Dec 1768
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Facts and Events
Name John Kempton
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 12 Dec 1735 Uxbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Baptism[3] 29 Jan 1737/38 Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage 1 Dec 1768 Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USAto Susannah Washburn

John was engaged to Sarah Battles in 1764, but there is no record of their actual marriage, nor of her death prior to his marriage to Susannah Washburn in 1768. The engagement may have been broken, and she may have been the Sarah Battles who had a daughter 8 months after the marriage intention was published, and/or the Sarah Battles who married Jonathan Sawyer 28 Sep 1766.

References
  1. ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, 1916)
    page 101, Births.

    'KYMPTON (see Kempton), ... John, s. of John and Bethiah, Dec. 12, 1735.'

  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)
    1:85.

    'John, born Uxbridge 12 December 1735 (UVR, 101)'

  3. ↑ Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records to the End of the year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1916-1925)
    1:484.

    'KEMPTON ...
    John, s. John, bp. Jan. 29, 1737-8. C. R. 1.'

  4.   Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1911)
    page 170, Marriages.

    'BATTLES, Sarah and Jonathan Sawyer, Sept. 28, 1766.'

  5.   Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1911)
    page 14, Births.

    'BATTLES, ...
    Patience, d. Sarah, May 9, 1765.'

  6.   Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Leominster, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1911)
    page 224, Marriages.

    'KEMPTION, John of Uxbridge and Sarah Battles, int. Sept. 7, 1764.'

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