Person talk:Francis Kendall (2)

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Previous notes for Person Francis Kendall (2)

From William W. Gardner:

"In 1657, Francis Kendall is released from all "Ordinary Traynings" - Middlesex County Court Records, Vol. I., page 143. See note under Tottingham. There is a well authenticated tradition in the Kendall family that Francis Kendall was stolen from a Ralph Miles in England and brought to this country." (Woburn, Mass. Woburn Marriage Records Pt III p. 136-229 Microfiche Card 8 of 26).

List of Freeman Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1630 to 1691: Kendall Francis May 26, 1647 Wenham

KENDALL, Francis, miller, Woburn, 1640 frm. May 26, 1647. Town officer. He deposed in Dec. 1658, ae. about 38 years, and 2 (2) 1662, ae. about 48 years. [Mdx. Files.] He m. Dec. 24, 1644, Mary Tidd; ch. John b. May or July 2, 1646, Thomas b. Jan. 10, 1648-9, Mary b. Jan. 10 1650-1, [m. Israel Reed,] Elizabeth b. Jan. 15, 1652-3 (m. James Pierce,) Hannah b. Jan. 26, 1654-5, (m. William Green,) Rebecca b. March 21, 1656-7, (m. Joshua Eaton,) Samuel b. March 8, 1659-60, Jacob b. Jan. 26 1660-1, Abigial b. April 1666, (m. Wm. Reed.) His wife Mary d. 1705. He d. 1708. Will, dated May 9, 1706, mentions ch. above-named and several gr. ch.; also the 8 ch. of his bro. Thomas K. that were living when Thomas d. [Reg. XXXVI, 17.] (The Pioneers of Massachusetts p. 266)

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From http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vpatrick&id=I11649

   Francis and Thomas KENDALL (alias Miles) may be the sons of JOHN &
   ELIZABETH KENDALL of England. This brief genealogy of the descendents of
   Francis KENDALL does not deal with his English ancestry.

   The Kendall brothers first appeared in New England in the year 1640 in
   Charlestown, Mass. Francis eventually settled in Woburn, Mass. and Thomas in
   Reading, Mass.

   Francis KENDALL was born c1620 having deposed in Dec. 1658, age about 38
   years and 2 (2) 1662 as about 48 years.

   Francis was an original proprietor of the Town of Woburn, Mass.3 He was in
   Charlestown, Mass. in 1640 when he subscribed to the Town Orders for Woburn.4
   He served the Town of Woburn as selectman and committeeman for many years.5

   In the Year 1675 Francis Kendall is released from all "Ordinary Traynings".6 In 1664
   Francis served on a committee to divide the common land in Woburn7 and one year he
   was fined six pence for "being mere an hour to late" for meeting.8On 9 June 1676 he
   was chosen tythingman for the Town of Woburn 9and on 19 Dec. 1671 he refused
   communion with the Church of Woburn.

   In the Year 1700 Francis KENDALL was involved in a court case regarding
   the estate of his son-in-law Ephraim WINSHIP of Cambridge, Mass. The record is
   most interesting and reads as follows: "Ephraim WINSHIP, late of Cambridge
   ffarms, dec'd Ye 19 of Oct. 1696 & adminx being granted to Eliza; ye Relict
   widow of sd Ephraim WINSHIP, who afterwards married with Joseph PEIRCE of
   Watertown, who after his Marriage with ye sd admistrix proceeded to a furher
   admistn as to paying debts &c. His Hond ffather in law mr ffrances Kendall at
   Woburne demands that his son in law Ephraim WINSHIP in the time of the former War
   called Phillppe War came to his hous for shelter for fear of the Indians, because his
   living was then in ye woods Remote from Neighbors, and he brought with him his
   Antient mother in law Reigner a widow of whom he was to take care & that ye sd
   ffrancis Kendall did keep ye sd widow Reigner for sd Ephraim WINSHIP with
   provisions more yrs A yeare and halfe and halfe at Eight pounds per
   Yeare & halfe comes to 121b." Widow Reigner was Mary, widow of Samuel
   REYNER.

   In this same case Francis KENDALL made a statement dated 20 Feb. 1700
   which reads, "What I give in my will is of nothing worth til I am dead. yet is an antient
   law, as ould as paul he teaches us so much law -- now it hath
   pleased God to lengten out my life for more yn Eighty years, much longer yn I
   expected."

   Francis Kendall's will is dated 9 May 1706 and was probated 31 May 1708
   The will names as the heirs of Francis the following: eldest son John KENDAL; sons
   Thomas, Samuel, Jacob KENDALL; daus. Mary READ (son-in-law Israel READ),
   Elizabeth PEIRCE, Hannah GREEN; children of deceased dau. Rebecca EATON;
   daughters Abigail PEIRCE; Eunice, wife of son John KENDALL; grandsons
   Francis KENDAL, eldest son of son John KENDAL, Ralph KENDAL, son of son
   Thomas KENDAL, Francis GREEN, Samuel, son of son Samuel KENDAL, Jacob
   son of son Jacob KENDAL, William PEARCE; granddaughters Mary PEIRCE &
   Elizabeth LAMSON, dau. of my dau. Rebecca EATON; the eight children of my
   brother Thomas KENDAL. The document also mentions: Samuel WALKER,
   Samuel BLODGETT, Thomas CARTER, Jonathan THOMPSON, Joseph
   WRIGHT sr, John KNIGHT, John BRUCE,Timothy WALKER (these for the
   most part mentioned in reference to land boundries). The executors of the estate were
   sons John & Thomas KENDAL - OVERSEERS - Jeremiah SWAYN of Reading,
   MA & James FOWLE of Wobourne, MA Witnesses were John BROOKS, Daniel
   BALDWIN & Edward WINN

   FRANCIS married MARY TIDD, daughter of JOHN TIDD and MARGARET
   GREENLEAF, on 24 Dec 1644 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA.13 Mary born say 1620,
   died in 1705 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA.
   (Doris Sheridan dody11@@prodigy.net 4 Sunset View Ave. Troy, NY 12180)

   Francis Kendall, the immigrant ancestor, son of John Kendall (1), was born in England, and is believed to be the ancestor of all the Kendalls in America. In December, 1658, he deposed that his age was about thirty-eight years. On April 2, 1662, he deposed that his age was about forty-eight years. Possibly the date of his birth was between the two dates indicated by these statements, say 1618. He came from England before 1640. With thirty-one others he signed the town orders of Woburn, December 18, 1640. He had been living in Charlestown, of which Woburn was then a part, and where he was a taxpayer in 1645. Francis Kendall married; December 24, 1644, Mary Tidd, daughter of John Tidd. In the record he is called Francis Kendall, alias Miles. There are several explanations of this record. It was common with emigrants to America to take assumed names to avoid vexatious laws, and there is a tradition that Kendall left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles until he was settled in this country. His brother, Thomas seems not to have used any other name. Francis Kendall was admitted a freeman, May 10, 1648. Sewall says of him: "He was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence." He served the town at different times for eighteen years as selectman, and on important committees such as those for distributing grants to the pioneers, and on building the meeting house. He was tything man in 1676. He was not entirely in accord with the Puritan church, and was fined for some infraction of church rules about infant baptism or attendance at communion or attending meetings of the Anabaptists. He was a miller by trade and owned a corn mill, which he left to his sons, Samuel and John. This corn mill, at Woburn, has been in the possession of the family down to the present time. The mill now, or lately on the Kendall place, is one built by Samuel Kendall soon after 1700 and is some distance from the location of the first mill.

   He died in 1708, at the age of eighty-eight according to the record, corroborating the affidavit of 1658. His wife, Mary died in 1705. His will dated May 9, 1706. His sons, Thomas and John were the executors.
   (http://www.yeoldewoburn.com/Kendall.htm)

   Ref: KENDALL GENEALOGY -- AMERICAN

   The probable home of Francis Kendall has already been give as Kendal, England. He appears
   in Charlestown, Mass., in 1640 and in Woburn in 1642, when that town was settled. Savage
   says he was made freeman in 1647 and in 1700 swore he was forescore years old, thus placing
   his birth at 1620.

   Woburn records give the following: "Frances Kendall," subscribed with thirty-one others to the "Town Orders" for Woburn on Dec. 18, 1640, also--his marriage record, "Frances Kendall, alias Miles and Mary (Tidd) Tedd married 24th 10 mo. (Dec. 24) 1644.

   Family tradition advances the theory he fled secretly from England, thus using the name Miles; another tradition states he was stolen from Ralph Miles of England and brought to America, but the fact concerning Governor Miles Kendall already referred to would seem stronger toward the name Miles being a possible connection between them.

   Sewall in a genealogical notice says: "He was a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the town where he resided."

   His will was dated May 9, 1706, in which he styles himself "miller" and gives, "one half his 'corne mill' together with the rights of the streams, dams and utensils thereunto belonging" to his heirs as specified.

   The first mill was built in Woburn about 1650 by Francis Kendall, but not the present mill as has been claimed. Mr. John Johnson, a descendant of Francis, is said to have papers proving this first mill was built on another stream three-quarters of a mile east of the present mill, which was built by Samuel on land bought from Mr John Johnson Aug. 11, 1694.

   Francis's homestead was nearer the town located about one and three-quarters miles from the

   J. R. Kendall place and taken down about 1839.
   (Laureen Bostedt winibos@@msn.com Family Source)

   Francis (1) & Thomas (1) brothers came from England 1635-1640. Francis lived in Charlestown in 1640 and in 1645 lived Woburn where he married Mary Tidd - 24th December 1644. He came here under an assumbed name of Francis Miles. Traditionally for the purpose of concealing from his parents his intention to emigrate to America. In his will of 9 may 1706 he styles himself a miller and gives one-half of his will and appurtenances to his son John, one fourth to Thomas and one fourth to his brother Thomas. he was a man of great influence in Woburn. A selectman for 18 years. Children were born in Woburn.

   It is said the Kendall family sent more representatives to the British Senate that any other family in the United Kingdom.

From Colonial Families in the U.S. (1907):

FRANCIS KENDALL, b. in England, circa 1620; came to America and was living at Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1640; he emigrated under the name of MILES in order, it is said, to conceal his intentions from his family. At Charlestown he signed the town orders for the new town of Woburn and was one of its first and most prominent inhabitants, serving for eighteen years on the Board of Selectmen and on various town Committees. He owned and operated a mill on one of the streams at Woburn and is described by Sewell, as ?a gentleman of great respectability and influence in the place of his residence.? In a strict Puritan community, he had the courage to differ slightly in faith from the majority for which he was duly fined. He m. 24th December, 1644; Mary, dau. of Sergt. John TIDD, the first man in Woburn to bear a military title. Francis KENDALL d. in 1708, at the age of 88. His wife d. in 1705.

I. John, b. 2d July, 1646; d. circa 1732; a soldier in King Philip's War; m. (firstly) 1668, Hannah BARTLETT, dau. of Ensign Thomas BARTLETT; m. (secondly) 1681, Elizabeth COMEY; m. (thirdly) Eunice (BROOKS) CARTER, widow of Samuel CARTER, eldest son of Rev. [p.328] Thomas CARTER, Woburn's first pastor. She dau. of John BROOKS who, at the age of 67, was a soldier under Phipps in the expedition to Quebec.

II. Thomas, b. 10th January, 1648-1649; d. 1730; m. (firstly) 1673, Ruth BLODGETT, dau. of Samuel and Ruth (EGGLEDEN) BLODGETT; m. (secondly) 1696, Abigail (RAYNOR) BROUGHTON, widow of Capt. John BROUGHTON and dau. of Rev. John RAYNOR. He was gd. father of Rev. Samuel KENDALL, Harvard College, 1731, of New Salem and gr. gd. father of Rev. Samuel KENDALL, Harvard College, 1782, of Weston. Another gd. son, Ephraim KENDALL, was a soldier and d. in the French and Indian War in 1758.

III. Mary, b. 20th January, 1650-1651; m. Israel REED, son of William and Mabel (KENDALL) REED, son of Sir Thomas REED, Bart., of Brocket Hall, Herts, England.

IV. Elizabeth, b. 15th January, 1652-1653; d. 1715; m. (firstly) 1675, Ensign Ephraim WINSHIP, son of Lieut. Edward WINSHIP of Cambridge; m. (secondly) Joseph PIERCE of Watertown.

V. Hannah, b. 26th January, 1654-1655; m. William GREEN, Jr., of Woburn.

VI. Rebekah, b. 2d March, 1657; d. 1690; m. 1678, Joshua EATON, Selectman and Representative to the General Court from Woburn, son of Jonas and Grace EATON.

VII. Samuel, b. 8th March, 1659-1660; d. 1749; m. (firstly) 1683, Rebecca MIXER of Watertown, dau. of Isaac and Rebecca (GARFIELD) MIXER, her uncle, Benjamin GARFIELD was a direct ancestor of President GARFIELD; m. (secondly) 1692, Mary LOCKE, dau. of Deacon William and Mary (CLARK) LOCKE of Woburn, she was aunt of Samuel LOCKE, Eleventh President of Harvard College.

VIII. JACOB, b. 25th January, 1660-1661, of whom later.

IX. Abigail, b. 6th April, 1666; m. 1686, Capt. William REED, Selectman, Justice of the Peace and Representative to the General Court; son of George REED of Woburn.--jillaine 00:08, 25 November 2008 (EST)