George Kilbourne, of Rowley

Parents unknown. Not the same as George Kilbourne, son of Thomas Kilbourn, Sr. & Frances Kilbourne

George Kilbourne

• Birth: Bef 1619 - England
• Death:14 Oct 1685 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1636 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Probate: 24 November 1685
• Parents: unknown
• Spouse: Elizabeth, perhaps Barker (bef 1629 - 1698) - married by 1649, probably at Rowley

Biography

Extracted from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kilbourne-147 on 11 January 2025 and then edited

Disputed origins

Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, listed this man as the son of Thomas who came from Wood Ditton.[1]

Anderson makes it clear, this was not George, the son of Thomas Kilborne[2]

Estimated Birth is based on the fact he was at least 21 when he became a freeman in 1640

New England

George Kilborne was a man servant listed as a member of John Eliot's Church at Roxbury. (no date indicating when he joined but prior to 1640).[3][4]

1638 -- George Kilbourne lived at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Boston).[1] Several persons from Roxbury left there to go to the new settlement of Rowley.[4]

May 13, 1640 -- George Kilborne became a freeman at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1][5][4]

1643 -- George Kilbourne had an acre and a half house lot at Bradford Street, Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1]

His wife was Elizabeth.[1] They lived in Rowley. Why would they marry in Connecticut as mentioned? The identification of Elizabeth as Barker is uncertain, but James Barker of Rowley twice mentions his brother George Kilborne.[1]

1678 -- George Kilbourne was mentioned in James Barker's will as "brother."[1]

October 14, 1685 -- George Kilbourne died at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, as shown by the inventory of his estate. (Essex Probate)[1][4]

February 13, 1697/8 -- widow Elizabeth Unknown Kilbourne died at Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Province.[1][4]

Children born at Rowley

From https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:George_Kilbourne_%284%29

1. Mary Kilbourne 1649 - 1727. Married Nathaniel Barker.
2. Joseph Kilbourne 1652 - 1706. Married Mary Trumble.
3. Jacob Kilbourne 1654 - 1675. Died unmarried in King Philip's war.
4. Samuel Kilbourne 1656 - 1722. Married Mary Foster.
5. Isaac Kilburn 1659/60 - 1713. Married Mary Cheney.
6. Elizabeth Kilbourne 1663 - Bef 1719. Married Ephraim Curtis.

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PROBLEM

~• not listed as one of the Kilbourne Family that travelled together to Mass. Colony
SO THE QUESTION IS: Should we disconnect George of Rowley form his alleged father Thomas of Wethersfield, the one that was killed by Native Americans?
For Thomas and his family, who travelled together to Mass. Bay Colony, see Passengers on the Increase (geni project)

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A George Kilborn is on the list of "HOUSE LOTS OF EARLY SETTLERS ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY 1650" found at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mariana/house_lots_of_early_settlers...

(Source info: Source: Map of Rowley Center, 1650 from: ROWLEY MASSACHUSETTS - 'Mr Ezechi Rogers Plantation' 1639-1850, pp. frontspice Contributed by: Edward Sinker)

References

1. Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 20 2017, 4:23:04 UTC
2. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/889/426893224. KILBORNE, George (-1685) (called "bro." by James BARKER, by Mary BARKER wid James) & Elizabeth [?BARKER] (-1698); by 1649; Rowley {Rowley MA Fam. 213; Dawes-Gates 2:514; Stone Anc. (1930) 87, 95; Pope's Pioneers 32; Wethersfield 2:467; Kilburn 41, 339; To
3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:George_Kilbourne_(4) cites:
   1. 106. George2 Kilbourne, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933 213.
   2. "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).
   3. Kilborne, in Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996) 2:385. "'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, 'Sistr ye widow Kilborn," died February 14, 1697/8, according to the church record, the town record giving the date as February 13."
   4. George Kilbourn, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862) 3:19. "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."
   5. Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849) 3:187.
   6. Category: 1630s Immigrants