Notater:

According to the book, "History of the Kimball Family in America..." which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/historyofkimball00morr#page/36/mode/2up, Samuel's father Richard Kimball was born in Suffolk County, England and came to Massachusetts with his father about 1623 (see page 37). He lived in Ipswich, Wenham and Topsfield. According to this source, he had two wives, both named Mary, and 8 children alive at the time of his death, as demonstrated by an agreement made between them and his widow. One of these children was his son Samuel. According to page 39, Samuel was the second son, born about 1651 in Ipswich. (I have seen other sources on the internet that estimate his birth at 1653. Unfortunately he has no birth record.)
Samuel has his own listing in the above-referenced book starting on page 51. According to this source, he married September 20, 1676, Mary Witt, daughter of John and Sarah Witt of Lynn, Massachusetts. Despite what is written in The Witt Genealogy, which can be found online on ancestry.com, Samuel did not marry Mary Witt's sister Martha.
There is compelling proof that the wife of Samuel Kimball had to have been born about 1660. If Mary was born about 1660 she would have been about 16 years old when she married Samuel Kimball. Her first child was born in 1677 and she continued to have children until Jerusha was born in 1703. If she was born in 1660 then she would have been 43 years old at the time her last child was born. This is probably about the right time frame - women in the 1670s would not likely have been married any earlier than about 16 years old, and could not have children any later than about 43 years old. She spent more than 26 years having children, which is about the absolute maximum possible.
In Wenham vital records, the following marriage record appears:
Kimball, Samuell and Marah Witt, Sept. 20, 1676.
Several of Samuel's children have birth listings in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Samuell, s. Samuell, Aug. 19, 1677. CTR
Kimball, Sarah, d. Samuell, 6: 7m: 1678. CTR
Kimball, John, s. Samuell, Nov. 13, 1687. CTR
Kimball, Thomas, s. Samuel and Mary, Feb. 22, 1695-6.
Kimball, Benjamin, s. Samuel and Marey, Apr. 17, 1698.
Kimball, Abbigall, d. Samuel, sr. and Marey, May 25, 1700.
Kimball, Jerushah, d. Samuell, sr. and Mary, Apr. 30, 1703.
So these are birth records for 7 of his children. In addition to the above information in Wenham vital records, the above-referenced book on the Kimball family supplies a birthdate for the "first' Martha of 24 May, 1680, and the names of more children, including Mary, Richard, Jonathan, Ebenezer, and the second Martha. In all, this couple had 13 children - a very large family. The other children have only estimated birth dates in the Kimball book. See page 51.
So, it is a fact that in the birth records of many of his children, Samuel Kimball's wife is listed as "Mary" or "Marey" and not Martha.
John Witt's will, written in 1675 (see his listing on www.findagrave.com), mentions married daughter Ann Barnitt (Barney), daughter Elizabeth, daughter Sarah, unmarried daughter Marye (Samuel's soon to be wife), unmarried daughter Martha, son John Witt, son Thomas Witt, wife Sarah, grandchild Hester Witt (and her father Jonathan Witt).
It looks like Samuel spent most of his adult life in Wenham. He was appointed Surveyor in 1676 and Constable in 1677. He is noted on the 24 May 1682 list of Wenham freemen and was Selectman in that town in 1682. On 2 Mar 1701, he and wife Mary deeded to son Samuel a lot of 10 acres and a house. Samuel's estate was settled by his son Samuel who took title to his father's property and paid his siblings their share.
His death is listed in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Sameul, Ens., Oct. 3, 1716.

Samuel blev gift med Mary Witt den 20 sep. 1676 i Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. Mary blev født cirka 1660 i Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; døde den 28 okt. 1729 i Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

(Please don't make changes again to the Life Sketch I wrote without checking with me first. Just common courtesy. Thanks!)
According to the book, "History of the Kimball Family in America..." which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/historyofkimball00morr#page/36/mode/2up (see page 51), Samuel Kimball married September 20, 1676, Mary Witt, daughter of John and Sarah Witt of Lynn, Massachusetts. This is true. However, other sources claim that Mary Witt, daughter of John and Sarah, married at Lynn one Samuel Stocker, 6 June 1666, and it was her sister Martha, born 5 March 1658/9, who married Samuel Kimball in 1676. (For example, see The Witt Genealogy, which can be found online here: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE184841). This is false. The Mary who married Samuel Stocker in 1666 was this Mary's sister-in-law, the widow of her brother Jonathan. There is ample evidence of this, including the fact that after his death, Jonathan's daughter picked her step-father, Samuel Stocker, as her guardian.

There is no birth record for Mary. There is, however, compelling proof that the wife of Samuel Kimball had to have been born about 1660, or perhaps just a little before.
If Mary was born about 1660 she would have been about 16 years old when she married Samuel Kimball. Her first child was born in 1677 and she continued to have children until Jerusha was born in 1703. If she was born in 1660 then she would have been 43 years old at the time her last child was born. This is probably about the right time frame - women in the 1670s would not likely have been married any earlier than about 16 years old, and could not have children any later than about 43 years old. She spent more than 26 years having children, which is about the absolute maximum possible.
In Wenham vital records, the following marriage record appears:
Kimball, Samuell and Marah Witt, Sept. 20, 1676.
This name, Marah, looks not quite like Mary, and not quite like Martha.
Several of Samuel's children have birth listings in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Samuell, s. Samuell, Aug. 19, 1677. CTR
Kimball, Sarah, d. Samuell, 6: 7m: 1678. CTR
Kimball, John, s. Samuell, Nov. 13, 1687. CTR
Kimball, Thomas, s. Samuel and Mary, Feb. 22, 1695-6.
Kimball, Benjamin, s. Samuel and Marey, Apr. 17, 1698.
Kimball, Abbigall, d. Samuel, sr. and Marey, May 25, 1700.
Kimball, Jerushah, d. Samuell, sr. and Mary, Apr. 30, 1703.
In addition to the above information in Wenham vital records, the above-referenced book on the Kimball family supplies a birthdate for the "first' Martha of 24 May, 1680.

In all, this couple had 13 children - a very large family. The other children have only estimated birth dates in the Kimball book. See page 51.

So, it is a fact that in the birth records of many of his children, Samuel Kimball's wife is listed as "Mary" or "Marey" and not Martha. There is a record in Lynn for what is likely the birth of her younger sister, and it looks like this:
Witt, Martha, d. John and Sara, 5: 1m: 1658-9. CTR
John Witt's will, written in 1675 (see his listing on www.findagrave.com), mentions married daughter Ann Barnitt (Barney), daughter Elizabeth, daughter Sarah, unmarried daughter Marye unmarried daughter Martha, son John Witt, son Thomas Witt, wife Sarah, grandchild Hester Witt (and her father Jonathan Witt).
I am not sure when she died. There is a listing in Wenham vital records that looks like this:
Kimball, Mary, wid., at Beverly, Oct. 28, 1729. CR
and I think this is her husband's listing in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Sameul, Ens., Oct. 3, 1716.

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Notater:

Richard Kimball had a nephew of the same name who lived in Wenham at the same time, so be careful when merging please! Thanks!

According to the book, "History of the Kimball Family in America..." which can be found online here: https://archive.org/stream/historyofkimball00morr#page/36/mode/2up, Richard Kimball was born in Suffolk County, England and came to Massachusetts with his father about 1634 (see page 37). He lived in Watertown briefly as a child, and then moved to Ipswich about 1637, thereafter Wenham about 1652 and perhaps also spent time in Topsfield. John and Samuel were probably born in Ipswich, and the remainder in Wenham. According to this source, he had two wives, both named Mary, and 8 children alive at the time of his death, as demonstrated by an agreement made between them and his widow. The first wife Mary, last name unknown, died Sep. 2, 1672, so any children born after this time would likely belong to the second wife Mary. According to page 31, he is mentioned in his father's will of 5 March 1675. His father died there in Ipswich.

Looking at page 37, it appears that Richard may have lived for a short time in Wenham starting around 1652 or shortly thereafter, and then Topsfield in 1664. However, in his probate documents he appears to be "of Wenham." He appears to have died in 1676. Eight children, all sons, are listed on page 39. The first 7 were born between 1650 and 1671, while the first wife Mary was alive. The last son, Nathaniel, is listed with a birth year of 1676, as follows:
John, b. in Ipswich, about 1650; d. 1721
Samuel, b. about 1651 in Ipswich; d. Oct. 3, 1716
Thomas, b. Nov. 12, 1657; d. Oct. 16, 1732
Ephraim, b. Feb. 18, 1660, in Wenham; d. Jan. 16, 1731/2.
Caleb, b. April 9, 1665; d. Jan. 25, 1725/6, Wenham
Christopher
Richard, b. July 7, 1671, Rowley; d. Oct. 8, 1672
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Nathaniel, b. 1676; d. Sept. 7, 1735

If there were 8 children alive at the time of Richard's death, we are likely missing a child - presuming that Richard Jr. died in 1672.

Someone has added an "Elizabeth" to this family below - born about 1663. In the article, "Robert Cue of Salem, Beverly, Wenham, Mass.," in The American Genealogist, 14 (1937-38):153, the author makes a good argument that Elizabeth, wife of Robert Cue, was the daughter of Richard and his first wife Mary:

"Elizabeth Cue, widow and Relict of Robert Cue, Late of Wenham, deceased, sold to John Trask, secundus, land in Salem 3 Dec. 1702. Wit: Caleb Kimball, Eliza Cue, Jun., Samuel Balch. Thomas Kimball, Senr of Wenham, an overseer of ye last will & testament of Robert Cue of Whenham, "did consent & agree to & with his Sister Eliza Cue," 5 jan. 102, and on 11 Aug. 1703, she receipted for full payment on the land [citing Essex Co., Deeds 18:30].

"Elizabeth Cue was a "sister" of Thomas Kimball. She could not be a sister to Thomas's wife for she was also named Elizabeth and her surname being Potter, she was not a sister to Robert Cue. No child of Cue's married a child of Thomas Kimball's, hence the only way Elizabeth, wife of Robert Cue, could have been "sister" to Thomas Kimball was by being a blood sister and hence a daughter of Richard Kimball." See Elizabeth's file for more information.

There are a few of Richard's children listed in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Thomas, s. Richard, Nov. 12, 1657. CTR
Kimball, Ephraim, s. Richard, Feb. 18, 1660. CTR
Kimball, Caleb, s. Richard, Apr. 9, 1665. CTR

There are two death records which appear to belong to this family in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Richard, sr., May 20, 167-. CTR [I think this death date belongs to this Richard]
Kimball, Richard, jr., Oct. 8, 1672. CTR [I think this death date belongs to this Richard's son, but I am not certain]

Wenham vital records also lists a death date for first wife Mary:
Kimball, Mary, w. Richard, Sept. 2, 1672. CTR

There is another book about the Kimball family in America, called "The Joseph Kimball family: a genealogical memoir of the ascendants and descendants of Joseph Kimball of Canterbury, N.H. : Ten generations: 1634-1885," written by John Kimball and published in 1885 (see https://archive.org/details/josephkimballfam00kimb). This book only follows Caleb and his descendants. Richard Jr. is listed as the oldest, dying in 1672 unmarried. Christopher and Nathaniel are not listed.

I haven't yet decided when this Richard's son, also named Richard, was born. One of the above references lists him as born in 1671; the other lists him as being born first, about 1648 or so. There is a birth record for a Richard Kimball, son of Richard Kimball, July 7, 1671 in Mirimack Village, Essex, Massachusetts. I don't know for certain if this record belongs to this Richard and his son or to this Richard's nephew, and possibly a son of his, who also lived in Wenham.

In the early Colonial days, it was common for a child of a same-named father to be known as "Jr." while his father was alive, and then by no suffix after his father's death - it wasn't really part of their name, only a distinguishing identifier - or switch to "Sr." if he has a son of the same name too. So it is likely that Richard Kimball was known as "Jr." until his father's death (or if he didn't live in the same city as his father, no suffix at all) and then by "Sr." after his son of the same name was born.

There was another Richard Kimball living in Wenham at the same time as this Richard Kimball. HIs wife's name was Rebecca Abbe and he had several children born in Wenham, including a "Marah" or Mary born in 1674. I found this confusing and I am not surprised other people have as well. The "other" Richard Kimball was, I believe, this Richard Kimball's nephew, son of his brother Henry. In "The History of the Kimball Family..." mentioned above, this other Richard has a listing on page 47. This other Richard married in 1667 and had children in Wenham. This fact makes me a little nervous about assigning some of the records to one or the other Richard.

From page 38 of the above-mentioned book, there was an agreement between Richard's widow, Mary, and his children, to care for her during her life while she remained a widow. She was to receive again that money she had when she entered into the marriage, which was the 19.16 pounds and the 18.15 pounds mentioned in the inventory.

John as oldest son received a double portion of the estate. Sons Samuel and Thomas administered on their father's estate.

It looks like all of his known children with perhaps the exception of Richard outlived him, which is pretty impressive for those days.

This Richard is mentioned briefly in his father's entry in The Great Migration series. See source attached below. This series is the "gold standard" of all sources related to early New England settlers. According to this source, Richard's first wife Mary may have been Mary Cooley, daughter of John Cooley of Ipswich. On 6 July 1665 Richard Kimball of Wenham sold to Caleb Kimball of Ipswich "my dwelling and land about it, containing one acre...which was late John Coolye's deceased."

As mentioned above, his first wife died in 1672 and Richard married, according to the above source, Mary Morris Mansfield, sister of Thomas Morris of New Haven and widow of John Mansfield of Lynn.

Son John moved to Topsfield and then back to Wenham and had a nice family. Samuel stayed in Wenham and had a huge family, 13 children. Thomas remained in Wenham and had a nice family. Ephraim and Caleb also remained in Wenham and had nice families. I don't know what evidence there is that Christopher actually belonged to this family. Unlike all the other children, Christopher lived in Boston. I don't know anything about Nathaniel - in the Kimball Family in America book, the author says that Nathaniel was born in 1676 and died 7 September 1735, but I haven't been able to verify any of this information with any primary sources.

Richard blev gift med Mary Cooley i 1650 i England. Mary (datter af John Cooley og Elizabeth Antrobus) blev født den 22 jun. 1628 i Rattlesden, Suffolk, England; døde den 2 sep. 1672 i Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Notater:

Mary's husband Richard came to Watertown from England when he was about 11. He lived in Watertown with his family for a short time until he moved with his father to Ipswich about 1637. It was here in Ipswich that he likely met and married his first wife Mary.

It is likely that sometime after the birth of Samuel, Mary moved with her husband Richard to Wenham. They likely lived in Wenham, more or less, until their deaths, roughly 20 years.

There are several children listed in Wenham vital records as belonging to Richard. Unfortunately, they don't list the child's mother, only the father:
Kimball, Thomas, s. Richard, Nov. 12, 1657. CTR
Kimball, Ephraim, s. Richard, Feb. 18, 1660. CTR
Kimball, Caleb, s. Richard, Apr. 9, 1665. CTR

To my knowledge, the only original record with Mary's name on it that we have found was her death record, published in Wenham vital records:
Kimball, Mary, w. Richard, Sept. 2, 1672. CTR

She died before her husband, and he remarried after her death, another woman named Mary.

Wenham was first settled in 1635 and officially incorporated in 1643, but I don't think that Richard and Mary came until the 1650s. Wenham was originally a part of Salem and was the first town to be set off from Salem. Because many of its early settlers came from Suffolk County in England, it is presumed that the name of the town derives from two small villages there-Great Wenham and Little Wenham. Wenham means "home on the moor". A church was formed in October 1644, with John Fiske as pastor and seven families as members. Wenham provided volunteers in King Philip's War in the 1670s.

Mary's husband Richard is mentioned briefly in his father's entry in The Great Migration series. See source attached below. This series is the "gold standard" of all sources related to early New England settlers. According to this source, Richard's first wife Mary may have been Mary Cooley, daughter of John Cooley of Ipswich. On 6 July 1665 Richard Kimball of Wenham sold to Caleb Kimball of Ipswich "my dwelling and land about it, containing one acre...which was late John Coolye's deceased." This is not a "smoking gun," because maybe Richard bought the property instead of inheriting it. But perhaps Mary's maiden name may have been Cooley.

Richard blev gift med Ursula Scott den 23 okt. 1612 i Rattlesden, Suffolk, England. Ursula (datter af Henry Scott) blev født den 14 feb. 1596 i Rattlesden, Stow, Suffolk, England; blev døbt den 14 feb. 1598 i Rattlesden, Suffolk, England; døde den 1 mar. 1676 i Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

John blev gift med Elizabeth Antrobus den 5 maj 1617 i Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Elizabeth blev født i 1598 i Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England; og døde. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]