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Hannah Preston                                                      see FAMILY TREE

Born abt. 1635 New Haven, CT
Her father, William Preston, sailed on the Truelove 19 Sep 1635,
with wife Mary and children from his first marriage listed, but no mention of Hannah.

Married: Abraham Kimberly abt. 1655
Married: John Curtis after 1680

Died: 21 Oct 1701 Albemarle, Chowan, NC

FATHER

William Preston

MOTHER

Mary

HUSBAND

Abraham Kimberly

John Curtis

CHILDREN with Abraham Kimberly

1. Hannah Kimberly b. 11 Jan 1655/6 New Haven, CT
    died young

2. Mary Kimberly bap. 25 Jul 1659 New Haven, CT
    died young

3. Mary Kimberly b. 4 May 1668 Albemarle, Chowan, NC
    Married John Blackman
    Died: bet. 30 Sep 1706 and 18 Nov 1706
    Only child: Abtaham, b. 25 Oct 1694; chose his uncle Abraham Kimberly for guardian, 8 Nov 1711

4. Sarah Kimberly b. 1 Aug 1672 Albemarle, Chowan, NC

5. Abraham Kimberly b. 4 Mar1674/5 Albemarle, Chowan, NC
    Married Abigail Fitch 11 May 1696
    Died: 1727 Newtown, CT

 

As seen by the comments of Donald Jacobus noted below, it has been inferred that Hannah was a daughter of William Preston and wife of Abraham Kimberly.  Jacobus also noted that Abraham was "survived by a widow named Hann."  Abraham Kimberly died in 1680 at the age of about 51, leaving Hannah with at least three living children which were still young.  Mary was about 12, Sarah aged 8 and Abraham about 6.  Jacobus writes in the "Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, " Records of the Superior Court of Chowan County, at Edenton, N. C., show that in 1670 Abraham Kimberly was sworn in Court to apprise the worth of a boat.  On 37 Mar, 1680, administration on his estate was granted to Mr. Joshua Lambe and Mr. Wiolliam Therrill.  As the record calls him "of this county," it appears that he died in North Carolina. Furthermore there is no settlement of his estate in Connecticut.  It is certain that Hannah returned to Stratford with the children and had their birth's entered there, probably because they would be the chief heirs of their grandfather Kimberly."
Hannah remarried to John Curtis sometime after the death of Abraham Kimberly.  She was born about 1635 and was about 45 years old at the time of her first husband's death.  John Curtis, her second husband, was born in 1642 and was thus about 38 at the time of their marriage.
It appears Hannah had died by 1701 when Benjamin Hurd as one of the legatees of Hannah Curtis by virtue of marriage conveys Hannah's dwelling house to Abraham Kimberly, (son of Hannah Preston Kimberly Curtis).  However, when John Curtis wrote his will three years later in 1704 he makes his living wife Hannah, sole executrix. 

 

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Hannah is listed by Anderson but not by Jacobus. Jacobus however presents: ""Winthrop wrote of Goody Kimberly, G. Preston's daughter. This was two years before Thomas Kimberly's first wife died, and Goodwife Preston became his second wife. Winthrop's note seems to imply that she had a daughter already married to a son of Kimberly's. The only Kimberly to whom this could apply was Abraham, son of Thoms, who had a child born in New Haven in 1656. This Abraham was survived by a widow Hann, but whether she was the same wife whom he had in 1657 cannot be asserted. William and Mary Preston were m. by 1635, and their eldest child could have been a daughter who m. Abraham Kimberly.

 

The documents below show that Sarah Kimberly, married to Benjamin Hurd, was the daughter Abraham Kimberly and Hannah, widow of John Curtis.

On 21 Oct 1701. John Blakeman, Sr. of Stratford, and Benjamin Hurd of Woodbury, "legatees of our late mother Hannah, Curtis deceased by virtue of Marriage with our p'sent wives the daughter of ye said Hannah deceased," conveyed to "our loving Brother Abraham Kimberly of Stratford all our right in ye dwelling house & home lot in Stratford, which did belong to our said Mother." Stratford Deeds, 2: 396 Genealogy of the Kimberly Family pg 13

On 16 Nov 1705, Abraham Kimberly of Stratford, Blacksmith, for himself and his sister, Sarah Hurd, made over to John Ball of New Haven all interest in the estate of Thomas Kimberly, late of New Haven.  This record taken from New Haven County Court Rec. Vol 2 (copy) p. 531 as reported in Genealogy of the Kimberly Family, pg 15,  by Jacobus, 1950.