JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
KIBBY Narrative
EDWARD KIBBY
In the early Lancaster records, there is a reference to "Edward Kibbee" a sawyer of Roxbury who “did not long remain here”. He subscribed to the original orders for the township of Lancaster on May 13, 1654.
LYDIA KIBBY
Lydia Kibbee deposed on Feb. 6, 1656 at the age of about 19, in the case of Mary Gates who had been accused by John Prescott and James Atherton of “sinful carriage in the assembly [on] one of the lord's days”. Two years later, she married George Bennett and was widowed at the age of 38 with 5 children, the eldest--John--being 16. She remarried four years later and removed with her husband to Concord MA.
FOOTNOTES
Narrative is primarily from Norse, Henry S. ed. The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643 - 1725 Lancaster, 1884 scanned at The Early Records of Lancaster MA, 1643-1725