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Note for:   Mary Kilham,    -          Index

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     Mary probably died young.



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Note for:   John Kilham,   ABT 1627 -          Index

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     John Kilham was born about 1627, lived in Wenham; married Hannah, daughter of John and Ann Pickworth of Manchester about 1659; she died before 1682. Their children were Hannah, Samuel, Ann, and Benjamin.



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Note for:   Ruth Kilham,    -          Index

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     Ruth Kilham probably died young.



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Note for:   Lott Kilham,   11 Sep 1640 -          Index

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     Lott lived in Salem Village until 1682; had five children with Hannah Goodale.



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Note for:   John Kilham,   24 Apr 1710 - 24 Jan 1774         Index

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     m. 1st Sarah Patch of Wenham on Jan. 8, 1740 (d. Oct. 5, 1742)
m. 2nd (published April 3, 1743) to Mary Po­land of Ipswich (d. Oct. 8, 1770)
m. 3rd Anna Dodge on April 23, 1771
His son John (b. Aug. 16, 1740) married Jo­anna Parrot and moved to Nova Scotia. They had seven sons and three daughters and are said to be the Kilham ancestors of all Kil­hams in Nova Scotia.



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Note for:   Rebecca Kilham,   18 Mar 1729 -          Index

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     Rebecca and Andrew had six children: Asa, Andrew, Lydia, Hetta, Polly, Anna.



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Note for:   Hannah Kilham,   21 Dec 1734 -          Index

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     Hannah and Ben­jamin had fifteen children.



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Note for:   Elizabeth Davis,   31 Mar 1745 - 21 Jul 1836         Index

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     Elizabeth survived Jonathan and in 1792 lived in Beverly, MA.



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Note for:   Tammy Kilham,   2 Jul 1777 - 30 Apr 1827         Index

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     Tammy was unmarried.



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Note for:   Daniel Kilham,   15 Jan 1753 - 12 Oct 1841         Index

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      Unmarried. Graduated from Harvard College in 1777; studied medicine with Dr. Holyoke; became an apothecary in Newburyport; he became friendly with John Quincy Adams, then a law student in New­buryport, both boarding at the house of Mrs. Martha Leathers in Market Square, and the future president writes very inter­estingly of the doctor in a letter to his mother dated Dec. 23, 1787, as follows:- "There is one boarder beside myself, a Dr. Kilham (I hope the name will not scare you), one of the representatives from this town, a very worthy man, and a man of sense and learning. Was it not for him, I should be at my lodgings as solitary as an hermit"; Daniel was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he was a member of both branches of the state legislature and of the governor's council; he was an active member of the Committee of Correspondence and of various Committees of Safety to whom the affairs of the town of Wenham were entrusted before the organization of the state government. He was representative to the General Court in 1785-7, and returned to Wenham in 1804 because of ill health ... He was known for his orchard and the "Kilham apple" was well known. He was known to his nieces and nephews as "Uncle Doctor". His will was dated Nov. 2, 1835. (See History of Wenham (Allen) p. 147, and Life in a New England Town (Adams) p. 74.)