Birth: 1631/32 Cape Cod Bay, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA
Religion: 1658
Details: Imprisoned as a Quaker.
1st Marriage: 19 OCT 1665 Sandwich, Barnstable, MA
Religion: He was in constant difficulty on account of his Quakerism. He was fined twenty shillings for refusing to assist Marshall Barlow, and in 1660 five pounds for the same offence. He was one of the twenty-four inhabitants of Sandwich in October, 1660, fined ten shillings each for attending Quaker meetings ,and suffered with his father distraint of fifteen cows to satisfy fines amounting to fifty-seven pounds twelve shillings. “He was evidently of the sterner stuff of reformers, ahead of the time in which he lived, and acted fully up to that line, regardless of personal consequences.”
Birth of Daughter: MAY 1667
Name: Sarah Kirby
Birth of Daughter: 05 MAY 1670
Name: Experience Kirby
Birth of Daughter: 05 MAY 1670
Name: Temperance Kirby
Moved to: Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Birth of Son: 02 MAR 1672
Name: John Kirby
Birth of Son: 10 MAY 1674
Name: Robert Kirby
2nd Marriage: 02 DEC 1678 to Abigail, widow of Zoeth Rowland, son of Henry Rowland, of Duxbury, who had been killed by the Indians at Pocasset in King Philip’s war, March 26, 1676, leaving a widow with nine children.
Will: 30 JAN 1707/08
Details: Proved 04 APR 1720
Death: 08 MAR 1719 Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
Click here to see parents: Richard Kirby and Jane ?
Patience Gifford
Birth: 1643/44 London, England
Death: 20 MAY 1674 Dartmouth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts
Click here to see parents: William Gifford and ?
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