Source 1. The Kinsman Family
Source 2. Ipswich In The Massachusetts Bay Colony: Robert Kinsman was in Ipswich as one of the first settlers in 1635; His name appears on a list of such as are Comoners in Ipswich 31 Dec. 1641;
Source 3: Essex Co. Registry of Probate, recorded in Book 1, pg: 213; Will of Robert Kinsman as follows:
These presents declareth that I, Robert Kinsman of Ipswich, in the county of Essex, being at present sick and weake of Body; but through Gods mercy injoyeing my understanding and memory doe make this my last will and testament. first. I doe give my soule into the hands of Jesus Christ, my body to be desently buried in Ipswich burying place. And for my outward estate, I dispose as followeth. Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my sonn Robert, my Meddow land att chebacho which he doth now improve to the halfes, payeing unto Issack & Sarah Ringe, the children of my daughter Mary, ten pound apeece when they come to age, & if either of them dye before they come to age, the surviver to injoy the whole twenty pound. Item. I give unto my daughter Mary the wife of Usuall Wardell, ten pounds, and to her foure older children, twenty shillings apece. Vitzt Daniell, Roger, Mary and Susan Ringe. Item. I give unto my daughter Sarah the wife of Samuell Younglove, my foure acre lott which I exchanged with Samuell Ayres, and to her child or children, which shall be the liveing after her deccasc. Item. I give unto my daughter Hanah, the some of forty pounds. Item. I give unto my daughter Martha, the wife of Jacob Ffoster, the some of thirty pounds. Item. I give unto my daughter Tabitha Kinsman, my dwelling house and appertenances & land about it, payeing out of it twenty pounds within two yeare after my deceasc, also I give unto her my sayd daughter Tabitha my household stufe. Item. I give unto my coussen Richard Nicolls, ten pounds to be payd by my sayd daughter Tabitha, part of the twenty pounds and the other ten pounds to be payd unto my daughter hanah, by my sayd daughter Tibitha, as part of the forty pounds before given unto her. Item. I give unto my five daughters each of them a cow and I give unto Mary my daughter Ffosters child, my heifer, And I apoynt my sonn Robert Kinsman and Robert Lord, Senr to be my executors of this my last will to see it performed. Witness my hand this 25th of January 1664;
(Signed & declared by robert Kinsman to be his last will and testament in the presence of Eben V. Dane, robert Lord; Proved March 28 1665. Inventory taken 28 March 1665;