Joseph Kingsbury (Dedham)
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Joseph Kingsbury (c. 1600–1676) was an early settler and selectman from Dedham, Massachusetts.[1][2]
Kingsbury was born in Boxford, Suffolk to John Kingsbury.[3] He traveled to Massachusetts in the early 1630s with his younger brother, John Kingsbury, and his wife Millicent, whom he married in Boxford in 1628.[3] He had a daughter, Sarah, born in 1635.[3] Their second daughter, Mary, was the second child ever born in Dedham on September 1, 1637.[3] Their third child, Elizabeth, was born in 1638. Four boys then followed, including Joseph, born 1640, John, born in 1643, Eleazer, born in 1645, and Nathaniel, born in 1650.[4][5][3]