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Benjamin & Ruth (Ames) Kimball Benjamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball. Benjamin Kimball (7), (John-6, Joseph-5, John-4, Caleb-3, Richard-2, Richard-1) was born in Canterbury, NH on December 27, 1794. He died in Penacook, NH on July 21, 1834. He married on February 1, 1820 to Ruth Ames, the daughter of David and Phebe (Hoit) Ames of Canterbury, NH. After living two years with his father on his farm, he lived two years on a farm in Northfield. He moved to Boscawen in the spring of 1824 and purchased the farm on High Street known as the Frost place. In 1825, the first sawmill on the south side of the Merrimack River at the lower falls of Penacook was built for Henry Rolfe by "noted millright" Benjamin Kimball In 1830 he purchased of Hon. Jeremiah Mason of Portsmouth, attorney for the US Bank, the lands and water power formerly owned by George D Varney at the south part of the town (now Penacook, NH). He removed there and resided in the house he had bought (Plummer or Chandler House so-called), situated next east of the Tavern. He was an active and influential business man. In 1831, the original mill-house at the foot of Brown's hill was built by Benjamin Kimball as a residence for the grist miller. In 1831 he purchased the land and water power in the center of Penacook village (formerly owned by George D Varney) and built the lower dam across the Contoocook river, and erected and put in operation the brick grist and flouring mill just South of the town line. This was the first improvement of the water power at the upper falls, now the center of the growing village of Penacook. For this mill Mr. Kimball obtained the stones previously used in the old Chandler grist-mill at the lower falls (it having fallen into disuse before then). In company with his cousin, William Moody Kimball, he carried on an extensive lumber trade. In the March preceding his death he was elected to represent the town in the legislature, but his health did not permit him to take his seat. His wife died at the house of her son, John, with whom she had lived as a widow forty years, October 22, 1874. CHILDREN: 1. John (8), b. April 13, 1821 2. Elizabeth Jane (8), b. April 12, 1825. She was drowned in the pond near the carding mill of Capt. Samuel M. Durgin in Boscawen, NH September 20, 1840 3. Joseph Ames (8), b. 8 Oct., 1826; d. 20 Feb. 1827 4. Benjamin Ames (8), b. August 22, 1833
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3. Joseph Ames (8), b. October 8, 1826 and died on February 20, 1827
4. Lucy Ann (8), b. August 28 (or 8th?), 1829 and died on August 25, 1832
5. Benjamin Ames (8), b. August 22, 1833