Richard Kimball and family left England on the good ship Elizabeth from Ipswich, England on April 10, 1634. The ship landed in Boston Harbor and he made his way to Watertown, MA with his family. On May 6, 1635 he was declared a freeman and this allowed him to move elsewhere.

Richard Kimball was a wheelwright by trade. A wheelwright is someone who makes wagon wheels, repairs wagons and other vehicles of the times. His services were in large demand in the new country. He left Watertown, MA to move to Ipswich, MA, where he was given a house lot and other privileges on condition that he be the town wheelwright on Feb. 23, 1637.

Here he spent the remainder of his days. He was given the house lot "next adjoining Goodwin Simons at the west end of town." He was also granted at the same time "40 acres Beyond the North Riuer near the land of Robert Scott." In 1639 he had liberty to pasture "two cows free."

His services as wheelwright were appreciated by his townspeople, for he was permitted in January, 1649, "to fell such white Oaks as he hath occasion to use about his trade for the town use."

In 1664 he owned 43 shares in "Plumb Island."

His wife Ursula (Scott) Kimball apparently died in Ipswich, MA on Mar 1, 1660 although another record gives her death as June 17, 1656. He remarried to Margaret (Cole) Dow, widow of Henry Dow of Hampton, NH. There were no children from this marriage, although, from his will, Richard evidently held Margaret's children from her first marriage in great affection.

Richard Kimball made his will out on March 5, 1675 and died shortly thereafter on June 22, 1675 at over eighty years old. Margaret Kimball his second wife did not long survive him, and died on Mar 1, 1676.