ecompense was surveyor of roads for Dartmouth in 1684¹. In 1684 and again in 1685 Recompense and his brother, Richard, were among a great many Dartmouth men against whom a complaint was lodged that they were preventing a division of town lands; but in the first instance the jury found for the defendants; and in the second the action was non-suited². The tax list for Freetown, Mass., dated 31 Aug 1688, includes thirty names, among them that of Recompense Curbe³. In 1698 Recompense sold the land he had been given by his father to his brother, Richard, and removed to Newton, Burlington County, New Jersey⁴. Burlington County Court Book shows that he served on the grand jury on 8 May 1699, and on the traverse jury in March 1705. In Bristol County Records, there is a deed signed by Recompense and his wife, Rebecca, she signing by her mark which was a capital "A". It is thought that she was Rebecca Allen, daughter of Francis and Mary (Barlow)⁴ and born 2 Aug 1668⁵. She was alive when Recompense wrote his will in 1712. His son, Richard, was made executor⁶. Recompense died in 1720/23.

1. Dartmouth Town Meeting Book 1:5
2. Plymouth Col. Rec. 7:283-293
3. Bowen: Rehoboth 1:6
4. Dwight: Kirbys of N. England p. 330
5. Austin: 160 Allied Fams. p. 6
6. Boston Transcript of 21 Aug 1916 (5817, C. D.)

[Bertha W. Clark, "Richard Kirby of Sandwich, Dartmouth and Oyster Bay", 1955]

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