1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 JUL 1647
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
"Robert Keyes, the immigrant ancestor, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, before or in the year 1633. The records there say that he moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, June 16, 1645, and died there in 1647, while another record gives his death as July 16, 1647. His death was recorded in Watertown, Newbury, Plymouth and Sudbury. He seems to have been in Watertown in 1633 or earlier, to have moved to Newbury between 1643 and 1645, and Sudbury in 1645. His widow married, in 1658, John Gage (in Nobember, 1664, according to Plymouth record.) Children, recorded at Watertown, except Peter and the second Mary, born in Newbury:"
Sarah born May 26, 1633 Watertown, Massachusetts
Peter (probably son of Robert) Newbury, Massachusetts
Rebecca March 17, 1637 Watertown, Massachusetts
Phebe June 17, 1639 Watertown, Massachusetts
Mary 1641, died 1642 Watertown, Massachusetts
Elias May 20, 1643 Watertown, Massachusetts
Mary June 16, 1645 Newbury, Massachusetts(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. ROBERT KEYES
INTERNAL SOURCES FOR ABOVE:
1] WaBOP - "Lands, Grants, Divisions, Allotments, Possessions and Proprietors' Book," Section Two in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894)
2] Aspinwall - "A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651," in Reports of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Volume 32 (Boston 1903)
3] EPR - The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).
4] WaVR - "Records of Births, Deaths and Marriages - First Book and Supplement," Section Three in Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings ... (Watertown 1894)
5] TAG - The American Genealogist, Volume 9 to present (1932+)
6] MBCR - Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed., 5 volumes in 6 (Boston 1853-1854)
7] Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975)
Estate equally divided to the three daughters
Inventory taken of estate
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
"Robert Keyes, the immigrant ancestor, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, before or in the year 1633. The records there say that he moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts, June 16, 1645, and died there in 1647, while another record gives his death as July 16, 1647. His death was recorded in Watertown, Newbury, Plymouth and Sudbury. He seems to have been in Watertown in 1633 or earlier, to have moved to Newbury between 1643 and 1645, and Sudbury in 1645. His widow married, in 1658, John Gage (in Nobember, 1664, according to Plymouth record.) Children, recorded at Watertown, except Peter and the second Mary, born in Newbury:"Sarah born May 26, 1633 Watertown, Massachusetts
Peter (probably son of Robert) Newbury, Massachusetts
Rebecca March 17, 1637 Watertown, Massachusetts
Phebe June 17, 1639 Watertown, Massachusetts
Mary 1641, died 1642 Watertown, Massachusetts
Elias May 20, 1643 Watertown, Massachusetts
Mary June 16, 1645 Newbury, Massachusetts(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
"................. Administration on the estate of Sarah Gage, widow of John Gage, intestate, was granted on 29 March 1681 [sic] to John French and William Smith, two of her sons-in-law. The inventory was taken 14 July 1681, and totalled £28 2s., consisting entirely of household goods. On 27 September 1681 the court ordered "that the estate be equally divided to the three daughters, namely, the wives of Wm. Smith, John French and Samuel Buswell" [EPR 3:412-13]. (The death date of Sarah Gage is given in her inventory and in the town records as 7 July 1681, so the date of the grant of administration must be in error.)
BIRTH: By about 1606 based on estimated date of birth of eldest child.
DEATH: Newbury 16 July 1647.
MARRIAGE: By 1633 (and probably by 1631) Sarah _____ (she is named in the records of all children born at Watertown). She married (2) at Ipswich 7 November 1658 JOHN GAGE and died at Newbury 7 July 1681."
INTERNAL SOURCES:
EPR: The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681, 3 volumes (Salem 1916-1920; rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1988). Citations to the unpublished probate records are to case numbers, or to register volumes (which begin with volume 301).
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
"Elias, son of Robert Keyes, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, May 20, 1643. He married, September 11, 1665, Sarah, daughter of John Blanford, or Blanchard. Children, born in Sudbury:"
1] Elias - Born November 15, 1666
2] John - Born probably, 1668, supposed son of Elias
3] James, Born September 13, 1670 - Died at Bolton, Massachusetts, September 25, 1746.
4] Sarah - April 9, 1673
5] Thomas - February 8, 1674
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
"Elias, son of Robert Keyes, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, May 20, 1643. He married, September 11, 1665, Sarah, daughter of John Blanford, or Blanchard. Children, born in Sudbury:"
1] Elias - Born November 15, 1666
2] John - Born probably, 1668, supposed son of Elias
3] James, Born September 13, 1670 - Died at Bolton, Massachusetts, September 25, 1746.
4] Sarah - April 9, 1673
5] Thomas - February 8, 1674
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
(1) SOURCE: "NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES" Genealogical And Memorial 'A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation'. Compiled under the Editorial Supervision of William Richard Cutter, A.M. (corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family," "History of Arlington," Etc.); Originally published 1913; Reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishin Co., Inc. Balitimore, Maryland 1994,1995; ISBN # 0-8063-4537-3; Volume I, Pages 193-194.
(2) SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
" viii MARY, b. Newbury 16 June 1645; m. Andover 16 February 1663/4 Benjamin Gage [miscalled Cady by Savage], her stepbrother; she had died by 11 October 1671, when Benjamin remarried."
SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
" viii MARY, b. Newbury 16 June 1645; m. Andover 16 February 1663/4 Benjamin Gage [miscalled Cady by Savage], her stepbrother; she had died by 11 October 1671, when Benjamin remarried."
SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
" 1) There are no birth records for the proposed sons Solomon and Peter, but there are reasons for including them in this family. Solomon married in Newbury six years after the death of Robert, at a time when his widow Sarah, as yet not remarried to John Gage, was evidently still living in that town. Given his marriage in 1653, Solomon must have been born before 1633, when the birth of Sarah, daughter of Robert Keyes, took place in Watertown. In his will of 9 April of an uncertain year in the reign of William III (1694-1702), Samuel Buswell of Bradford, who had married Sarah Keyes, daughter of Robert, named as one of his overseers "my brother-in-law Solomon Keys of Chelmsford" [EPR 308:250-51]."
SOURCE: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
ROBERT KEYES
