George Keyser, Jr.

Biography

George Kezar Jr. was baptized in All Saints Church, Leighton Buzzard, England on November 4, 1610. He was the son of George Keyser & Alice Bolesworth.

George was an early resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1639. He was a tanner by occupation. In 1680 he removed from Lynn to Salem, and at the same time was admitted to the church in Salem by letter from the church in Lynn.

family

George married Elizabeth HOLYOKE, daughter of Edward HOLYOKE and Prudence STOCKTON, in 1645 in Bedfordshire, England. (Elizabeth HOLYOKE was born in 1619 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England and died on 24 Jun 1659 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA.)

George married Rebecca Ayer, widow ASHBY after 1659 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. (Rebecca ASHBY was born on 14 Mar 1623 and died after 1687.)

Children: all by 1st wife

1. Eleazur, Captain +
2. Sarah+
3. John+
4. Hannah
5. Mary+
6. George
7. Benjamin
8. Edward

biography

From Leon Keyser, The Keyser Family of New England, Volume Three, (1991).:

George (1) Keyser married ca. 1645 Elizabeth Holyoke who was born in Tamworth, Warwickshire, England and was baptized February 12, 1614/15 at St. Lawrence Parish, London the daughter of Edward Holyoke and Prudence Stockton who were married June 16, 1612 at Kimcote, Leicester, England. Elizabeth died June 24, 1659 at Salem, Massachusetts. Prudence was the daughter of Rev. John Stockton, Rector of Kimcote. Edward Holyoke was the son of Edward who is thought to be the same "Edward Hollyocke" mentioned in the will of the father of Ann Hathaway, wife of the immortal Shakespeare.

George (1) Keyser married second, Rebecca (Ayer) Asleby who was the daughter of John & Hannah Ayer of Haverhill, Massachusetts. John was from the family known as the fighting Ayers. Rebecca was born in England ca. 1628 and died in Andover, Massachusetts aged 90 years. In the vital records of Andover her name is spelled Cayser.

George and Elisabeth (Holyoke) Keyser had eight children: Sarah, Eleazer, John, Mary, George, Benjamin, Edward, and Hannah.

notes

Edward Giles was also a witness when George Keyser of Lynn was presented for insufficient tanning of his leather[24]

• 24. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC] 1:136.

From http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bradner/3443.htm

"Emigrated to Lynn Mass later moved to Salem Mass. Likely lived and died Haverhill Mass at his son's house named John."

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• In his will, dated Dec. 25, 1658 (proved June 25, 1660), he bequeathed his estate to his only son Elizur; son-in-law George Keyser, Thomas Putman, Andrew, Tuthill, daughter Susanna Martin; kinswomen Mary Mansfield, kinsman Thomas Morris of Newham, cousin Davis

• Wikitree
  • Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 683
  • Haplogroup R1b1a2a1a2c
• Ancestors of Rob Roy and related families
  • Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, Three Volumes and Supplement in One Volume. volume II (1902). Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982).
  • Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. volume III. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1861).
• Genealogy of the Wilde and Montague Families
  • BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650. Edited, indexed and published by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell. Philadelphia: Bertram Press, 1937. 295p.
  • Family Archive #354 Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s Place: Lynn, MA Year: 1620-1650 Primary immigrant: Kezar, George Permanent entry number: 2463419 Accession number: 8774294 Source publication code: 275 Source publication page number: 2 Source publication: BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650. Edited, indexed and published by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell. Philadelphia: Bertram Press, 1937. 295p.
• http://www.kezar.net/ourfamily.htm
  • http://www.kezar.net/lbuzz1-s.jpg
  • http://www.kezar.net/George-signature-rs.jpg
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:George_Keyser_%282%29
  • ↑ 1.0 1.1 Keyser, Leon. The Keyser family of New England. (Portland, Maine: L. Keyser, 1983-1984), p 1-3.
  • ↑ 2.0 2.1 Richardson, Douglas. The English Ancestry of Edward Holyoke and of His Nephew, Thomas Morris of New Haven. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1993), p 21.
  • ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938), v 1, p 275.
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpjm&id...
  • from TORREY: KEYSER, George (1618, ?1614-1690) & 1/wf Elizabeth [HOLYOKE (-1659); ca 1645?, by 1650; Lynn/Salem {EIHC 3:58, 5:44; Pillsbury Anc. 275, 291; Hale (1952) 643; Lynn Hist. 121, 125, 143; Tuttle xxxii; Salem 2:280; Reg. 9:345; Essex Ant. 8:65; Salisbury Fam. 572; W.L. Andover Anc. 2:112}
  • from TORREY: KEYSER, George (1614-1690) & 2/wf Rebecca (AYERS/AYER) [ASLET/ALSBEE?] (-1687+), w John; aft 1659, 167l; Salem {Reg. 6:206; Salem 2:280; Salisbury Fam. 572; Essex Ant. 5:187; W.L. Andover Anc. 2:112; EIHC 5:44; Granberry 135, 159}
• The Pioneers of Massachusetts: A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope. Page 268
  • Updated from England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 by SmartCopy: Jun 4 2015, 18:25:37 UTC

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Some say George immigrated with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 but there are no records confirming. We received the following after Tom Yarington's request to the Keyser Society for more information:

Friday, December 12, 2003

"Gentlemen; Mr. Yarrington has asked me about the arrival of George Keyser (correct spelling, as attested to by a sample of his signature which has survived) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. My information indicates that George arrived there sometime before 1638 when he appears in the official records of the colony in connection with a court case. I too have a copy of Banks' book and, indeed, it does NOT make any mention of a George Keyser or anyone with a similar sounding name. Nor, to the best of my knowledge, does any other known source on this period. That George Keyser should arrive without any record of his transit or arrival is, I understand, not all that unusual as the known records for those times are far from complete.

In addition, it is alleged that some persons emigrated under assumed names for various reasons, not all of which are nefarious. I do not know the origin of the assertion that George Keyser was on the Winthrop fleet, but Leon Keyser in his Keyser Families of New England does make this assertion. He cites Banks' book as his source but, as I have said, this is groundless. At least until new arises, we cannot know for sure that George Keyser was NOT on the Winthrop fleet but we certainly do not know that he was. In any event, we do know that he did emigrate and we do know, at least beyond a reasonable doubt, that he came from Leighton Buzzard, England.

His father, George Keyser Sr., lived and died in that hamlet, but it is reasonably certain that he was not born there. The Keyser name seems to have come "originally" from southern Germany. The name and its homonyms well known in Germany to this day and many other members of this clan emigrated to North America over the centuries. It is not even certain that George Keyser Jr. was the first "Keyser" in North America as I have seen references to another Keyser in the immigration records for Virginia for the 1620s.

I hope that this information is of some use to you. Best wishes to you both.

Geoff B. Geoffrey R. Browning"

References

• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/215096/I1075/george-keyser/individual
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=greysteel...