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About Deacon John Keyes, Sr.
John was born about 1667, probably in Sudbury.[1] John was the supposed son of Elias of Sudbury and his wife Sarah Blanford. John lived in Lancaster for a time, and then appears in Shrewsbury by 1727 as a town officer. In 1729, he was living in the North Parish at Spring Garden (house lot No 42. this lot had been granted to John Keyes, Sen Dec 30, 1718). [2]
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Deacon John Keyes
Born about 1667 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]
Son of Elias Keyes and Sarah (Blanford) Keyes
Brother of Elias Keyes II, James Keyes, Thomas Keyes, Stephen Keyes, Sarah (Maynard) Johnson [half], Lydia (Maynard) Haggate [half] and Joseph Maynard [half]
Husband of Sarah (Prescott) Keys — married 1699 [location unknown]
Father of Oliver Keyes, Samuel Keyes, Ebenezer Keyes, Eli Keyes, Phebe Keyes, Sarah (Keyes) Butler, Lydia Keyes, John Keyes, Huldah Keyes and Elkanah Keyes
Died 15 Sep 1753 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified 31 Oct 2018 | Created 13 Oct 2011
Biography
John was born about 1667, probably in Sudbury.[1] John was the supposed son of Elias of Sudbury and his wife Sarah Blanford. John lived in Lancaster for a time, and then appears in Shrewsbury by 1727 as a town officer. In 1729, he was living in the North Parish at Spring Garden (house lot No 42. this lot had been granted to John Keyes, Sen Dec 30, 1718). [2]
John was the first deacon of the church in Shrewsbury, appointed in 1723.
John married Sarah Prescott. John and his wife Sarah had the following children:[3]
- Oliver b c 1698
- Ebenezer b. c 1700
- Samuel b c 1702-3
- Eli b c 1705
- John b 1712
- Phebe d 1748
- Huldah b 1713 d 1726
- Elkahah b 1718 d 1806 m Elizabeth Warner
- Sarah m Butler
John passed away 15 September 1753 and is buried in the Old Burial Ground in Boylstown, Massachusetts.[1]
Research notes
According to the Asa Keyes book John "is supposed to have died in about 1748 or 1749" which isn't too far off from the 1753 date on his headstone, which must have been unknown to the author.
Sources
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 September 2018), memorial page for Dea John Keyes (1667–15 Sep 1753), Find A Grave: Memorial #8029684, citing Old Burial Ground, Boylston, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Jim Sanders (contributor 506) .
- Keyes, Asa. Genealogy; Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633: Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass., 1653, and Their Descendants, Also Others of the Name. Brattleboro, Vt: Selleck, 1880. Page # Note there is a discrepancy between children named in John Keyes will and the Keyes Genealogy by Asa Keyes, which omits, Oliver, Samuel, Eli and Sarah, who are clearly named in the last will and testament. See also:
- Worcester County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1731-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) Case 34920.
- http://www.boylstonhistory.org/glw-church.htm: 12-12-06 "BOYLSTON’S CHURCH HISTORY Transcribed by Pauline Lavallee 6/1/2000 Told by Town Clerk George. L. Wright As part of dedication of new edifice. The earliest settlement in Boylston that we know anything about was made in the extreme northwesterly past of the town, on the territory belonging to Lancaster about 1705, by the Sawyer family. The settlements in the other portions of the town derived from Shrewsbury were made about the same time as the settlements in the south part of that town and mainly by families from the same localities. DEA. JOHN KEYES, who resided on the farm in the easterly part of Boylston long known as the John Bowers place and later as the Patrick Griffin and Leonard S. Stark farm, was probably one of the first, if not the very first settler in this part of SHREWSBURY. He was born in Sudbury and shortly before 1700, settled in Lancaster where he married Sarah Prescott, a grand-daughter of John Prescott, the pioneer of Worcester county. He was one of the proprietors of Shrewsbury and for a long series of years the proprietors’ clerk; upon the gathering of the Shrewsbury church in 1723, he was one of its first deacons, an office in which he continued until the gathering of the church in the North Precinct in 1743 when he with his kinsman, Dea. Cyprian Keyes, who had been an associate deacon with him in the Shrewsbury church, and the latter’s brother, Dea. Jonathan Keyes, were made deacons of the new church November 29, 1743.
- Deacon John Keyes was the first town clerk of Shrewsbury and the first civil magistrate in this part of the town. As early as 1735 the population increased to such an extent that the people deemed themselves capable of assuming the powers and responsibilities of a separate town government and petitioned the General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay that they might be set off from Shrewsbury and incorporated into a separate town by themselves. "
- http://www.wheelockgenealogy.com/wheelockweb/pages/WorcDeedGrantee1...: "Worcester County Deed Grantee Index 1731-1839, Page 28 Year Grantee Grantor Town Type Book Page 1744 Samuel Wheeler - John Keyes Shrewsbury Deed 19 216 Worcester County Deed Grantee Index 1731-1839, Page 23 1735 Gershom Wheelock - John Keyes Shrewsbury Deed 6 75 "
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Deacon John Keyes, Sr.'s Timeline
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February 12, 1668
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1700 |
1700
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Shrewsbury, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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| 1701 |
1701
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Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1703 |
1703
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Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1705 |
1705
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Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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| 1706 |
1706
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Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1708 |
May 20, 1708
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Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1712 |
April 30, 1712
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Northboro, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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| 1715 |
March 5, 1715
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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