Johannes "Hanse/John" Keagy

Arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1715. According to Franklin Keagy, compiler of "A History of the Kagy Relationsip in America", was married Rebecca Patterson, daughter of James and Susannah, in 1716. Further research has shown that Hanse was married instead to an Anna Kendig. Franklin Keagy may have fallen prey to Victorian ideas of respectability in connecting his lineage to a prominent family from early Pennsylvania history.

Will

WILL OF JOHN RUDOLPH KEAGY, AKA HANS RUDOLPH KÄGY
I, John Keagy, in the County of Lancaster, and the Province of Pennsylvania, Township of Conestoga, being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be unto God for it, do make this my Last Will and Testament and desire that it may be received by all as such.

Imprimis it is my will and I do order that in the first place all my just debts and funeral charges be satisfied and paid and satisfied.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son, Abraham Keagy, my plantation whereon I now live upon, to be possessed by him and his heirs and his assigns forever, containing two hundred acres. The land and plantation is to be valued by two or three men chosen by the elders of our Church or Meeting, and whatsoever they value it above one hundred Pounds he shall pay unto my executor (Abraham) hereafter mentioned within four years of my death. His mother (Rebecca Patterson) shall live with him during this time and he shall provide firewood for her and he shall give her fifteen bushels of wheat every year and six bushels of malt, three barrels of cider, half a barrel of distilled liquor, one hundred weight of meat, beef or pork at her choice, to be paid to her yearly and every year during her pleasure to live with him. He shall keep a cow for her and give her her choice of the cows. He ever shall keep a mare for her during the term. He shall give her four apple trees every year bearing fruit at her own choice and give her half an acre of ground for flax and half for garden.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my son Henry Keagy, two hundred acres of land to him, his heirs, and his assigns for every joining. The above stated lands to be valued by our Elders as aforesaid, and he is to pay accordingly within four years after he shall settle upon and occupy the same.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Jacob and my son Rudolph, my tract of land situated on the west side of the Susquehanna River joining Yorktown to be equal divided between them, to be valued by the Elders or such men as they choose useful, and they pay each of them as above stated to.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susannah, the sum of one hundred Pounds of lawful money, to be paid within five years of my decease.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Anne, the sum of one hundred Pounds of lawful money, to be paid when she comes of age.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Barbara, the sum of one hundred Pounds of lawful money, and I do appoint Jacob Myers and Jacob Beam (Boehm) my whole and sole executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 8 day of May, 1748. Signed by his mark X for John R. Keagy

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of us, the subscribers, Adam Prenneman and John Jones.

Personally appeared before me, Adam Prenneman and John Jones, the witnesses to the above Will, and the said Adam Prenneman, on his solemn affirmation, and the said John Jones, on his oath, declared they were present and saw and heard John Keagy, the Testator, sign, seal, publish, and declare the same as his Last Will and Testament, and that at the doing he was of sound and disposing mind and memory according to the best of their knowledge. 31 October 1748 before Thomas Cookson, Dep. Reg.

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First Keagy in America

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Source: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=404387&pid=-2086305475

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In this tree, Johannes Rudolph Keagy had as a spouse Rebecca Patterson, daughter of James Patterson and Susannah Howard Patterson Ewing Connolly. The below excerpt from the will of James Patterson, who died in 1735, indicates that his three daughters, including Rebecca, are under 21 years of age and as yet unmarried. This contradicts the fact of Johannes Keagy having been married to this Rebecca Patterson. However, there was a sister of James Patterson, also named Rebecca. It is to her that I have linked Johannes, although I am still in need of documentary evidence.

Thirdly I give & Bequeath to Each of my Daughters Sarah
Susanah & Rebecka one Hundred Pounds to be paid to Each & Every of them on the Day of their Marriage after they arive at the Age of Sixteen Years or Else after they arive at the age of Twenty one Years.

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GEDCOM Note

Hans (John) Rudolph Kagey is believed to be the first of the Kagey family in America. He arrived in Pennsylvania in 1715 and shortly thereafter married Rebecca Patterson, the daughter of another immigrant. <p></p> <p></p>

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