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About Maj. Benjamin Keayne
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keayne-1
Puritan Great Migration
Benjamin Keayne } immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for England
Benjamin Keayne was baptized St. Michael Cornhill, London on May 14, 1618, son of Robert and Anne (Mansfield) Keayne. [1] [2]
He sailed to New England with his parents on the Defence on July 18, 1635. Enrolled at London were Robert Keyne, aged 40, Anne Keyne aged 36, and Benjamin Keyne aged 16. The family settled at Boston, Massachusetts. [2] [3]
His father Robert's will, written in over a 4 month period in 1653 and being over 150 pages, was proved on May 2, 1656, Robert left bequests to, among others:
- wife Anna Keayne
- son Major Benjamin Keayne, and his daughter Hannah [2]
During the time of it's writing, Robert mentions that his son is currently in 'Old England'. He also states that Mrs, Sarah Dudley, now Sarah Pacye, shall have 'no part of my property that I have bestowed upon her daughter' Hannah/Anna Keayne. [4]
- 1635: Sailed to Boston in New England on the Defence.
- 1638: Major Benjamin Keayne was admitted as a member of the Artillery Company at Boston. [5]
- 1639: September 2: Made a Freeman. [5] [6]
- c 1640; Removed to Lynn, Massachusetts.
- 1642: He returned to Old England to represent his father's business interest, with his wife Sarah following him later. Sarah became a 'street preacher', seeking religious freedoms, as well as being 'sexually promiscuous'. [7] Benjamin remained there for the rest of his life. [5]
- 1646/7: March 18: Benjamin of London wrote to his father-in-law Thomas Dudley, among others, about his wife Sarah's increasing 'crimes' and declaring that his wife Sarah has 'unwived her selfe' and that he declares his resolution to 'never againe live with her as Husband.' [8] [7]
- 1652: March 10: Benjamin Keayne Esq., of London, son of Robert of Boston, made an indenture agreement with Simon Smith of London. [9]
- 1653: Benjamin was in Old England, during the writing of his father's will. [4]
- 1654: October 16: Benjamin wrote furnished an account of his 'goods and chattels'. [4]
- 1654: October 16: On this same date, Benjamin wrote his will, leaving his whole estate to his daughter Anna, except for a few items left to his father Robert of Boston in New England, some friends and to his servants. The will was witnessed at Glascow by Nicholas Wackfield and Richard Pery. [10]
- 1659: November 12: Mrs. Anna Cole, late relict of Robert Keayne and his grandchild Anna Keayne, were each granted 500 for Robert's 'liberal gifts to the country in his will.' [2]
- 1683/4: January 29: Nicholas Paige and wife Anna petitioned the court that they be permitted to administer the estate Captain Robert Keayne, his wife Anna being the grand daughter of Captain Robert Keayne, and sole survivor of his heirs, her father Benjamin and grandmother Anne being both deceased. The petition was granted. [11]
Benjamin married Sarah Dudley by 1639, as on June 9, 1639, Benjamin Keayne, and Sarah his wife, were admitted to the Boston church. [2] [1] Sarah was baptized on July 23, 1620 at Semprinham, Lincolnshire, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley. [12]
They marriage was dissolved in 1647 due to his wife Sarah's 'increasing religious fanaticism' and her sexual promiscuity. [1] [2] [1] [7]Divorce was granted by the Massachusetts General Court. Sarah was excommunicated by the Boston Church in October of 1647 for "odious, lewd, and scandalous behaviour" with Nicholas Hart who had been excommunicated at Taunton.[13]
Benjamin Keayne settled himself as a London merchant. In 1649 Brampton Gurdon labeled him as a "cloake seller in Birching Lane." On October 16, 1654 he made his will in Glasgow, Scotland during a time when he was there on business.[13]
Benjamin Keayne died in 1662, leaving an estate worth "L"4,000.[14]Most of the estate was designated to his daughter Anna, but his cousin Stephen Winthrop was beneficiary of a diamond ring. Stephen also had been in Scotland during the same time as Benjamin in 1654.[13]
Sarah married second Thomas Pacy (Pacey) by 1652 as she is called Sarah Pacy in her father's will dated on April 26, 1652 [12] and in Captain Robert Keanye's will. [4]
Child
- Anna/Hannah born c 1641 at Lynn, Massachusetts; died on June 30, 1704: married first Edward Lane at Boston on December 11, 1657 [15]; married second, Colonel Nicholas Paige. [1] [16]
References
- Bailyn, Bernard. “The Apologia of Robert Keayne.” The William and Mary Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1950): 568–87. https://doi.org/10.2307/1917047.
- https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/654 “1 August 1653, Robert Keayne of Boston, a retired merchant of great piety, began to write the final version of his Last Will and Testament t was not an easy task. The bequests he had in mind for the members of his immediate family (his wife, son, and granddaughter) were complicated. Other relatives also had to be properly provided for, servants had to be rewarded, friends acknowledged. Moreover, the merchant had long ago decided that one-third or thereabouts of all his property would be given as a gift for specific uses to the town and the commonwealth. The most elaborate precautions must be taken to see that this pious intent would not be thwarted. …”His son Benjamin’s marriage to the “unnatural and unhappy,” “proud and disobedient” Sarah Dudley had ended in separation.
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Keayne-1 cites
- England, 1634-1635, Volume IV, I-L, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005 p. 127-33 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)subscriber$
- ↑ Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874 p. 107
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Will of Keanye, continued. Robert Earliest Wills on Record in Suffolk County, Ms. in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 6, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1832 p. 154-7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 28, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1874 p. 87-8
- ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 3, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1849 p. 187
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Bramer, Francis J. First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic World, University of New Hampshire Press, Durham, New Hampshire, 2012 p. 107-8
- ↑ Winthrop, Adam. Winthrop Papers, Volume 5: 1645-1649, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1947 p. 143-4
- ↑ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 35, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1881 p. 277
- ↑ Water, Henry. Genealogical Gleanings in England in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 37, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883 p. 234
- ↑ Abstracts of the Earliest Wills of Suffolk in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 31, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1877, p. 105.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Anderson, Robert C. Thomas Dudley in: Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1995 p. 581-5 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Susan Hardman Moore. "Abandoning America, Life-Stories From Early New England" Boydell Press, New York. p. 166, 167
- ↑ Susan Hardman Moore. "Abandoning America, Life-Stories From Early New England" Boydell Press, New York. p. 166, 167. citing NA, PROB 11/308/160, will of Benjamin Kaine 17 May 1662.
- ↑ Appleton, William S. Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 1630-1699, City Document 130, Registry Dept. City of Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, Massachusetts, 1883 p. 63
- ↑ Eaton, Rev. Arthur W. H. The Family of John Gerrish in: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 67, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1913, p. 107-8
- Early Families of New England, 2013. New England Historic Genealogical Society; Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist. Membership required.
- Daniel Denison (m.1632) (by subscription): https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/13311//0
- https://www.americanancestors.org/browse/publications/ongoing-study...
- “The Life and Work of Thomas Dudley: The Second Governor of Massachusetts.” By Augustine Jones. Appendix H - Sarah Pacey. Page 469-471. GoogleBooks
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Maj. Benjamin Keayne's Timeline
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1619
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Great Oakley, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
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1641
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Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
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May 17, 1662
Age 43
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London, Middlesex, England (United Kingdom)
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March 11, 2003
Age 43
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March 6, 2004
Age 43
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Of Boston
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