Sarah Gage

The known children of John Swett and Phebe Benton were:

3. Sara Swett [not in Stackpole], probable daughter of John Swett, married Robert Keyes in New Buckenham, Norwich, on 8 April 1632 (source: Norfolk Banns and Marriages). Sarah (Swett) Keyes m. (2nd, as his second wife) Ipswich, Mass., 7 Nov. 1658, John1 Gage.[49] The estate of Sarah (Swett) (Keyes) Gage of Newbury was inventoried 27 Sept. 1681; it consisted of personal property with an estimated total value of £28 2s., which was to be “devided to the three daughters viz the wifes of Wm Smith John French & Samuell Buswell.”[50]

Updated Information

Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson, The English Connection of Robert1 Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John1 Swett of Newbury, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society) 176.1 (Winter 2022) 5.link to PDF

Robert Keyes arrived in Watertown in 1637 from Buckenham, Norfolk. He probably purchased the William Wilcocks homelot in Watertown at that date. Vital records of Watertown recorded by Simon Eyre were not recorded until 1644 and included children born in England. Sarah2 Swett (John1 Swett), bp. New Buckenham 6 May 1610; d. Newbury 7 July 1681; m. (1st) New Buckenham 8 April 1632, Robert1 Keyes, who d. Newbury 16 July 1647.

Family

[The following information has been gathered from Genealogy, Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633, and Solomon Keyes of Newbury & Chelmsford, Mass., 1653, and their Descendants, by Asa Keyes, Brattleboro, VT, 1880, and updated with information gathered from public records and other sources. The middle English for quay and key was "key(e)", or "kay". Thus, a likely meaning for Keyes (and other variations; Kay, Kaye, Key, Keys, etc) is from residence near or employment at a wharf or quay; key-bearer is a possible meaning for all variations (A Dictionary of British Surnames, by P. H. Reaney , 1958).]

1. Robert (1) and Sarah:

• a. (prob.) Solomon b. 1624?, m. Frances Grant of Newbury, MA, d. 3/28/1702
• b. Sarah b. 5/26/1633, m. Samuel Buswell of Salisbury, MA
• c. (prob.) Peter b. ca. 1635, m. Elizabeth _________
• d. Rebecca b. 3/17/1637/8, m. William Smith of Topsfield, MA
• e. Phebe b. 6/17/1639, m. John French of Topsfield
• f. Mary b. 2/1641/2, d. young (buried 7/20/1642)
• g. Elias b. 5/20/1643 at Watertown, MA, m. Sarah Blandford of Sudbury, MA 9/11/1665
• h. Mary b. 6/16/1645 at Newbury, MA, m. Benjamin Gage (her stepbrother) of Andover, MA

Robert's name ("Robert Keies") is to be found at the base of the monument to Sir Richard Saltonstall at Watertown.

Sarah married second John Gage, on November 7, 1658 at Ipswich, Massachusetts shortly after the death of his first wife Amy.[12][13]

Her husband John died at Bradford, Massachusetts on March 24, 1672/3.[14]

In his will proved on March 25, 1673, John left the majority of his estate to the children of his first marriage. He left his wife Sarah:[15][16]

• one cow and household goods that were her own, during her life, to dispose of at her death
• residue of the household goods to Sarah until her death and then to my children
• one third part of the corn that is mine at my decease
• 20s annually from each of my five sons, payable half in grain and half in corn in exchange for her 1/3 dower right.[17][18][19]

Death

Sarah died at Newbury on July 7, 1681.[20]

Administration of the estate of widow Sarah Gage who died intestate was granted 21 July 1681 to two of her sons-in-law, John French and William Smith.[21] On September 27, 1681, the court ordered that her estate be equally divided among her three daughters, the wives of John French, William Smith and Samuel Buswell. [22]

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swett-1437 cites

1. ↑ The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Reference page 1128 via $American Ancestors
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson, "The English Connection of Robert1 Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John 1 Swett of Newbury", New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Reference Volume 176, pages 5-17
3. ↑ Church of England Parish Registers. Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials 1535-1812, digital images by subscription Ancestry.com or by free share from Ancestry.com.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II-Marriages and Deaths, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911, p. 272: 596: 633
5. ↑ Anderson, GMB, p. 1129, citing J. Gardner Bartlett, The Ancestry of David Bushnell, (Boston 1918), p 31
6. ↑ Church of England Parish Registers. Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials 1535-1812, digital images by subscription Ancestry.com or by free share from Ancestry.com.
7. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Solomon Keyes 1653 marriage Vol 2. p. 888
8. ↑ Chelmsford, MA vital records 1702 death of Solomon Keyes
9. ↑ Church of England Parish Registers. Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials 1535-1812, digital images by subscription Ancestry.com or by free share from Ancestry.com.
10. ↑ See Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) p. 1129, citing Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings..., (Watertown, Mass.: Watertown Historical Society, 1894).
11. ↑ Randy A. West, Robert Battle & Robert Charles Anderson, "The English Connection of Robert Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John Swett of Newbury," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 176:5; digital images for $ubscribers available here.
12. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson "John Gage" Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) pp. 719-22 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
13. ↑ Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II-Marriages and Deaths, (Salem: The Essex Institute, 1910), p. 249
14. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson "John Gage" Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) pp. 719-22 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
15. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson "John Gage" Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) pp. 719-22 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
16. ↑ Case 10483: p.1-6: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
17. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson "John Gage" Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) pp. 719-22 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
18. ↑ Case 10483: p.1-6: Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)
19. ↑ The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts, 1665-1674, Volume 2, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1917, p. 333-5
20. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson "John Gage" Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633, Vols. I-III, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995) pp. 719-22 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)
21. ↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol. VIII, p. 101
22. ↑ The Probate Records of Essex County Massachusetts, 1635-1681, Volume 3, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1920, p. 412-3

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Sarah Allen
FamilySearch Family Tree
Birth: 1611 -
Death: July 7 1680 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Father: John Allen
Children: Elias Keyes Sr., Sarah Buswell (born Keyes), Phoebe Keyes, Tristram Heard, Robert Keyes
Sister: Sarah Heard (born Allen)