Tubal Keen (bef. 1753 - 1821)

Born before Jun 1753 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Glover) Keen — married 11 Nov 1790 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Husband of Sarah (Rock) Cathcart — married 14 Jan 1796 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

Died 13 Jun 1821 after age 68 in the Almshouse, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Jubal & Sarah Keen probably had at least five children. Their son Shadrack is proven to be theirs by his death record. Jubal was named as the head of household on the Federal Census of 1810 in Clark Sq., Ward 2, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, as Tubal Keen, a male aged over 45 years with a household containing one male and one female under 10 years, two males and one female aged 10-15, and one female 26-44. The enumeration suggests four other children in the household besides Shadrack who would have been age 14.

In his application for a military pension on 03 April 1818 at Boston, he deposed:

"I Tubal Keen of Boston in the County of Suffolk MA, labourer of the age of sixty three years a native citizen & resident in the US and applicant for a pension under the law of the US - do depose on oath declare that in the month of January in the year 1781 I enlisted as a mid-shipman in the Navy of the US and was attached to the Deane Frigate afterwards called the Hague under Captain Samuel Nickerson. That I served two years and two months in that capacity and upon the declaration of peace I was honorably discharged - our first cruise was on the West India coast when we captured Navy prizes - as was also our second cruize Captain Manly was commander at the time when peace took place - my discharge was destroyed by fire in a house which was [hired?] by me about seven years since, & which was burned to the ground in Boston. I further testify & declare that my circumstances are much reduced and I am in extreme poverty and in need of aid from my country for support." [signed] Tubal Keen [declaration dated 3 apr 1818 at Boston]

"I well know that the foregoing declaration to be true as the deponent was under my command as Surgeon of the Ship."
[signed] P.S. Meadary,
Surgeon US Navy
(declaration dated 3 Apr 1818 Boston)^[1]

Name

Name: Jubal /Keen/

Given Name: Jubal

Surname: Keen^[2][3]

Birth

Date: BEF JUN 1753^[4]

Baptism

"Keen, Jubal, s. Francis, bp. Nov. -- [1756]"^[5]

Marriage

Husband: Jubal Keen

Wife: Susanna Glover

Marriage:

Date: 11 NOV 1790

Place: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

"Tubal Keene & Susanna Glover Married By Rev. Saml. Stillman on Nov. 11, 1790. Int. reads [Keen] [Suky]"^[6][7]

Husband: Jubal Keen

Wife: Sarah Rock

Child: Shadrack Keen

Marriage:

Date: 14 JAN 1796

Place: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

[Intentions] "Jubal Keen & Sarah Ruck, both of Boston, 1796 Jan 2"^[8]

Death

Date: 13 JUN 1821

Place: the Almshouse, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

"June 13 1821, Tubal Keen [died] age 62, of Phthisis Pulmonalis"^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Tubal Keen file; Navy Pension File #32941; Revolutionary War Pension Applications (Washington, DC: NARA
2. ↑ Source: #S16 Vol. 7, Marriage Intentions
3. ↑ Source: #S401 p. 129, citing First Unitarian Church records
4. ↑ Source: #S769 (aged 67 at deposition on 24 Jun 1820)
5. ↑ NEHGS, compiler, Vital Records of Pembroke, MA, to the Year 1850 (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1911), p. 129, citing First Unitarian Church records
6. ↑ Jay Mack Holbrook, Boston Vital Records 1630-1849 (Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, MA: 1985) Microfiche, Marriages, Vol. 30:89
7. ↑ Jay Mack Holbrook, Boston Vital Records 1630-1849 (Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, MA: 1985) Microfiche, Marriages, Vol. 30:127
8. ↑ Jay Mack Holbrook, Boston Vital Records 1630-1849 (Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute, 1985)
9. ↑ Source: #S846 Reel 11, Folder 12.4, "Register of Deaths in the Almshouse, 5 Jan 1820-12 Apr 1825"

• Source: S401 NEHGS, Vital Records of Pembroke, MA, to the Year 1850 (NEHGS, Boston, MA: 1911)
• Source: S769 Tubal Keen - Pension, Revolutionary War Pension File, Revolutionary War Pension Applications, Navy Pension File #32941 NARA, Washington, DC
• Source: S846 Records of the Overseers of the Poor, Boston, MA, Film #F732.25/O6/1988 Repository: #R104
• Repository: R104 NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts