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Richard Keeney Sr. (abt. 1674 - aft. 1760)

Richard Keeney Sr.
Born about in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap
Husband of — married about 1696 (to about 1712) in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colonymap
Husband of — married about 1714 (to after 1760) in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 86 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colonymap
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Biography

Richard Keeney; son and youngest child of Alexander Keeney and his wife Alice of Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, was born in Wethersfield in about 1674, since Richard was age 6 when the inventory of the estate of his father Alexander was taken on 01 Oct 1680, [1] and Richard would therefore have been age 8-9 when the inventory of his late widowed mother Alice Keeney of Wethersfield was taken on 05 Mar 1682/3. [2]

Richard married Mary Miles; [3] daughter of John Miles and Elizabeth Harriman of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, [4] [5] in ~1696. They had settled in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut before 10 Feb 1697/8, when Richard purchased from Joseph and Ruth Peck a tract of 10 acres of woodland in Hartford east of the Connecticut River. [6]

Richard Keeney purchases 10 acres of woodland in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (10 Feb 1697/8)

Possibly soon after the death of his first wife Mary, Richard moved to Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, where he married his second wife, widow Eunice (Fox) House, and where Richard Keeney of Hartford purchased from his brother-in-law, Richard Fox Jr., on 14 Sep 1714 a 50 acre farm in the Five Mile Division that was four miles east of the Connecticut River and adjacent south of the lot on the Glastonbury-Hartford border on the Glastonbury side. [7] Richard Fox Jr. had been gifted this farm by his father Richard Fox Sr. on 01 Jan 1706/7, in a deed that described the location and boundaries of the farm in detail. [8]

Richard Keeney Purchases 50 Acres in Glastonbury Five Mile Division (14 Sep 1714)
Richard Keeney Purchases 50 Acres in Glastonbury Five Mile Division (14 Sep 1714)

Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury purchased from Jonathan Webster on 30 Mar 1737 a tract of 26 acres on the Hartford side of the Hartford-Glastonbury border. [9] Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury was also named in a deed dated 07 Feb 1743/4 by which his son Richard Keeney Jr. of Hartford bought from Jonathan Webster a 35 acre tract of land in south Hartford bounding north on land of Richard Keeney Jr. and south on the 26 acres of land still owned by Richard Keeney Sr. after he bought it on 30 Mar 1737. [10] A week later on 16 Feb 1743/4, Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury gifted his youngest son Benjamin Keeney with 25 acres, [11] believed to be part of the 26 acres purchased on 30 Mar 1737. This deed could have been the source of the often-cited estimated year of death ~1744 for Richard Keeney Sr.

However, 10 years later on 01 Aug 1754, Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury gifted his son Benjamin with 6 more acres of land bounding on the earlier 25 acres gift of 16 Feb 1743/4, [12] and so the estimated date of death for RIchard Keeney Sr. is currently after 01 Aug 1754.

Deeds of Richard Keeney Sr. to son Benjamin Keeney (1744-1754)

And there was still one more deed in 1760: Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury bought from Jonathan Webster another tract, of 30 acres in East Hartford, on the north side of the Hartford-Glastonbury border in 1760. [13] Unfortunately, this deed record, which is recorded next after a deed dated 15 Dec 1759, has its lower portion, including the grantor signature and date, disintegrated, and only the surname signature Webster can be seen on the last line far-right. Apparently the disintegration process had occurred before the deed indexing was accomplished, and the indexed date for the deed was limited to a then-determinable “1760” only. [14]

Richard Keeney Sr. Buys Another 30 Acres in Hartford on Hartford-Glastonbury Border (1760)

Richard Keeney of Glastonbury lived to a similar minimum age ~86-87 as his older brother Joseph Keeney of Hartford, and was the probable source of the longevity of his eldest daughter Mary (Keeney) Bidwell, who died on 04 Nov 1789 in South Glastonbury at age ~92. [15] Most impressive is her first cousin, Alexander Keeney; a son of Joseph Keeney. Alexander Keeney lived to age 106, and apparently retained his vitality, health, and even his capability for routine heavy physical labor past age 95. [16]

Transcript Death Record for Mary (Keeney) Bidwell (~1697-1789)
24 Oct 1814 Obituary for Alexander Keeney (~1708-1814)

Sources

  1. Archive.org: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Charles W. Manwaring, Vol. 1, 327
  2. Archive.org: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Charles W. Manwaring, Vol. 1, 328
  3. Hathitrust.org: Hale, House and Related Families, Donald L. Jacobus (1952), 472
  4. Families of Ancient New Haven, Donald L. Jacobus, vol. 5-6 (1929), 1182-1183
  5. FamilySearch.org: New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Vital Records, Volume 1, page 43
  6. Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Proprietors Records, transcript page 600 (original page 575)
  7. Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 3, page 146
  8. Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 2, pages 92-93
  9. Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 6, page 123
  10. FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 7, page 68
  11. FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 7, page 67
  12. FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 9, page 290
  13. FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 9, page 550
  14. FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Grantees Index-Volume 1, page 290
  15. Transcript Records of Glastonbury First Congregational Parish 1759-1791, page 86
  16. Obituary for Alexander Keeney in 24 Oct 1814 issue of the Connecticut Mirror newspaper




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