Mary Keeney, daughter of Richard Keeney and Mary Miles of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, was born ~1697; [1] near the time her father had bought 10 acres of woodland in Hartford on 10 Feb 1697/8. [2]
Richard Keeney purchases 10 acres of woodland in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut (10 Feb 1697/8) |
After the death of her mother, Mary moved with her family to Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, where her father Richard Keeney of Hartford purchased on 14 Sep 1714 from Richard Fox Jr., his brother-in-law by his second wife, widow Eunice (Fox) House, 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. [3] 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. [4]
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) |
Mary was married to Nathaniel Bidwell on 22 December 1720 at Glastonbury, where daughter Mary Bidwell was born a year later on 15 December 1721; their only child listed in the Glastonbury town vital records. [5] Nathaniel was "of Middletown" and Mary was "of Glastonbury."
Marriage Record for Nathaniel Bidwell and Mary Keeney |
Also shown in the land map above: earlier in the year they married, husband Nathaniel Bidwell; a native of Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, bought from Richard Goodrich a 100-acre homestead and one-acre meadow in South Glastonbury on 12 March 1719/20. [6] In total from 1720 to 1732, Nathaniel purchased or acquired by division 172 acres in South Glastonbury and by 1749 had sold 153 acres of the total. [7]
"On 12 Jun 1758 Thomas Goodrich, Jr., for £3, conveyed to Samuel Bidwell of Glastonbury, 30 rods with a dwelling house where Nathaniel Bidwell dwells, reserving life use for Nathaniel Bidwell and his wife."[8] [9]
Nathaniel Bidwell and Wife Home Deed 12 Jun 1758 |
Mary (Keeney) Bidwell; designated "widow-aged," died 4 November 1789 in Glastonbury. [10] [11]
Transcript Death Record for Mary (Keeney) Bidwell |
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