Mary (Keeney) Beebe (1638 - 1725)

Born Sep 1638 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Samuel Beebe Sr. — married about 1658 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1725 at age 86 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Mary Keeney, daughter of William Keeney (abt.1601-abt.1675) and Agnes (Unknown) Keeney (abt.1599-aft.1670), was born about September 1638 and she was christened 31 May 1646 at the age of 7 and a half at the First Church of Boston, Massachusetts.

Marriage

Mary Keeney was married to Samuel Beebe about 1660 at New London, Connecticut. Their family is as follows:

• Husband: Samuel Beebe
• Wife: Agnes Mary Keeney
  • Child: Susannah Beebe
  • Child: Jonathan Beebe
  • Child: Ann Beebe
  • Child: Nathaniel Beebe
  • Child: Thomas Beebe
  • Child: Samuel Beebe
  • Child: Agnes Beebe
  • Child: William Beebe
  • Child: Mary Beebe
  • Child: Mercy (Beebe) Tozer (1678-abt.1747)

Death

Mary (Keeney) Beebe died on 5 Apr 1725 at the age of 84-85

Burial

Date: 10 May 1725

End of Biography.

Genealogical Records

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Vital Records

• Primary Source, The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630–1868; Volume 39: ^[1] {Note to reader: the source citation is from a 344 page web based transcription which has no pagination and is difficult to navigate. A way to navigate to the desired text sections is to invoke the document search command (CTL f) and enter Keayne. This will identify 13 instances of the descriptor, and you may then use the down arrow in the pop up window to tab down to instance 7/13 and 11/13.) Data Summary:

1. ) Boston VR; Page 46, inst. 7/13: The 31th Day of the 3d Moneth 1646. {Membership.}
   1. ) Agnes Keayne the wife of one Willyam Keayne. {Joined the church.}
2. ) Boston VR; Page 46, inst. 7/13: "The 31th Day of the 3d Moneth 1646 by our Teacher. "{Baptisms.}
   1. ) John Winthropp the Sonne of our brother Mr Stephen Winthropp being about 8 Dayes old.
   2. ) Mary Davis the Daughter of our brother Samuell Davis being about 26 Dayes old.
   3. ) John Smith the Sonne of our Sister Elizabeth the wife of Francis Smith being about a year and 3 quarters old.
   4. ) Mary Keayne the Daughter of our Sister Agnes the wife of Willyam Keayne being about 7 years and an half old and John Keayne hir Sohnne being about 3 years and 10 Monethes old. {Mary was born about Sept 1638, and her brother John was born about June 1642.}

Published Genealogical Information

• Secondary Source, Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Vol. I, ^[2] Data extrarct:

1. ) NE Settlers; Page 153: BEEBE or Beeby, SAMUEL, New London, br. of the preced. m. Agnes, d. of William Keeny, had also sec. w. Mary. His ch. were Samuel, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Jonathan, Agnes, Ann, Susanna, and Mary; but I am unable to div. them betw. the ws. yet doubt not, that nearly all were by the first. He own. the chief part of Plumb Isl. and rem. to it, d. 1712, aged 91, leav. wid. Of the ds., Agnes m. John Daniels ; Ann m. Thomas Crocker; Susanna m. Aaron Fountain; and Mary m. Richard Tozer.

• Secondary Source, Frances Manwaring Caulkins; Caulkins, History of New London, Connecticut, ^[3] Data Extraction:

1. ) New London History; page 291: William Keeny, died 1675.
   1. ) He was aged sixty-one in 1662, and his wife Agnes (or Annis,) sixty-three. His daughter Susannah, who married Ralph Parker, thirty-four; Mary, who married Samuel Beeby, twenty-two, and his son John, twenty-one. No other children are mentioned. {Editorial Mary (Keeney) Beebe b. 1640.}
   2. ) John Keeny, son of William, married in October, 1661, Sarah, daughter of William Douglas. They had daughter Susannah, born September 6th, 1662, who married Ezekiel Turner. No other child is recorded. The wife died August Ith, 1689. John Keeny was subsequently twice married, and had five daughters, and a son, John ; the latter born February 13th, 1700/1.
   3. ) John Keeny died February 3d, 1716, on the Keeny land, at Nahantick, which has since been divided into three or four farms.
2. ) New London History; page 338, 339: The Beeby brothers. The phrase John Beeby and his brothers," used in the early grants to the family, leads to the supposition that John was the oldest of the four. They may be arranged with probability in the order of John, Thomas, Samuel and Nathaniel. They all lived to advanced age. {Skip to 3rd son Samuel:}
   1. ) Samuel Beeby, in a deposition of 1708, states his age at seventy- seven, and says, "I came to this town nearly sixty years ago." He died in 1712, leaving a wife, Mary. His former wife was Agnes or Annis, daughter of William Keeny. Whether the children all belonged to the first wife, or should be distributed between the two is doubtful. They were Samuel, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Jonathan, Agnes, (wife of John Daniels, ) Ann, (wife of Thomas Crocker,) Susannah (wife of Aaron Fountain,) Mary, (wife of Richard Tozor.) William Beeby, one of the sons of Samuel, married Ruth, daughter of Jonathan Rogers, and was a member of the Sabbatarian community on the Great Neck. Jonathan, probably the youngest son, and born about 1676, was an early settler of East Haddam, where he was living in 1750.

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Sources

1. ↑ The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630–1868; Volume 39: Online Transcription.
2. ↑ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Vol. I,] Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register., Boston, Little, Brown, and Co. 1860. Treatise for surnames starting with the letters A - D. Available:

   1. ) Online manuscript here
   2. ) Online transcription here

3. ↑ Caulkins, Frances Manwaring, History of New London, Connecticut, From the First Survey of the Coast in 1612 to 1852, New London, CT, Published by the author, 1852 . page 339. Beeby Brothers

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• Brown, Walter LeRoy and Brown, M. Theta Hakes. Ancestors of Florence Julia Brown: and some of their descendants. Albion, NY: The Eddy Printing Co., 1940. p 176..