Rachel (Northrop) Keeler (1740 - 1763)

Born 18 Jul 1740 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Isaac Keeler II — married 16 Jan 1760 (to 17 Jan 1763) in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Died 17 Jan 1763 at age 22 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Biography

• Rachel was the daughter of Gamaliel & Mary (Dauchy) Northrop
• She married as his first wife, Isaac Keeler II, son of Isaac & Mary (Whitney) Keeler, on 16 Jan 1760 at Ridgefield, Fairfield, CT - their children were Nathaniel & Rachel
• After her death Isaac married Sarah Smith, daughter of John & Sarah (Unknown) Smith on 17 Jan 1763 - parents of Joel

Sources

• Keeler, Wesley B., 1980. Ralph Keeler of Norwalk, Conn. and his Descendants. Privately published, Albany, NY, page 136 (#114)
• CT Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• CT Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• CT Death & Burials Index
• "Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell, of Stamford, Connecticut 1641, and Randy Keeler of Hartford, Conn., 1639", by James Boughton, Wm. F. Jones, Pub., NY, 1903, p 68.
• Rockwell, Kenneth W., The Heirs of Two Men Named Gamaliel Northrup, both of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 2013) Vol. 55, No. 3, Page 116.