Eunice (Fox) Keeney (abt. 1683 - aft. 1765)

Born about 1683 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of John House — married 8 May 1703 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Wife of Richard Keeney Sr. — married about 1714 (to after 1760) in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1765 after about age 82 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

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Biography

Eunice Fox; daughter of Richard Fox and Beriah Smith, was born about 1683 in Connecticut, and married first John House on 08 May 1703 at Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, ^[1][2] and before the death of John House they had children Eunice,^[3][4][5] Sarah,^[6][7][8] John,^[9][10][11] and Silence,^[12] born 1704-1711.

Marriage (08 May 1703) and First Three Children (b. 1704-1709) of John House and Eunice Fox

No later than 28 Jan 1724/5, when the Town of Glastonbury had provided Eunice Keeney; formerly the widow Eunice House, with 12 acres in the Five Mile Division, and probably much sooner than this land grant, widow Eunice (Fox) House was married second to widower Richard Keeney. ^[13]

Before his death on 19 Mar 1709, ^[14] her father Richard Fox Sr. had gifted to her brother Richard Fox Jr. a 50 acre tract of land in the Five Mile Division of Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut. ^[15] Possibly soon after the death of his first wife Mary Miles, her second husband Richard Keeney had moved to Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, where Richard Keeney of Hartford purchased on 14 Sep 1714 from his brother-in-law by his second wife, Richard Fox Jr., this 50 acre farm in the Five Mile Division four miles east of the Connecticut River and adjacent south of the lot on the Glastonbury-Hartford border on the Glastonbury side. ^[16]

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. ^[17] 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. ^[18] A week later on 16 Feb 1743/4, Richard Keeney Sr. of Glastonbury gifted his youngest son Benjamin Keeney with 25 acres, ^[19] 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, in his last known land record, 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, ^[20] 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)

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch.org: Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Vital Records, Volume 1, page 43
2. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMW-HC6S : Fri Nov 10 03:20:07 UTC 2023), Entry for John House and Eunice Ffox, 8 May 1703.
3. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMW-DBFM : 22 July 2021), Fox in entry for Eunce, 1704.
4. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F772-Q5Z : 7 January 2020), Eunice in entry for Eunice House, 1704.
5. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMC-FQDT : Fri Nov 10 00:41:03 UTC 2023), Entry for Eunice House and John, 15 Apr 1704.
6. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMW-DBFJ : 22 July 2021), Fox in entry for Sarah, 1705.
7. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F772-QRR : 7 January 2020), Eunice in entry for Sarah House, 1705.
8. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPS2-25M7 : Fri Nov 10 00:48:11 UTC 2023), Entry for Sarah House and John, 18 Jan 1705.
9. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMW-DBNQ : 22 July 2021), Fox in entry for John, 1709.
10. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F749-GRC : 7 January 2020), Eunice in entry for John House, 1709.
11. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMW-HC6Q : Thu Nov 09 21:11:23 UTC 2023), Entry for John House and John, 15 Aug 1709.
12. ↑ Hathitrust.org: Hale, House and Related Families, Donald L. Jacobus (1952), pages 329-331
13. ↑ Hathitrust.org: Hale, House and Related Families, Donald L. Jacobus (1952), pages 329-331
14. ↑ The Fox Genealogy (sourced): https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fesschequy/genealogy/Fox.html
15. ↑ Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 2, pages 92-93
16. ↑ Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 3, page 146
17. ↑ Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 6, page 123
18. ↑ FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 7, page 68
19. ↑ FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 7, page 67
20. ↑ FamilySearch.org: Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records, Volume 9, page 290

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rstancliff/FoxFam.htm
• Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Land Records