John
Key
Jr.
aka Kye, Keay
Born about in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Son of John Key Sr.
and Sarah (Church) Key
[uncertain]
Brother of
Elizabeth (Key) Abbott, Charity (Keay) Hooper, Hannah (Key) Haines, Abigail (Key) Lā Huillier and Mary (Key) Wentworth
Husband of
Grizzel (Grant) Key
— married
1697 in Kittery Maine
Descendants 
Died
at about age 61
in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Biography
John was born in abt. 1675 (based on marriage year, so he could have been born earlier0. He was the son of John Keay and Sarah Church.
He married Grizzel Grant, daughter of a Scottish prisoner of war from the Battle of Dunbar, Peter Grant b. 1697.
He passed away in 1736.
Notes -
John Kye/Key Jnr is a witness to the will of Timothy Wentworth in Berwick.
Some Ancestry researchers have assigned this couple as the parents of Patrick Keay. However based on all the available sources, it seems highly unlikely.
Sources
- ā Lundin, Joyce Keay, "John Key/Keay of Maine and his descendants," [1]
- ā Maine, Lincoln County, Probate Records, Maine, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1584-1999 Ancestry.com [online database] [2]
- Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.
- Scottish Prisoners of War Society [3]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~0.39%
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Michelle Erskine
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Key-3085 and Keay-247 appear to represent the same person because: Same individual
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by Michelle Erskine
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