Abigail (Proctor) Keyes (1738 - 1830)

Born 29 Mar 1738 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Keyes — married 19 Sep 1754 in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1830 at about age 91 in Putney, Windham, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Abigail was born 29 March 1738-39 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Her parents were Israel and Sarah (Raymond) Proctor. Abigail married Daniel Keyes on 19 September 1754 in Westfield, Massachusetts and had seven children: 1) Israel; 2) Jacob; 3) Jonas; 4) Asa; 5) William; 6) Sarah (Keyes) Lowell; and 7) Abel.

Published genealogies and FindAGrave states her death year in the winter of 1830 and buried along with her husband who died in 1814.

Sources

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-YKHH : 10 November 2020), Abigail Procter, 29 Mar 1739; citing Birth, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934227.

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-YX9T : 10 November 2020), Abigail Procter in entry for Daniel Keyes, 18 Aug 1754; citing Marriage, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934227.

• Birth Record. Abigail, daughter of Israel and Sarah Proctor, 29 March 1738. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

• A Genealogy of Descendants of Robert Proctor of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass - Primary Source Edition by William Lawrence Proctor, 1898, p.10.

• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. SAR#36044.

• Find A Grave: Memorial #192754927

• Genealogy -- Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633, Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford Mass., 1653 : and their descendants, also, others of the names, by Asa Keyes

• Keyes Genealogy