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Phebe Keyes

Female 1639 - 1701  (61 years)


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  • Name Phebe Keyes  [1
    Birth 17 Jun 1639  Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Death 13 May 1701  Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6
    Alternate death 14 May 1701  Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I33735  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2022 

    Father Robert Keyes,   b. Abt 1606   d. 16 Jul 1647, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Sarah Swett,   b. Bef 6 May 1610   d. 7 Jul 1681, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 71 years) 
    Marriage 8 Apr 1632  New Buckenham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Family ID F19881  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John French,   b. Abt 1635, of Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1706 (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1664  [5, 7, 8
    Children 
    +1. Sarah French,   b. 1 Mar 1665, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 20 Jan 1713 (Age > 48 years)
    Family ID F19880  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2022 

  • Notes 
    • There are two entries of her death in the Topsfield town records: "John French his wife drownd herself may 13, 1701" and "Phebe French dyed on ye 14th of may 1701."

  • Sources 
    1. [S3311] The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927.

    2. [S5386] Carrie C. Edgett, "John French of Topsfield, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society 13:153, 1908.

    3. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    4. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990., date only.

    5. [S6265] Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson, "The English Connection of Robert1 Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John1 Swett of Newbury." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176:5, Winter 2022.

    6. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990.

    7. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., date given in entry for Robert Keyes. Earlier entry for Thomas French says "by 1657".

    8. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990., "about 1660".