Robert Keyes

Abt 1606 - 1647  (~ 41 years)

• Name	Robert Keyes  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1606  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Jul 1647	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I33736	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2022

  
  

  Family	Sarah Swett,   b. Bef 6 May 1610   d. 7 Jul 1681, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 71 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1632	New Buckenham, Norfolk, England   [4]
  Children	+ 1. Phebe Keyes,   b. 17 Jun 1639, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 May 1701, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F19881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1637; first at Watertown, then Newbury in 1644. He was long thought to have arrived earlier, in about 1632, based on a Watertown record assigning a birth date of 26 May 1633 to his daughter Sarah. In 2022, Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson (citation details below) showed that his daughter Sarah was actually baptized in New Buckenham, Norfolk on 29 Jun 1634, and put forth a convincing explanation for the evidently erroneous Watertown record.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5386] Carrie C. Edgett, "John French of Topsfield, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society 13:153, 1908. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990. [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. [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.