Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) is #73 on my Ahnentafel list, my 4th great-grandmother. She married in 1777 to #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754- ca 1820).
I am descended through:
* their son #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857), who married # 37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
* their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899), who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920), who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Elizabeth Keyes[1–6]
* Alternate Name: Elizabeth Hildreth[8–9]
* Sex: Female
* Father: Jonathan Keyes (1721-1781)
* Mother: Elizabeth Fletcher (1719-1761)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 8 April 1759, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]
* Child List: 1780–1793 (about age 21–about 34), list of children; Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]
* Death: 6 August 1793 (age 34), Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]
* Burial: after 6 August 1793 (after age 34), Townsend, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8–9]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1820)
* Marriage 1: 1 September 1777 (age 18), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3–6]
* Child 1: Aaron Hildreth (1778- )
* Child 2: Elizabeth Fletcher "Betsy" Hildreth (1780-1792)
* Child 3: Hannah Hildreth (1782-1848)
* Child 4: Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857)
* Child 5: Lucy Hildreth (1785-1865)
* Child 6: Martha "Patty" Hildreth (1787- )
* Child 7: Fanny Hildreth (1789-1865)
* Child 8: Nabby Hildreth (1791-1791)
* Child 9: James Hildreth (1793-1797)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Elizabeth Keyes was born 8 April 1759 in Westford, Massachusetts to Jonathan Keyes and Elizabeth Fletcher, the sixth of seven children. The Westford town record book says:[1]
"Keyes Elizabeth Keyes Daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born April the 8 1759"
The marriage record of Zachariah Hildreth and Elizabeth Keyes in the Townsend, Massachusetts town record book says:[5]
"Sept 1 [1777] Zachariah Hildreth with Elizabeth Keys both of Westford."
The listing in the Westford Vital Records book says:[4]
"[HILDRETH] Zachariah [jr. int.], and elizabeth Keyes, at Townsend, Sept. 1, 1777*"
The list of the children of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Keyes) Hildreth is in the Townsend, Massachusetts town records:[7]
Aaron son of Zachriah & Elisabeth Hildreth born Oct 30th 1778
Betsy daughter of Do born June 4th 1780
Hannah daughter of Do born September 10th 1782
Zachriah son of Do born April 10th 1783
Lucy daughter of Do born July 18th 1785
Patty daughter of Do born May 16th 1787
Fanney daughter of Do born Augt 22d 1789
Nabby daughter of Do born April 16th 1791
James son of Do born July 17th 1793
Only five of her nine children lived to adulthood and marry.
The gravestone of Elizabeth (Keyes) Hildreth is in the Old Burying Ground in Townsend, Massachusetts.[8-9] The inscription says:
"Mrs. Elisabeth Hildreth
wife of
Capt. Zach. Hildreth
who died Augt 6th 1793
Aged 34 years & 4 months
"No more my friends don't weep for me,
I'm gone into eternity,
The way to death you all must tread,
And sleep with me among the dead."
5) SOURCES
[1]. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Westford, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 83 (penned, image 48 of 1750), Elizabeth Keyes birth entry.
[2]. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Births, page 65, Elizabeth Keyes entry.
[3]. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Townsend Births, Marriages, and Deaths," page 338 (image 793 of 1351): Zachariah Hildreth and Elisabeth Keys entry.
[4]. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849, Marriages, page 194, Zachariah Hildreth and Elizabeth Keys entry.
[5]. Henry C. Hallowell (editor), Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), Marriages, Book 1, page 23, Zachariah Hildreth and Elisabeth Keys entry.
[6]. Westford, Massachusetts, Certificate of Marriage, Zachariah Hildreth to Elizabeth Keyes, 1 September 1777; Town Clerk's Office, Westford, Mass. (certificate dated 12 January 1995).
[7]. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Townsend Births, Marriages and Deaths, Book 6" page 98 (penned, image 163 of 1351), List of children of Zachariah Hildreth, 1778-1808.
[8]. Henry C. Hallowell (editor), Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts, Records of the Old Cemetery, page 344, Elisabeth Hildreth entry.
[9]. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Burying Ground, Townsend, Mass., Elisabeth Keyes Fletcher memorial #113322764.
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