The treasure today is the birth records (and some death records) for the children of Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) and his two wives in Westford, Massachusetts from 1748 to 1774:
The portion of the right-hand page above with the list of Keyes children:
The transcription of this record is (transcribed line by line):
Joseph Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born
November 26, 1746
Joanna Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife
was born February 14, 1748
Aaron Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was
born August 27, 1751
Stephen Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was
born November 14, 1754
Joanna Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his
wife was born February 20, 1757
Elisabeth Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife
was born April 8, 1759
Hannah Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was
born May 7, 1761
Jonathan Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Bettey his wife
was born March 30, 1763 dy. May 25, 1828
Lydia Keyes & Lucy Keyes daughters of Jonathan Keyes and Bettey
his wife were born December 17, 1764
Stephen Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife
departed this life August 3, 1758
Joseph Keyes - grandfather to the said Jonathan Keyes departed
this life June 9, 1757
Joanna Keyes wife of Joseph Keyes and Grandmother to the said
Jonathan Keyes departed thisl ife March 31, 1758
Joanna Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife
departed this life June 17, 1753
Aaron Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife
departed this life August 1753
Joseph Keyes Junr - father to the above said Jonathan Keyes
departed thisl ife July 11, 1744
Miriam Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Betty his
wife was born March 13, 1767
Patty Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Betty his wife
was born January 15, 1769
Frances Grant Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Betty his
wife was born August 31, 1771
Aaron Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Betty his wife
was born May 29, 1774
The source citation for this record is:
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 May 2016), "Westford, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 41 (image 267 of 1750), list of children of Jonathan Keyes and his two wives; citing original data from Massachusetts town and city clerk records in Jay and Delene Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, Utah : Holbrook Research Institute), Microfiche collection.
Jonathan Keyes had seven children by his first wife, Elizabeth Fletcher (1720-1761) between 1746 and 1761, and had seven more children by his second wife, Elizabeth "Betty" (Hartwell) (Read) Keyes (1732-1826) between 1763 and 1774.
Included in the list above are the deaths of Joseph Keyes (1698-1744), Jonathan Keyes' father, and Joseph Keyes (1667-1757) and Joanna (Cleveland) Keyes (1670-1758), Jonathan Keyes' paternal grandparents.
This is a Derivative Source record, with Primary Information, since there is an earlier record book with the births in a chronological order, and this record is recorded in one hand over the 28 year span of the births of Jonathan Keyes' life. The one exception is that the death date of the son Jonathan Keyes is written in another hand with different ink.
Jonathan and Elizabeth (Fletcher) Keyes are my 5th great-grandparents, through their daughter Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793), who married Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) in 1777.
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