[Ancestor] Keeney

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1 M Thomas Keeney ¹

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         Spouse: Mercy Lamb (1748-      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Keeney

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Alexander Keeney, originally from Gloucester, Massachusetts, is listed as a freeman in Withersfield, Connecticut, in 1669, and the probate records of Hartford County show his death in 1680, when his estate inventoried eighty-six pounds and six shillings. A branch of the family settled at East Hartford, whence one Thomas went to Litchfield, Connecticut, and from there his grandson, Thomas, migrated to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania in 1786. The name Keeney appears among those who hold prominent positions in the colony and among those who served in the Indian wars and the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, Thomas Keeney having served in both the latter. In the muster roll of Lieutenant Colonel Pitkin, of East Hartford, being the Second company of the First Regiment raised for the reduction of Crown Point, April, 1755, are the names of Sergeant John Keeney, Corporal Alex. Keeney, and privates Benjamin, Joseph and Thomas Keeney. For over two hundred years the name of Keeney has been prominent in the annals of Connecticut, and a number of direct descendants of the original Alexander Keeney are prominent in manufacturing, commercial, and financial circles in that state, among them was the president of one of the prominent insurance companies of Hartford. [HWC 1906 iii, 270]

This family traces its ancestry to the earliest Colonial days of Connecticut. Alexander Keeney, of English descent, is mentioned with two brothers Joseph and Richard in a list of the early residents of Wethersfield, Connecticut, for 1634-73 inclusive and is listed as a freeman there in the list of 1689. The family had the pioneer spirit and kept moving into frontier towns, first to the Three Mile Lots, then to East Hartford and from there to Five Mile Lots, later to the town of Manchester. As that section became settled one Thomas Keeney went to Litchfield, Connecticut, and from there his descendants came into New York and Pennsylvania, his grandson, Thomas, Jr., being the first settler and founder of Keeneyville, Tioga County, 1786. [HWC 1906 iii, 347]

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 347.