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names are unknown, died when she was an infant, and she was adopted by her aunt, who married Thomas Baxter. They dwelt in Ridgefield till the close of the Revolutionary War; then moved to Galway, N. Y.; and from there, in 1812, to Fenner, N. Y., where she died, 2 Ap. 1834, and was buried. He married (2d), about 1838, "a widow Stephens." He died at Fenner, 30 Sept 1853, aged nearly 96 years, and was buried in Fenner. His widow died not long after, in the south part of the State of New York He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and for many years enjoyed a pension for his service. He was a deacon of the second Baptist Church in Fenner; and often held town offices in Galway.
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VII. Lewis Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 4 Ap. 1760; served in the Revolutionary War. A short time before his death, he went back to Ridgefield, and visited among his friends for about three months, and his testimony at that time enabled some of his old comrades, and the widows of others, to prove their services and secure pensions. Some who saw him say he was then "a little dried-up old man, nearly ninety years old, and lived in New Jersey with his daughter." The census of 1840 seems to duplicate him; showing that Lewis Keeler, aged 82 years, lived in the family of Mary Burk; and Lewis Keeler, aged 81 years, in the family of Stephen Lawrence; both in Franklin, N. J. He died, it is said, in 1849, aged 89 years. About 1849-50, his nephew, Rev. Horace Doolittle, of Pompton, N. J., hearing that he was living at Goffle, a hamlet six miles north of Paterson, in the town of Manchester, N. J., went to see him, and found that he was already dead, and his widow away from home. His wife's name does not appear.
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VIII. Thomas Keeler, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 8 Ap. 1762; enlisted in 1776, when 14 years old, and served through the Revolutionary War, till the army was disbanded at Newburg; married, and had six children born in Ridgefield; then moved to Spencertown, Columbia Co., N. Y., and performed a tour of duty in the war of 1812, and on his way home, in 1814, sickened and died. He was at the siege of Yorktown and capture of Cornwallis.
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IX. Mary Keeler, called "Marah" on the town-record, b. at Ridgefield, Conn., 26 May 1764; named in her father's will, 17 Ap. 1774; married, 14 Nov. 1784, at North Salem, N. Y., Reuben Doolittle, a tanner and shoemaker, son of Joseph and Abigail (Rockwell) Doolittle, of Ridgebury, Conn., where he was born 19 Ap. 1761. They settled, in 1787, in what is now the town of Malta, N. Y., which was their home until his death, which occurred 10 Aug. 1830, while visiting his son, Rev. Horace Doolittle, at Harlingen, N. J., where he was buried. After that, she dwelt with her son, Henry Doolittle, at Ballston, N. Y., and there died, 12 Dec.
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