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Fifth Generation.
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II. Dorcas Keeler, bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 3 Nov. 1754; she renewed the covenant in South Salem Pres. Ch., 12 March 1775.
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III. Jemima Keeler, bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 3 Oct 1756. "Lot Keeler's daughter died 23 Feb. 1769," at South Salem; but the record does not say which daughter.
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IV. Betty Keeler, bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 15 June 1760.
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V. Lot Keeler, bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 22 July 1764.
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VI. Jesse Keeler, birth-record not found.
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VII. Lewis Keeler, birth-record not found. The name is given on the authority of John, son of David Keeler.
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237
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Chil. of Paul and ----- (Smith) Keeler.
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37
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I. Paul Keeler, married, 7 Feb. 1775, at Ridgefield, Conn., Sarah Cornwell, dau. of ----- and Sarah (Burt) Cornwell,1 of Ridgefield. They bought, 12 Ap. 1778, of her mother and step-father, both of Ridgefield, "twelve rods of land, at the south-east comer of the home lott where we now live; Bounded on all sides by highway and our own land, it being the spot where the said Paul has now dug a cellar for the purpose of erecting a house." The site of this house is now occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ridgefield. They joined with her mother, in selling their homestead of seven acres, for £315, to Nathan Dauchy, 8 Jan. 1796; soon after which, they settled in Northern Pennsylvania, near the Great Bend of the Susquehanna.
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II. Sarah Keeler, married ----- Brundage, of South Salem, N. Y., and moved to Orange County, N. Y.
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Chil. of Paul and Sarah (Wood) Keeler.
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37
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III. Ebenezer Keeler, bap. at South Salem, N. Y., 31 May 1752, the second baptism of Rev. Solomon Mead's ministry; a shoemaker; married Esther Birchard, of Wilton, Conn. Tradition says that he and his brother, Nathan Keeler, were married in Wilton, the same evening, and that the snow was so deep that they could only reach the homes of their brides by going on snow-shoes. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and died of small-pox, at Wilton.
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1 See note to number 27.
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