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Robert W. Hull, "Samuel Keeler and Sarah (St. John) Keeler of Norwalk and Ridgefield, Connecticut, and their five sons: the Keeler Proprietors of Ridgefield", The Connecticut Nutmegger vol. 38, no. 3 (Dec 2005):380-388.
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Elizabeth (Whitney) Keeler had married Joseph Keeler sometime before October 1706, the date of the birth of a first child for this couple; the birth was recorded later in Ridgefield records. This birth is Rachel Keeler, "daughter of Joseph and Eliza", born 4 October 1706,12 and recorded later in Ridgefield.13
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Samuel and Sarah (St. John) Keeler had the following children:
- ii. Joseph3 Keeler was born in 1683 and died on 29 November
- 1757.50 He married probably in 1704 or 1705 Elizabeth3 Whitney, daughter of John2 (Henry1) Whitney.51 Elizabeth died 16 March 1763; her record is "Elizabeth [Keeler], wid. Joseph."52 They had issue.
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12 Wilma J. Standifer Moore, Comp. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Ridgefield 1709-1850, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000, 207 [Hereafter Barbour, Ridgefield].
13 The alert reader will realize that Ridgefield records did not begin until 1709; this record is created after the fact.
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50 Barbour, Ridgefield, 205.
51 FooF, [referring to Donald Lines Jacobus, compiler and editor, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976 (1930)] I:688-9. [Whitney, John]
52 Barbour, Ridgefield, 202
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