Samuel Keep and Sarah Colton

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20. Ensign Samuel Keep (1670–1755), son of John Keep and Sarah Leonard

Samuel, the son of John and Sarah Keep, was born on 22 August 1670 in Springfield. [1, 2:1668] Ensign Samuel Keep of Springfield died on 23 August 1755 in Springfield. [1, 1:514] Samuel Keep married Sarah Colton on 27 February 1695 in Springfield. [1, 1:26]

21. Sarah Colton (1678–1754), daughter of Captain Thomas Colton and Sarah Griswold

Sarah, the daughter of Captain Thomas Colton and Sarah Griswold, was born on 25 September 1678 and died on 20 June 1754. [2, 33:472–3]

Samuel’s gravestone in the Longmeadow Cemetery says, “In memory of Ensign Samuel Keep who died on 23 August 1755, aged 85.” [1, 3:2298]

Children of Samuel Keep and Sarah Griswold: [All births; marriages of the John, Sarah, Jemima and Abiah; deaths of the John, Samuel, Sarah, Elizabeth and the last three in 2, 36:166]

i. Unknown Keep was born on 17 February 1697.

ii. John Keep was born on 22 June 1698. He died on 28 July 1757. He married Abigail Munn of Colchester. She died on 5 October 1787. [2, 36:166]

iii. Samuel Keep was born on 12 November 1700. He died on 9 November 1761 in Springfield. [1, 1:522] Samuel Keep married first Mary Colton on 15 July 1735/6 in Springfield. [1, 1:346] Mary, the daughter of John and Joanna Colton, died on 15 February 1737. [2, 36:166] Samuel Keep married second Sarah Bemen on 8 March 1737/8 in Springfield. [1, 1:350] Sarah, the daughter of William and Hannah Beman, was born on 6 March 1618. [2, 36:166]

iv. Sarah Keep was born on 23 August 1703. She died on 24 November 1767, age 64. married Deacon Daniel Chandler of Enfield on 4 January 1728. Daniel was the son of Henry and Lydia Chandler. He died on 21 July 1785, age 84. [2, 33:69]

v. Captain Jabez Keep was born on 10 March 1706 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. He died on 19 August 1774 in Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He married first Sarah Leonard. He married second Experience Lawrence.

vi. Elizabeth Keep was born on 22 May 1709. She died on 29 July 1720.

vii. Jemima Keep was born on 17 June 1711. She married Isaac Griswold of Killingworth on 13 September 1731.

viii. Josiah Keep was born on 30 November 1713. He married Loice Noble of Westfield in May 1737. [2, 36, 313]

ix. Abiah Keep was born on 30 November 1715. She married Jonathan Wright of Windsor on 9 June 1737.

x. Stephen Keep was born on 26 October 1717. He died on 15 January 1790. He married Hannah Colton on 12 January 1754. [2, 36:313] Hannah, the daughter of Lieutenant Ephraim and Mary Colton, died on 20 October 1805. [2, 36:313]

xi. Eunice Keep was born on 11 March 1720. She died on 23 December 1739.

xii. Matthew Keep was born on 3 October 1722. He died on 29 June 1753. He married Abigail, the daughter of Henry and Abigail Wolcott, on 1 December 1743. [2, 36:313] She was born on 15 August 1721 and died on 4 February 1801. [2, 36:313] She married Second Josiah Cooley on 17 October 1771. [2, 36:313] She married third David Bowen of Willington. [2, 36:313]

Endnotes:

1. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, 3 vols. (Boston: NEHGS, 2003)

2. Willard S. Allen, “Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Families,” NEHGR, various issues.

Revised 26-Dec-2019