Abell, Amidon, Atwell, Backus, Butler, Burdick, Calkins, Chandler, Cheney, Colton, Comptom, Covel, Champlin, Clarke, Davis, Doubleday, Easton, Fiester, Fanning, Hebe, Hewit, Huntington, Inks, Keep, Kline, Kepner, Lam, Leonard, Lawton(Laughton), Mosher, Nash, Newton, Perry, Pool, Pratt, Palmer, Rishel, Reynolds, Royce, Russell, Randall, Segar, Spaulding, Stephens, Starkley, Sachevall, Short, Slack, Smith, Thurston, Tracy, Torrey, Utter, Verney, Whittbecker, Wedge, Welch, Wolcott
Wow that was a lot for me LOL
From my research so far I have found out a lot of interesting things. John Keep came from England to Massachusetts. I would like to find out when, and what part of England but I will get there some day. It seems that most of the Keep men were farmers. From Abner Newton Keep to Marsena Sr.
I found something telling about Abner Hunting Wolves and Bears for a boutny.(interesting) There is even a special museum, the Keep Homestead Museum dedicated to my own acestors, that is awesome. Keepville Pennsylvania was named after my gggggrandfather Marsena Keep Sr.
History of Erie Co., Pennsylvania
Chicago: Warnerm Beers & Co., 1884 Keepville consists of a post office, store, Methodist Episcopal Church, schoolhouse, cheese factory, shingle mill, and several residences, at the intersection of two roads, near Conneaut Creek, two and a half miles southwest of Albion Borough. It was named after Marsena Keep, Sr., who settled there in 1808.
Killed by Indians
John Keep and his wife Sarah Leonard and their son Jabez were killed by Indians.
John Keep of Longmeadow, Massachusetts. (A southern suburb of Springfield.) There is no certified proof of where in England he
came from. It is recorded that he was in Longmeadow on 18 Feb,1660. He died 16 years later: 26 Mar, 1676. He, his wife Sarah, and one son, Jabez, were killed by the indians as the family was going to church. The surviving children, Sarah 9, Hannah 2, and Samuel 5, went to live with their mother's family, the Leonard's. Sarah & Samuel & Hannah all married and lived out their lives in the Longmeadow area.John Keep 1640England 1676 Massachusetts
Well I have been spending a lot of time on research. Finding out history is a new love of mine. I have major plans to organize and research and write. I want to do a few biographies. Find the important people of my past. I am also interested in medical history and criminal history. Everything that tells who my ancestors were, physically, mentally, spiritually, so I can figure out better who I may be.
Springfield MA 1879
Marsena Keep's grave in Keepville PA
