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    Keziah -----

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    • 4th Great-grandmother of Wilbur Wright — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 73 
    • Father:
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1686 
    • Birth Location:
    • prob. Sandwich, Bristol, Massachusetts 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 20 Apr 1764 
    • Death Location:
    • Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Old Storrs Cemetery, Storrs, Tolland, Connecticut 
    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 20 Aug 1708 
    • Marriage Location:
    • prob. Sandwich, Bristol, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

      • Edmund Freeman

      Lydia Freeman

      Edmund Freeman (Ahnentafel No:36 )

      Prince Freeman

      Stephen Freeman

      Silvanus Freeman

      Nathaniel Freeman

      Keziah Freeman

      Sarah Freeman

      Deborah Freeman

      Skeffe Freeman

      Thomas Freeman

      Abigail Freeman

      Margaret Freeman

    • Notes: 

    • Some sources have claimed that Keziah Presbury was either a daughter or sister to Stephen Presbury who married Deborah Skeffe (Skiffe) and they refer to her as Keziah Presbury. Deborah's father Stephen Skeffe refers to "Kezia" as his granddaughter, so she cannot be Stephen Presbury's sister. Since Stephen Presbury was only about 16 at the time of Keziah's birth, it is unlikely he is her father. Also, it is clear from Stephen's 1730 will that Keziah was not his daughter as he names all of his living and deceased eight children, including his seven daughters. Keziah is almost certainly an illegitimate daughter of Deborah Skeffe before she married Stephen Presbury.

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  • Sources for Keziah -----

    • 3 Sandwich, MA: Vital Records to 1885, Vol. 1, Page 85, Birth record for son Edmund Freeman.
    • 4 Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1162.
    • 5 Dimock, Susan W., Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850, New York: The Baker and Taylor Company (1898), 319 (death).
    • 6 Freeman, Frederick, Freeman Genealogy, in Three Parts, Boston: Franklin Press; Rand, Avery, and Company (1875), 31, 45.
    • 7 Freeman, Frederick, The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and Its Several Towns, Including the District of Mashpee, Vol. 1, Boston: Geo. C. Rand and Avery (1858), 461.
    • 8 Freeman, Robert R., Freeman Families of New England in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol. 1, Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc. (2005), 2/22-2/23.
    • 9 Lamont, Belle Eldredge, Lamont-Eldredge Family Records, Albion, New York: Unknown (1948), 61.