Ancestry of
Bette Davis

Movie Actress

Benjamin Keyes

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Bette Davis — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 116 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Keyes 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Morse   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jan 1739/1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1805 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Merriam
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Apr 1767 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Amasa Keyes (Ahnentafel No:58 )

• Sources for Benjamin Keyes

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, p. 60, Birth record for Benjamin Keyes.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Oxford, Vol. 1, p. 191, Marriage record for Benjamin Keyes and Lucy Meriam.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, p. 60, Birth record for son Amasa Keyes.
  • ⁴ Keyes, Asa, Genealogy: Robert Keyes of Watertown, Mass., 1633, Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass, 1653 . . ., Brattleboro: Geo. E. Selleck, Printer (1880), 24, 47.
  • ⁵ Pope, Charles Henry, Merriam Genealogy in England and America: Including the "Genealogical Memoranda" of Charles Pierce Merriam . . ., Boston, Massachusetts: Charles H. Pope (1906), 70.