Anna Keyes
(1743-1808)
BIRTH
September 1, 1743
PLACE
Ashford, Connecticut
DEATH
May 22, 1808
PLACE
Ashford, Connecticut
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Thomas Knowlton
(1740-1776)
CHILDREN
Frederick Knowlton
(1760-1841)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anna Keyes Knowlton was the wife of Revolutionary officer Thomas Knowlton and the mother of nine children in Ashford, Connecticut. They married in 1759 and made their home on the Knowlton farm. Her husband was killed at Harlem Heights in September 1776; their youngest daughter, Lucinda, was born after his death. Anna survived him until 1808. Accounts differ on some early dates, so an exact birth date is left unsettled rather than presented as certain.
EARLY LIFE
Anna Keyes was born on Sep 1, 1743 in Ashford, Connecticut. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Anna Keyes with work or public activity as a farmer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Anna Keyes died on May 22, 1808 in Ashford, Connecticut. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Anna Keyes died on May 22, 1808, in Ashford, Connecticut. Anna Keyes Knowlton was the wife of Revolutionary officer Thomas Knowlton and the mother of nine children in Ashford, Connecticut. They married in 1759 and made their home on the Knowlton farm. Her husband was killed at Harlem Heights in September 1776; their youngest daughter, Lucinda, was born after his death. Anna survived him until 1808. Accounts differ on some early dates, so an exact birth date is left unsettled rather than presented as certain. The available account does not establish a detailed sequence of final symptoms, treatment, or bedside attendance.
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