Anna Keyes
BIRTH
Sep 1, 1743
Ashford, Connecticut
DEATH
May 22, 1808
Ashford, Connecticut
FAMILY
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Keyes, Anna
(1743-1808)
Anna Keyes (1743-1808) was a farmer and estate manager and the spouse of Thomas Knowlton. Thomas Knowlton was a military officer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Anna Keyes to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Anna Keyes in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Thomas Knowlton
(1740-1776)
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DIED:
Ashford, Connecticut
May 22, 1808
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.