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Mehitabel Rockwell

Female 1657 - Aft 1725  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Mehitabel Rockwell  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Birth ca 1656/7  [5
    Gender Female 
    Death Aft 15 Jan 1724/5  [6
    • land sold by sons to honored mother Mehitabel Hayt, now wife of Zerububbel Hayt
    Notes 
    • If she was born before September of 1656, she might have been the daughter of the proposed wife of the same name . In support of this is the family tradition that Mehitabel Keeler's mother died when she was very young. , 108n.)
      Wesley Keeler gives her as daughter of John Rockwell and Elizabeth Weed rather than Mehitabel ____ [4, 5]
    • :Ancestral File has death in 1775. This would gi ve age of about 115 years.
    Person ID I17745  Mindrum
    Last Modified 29 Jul 2020 

    Father John Rockwell,   b. Abt 1621, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Mar 1673/74, Rye, Westchester, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Mehitabel   d. 14 Sep 1656 
    Family ID F21980  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 John Keeler,   b. Abt 1645, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 3 May 1720, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Marriage 18 Jun 1679  Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Keeler,   b. 19 Mar 1679/80, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Keeler,   b. 26 Dec 1682, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jul 1763, Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     3. Mehittabel Keeler,   b. Abt 1685, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Mar 1755, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 70 years)
     4. Hannah Keeler,   b. Abt 1687, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jun 1767 (Age ~ 80 years)
     5. Sarah Keeler,   b. ca 1688/89, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. David Keeler,   b. say 1692, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 7 Oct 1776, Wilton Parish (Norwalk), Fairfield Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 84 years)
     7. Daniel Keeler,   b. Abt 1695, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Nov 1764, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years)
     8. Jemima Keeler,   b. say 1698, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1766 (Age ~ 68 years)
     9. Ruth Keeler,   b. Abt 1702, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Sep 1763, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years)
    Family ID F12418  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Aug 2020 

    Family 2 Deacon Zerubbabel Hoyt,   b. Abt 1652   d. 1727-1738, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 86 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1725  [2, 3
    Family ID F26751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 May 2015 

  • Sources 
    1. [S292] James Boughton, A Genealogy of the Families of John Rockwell of Stamford, Conn., 1641, and Ralph Keeler, of Hartford, Conn, 1639, (1903), p. 5, 6.

    2. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:299.

    3. [S295] Hoyt, David W., A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families, (Providence Press Co., Boston, 1871), p. 311, 7 Feb 2003.

    4. [S2761] Wesley B. Keeler, Keeler Family: Ralph Keeler of Norwalk, CT and some of his descendants, (Gateway Press, 1985), p. 5.

    5. [S5293] Kenneth W. Rockwell, The Rockwell Family in Fairfield County, Connecticut and beyond: Some of the descendants of John Rockwell, an early settler of Stamford, Connecticut,, (Third Edition, 2009), p. 23.

    6. [S5293] Kenneth W. Rockwell, The Rockwell Family in Fairfield County, Connecticut and beyond: Some of the descendants of John Rockwell, an early settler of Stamford, Connecticut,, (Third Edition, 2009), p. 24.

    7. [S8914] Norwalk, Connecticut Deeds, Vol. 1, p. 112.

    8. [S509] Clarence A. Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985), p. 430.

    9. [S1701] Donald L. Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, CT, 1930), p. I:356.