Isaiah Keith (1771 - 1844)

Born 19 Feb 1771 in Knox, Lincoln, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel (Unknown) Keith — married 18 Nov 1794 in Maine

Died 28 Sep 1844 at age 73 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Isaiah Keith was born at Knox, Maine, on 19 Feb 1771.^[1] He was probably the son of Isaiah Keith and Sarah (Burr) Keith.

Marriage

Isaiah Keith married Rachel )Unknown) before the birth of their first recorded child, at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) on 18 Nov 1794.^[2]

Residences

Isaiah and Rachel Keith recorded three children at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts), between 1794 and 1798,^[2] where Isaiah practiced the trade of carpentry.^[3] They were there at the time of the 1800 census.^[4] They recorded four children at Knox, Maine, between 1800 and 1806. They have not been found in the 1810 census, but they were at Knox in 1820^[5] and 1830.^[6]

Death

Isaiah Keith died on 28 Dep 1844. He is buried at the Hillman Ferry Cemetery in Livermore, Maine, where his gravestone gives his age at his death as 73.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, database with images, FamilySearch, Delayed returns for vital records 1670-1891 > Joy, 1855-Kelsey, 1882 > image 3054 of 4846; Division of Vital Statistics. State Board of Health, Augusta.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 84; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 73 of 718
3. ↑ Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 45
4. ↑ United States Census, 1800, database with images, FamilySearch, Maine > Cumberland > Livermore > image 2 of 8; citing NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ United States Census, 1820, database with images, FamilySearch, Maine > Hancock > Knox > image 2 of 3; citing NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ United States Census, 1830, database with images, FamilySearch Maine > Waldo > Knox > image 1 of 17; citing NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
7. ↑ Photo of gravestone of Isaiah Keith (Find A Grave: Memorial #118437549)