HOYT
FAMILY HISTORY
Daniel Hoyt
Daniel
Hoyt was born (probably in Connecticut.) on June 1st, 1681 to Zarubbabel Hoyt and Hannah KNAPP.
1704 - At the age of 25, Daniel married Elizabeth Keeler.
Over the
next 20 years, Elizabeth bore him eight children in Norwalk, Fairfield co., Connecticut:
| Abel Hoyt (1705 - 1774) |
Married Sarah ______ in 1730 |
| Ezra Hoyt (1707 - 1790) |
Married Pheobe BENEDICT in 1731 |
| Abilgail Hoyt (b. 1-26-1709) |
Married Eliakim SMITH |
| Daniel Hoyt (1710 - 1786) |
Married Sarah BENEDICT in 1735 |
| Abner Hoyt (1714 - 1797) |
Married Pheb ______ in 1739 |
| John Hoyt (1716 - 1790) |
Married Sarah PICKETT in 1748 |
| Nathan Hoyt (1718 - 1790) |
Married Elizabeth LOCKWOOD in 1741 |
| Abram Hoyt (1724 - 1798) |
Married Dorothy KEELER in 1750 |
THIS
KEELER / HOYT LINEAGE |
The Keelers and Hoyts
were obviously close during this period. They lived in Fairfield
County, Connecticut. from 1706 to ____ then abt. 1752, they moved
to _____New York. These were the early days of these establishments
and families were obliged to intermarry out of necessity. The
Keelers and Hoyts were no exception to this fact in the early
18th century in the New World.
Elizabeth was the oldest
of nine children. Her parents, John Keeler and Mehitable (Rockwell)
Keeler, were an "early" Connecticut. family.
John was the second-oldest
of seven or eight children born to Ralph Keeler, who immigrated
to Connecticut. sometime before 1650 from Lawford, Essex, England where Ralph was born in 1613. Mehitable's parents were John Rockwell and Elizabeth Weed.
Elizabeth, and her
brother Daniel, married their children Abram Hoyt and Dorothy
Keeler to each other. Dorothy was the third of ten children while
Abram was the youngest child.
Dorothy's mother was
Hannah Whitney, born November 5th, 1707 to Joseph and Hannah (Harkins)
Whitney.
Dorothy's brother,
Daniel Keeler, married his daughter Hannah to Dorothy's son Jachin.
|
Daniel also
married Sarah Starr but there is no other information on this
union. For all we know, Elizabeth may have died anytime after 1724 when she was 45 and had had eight children, the last one, Abram, coming
six and a half years after the prior child, Nathan.
1764 - At the age of 83, Daniel died in 1764 in Norwalk, Connecticut. |
