Matthew* Keene

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 21 Jul 1723, Stafford Co, Virginia

Notes:

"Wigfield & Nelson" states his will was dated 21 July 1786. This date cannot be correct.

Will:
Stafford Co VA Will Book 1729-1748; {Antient Press}: Pg 26-27
In name of God Amen this 21 Day of July in the Year .. 1723 I MATHEW KEEN of County of Stafford being Sick .. but of perfect .. Memory ..make this my last Will and Testament .. as to Worldly Goods .. I give in form following vizt.
Imprimis I give unto my Dear and Loving Wife BRIDGETT all my land that I now live upon during her natural Life ..
Item I give unto my said Wife Bridgett one Negro Boy named Mott ..
Item I give unto my Daughter ELIZABETH WITHERS the Lands whereon she now lives and so to the true hounds I sett and marked unto her husband JAMES WITHERS which true bounds I desire he may not exceed dureing the life of my Dear wife and I further desire that my said Daughter may have the lands within the said bounds with out any Disturbance whatsoever dureing my Wifes life ..
Item I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Withers after the decease of my Loving wife Bridgett ail my whole Estate of land as well the Tract of Lands whereon I now live as any other land that may or ought to come to me to my said Daughter Elizabeth and the heirs of her body ..
Item I give unto my said Daughter Elizabeth Withers Twenty shillings to buy her a Ring to wear in remombrance of me.
Item 1 give unto my Son in Law JAMES WITHERS one five year old Steer.
Item I give unto my Grand Daughter ELIZABETH FIELDS one feather bed and the furniture thereunto belonging, that bed that is now in the Trundle bedstead.
I also give unto my said Grand Daughter the Pewter that is now lay'd aside for her and which is properly her own to her and her heirs for ever.
Item I give unto my Grandson JOHN WITHERS after the decease of my Loving Wife my Buckaneer Gun.
Item I give unto ELIZABETH EMMETT one heifer of the age of three years at the expiration of her Time to her and heirs ..
item I give unto my Dear and Loving Wife BRIDGETT the remainder of my Estate of what Quality Specie or Quantity Soever it be within or without as well real as Personall .. and I do hereby make my Dear and Loving Wife Bridgett and none other my whole and sole Executrix of this my last Will .
Presence of James Sewers, John Edge, Mathew Keen
Memrndm. That on 25th day of Febey. 1730:1 I read the within written will to Mathew Keen and he acknowledged it to be his Last Will allowing the following Clause.
Jos. Treen
Whereas the Land the within named Mathew Keen now lives upon is bequeathed to his Daughter Eliz: Withers after his Wife's Decease this Day being the 25 of Feb: 1730/1 the sd Mathew Keen in presence of several witnesses hath gave the sd land wch he now lives on to JNO. WITHERS Eldest Son of the sd Eliz: Withers after the Decease of his Loving Wife Bridget Keen
At a Court held for Stafford County the Fourteenth Dav of April 1731 The Last Will and Testament of MATHEW KEEN was presented in Court by BRIDGETT KEEN his Executrix therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and being Proved by the oaths of JOHN EDGE and JOSEPH TREEN Two of the Witnesses thereto it in admitted to Record and on the motion of the said Executrix and her Performing what is usual in such cases Certificate is granted her for obtaining a Probate thereof in Due form She Giving sufficient Security

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Matthew* married Bridget* (..) Keene in 1681 in Northumberland, Virginia. Bridget* was born in 1652 in England (probably); died after 1706 in Stafford Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth* Keene was born about 1682 in Stafford, Stafford Co, Virginia; died on 26 Jul 1769 in Potomac Creek, Stafford Co, Virginia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Bef 1650, England

Thomas* married Mary* (..) Keene about 1638. Mary* was born in 1620; died on 10 Feb 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas* married Elizabeth* Gosnold about 1585 in England (probably). Elizabeth* (daughter of Robert* Gosnold and Ursala* Naughton) was born in 1560 in Otley, Suffolk, England; died after 1594 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "Notes on the Gosnold Family" by Warner F. *Gookin (printed from Family Tree Maker, Genealogies of Virginia Families III, Fl-HA, Notes on the Gosnold Family:
About the time that Columbus was discovering America, there was born in the valley of the Finn in the county of Suffolk, England, a Robert Gosnold. He was to become the patriarch of a family seated at Otley and straeading out into the surrounng villages. In his last will and testament he bequeathed to his latest infant greatgrandchild, Bartholomew Gosnold, a nest egg of L20, one of eight similiar bequests to the children of his grandsons. The family flourished into greatness, and allied itself with the powerful in the land.
Like the river Finn, debouching into the tidewaters of the Deben a few miles from his home, this scion of the family Bartholomew went down to the sea. In the prime of his life he became a moving spirit -- a contemporary called him "the firstver" -- of the expedition that began the settlement of this country at Jamestown, where he lies in a forgotten grave.
This is the story told by a printed pedigree chart of the Gosnold family in the possession of the Virginia Historical Society. The manuscript original of this chart was made in 1890 by a proud descendent of the Gosnolds, Charles Frederick Gosld of Norwich, England, whose name appears prominently on the next the the last line of the printed version.
*The Rev Warner F. Gookin, retired, has been engaged in research work on behalf of the Dukes County Historical Society, in regard to Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of the island of Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. He is the thor of Capawak alias Martha's Vineyard, published by the Society at Edgartown, Mass, 1947.

Robert* married Ursala* Naughton about 1549 in England. Ursala* (daughter of William* Naughton) was born about 1535 in England; died after 1561. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]