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IGI RECORD ---
Col. Danford KEYES, male, Events: Birth: 6 Jul 1740, Brookfield, Worcester, Ma. Parents: Father: Solomon KEYES. Mother: Sarah CUTLER. Source Info: Batch No. C502291, Dates -1850, Source Call No. 0547195 IT 1.
PEDIGREE CHART ---
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COLONEL DANFORTH KEYES.
Colonel Danforth Keyes, 7th child of Captain Solomon Keyes was born at the old homestead built by his father in Western (now Warren) Mass. in 1740. He was the first child born in the house, and was carried to Brookfield )to which that part of Western formerly belonged) to be christened in the old meeting house on the hill, which was burned by the Indians next year.
Although only sixteen years old at the time, he was in same battle in which his father was killed at Lake George, but came out unharmed after the affair at Lake George. He still continued in the French war service, and was in the disastrous assault of General Abercrombie upon the French lines at Ticonderoga 1758, also he was with General Amherst in the army raised for the conquest of Canada, took part in the final capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1759 also was with General Amherst engaged in the capture of Isle aux Noix, St. Johns in the winter, and most of the men were barefooted before arriving at Charleston No. 4.
The town of Hardwick, Caldonia County, Vermont, was granted to Danforth Keyes and his associates, November 7, 1780, and chartered August 19, 1781.
At the outbreak of the American Revolution, he was among the first to take the field, and was in the battle of Lexington and Bunker Hill, at Providence with General Sullivan and subsequently served throughout the war, being at home but twice during the time. "He was a personal friend of Washington, who visited him after the war, and his descendants still preserve many letters with the signature of the great chief appended."
"The same house is now standing in Warren, Mass., where Colonel Danforth Keyes, grandfather of Danforth Keyes, now living in Warren, Mass. was notified more than one hundred years ago of the battle of Lexington, and that the war had actually begun, and was ordered to start with his regiment at once for the scene of action. The regiment was collected on the common at Brookfield, and in twenty-four hours ready to march. The same old well is now in use on the premises from which General Washington and some of his army drank on the march from Boston to New York, and the old Oak tree in whose shade the soldiers rested, still stands erect and waves its branches in defiance of the ravages of time."
Colonel Danforth Keyes married December 6, 1764 Sarah Cutler of Warren, who was born April 2, 1745. He live in Warren and died there September 14, 1826. Sarah the wife of Colonel Danforth Keyes died August 19, 1831.