Ellis-Ellsworth-Giddings Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameSolomon Keyes , Capt. 
Birth11 May 1701, Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA.
Death8 Sep 1755, Lake George, Vermont, French & Indian War. @@ Age 54 yrs 3 mos 28 days.
BurialPine Grove Cemetery, G.S.2.
FatherSolomon Keyes (1665-1755)
MotherMary (Mrs) Keyes
Misc. Notes
Sources & Information:
Vital records of Brookfield and Warren, Massachusetts.
Individual Record <familysearch.org> Solomon Keys and spouse Sarah Danforth. Submitter: Mary Lynne Horton, 1638 W. Paiute Rd., St. George, Utah 84790.
Family Group Record <familysearch.org>.
CAPTAIN SOLOMON KEYES.
Captain Solomon Keyes the third of the name, and fourth child of Solomon and Mary, was noted for his personal bravery. He was in Capt. Lovewell's Company on its famous excursion to Pequawket, now Fryeburg, Maine and was one of thew survivors of the fight. The story was thus given.
More than forty years ago, in the North America Rev. "It was on the 18th of April 1725 that Capt. John Lovewell of Dunstable, Massachusetts, with thirty-four men, fought a famous Indian chief, named Paugus, at the head of about eighty savages, near the shores of a pond in Pequawket, Maine, Lovewell's men were determined to c9onquer or die. They fought until Lovewell and Pagus were killed, and all Lovewell's men but nine (or as some say, two) were either killed or dangerously wounded. The savages having lost, as was supposed, sixty of their number, and being convinced of the fierce and determined resolution of their foes, at length retreated and left them masters of the ground."
"Solomon Keyes received three bullet wounds, and apparently dying. To save his dead body from being mangled by the savages, he rolled himself down the beach to a canoe, which chanced to be there. Almost senseless he succeeded in creeping into it. A gentle breeze blew the canoe across the pond, diagonally, and landed it but a short distance from the stockade fort, into which he contrived to creep."
Abbott's History of Maine.
Lovewell's pond a beautiful sheet of water lies a short distance from the village of Fryeburg, and is often visited with interest, as being the scene of a bloody combat, and of the overthrow of a powerful Indian tribe.
Captain Solomon Keyes, in some accounts of this fight, has been accorded to Billericia, as was also the birth of his father, the son of Solomon and Frances. But no record of birth of either father or son has been found on that place, and both are records in Chelmsford, where the second Solomon lived, and where Captain Solomon probably passed his early life. Later he removed to Western (now Warren) Mass., then a part of Brookfield, and lived in a house built on an eminence near the village. This house may have been built by the second Solomon, father of Captain Solomon of the Pequawket affair, who probably moved from the vicinity of Chelmsford, as we find no record there of his death. Captain Solomon lived thirty years after the fight at Pekauwket, and was killed at Lake George, September 8, 1755 in the French and Indian War.
Vital records of Brookfield and Warren, Massachusetts.
Individual Record <familysearch.org> Solomon Keys and spouse Sarah Danforth. Submitter: Mary Lynne Horton, 1638 W. Paiute Rd., St. George, Utah 84790.
Family Group Record <familysearch.org>.
CAPTAIN SOLOMON KEYES.
Captain Solomon Keyes the third of the name, and fourth child of Solomon and Mary, was noted for his personal bravery. He was in Capt. Lovewell's Company on its famous excursion to Pequawket, now Fryeburg, Maine and was one of thew survivors of the fight. The story was thus given.
More than forty years ago, in the North America Rev. "It was on the 18th of April 1725 that Capt. John Lovewell of Dunstable, Massachusetts, with thirty-four men, fought a famous Indian chief, named Paugus, at the head of about eighty savages, near the shores of a pond in Pequawket, Maine, Lovewell's men were determined to c9onquer or die. They fought until Lovewell and Pagus were killed, and all Lovewell's men but nine (or as some say, two) were either killed or dangerously wounded. The savages having lost, as was supposed, sixty of their number, and being convinced of the fierce and determined resolution of their foes, at length retreated and left them masters of the ground."
"Solomon Keyes received three bullet wounds, and apparently dying. To save his dead body from being mangled by the savages, he rolled himself down the beach to a canoe, which chanced to be there. Almost senseless he succeeded in creeping into it. A gentle breeze blew the canoe across the pond, diagonally, and landed it but a short distance from the stockade fort, into which he contrived to creep."
Abbott's History of Maine.
Lovewell's pond a beautiful sheet of water lies a short distance from the village of Fryeburg, and is often visited with interest, as being the scene of a bloody combat, and of the overthrow of a powerful Indian tribe.
Captain Solomon Keyes, in some accounts of this fight, has been accorded to Billericia, as was also the birth of his father, the son of Solomon and Frances. But no record of birth of either father or son has been found on that place, and both are records in Chelmsford, where the second Solomon lived, and where Captain Solomon probably passed his early life. Later he removed to Western (now Warren) Mass., then a part of Brookfield, and lived in a house built on an eminence near the village. This house may have been built by the second Solomon, father of Captain Solomon of the Pequawket affair, who probably moved from the vicinity of Chelmsford, as we find no record there of his death. Captain Solomon lived thirty years after the fight at Pekauwket, and was killed at Lake George, September 8, 1755 in the French and Indian War.