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Key, John (b. DEC 1682, d. 5 JUL 1767)

Given Name: John

Event: Type: 1790 Census
Date: 1790

Event: Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Bk 2, pp 2-3
Type: Court Records
Date: 9 FEB 1758
Note: 9 Feb 1758 Deed: John Key Sr to (son) Martin Key. 150 acres fo 18pounds.
The part remaining in the 350 acre patent (granted 10 Jan 1735 afterJohn Key gave his daughter, Mary Dalton, 200 acres. On the N. side ofRivanna River. Lines: The land John Key lives on, Benjamin Clark, the200 acres given to Mary Dalton.
Wit: James Nevil, George Key (son), & Jno. Gillum.
...Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Bk 2, pp 2-3

Event: Albemarle County, Virginia Deed Bk 1, p 480
Type: Court Records
Note: Mentioned in Deed Book
"share of 820 acres bequeathed to them by father, Jonathan Clark, ofKing & Queen Co., dec'd), near Lynch'S Ford on the N. Fork of James(Rivanna) River. Lines: John Key, Robert Dalton's old field &Meriwether."
...Albemarle Co. VA Deed Bk 1, p 480

Event: Albemarle County, Virginia Court Minutes For Road Order
Type: Court Records
Date: 27 JAN 1745
Note: 27 Jan 1745 Road Order: John Key was appointed Surveyor of the HighWay from the End of a Road which is cleared to John Keys Mill, thenearest and best way to the Late Secretarys ffoard. Robert Dalton wasamong the male neighbors ordered to assist Key.
... N. Pawlett

Event: Goochland County, Virginia Deed Book
Type: Court Records
Date: ABT 1738
Note: Deed 1738 John (2) Key on West side of Little Mtn. to Daniel Dessons.

Event: Goochland County, Virginia Deed Book
Type: Court Records
Date: ABT 1742
Note: Deed 1742, John (2) Key to his daughter, Mary Dalton, wife of RobertDalton, land near Little Mtn. (Note that this John (2) Key was thefather of Martin Key, Sr., of Albemarle Co. Va.).

Event: Goochland County, Virginia Deed Book
Type: Court Records
Date: ABT 1790
Note: Deed 1790, John Key and Nancy his wife, of Albemarle Co., conveyedland to Hezekiah Puryear, land on Tuckahoe Creek, Goochland Co. VA
Wit. Joshua and Walter Key.

Event: Type: Court Records
Note: Chatham County, Virginia Deed Books
Deeds of Henry Key in Chatham County, Va., from 1783 to 1795.
Marriage Bond, 1776 of John Key & Nancy Ford, age 17, Joshua Key thefather of John Key.

Event: Type: Books
Note: 1. Albemarle County, Virginia. by: Rev. Edgar Woods,. page 245
John (2) Key was one of the pioneers who fixed their abodes within thepresent limits of Albemarle County, Virginia. He made his first entryof land in 1732 and up to 1741 had obtained patents for nearly twelvethousand acres of land.

2. Allen Papers, McClung Collection, Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville,Tennessee
John (2) Key son of John (1) Key was born in Philadelphia in 1682 andwas the first white child born in Penn's Colony. This fact ismentioned in many histories, a particular reference being PennsylvaniaMagazine Volume IV, Page 175. John (2) Key moved to Virginia where hetook up land as early as 1727. In the ensuing years he took up manypatents and finally possessed many thousand acres of land. He marriedprobably as early as 1710 as his son John Key, Sr. was born in 1717,and he had other children. John (2) Key married Martha Tandy as isproven by land transactions in Virginia.
John (2) Key had begun to patent land in 1727 in Spottsylvania wherehe first settled. Five court records in Spottsylvania show that helived there.
1727 February 8, he is mentioned in a record "where John (2) Key nowlives in Spottsylvania Co., Etc."
1728 land patented to John (2) Key
1729 April 1, John (2) Key witness to a sale of land.
1731 July 1, John (2) Key of St. George's Parish sold land to HenryLewis. Martha Key, wife of John (2) Key, relinquished dower in saidland.
1731 October 5, John (2) Key was appointed guardian of James Lee,orphan of John Lee.
From this date,
1731, John (2) Key disappears from Spottsylvania County records andappears in Albemarle Co., Va. where his first land was bought in 1732.
He continued to buy property in Albemarle Co., Va. until his familyowned "all the land between the Southwest Mountain and the river fromEdgemont to the bend below the Free Bridge."
It is possible that his wife's name was Martha Tandy as from thisperiod the name Tandy frequently recurs and there was a prominantfamily by the name Tandy in the same section of Virginia at thatperiod. Further research may prove the correctness of this surmise.
John (2) Key and Martha Tandy Key had children, among them Martin Key,Sr., John Key, Sr., and Mary Key, who married a Dalton, and possiblyothers.

Death: 5 JUL 1767 Virginia

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Tandy, Martha (b. ABT 1692, d. ?)

Given Name: Martha

Event: Type: Books
Note: 1. The Family of William Key and Sarah Gibson by James M. Key

Death: --Not Shown--

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Canfield, Tabitha (b. , d. ?)

Given Name: Tabitha

Event: Type: Books
Note: 1. The Family of William Key and Sarah Gibson by James M. Key

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, Sarah (b. , d. AFT 1870)

Given Name: Sarah

Event: Type: 1870 Census
Date: 1870

Event: Type: 1850 Census
Date: 1850
Place: Early County, Georgia
Note: Also living in this household are two young boys Thomas Key and AndrewKey, born between 1842 and 1845. Thought to be the grand children ofReuben and Sarah, children of a son and his wife that has died. Noother children of Reuben and Sarah are known yet

Event: Type: 1860 Census
Date: 1860

Event: Moved from Barnwell District, South Carolina to Earley County, Georgia
Type: Migration
Date: ABT 1835

Death: AFT 1870

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Key, Sarah Matilda (b. ABT 1827, d. ?)

Given Name: Sarah Matilda

Event: Never married
Type: Misc

Event: Type: 1830 Census
Date: 1830

Event: Type: 1840 Census
Date: 1840

Event: Type: 1850 Census
Date: 1850
Place: Early County, Georgia

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Key, Micajah (b. 26 JAN 1803, d. ?)

Given Name: Micajah

Event: Type: 1830 Census
Date: 1830
Place: Barnwell District, South Carolina
Note: Under Macajah Kee
1 male 0-5
1 male 5-10
1 male 20-30
1 female 20-30

Event: Type: 1820 Census
Date: 1820

Event: Type: 1810 Census
Date: 1810
Place: Barnwell District, South Carolina
Note: pg ??, household 94

Event: Type: Books
Note: 1 The Family of William Key and Sarah Gibson by James M. Key

Event: Moved from Barnwell District, South Carolina to Earley County, Georgia
Type: Migration
Date: ABT 1835
Note: Moved with his uncle Reuben and brother Henry