John Key

• General Notes
  • John Key
    (wifes name, Elizabeth)
    b. July 11, 1630 - Settrington, East Riding, Yorkshire England
    brought his family to Virginia on April 29, 1668 from England
    d. unk. - Charles City, VA
    Dr. Gene Key states that there is some confusion about the parents of the children of Edmund and John. It seems that Mary is assigned to Edmund by all the sources I've found. The other known children are assigned to John. According to Dr. Key "None of the children except Mary and John Jr. are shown as having descendants in this work, therefore the matter of which children belonged to which brother does not impact on the contents herein. The children have been diligently researched with no success at this time."
    
    John and Edmund were granted land in Charles City County, VA when they arrived in America. The existing measure was 50 acres per person, including children. The granted land on the south side of the James River, that area later became Prince George's County. That area later become Prince George's county. Mary, daughter of Edmund, married John Waller III and their descendants lived alongside John's descendants for three generations along the Mataponie River in New Kent Co., later King William Co., then Spotsylvania Co.
    source for this information was Cavaliers & Pioneers, Patent Bk 6 p.35 (arrival in America), p.146 John, and his brother, Edmund, are listed with the names of their families.
    
    George's county. Mary, daughter of Edmund, married John Waller III in England and immigrated to America around the same time as John Key. They and their descendents lived alongside John's descendents for three generations along the Mataponie River in New Kent County, later King William County and ultimately Spotsylvania County.
    
    There was a ten-year hiatus in the Parish register just prior to John coming to America. Three of his known children did not accompany him to America, but that was the time of the bubonic plague in England, and many children died, evidence of which is contained in the Parish Register.