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Note: http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_mckean.htm 4. William, married Nancy Taylor, served in the revolutionary war; died 1824. otes for WILLIAM McKEEN: Went to Windham, New Hampshire. Six children. Served in the Revolutionary War. From History of Windham, NH, pg. 639: "William settled in Windham. He was b. about 1750. He started the McKeen place in Windham, and was the first resident there. William was a clever man, but an "everlasting talker," and upon going to a neighbor's to spend the evening, would sit and talk into the dead of the night. As a last resort, to prevent himself and others from being bored to death by his endless tongue, his father, who owned a large tract of land, deeded William the McKeen place in Windham, consisting of some 200 acres, on condition that he would locate upon it. So about 1760, he pitched his tent in the valley between the sloping hills and beside a murmuring brook. He was alone, far from neighbors, and without a house, whiche he was unable to build. So he dug a hole in the precipitous side of the hil close to the brook, and near where the present house stands, stoned up the sides, and covered it with boards, and in this "dug-out" he lived for several years. He subsequently married Nancy Taylor, daughter of John Taylor of Londonderry, who was born 1757 and died Sept. 5, 1834. About the time of his marriage, he built a log house of one room, through which he ran a partition. In one part he and his wife lived, in the other he kept a cow and a pair of oxen. Afterwards he built a framed house of one room, and his son John enlarged it to its present dimensions. He was a Revolutionary soldier. His brother Joseph was the first President of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He died Dec. 1824. Children of WILLIAM McKEEN and NANCY TAYLOR are: i. MARY6 MCKEEN, b. August 28, 1784; d. 1804. Notes for MARY MCKEEN: From History of Windham, NH, pg. 640: "died 1804 of spotted fever." ii. MARGARET McKEEN, b. 1786; d. 1804. Notes for MARGARET MCKEEN: From History of Windham, NH, pg. 640: "died 1804 of spotted fever." iii. NANCY MCKEEN, b. 1788; d. 1804. Notes for NANCY McKEEN: From History of Windham, NH, pg. 640:"died 1804 of spotted fever." iv. JOHN McKEEN, b. June 28,1790, Windham, New Hampshire; d. December 18,1854; m. JUDITH WILSON, Unknown. v. JANE McKEEN, b. June 1793; d. July 8, 1840, Salem, New Hampshire. vi. ALICE MCKEEN, b. August 28, 1796; d. September 17, 1825, Temple, New Hampshire. William who married Nancy Taylor another laughter of John Taylor and settled in Windham NH He was a volunteer in the army of the Revolution He had six children and died in 1824 5 Annis who was unmarried C Joseph some time pastor of a church in Beverly Mass and afterwards the first president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick Maine He had three sons Joseph long treasurer of Bowdoin College James a medical professor in that institution and John who is a graduate of that college and resides in Brunswick 7 and 8 Jenet and Daniel who were twins Jenet married John Taylor Jr and had five children Daniel married Janet Wilson and afterwards Lucy Martin widow of John Nesmith of Windham and had four or five children and lived in Londonderry upon the homestead 9 Samuel who married Betsy Taylor and afterwards Mary Clark and had several children 10 Mary married Robert Boyd They lived in Londonderry but had no children 11 James born in 1719 married Elizabeth Dinsmoor settled in Londonderry had two children a son David and one daughter who died in infancy His wife died at the age of 27 He did not marry again At the close of the Revolutionary War he removed to Corinth Vt where he died in 1794 aged 75 His son David married Margaret McPherson for his first wife settled in Corinth Vt By her he had twelve children James Elizabeth Daniel Polly David John Annis Jenny Margaret Silas Robert and another daughter These children or their descendants of the next generation have settled in Vermont New Hampshire Maine New York Canada West Michigan and Ohio One of the sons Rev Silas McKeen born in Corinth Vt married Miss Phebe Fuller June 4 1816 She died of consumption November 30 1820 She left him three little girls names were Marianne Serena and Julia His second wife was Miss Hannah Johnston of Haverhill NH Four children by this union Philena Phebe F Cathrine and George W David McKeen father of Rev Silas and others after the death of his wife married Lydia Ingalls of Methuen Mass by whom he had two children Lydia and David named for his brother who had died four years before J enet the third child of Samuel McKeen born December 28 1721 married William Orr had three children James Anna and a daughter who married Timothy Carr one of the first settlers of Danville Vt Martha the fourth married John Dinsmoor and
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