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flag male ancestor  Peter  KEESE

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13 September 1875 Saratoga, New York, USA

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m. Melinda A Ferris
m. Mary D Thorn

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BirthBirth — 1798
22 May 1798
Clinton, Clinton, New York, USA
NewsThe War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.
NewsFrom the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
News1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
News1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.
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Death Date: 13 Sep 1875
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Age: 77
Birth Date: 1798
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07502-3
System Origin: New York-EASy
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Film Number: 1671687
Reference ID: Pg 188

'New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952,' database, FamilySearch (familysearch.org/ ark:/ 61903/ 1:1:F69B-36N : 29 December 2014), Peter Keese, 13 Sep 1875; citing Saratoga, Saratoga, New York, reference Pg 188; FHL microfilm 1,671,687.'
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The Late Peter Keese.

The death of Peter Keese, the father of Police Justice Keese, has been mentioned in our columns. He was a member of the Society of Friends and was the grandson of one of the company of Friends who settled in Clinton county, New York, shortly after the Revolution. He was born near Keeseville, N. Y., on the 22d day of the fifth month in the year 1798 and died at the age of upwards of 77 years of an acute disease, when his family had reason, from his strong constitution, to expect him to live many years. That this was a reasonable expectation is shown by the following instances of longevity in his immediate family: His father, Richard Keese, died in 1821, at the age of sixty. His mother, Anna, in 1849, at eighty-seven. He had three brothers, Oliver, William and Richard. Oliver died in 1865 in his seventieth year, and William in August, 1875, when within a month of being eighty-nine. Richard still lives at the age of eighty. He is believed to be the last surviving
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Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA PLOT Lot 19146, Section 183
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Did You Know?New York was named after the English Duke of York and Albany (and the brother of England's King Charles II) in 1664 when the region called New Amsterdam was taken from the Dutch. (statesymbolsusa.org)

Prior to 1664 - New Amsterdam
1664 - 1687 - New York Colony
1688 - 1689 - Dominion of New England
1690 - 1788 - Crown Colony of New York
July 26, 1788 - Virginia becomes 11th U.S. state

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