Jabez Kenney

Gen. 4 - Jabez Kenney: Birth record town clerk letter; marriage recordfrom town clerk in Vernon, Vt., copy enclosed. Death record copy of willprobated May 1879. Wife Emily: birth rec. census rec. [no record ofbirth at Bernardston, Stowe, Vt., suggest but no record.] In Kellogg's"History of Bernardston, Mass." In Dickinson genealogy, p. 380, date ofbirth given as 15 Dec. 1804. See Jabez's will copy enc.
Gen. 5: For Reuben Kenney, Jr. - See page [enc..] 210 of "History andGenealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Mass. and Conn." W. H.Webster & R. H. Webster, 1915, for birth, death and marriage.
For wife Mary [Polly] Nightingale - same source as above. Also, see page432 " History of the Town of Bernardston, Mass. with Gens." by Kellogg.
Gen. 6 - For Reuben Kenney Sr. [also known as in Connecticut Reuben/RubenKeeney Sr. see page No. 210 [enc] "The History and Genea. of the Gov.John Webster Family of Mass. and Conn." by M. H. and R. R. Webster; alsoJacobus "Hale, House and Related Families", p330, and "History of theTown of Bernardston...." Kellogg, p 432. These references have births,deaths and marriage of Reuben and his wife Jemima Webster. - Referencesfor Lineage; Children of Revolutionary Ancestor;


[Note - Lineage - included birth dates of Jabez children that I haveentered in this family chart.]]

Eligibility Clause
Ancestor's Services
Reuben Kenney who resided during the American Revolution at HartfordConn. assisted in establishing American Independence while acting in thecapacity of Private.
My ancestor's services during the Revolutionary War were as follows:

Reuben Keeney, Sr. enlisted in the 4th Regt. Conn. Volunteers, Col.Hinman, 2nd Co., Capt. Pitman, May 25, 1775, discharged 20 Dec. 1775.
Private service siege of Boston and Battle of Bunker Hill. Re-enlistedin Col. Obadiah Johnson's Regt., Conn. Militia, Capt. Grant's Co. inInvasion of Rhode Island, private service. Discharged March 1775.
Adjutant General's Office, Was Dept., Washington, State Rec. of Conn.{See enclosed DAR Membership Application for Hattie Kenney Webster, agranddaughter of the brother of Jabez Kenney, grandson of Reuben Sr.]#93714.
Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p 528
Connecticut Archives, Revolutionary War, Series 1, 1753-1789. Vol.II, Pt.2
Page 679, Aug-Sept 1971 issue DAR Magazine-Rev.War Soldiers buried enc.
Applicant Harriette Fitzpatrick Hammer, Wichita, Kansas - 29th May 1981
Application for Membership to the National Society of the Daughters ofthe American Revolution - National Number 500166
Copy of this information is in the Kenney file

Note: Jabez birth is recorded as 31 July 1800 in the family Bible thatwas sent to me by Marie Kenney Steffen - Arline Kenney