Hello,
The surname caught my eye.
Do you know if there is a connection to this Elizabeth Key or Kaye and a
James Kay born about 1634 and probably died about 1679, who married a Sarah
Iveson?
Thank You,
Debbie Freeman
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Elizabeth Key or Kaye was born in 1630 to an unnamed black slave mother and
Thomas Key, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Key represented pre-Revolutionary Warwick County (today's Newport News), but
his wife lived across the James River in Isle of Wight County, where she
owned considerable property.
The Keys were English-born and likely considered "ancient planters,"
Pioneers, who had come to Virginia before 1616, remained for three years,
paid their own passage and survived the Indian massacre of 1622.