Duncan Kelley

1663 - 1742

• Name	Duncan Kelley
  Born	1663	Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts
  	Date of birth between 13 May 1663 and 12 May 1664 based on age at death.
  Gender	Male
  Died	13 May 1742	Great Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Buried	New Meadow Neck Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island   [1]
  	Dunken Kelley, aged 78.
  Notes	Other families of the name (O'Kelly) were at Warren, Rhode Island, and for more than a century members of these families operated Kellys Ferry across the Warren or Swansea River, between Warren and Barrington, R. I., at the place where Kelleys Bridge now spans the river. This ferry was referred to at various times in town and county records of the early part of the eighteenth century, and in comments of travellers passing between Providence and Boston. It was first mentioned in 1681, when a petition was presented to the proprietors of Swansea for a highway through Brooks Pasture (now Warren) to Kellys Ferry, and in 1688 a road was laid out from Bristol Ferry to Kellys Ferry.A History of Rhode Island Ferries, by Anna Augusta and Charles V. Chapin, Providence, 1925.24 The Kelly who then operated it is not referred to by name in the records and he is unknown to local chroniclers, and the first mention of its operator was in 1725, at which time and for many years thereafter it was owned by Duncan Kelley, who was succeeded by his son, John Kelley. This John Kelley apparently resumed the old family name. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and his name was entered as John OKelley, in the roll of Captain Ezra Ormsbees company of militia of the town of Warren in 1776, and it again so appears in the records of the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1782, when permission to sell certain real property was granted to Mrs. Elizabeth OKelley of Warren, widow and administratrix of John OKelley.
  Person ID	I47779	Bryant
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2007

  
  

  Father	Edward Kelley,   b. Abt 1621
  Mother	Elizabeth Josselyne?
  Married	09 May 1662
  	This marriage was Edward KILBY to Elizabeth (JOSSELYNE) YEOMANS.
  Family ID	F3293	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Patience Miller,   b. Abt 1654, Great Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. Nov 1750, Great Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Married	Abt 1690
  Children	1. Duncan Kelley,   b. Abt 1691, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island ,   d. 1761, Edgartown, Dukes Co, Massachusetts   2. John Kelley,   b. 1700,   d. 04 May 1777, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F3283	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1663 - Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Died - 13 May 1742 - Great Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island Buried - - New Meadow Neck Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol Co, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 48:443.