When Jonas Kelsey was born on 30 August 1761, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Jonah Kelsey, was 36 and his mother, Martha Nettleton, was 35. He married Mrs. Jonas Kelsey about 1784, in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. He died after 1784.
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DLESEX COUNTY was incorporated by an act of the Legislature passed at the May session, 1785, and at that time consisted of six towns. Of these, Mifldletown, Chatham, Haddam, and East Haddam were taken from the county of Hartford, and Saybrook and Killingworth from New London coun
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in Lincolnshire, so named from an uncertain initial element (perhaps an Old English personal name with genitive -es) + Old English ēg ‘island’.
Possibly also an Americanized form of German Gelzer.
History: William Kelsey was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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