Notes: Joanna CLEVELAND

NOTE 1: She married Joseph Keyes; her brother Samuell married his sister Jane Keyes, children of Solomon Keyes

NOTE 2: They were the children of Sergeant Solomon Keyes and Francis Grant; Solomon was town clerk and tything man in Chelmsford, and seems to have been a man of influence in those early days.

NOTE 3: A community of about ten families, called a tything, was under the control of a senior man called a tythingman. Senior to him was the hundredman, just as a geographical area occupied by a hundred or so families was called a Hundred. In this early society it was the responsibility of the tythingman to get the villagers to behave properly towards each other, to detect any crimes committed and to bring those responsible, through him and the hundredman, to the Shire Reeve or Sheriff. If a community failed to do this, a fine was imposed on it, and each member was responsible for paying it. - copied