Samuel Keeler

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Samuel Keeler

|office=Member of the
House of Representatives
of the
Colony of Connecticut
from Norwalk[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YCgBAAAAYAAJ/page/n81 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of Norwalk]

|term_start=October 1701

|term_end=May 1702

|predecessor=Samuel Hayes

|alongside=Andrew Messenger

|successor=Andrew Messenger

|term_start2=October 1703

|term_end2=October 1704

|predecessor2=

|alongside2=Samuel Hayes

|successor2=Thomas Betts

|term_start3=May 1706

|term_end3=October 1706

|predecessor3=Thomas Betts,
Samuel Hanford

|alongside3=John Copp

|successor3=Joseph Platt

|term_start4=May 1709

|term_end4=May 1710

|predecessor4=Joseph Platt,
John Betts

|alongside4=John Betts,
Joseph Platt

|successor4=Samuel Betts,
Joseph Platt

|birth_date=1656

|birth_place=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|death_date=May 19, 1713

|death_place=Ridgefield, Connecticut Colony

|restingplace=Ye Burying Yard, Ridgefield, Connecticut

|residence=Norwalk, Connecticut Colony

|religion=

|spouse=Sarah St. John Keeler (m. March 10, 1682) {{cite book|author=Charles Melbourne Selleck|title=Norwalk: v. 1 and supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA122|year=1896|publisher=The author|pages=122}}

|children=Timothy Keeler, Samuel Keeler, Joseph Keeler, Jonah Keeler

|occupation=

|rank=

|battles=King Philip's War,

• Narragansett Swamp Fight

}}

Samuel Keeler (1656 – May 19, 1713) was a member of the House of Representatives of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1701, October 1703, May 1704, May 1706, May 1709 and October 1709. He is listed as a founding settler of Ridgefield, Connecticut on the founder's monument in Ye Burying Ground cemetery in Ridgefield.

He was the son of Ralph Keeler and the brother of John Keeler.

On December 19, 1675, Samuel participated in the Narragansett Swamp Fight in Rhode Island during King Philip's War.{{cite book|author=Charles Melbourne Selleck|title=Norwalk: v. 1 and supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FulEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA122|year=1896|publisher=The author|pages=160}} On account of his service, at a Norwalk town meeting on January 12, 1676, he was granted a parcel of land on Clapboard Hill.

In 1708, Samuel Keeler, father-in-law Matthias Sention, Sr., and Matthew St. John took part in the purchase of Ridgefield from the Indians for 100 pounds.{{Citation needed|date = June 2014}}