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CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Capt. John, Sen., b. 1662, m. Mary, daughter of Richard Treat, Dec. 10, 1684, and had children, viz .:
1. Eunice, b. Nov. 23, 1685.
2. Samuel, b. Sept. 29, 1696, and d. 1710.
3. John, b. Dec. 17, 1699 ; d. Dec. 14, 1700.
4. Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706.
Thomas Chester, the father, died Dec. 5, 1712, and his widow Mary died Jan. 1, 1748, aged 81 years.
CHESTER, JOHN, JUN., son of Capt. John, married Hannah, the daughter of Capt. Samuel Talcott, of Wethersfield, Nov. 25, 1686, and had issue : Penelope, b. Oct. 21, 1687, d. in infancy ; Me- hetable, b. Jan. 29, 1689 ; Mary, b. March 8, 1691; second Penel- ope, b. Nov. 18, 1693 ; Hannah, b. May 15, 1696, and died May 29, 1749; Prudence, b. March 4, 1699; Eunice, b. May 11, 1701 ; John, b. June 30, 1703; Sarah, b. July 1, 1707 ; Thomas, b. Aug. 31, 1711, died in infancy. Major John, the father, died Dec. 14, 1711, aged fifty-five and a half years. Mrs. Hannah, his widow, died July 23, 1741, in the seventy-seventh year of her age.
CHESTER, MR. JOHN, 3d, son of John, Jun., of Wethersfield, b. June 30, 1703. He graduated at Harvard College in 1722. He married Miss Sarah Noyes, a daughter of Rev. James Noyes, of New Haven, Nov. 19, 1747. They had issue, John, b. Jan. 18, 1749 ; Leonard, b. Sept., 1750 ; Sarah, b. Aug. 12, 1752; Abi- gail, b. May 27, 1754 ; Stephen, b. Oct. 28, 1761; Thomas, b. Jan. 7, 1764. The father died instantly in the hay-field at Weth- ersfield, Sept. 11, 1771, in the 69th year of his age. His widow survived him.
Mr. Chester was one of the most important men in the colony. He
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was often a member of the Gen. Assembly, held many of the offi- ces of the town, was a judge of the county court-(in 1748, he was the only male in his line by the name of Chester, says Rev. Mr. Marsh's sermon )-an assistant, and distinguished in both branches of the Legislature for integrity and brilliancy of talents. In the obituary it says, " a strong pillar has fallen when Chester fell," " a father to the fatherless and a God to the widow, in the 69th year of his age." His widow survived him with four sons and two daugh- ters. John d. 1809; Leonard d. 1803 ; Stephen d. 1835 ; Thomas d. 1831; Abigail m. Joseph Webb, and d. March 16, 1827, aged 73.
CHESTER, JOHN, 4th, COL., b. 1749, m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Jabez Huntington, of Norwich, Nov. 25, 1773, and had issue: Elizabeth, b. Nov. 10, 1774 ; Mary, b. April 20, 1779 ; Hannah, b. Oct. 27, 1781; Sarah, b. June 17, 1783; John, 5th, D. D., b. Aug. 17, 1785; Charlotte, b. March 20, 1787 ; Henry, b. Oct. 3, 1790, d. in infancy ; Julia, b. March 15, 1792 ; Henry, b. Dec. 22, 1793 ; William, b. Nov. 20, 1795 ; George, b. June 14, 1798. Col. Chester died Nov. 4, 1809. He graduated at Yale College in 1766, and in 1772 he was elected a representative to the General Assem- bly, in his native town. In 1775, he joined the army near Boston, at the head of a company of volunteers, and signalized himself at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was advanced to the command of a regi- ment for his bravery, but in 1777, he reluctantly retired from the army, by the imperious calls of his family concerns.
Col. Chester was a gentleman of dignity of character and appear- ance. Previous to 1788 he was repeatedly a member of the House of Representatives in Connecticut, and for several successive ses- sions was speaker of the House. In 1788 he was chosen one of the state council, where he was continued until 1791, when he received from President Washington the appointment of the office of supervi- sor of the district of Connecticut, the duties of which he faithfully performed. In 1803, he was again elected a member of the state council. He also held the offices of judge of probate, and judge of the county court. He died in 1809. Ten of this family of Ches- ters have graduated at Yale College, from 1721 to 1831.
CHESTER, REV. JOHN, son of Col. John, of Wethersfield, b. Aug. 17, 1785, m. Rebecca, daughter of Robert Ralston, of Phila- delphia. He prepared for college with Azel Backus, D. D., then of Bethlem. He entered Yale College in 1800, and graduated in 1804. He read theology, and preached his first sermon, as he had promised
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Dr. Backus, when he left him in 1800, he should do, in his pulpit. He was, strictly speaking, a popular preacher. His voice was music. He preached at Cooperstown, N. Y., where he received a call to settle, but declined, as he had done at Middletown. He was ordain- ed at Hudson, N. Y., in 1810, where he remained until 1815, when he was installed as pastor of the second Presbyterian Church at Al- bany, N. Y. He received the doctorate of D. D. from Union Col- lege, in 1821. Dr. Chester became a star of the first magnitude in the pulpit. His whole soul was devoted to his profession. He died on the morning of the 12th of Jan., 1829, aged 44 years, at the city of Philadelphia, where he left an amiable widow and a family of young children.
ELIZABETH, daughter of the fourth Col. John, b. 1774, married Eleazer F. Backus, of Albany, June 8, 1807.
MARY, daughter of Col. John, b. 1779, married Capt. Ebenezer Welles, of Brattleboro, Vt., June 3, 1806. His father was an En- glish minister.
HANNAH, her sister, b. 1781, married Hon. Charles Chauncey, of Philadelphia. She died Feb. 6, 1821, aged 39. Mr. Chauncey died in 1849.
SARAH, her sister, b. 1783, living unmarried.
CHARLOTTE, b. 1787, died in Philadelphia, July 19, 1844, unmarried.
HENRY, son of Col. John, b. 1790, died in infancy.
JULIA, his sister, b. 1792, m. Matthew C. Ralston, of Philadel- phia, April 2, 1816.
Second HENRY, b. 1793, a lawyer in Philadelphia, died in 1848, unmarried.
WILLIAM, son of Col. John, b. 1795, a clergyman in Philadel- phia, married a daughter of Dr. White, of Hudson, N. Y. He grad- uated at Union College in 1815.
GEORGE, son of Col. John, 4th, b. 1798 ; died in infancy.
CHESTER, THOMAS, son of the first John, married Mary Treat, daughter of Richard, Dec. 10, 1684. He died Dec. 5, 1712, aged 50. His wife died 1748, aged 81 years. They had issue : Eunice, b. Nov. 22, 1685 ; Samuel, b. Sept. 29,* 1696, died March 17, 1710-11, aged 14; John, b. Dec. 17, 1699, died Dec. 14, 1700 ; Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1706. Eunice, m. Elisha Williams. Estate dis- tributed Dec. 6, 1714, to widow Mary, one-third of movables, £152, Os. 7d .; daughter Eunice, £746, 11s., 6d., in real and movables ; Mary Chester, £746, 11s. 6d.
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CHESTER, STEPHEN, JUN., married Jemima, daughter of Lieut. James Treat, Dec. 17, 1691, and had issue, Dorothy, b. Sept. 5, 1692 ; Sarah, b. March 5, 1694 ; Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 1696 ; Ste- phen John, b. Feb. 14, 1698, died June 8, 1725. Stephen, Jun., the father, died Feb. 9, 1698, nearly 38 years old.
Capt. John Chester, in his will, gave these children £75 each.
CHESTER, LEONARD, son of Col. John, 3d, was b. Sept., 1750; married Sarah Williams, of Pittsfield, Mass., Sept. 12, 1776, and had issue, Leonard Wms. Pepperell, b. Dec. 20, 1777; Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1779; Henrietta and Sophia, twins, b. March 8, 1781 ; John Noyes, b. March 20, 1783; Sally Williams, b. Nov. 2, 1784 ; Wm. Williams Chester, b. July 13, 1786. Mr. Chester removed to and died in New York. It is supposed he had a daughter Hannah, who married Mr. Leffingwell, who is now living, a widow, in New York. Thomas, Esq., of New York, is also supposed to be a son of said Leonard.
SARAH, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1752, married Thomas Coit, of Norwich, and had a family of children.
ABIGAIL, daughter of Col. John, 3d, b. 1754, married Joseph Webb, a merchant of Wethersfield, and had twelve children ; two only survive, and reside in Hartford ; both unmarried ladies.
STEPHEN, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1761, married Elizabeth Mitchel, daughter of Judge Mitchel, deceased, of Wethersfield. He lived and died at Wethersfield. Issue, living, Stephen M., of New York; Walter, in Erie, Pa .; John, of Detroit, Michigan ; Maria Strong, who married a son of Joel Strong, and others.
CHESTER, THOMAS, son of Col. John, 3d, b. 1764, married Esther M. Bull, of Hartford. He was many years clerk of the court at Hartford. Issue, Rev. Alfred and four daughters, three now living.
The Chester family have, from Leonard, the Armiger, to the pres- ent time, been one of the most important families of the colony and state ; though few of the name are left in Connecticut, to share the honors of their departed and worthy ancestors.
John Chester graduated at Harvard College in 1722; also, John, in 1775, and Thomas, in 1784. Stephen J. Chester graduated at Yale, in 1721; John, in 1766; Leonard, 1769; Stephen, 1780 ; Thomas, 1780; John, 1804; Stephen M., 1813; Donald, 1814; Alfred, 1818; Orlando, 1831 ; Charles T., 1845 ; George F., 1846. Col. John Chester and Stephen M. Mitchell, of Wethersfield, mem-
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bers of the convention to ratify the constitution of the United States, in 1788.
Stephen Chester, Esq., appointed sheriff of Hartford county in 1789, in place of Ezekiel Williams, resigned.
CHESTER, MR. STEPHEN, distribution by consent, April 5, 1714 : Widow Jemima, £210, 11s. 10d .; John Chester, £500, 11s. 2d .; Mrs. Dorothy Chester, £250, 5s. 7d .; Mrs. Sarah Chester, £250, 5s. 7d .; Mrs. Mercy Chester, £250, 7s. 7d.
CHESTER, MERCY, distribution Feb. 6, 1749, late of Weth- ersfield, deceased .- To Dority, wife of Martin Kellogg, £794, 8s. 10gd .; to Widow Sarah Lamb, ££794, 8s. 103d.
Coats of arms .- Chester, (Chichely, co. Bucks,) 1; Chester, (Chicheley Hall, Bucks,) 1; Chester, (Lee, co. Essex,) 1 ; Chester, (Upley, co. Essex,) 1; Chester, (Amesbury, co. Gloucester,) 1; Chester, (Gloucestershire,) 1, and nine others. Chestor, (Glouces- tershire,) 1.
CHEEVERS, CHEEVER, CHEVER, MR., was one of the signers of the fundamental agreement of the first settlers of New Haven, "on the fourth of the fowerth month called June," (1639,) that church members only should be free burgesses, &c. He, Eze- kiel Cheevers, had three in his family at New Haven, in 1643, and £20 estate, and was one of the committee to examine persons for the first church in New Haven. Mary, wife of Ezekiel Cheever, died at N. H., Jan. 20, 1649. JOHN SHEDER was early at Guilford. This was perhaps John Sheather, a name afterward found at Killing- worth. The title of Mr. being given on the record to Ezekiel Che . vers, proves his standing at N. Haven.
Chever or Chener has one coat of arms.
Eleven by the name of Cheever, had graduated at Harvard Col- lege, before 1814.
CHESEBRO, as now spelled by the family, is found on the col- ony records spelt Chesebrough, Chessbrooke, Ceessbrooke, Chesbo- rough, Cheesbrough, Cheesbruck, Cheesbrook, &c. Chesebro, Wm. This name, in the early settlement of Connecticut, was peculiarly prominent, and a history of two hundred pages could easily be col- lected of the history of William and Samuel Chesebro. William is first mentioned on the colony record, by the Gen. Court, Nov. 7, 1649, when the court ordered a warrant to be issued to the consta- ble of Pequot, to go forthwith to "Cheessbrooke, of Long Island," and inform him that the government of Connecticut " doth disslike and distaste the way he is in, and trade hee doth drive amonge the 1
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Indians," and required of him immediately to desist; also that he should repair to Capt. Mason, of "Seabrooke," or to some other magistrate on the Connecticut River, and give an account of his previous conduct. On the 19th day of March, 1650-51, the Gen. Court of Conn. are found in trouble again with "Cheersbrooke." The record says, " Whereas vppon former information given to this court that William Cheessbrooke, (a smith, sometimes an inhabitant. in the Massachusetts, but more lately at Seaennek, alias Rehoboth, in the Jurisdiction of New Plimouth) had begunn to settle himself al Pacatuck, a place within the finitts of this Colony." The court therefore issued an order for him, either to depart from " the place," or appear and account for his proceedings. He chose the latter, and gave his penal bond to attend before the court. Heaccordingly pre- sented himself before the court, and apologized for his conduct, by saying, he intended settling at Pequot plantation, but be found the place, in several respects, " visatable to his expectations," and hav- ing, disposed of his former abode, that he was necessitated " for the preservation of bis estate, " to make winter provision for his cattle there," to which he had been encouraged by Mr. John Winthrop, " who pretended a commission from the General Courte in the Mas- sachusetts for the planting of those partes." He was informed by the court that the right of the place clearly belonged to Connecticut, and that his sitting down there without the knowledge and approbu- tion of the government of Connecticut, was unwarrantable, and " carried (in the open face of it) the greater ground of offence in that by his calling | blacksmith | he was fitted, and by his solitary living advantaged, to carry on a mischievous trade with the Indians," and against the orders of the country, and very prejudicial to the safety of the country-which was increased by reports of his prae- tice of that kind where he had last resided. Also that it appeared to the court, " more than vucomely for a man professing Godliness, so to withdraw from all publique ordinances and Xtian (christian) society." He answered the court by acknowledging his former trans- gression "(for wh" he justly suffered)" but affirmed that when he removed, he sold his tools, and rendered himself incapable of repair- ing any gunlocks, " or making so much as a screw-pin" for bumself or others, and that he was fully resolved not to continue in that sol itary condition, but had good grounds to hope "(if liberty might bee graunted)" shortly " to procure a competent company of desirable men," to plant the place. The court, on consideration, were willing to give the most favorable construction of his previous proceedings,
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yet expressed themselves altogether dissatisfied "in the aforemen- tioned respects," that he should continue there " in the way he was in," and refused to give their "aprobation therevnto ;" yet the court inclined, "(hee professing his full agreemt with the approoued Churches of Christ in all things)" if his own necessities in his own opinion were such that he would " adventure vppon his owne accot," and would give a bond of £100, not to prosecute any unlawful trade with the Indians, the court would not compel him to remove ; provided, before the General Court in the next September, he gave in the names of a considerable company of persons, such as the court should approve, and such as should engage to plant the place, and sit down there before the (then) next winter, and submit to such ways and rules as should best promote the public good, that all proper encouragement would be given " in that way"-which being made known to William Cheessbrooke, he thankfully acknowledged the court's favor, and acquiesced in their determination.
The next we find of this offender is, he is returned a Deputy to the General Court of the colony, May 18, 1653, by the name of Will. Cheesbruck. Good: Chesbroock is also deputy, Sept. 8, 1653 ; also, Sept. 14, 1654; absent in 1655 ; also, Feb. 26, 1656 ; 1664.
Cheesbrook, Mr., petitioned the General Court, 1664, for their fa- vor to pass by the offenses of Mistick and Paucatuck. The court considered the petition, and declared that what irregularities and abusive practices they had been guilty in seeming to offer contempt to the authority established, "it should be forgiven and buryed in perpetuall oblivion and forgetfullness, and this to extend itself to all ye members of the afoarsayd plantation, Captayn Denison only ex- cepted," who had neglected or refused to submit himself peaceably to the order of the "Councill of the Colony." (See Col. Rec.)
Mr. Chesbro became a man of notice in the colony.
In 1664, the General Court appointed Mr. Wm. Cheesbrook, Tho's Stanton and Tho's Minor, judges of cases of forty shillings, and grant summonses before them or any court in the colony, to pun- ish criminals to the value of forty shillings, &c.
CHESBRO, SAMUEL, of Stonington,* represented the town as
* The Indian name of Stonington was Pawcatuck. The first English name was Southertown, or Southerton. It was afterward named Mistick, in Oct., 1665, by the General Court of Conn., " in memory of that victory God was pleased to give this people of Connecticut over the Pe- / quot Indians." (See Col. Rec.) It was named Stonington, in May, 1666. It was firstly claim- ed by Massachusetts, under the grant of the Earl of Warwick, and Council for British America, Dec. 10, 1643, and settled by persons who went there under John Winthrop, Jun, in 1646. It
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Deputy to the General Assembly, (by the name of Cheesbrook,) May 21, 1657; also, May 11, 1665, by the name of Samuel Chesbo- rough ; also, 1670, 1672, 1673, and commissioner, 1666. Mr. Sam- uell, Nathaneell, and Elisha Cheesbrough, were in the list of free- men at Stonington, in 1669, Oct. 5. Samuel Chesebrough was many years a useful and highly respectable inhabitant of Stoning- ton.
CHESBOROUGH, ELISHA and NATHANIEL, of Stonington, were entered to have the oath of freedom, in May, 1666. Mr. Eli- sha Cheesbrooke was deputy to the General Court at Hartford, Oct. 14, 1669. The Chesboroughs, for many years, figured largely in Stonington, with Thomas Miner, Thomas Stanton, Sen., Capt. Geo. Denison, Palmers, &c., in the early settlement of the town. Most of these signed the voluntary agreement. (See Dr. Trumbull.)
CHEESBROUGH, DAVID, MR., a merchant at Newport, R. I., and subscriber for Prince's Chronology.
CHEESEHOLM, THOMAS, 1663.
CHEW, JOSEPH, of New London, b. 1720, was a son of Thomas Chew, of Virginia, and his mother a daughter of Col. James Tay- lor, a progenitor of two presidents of the United States, viz., James Madison and Gen. Z. Taylor. Joseph Chew is found at New Lon- don, in 1752, an assistant to Joseph Hull, Esq., the collector of cus- toms at New London, in the violent quarrel between Col. Salton- stall, as to the charge of a Spanish vessel wrecked on Bartlett's Reef, west of New London harbor. (See Caulkins' Hist. of New London, pp. 462, 463, 477, note. ) Chew was surveyor in the office. Joseph Chew married Miss Deshon, whose mother was Ruth Chris- tophers. Joseph Chew left New London, having espoused the cause of the Loyalists, 1778. (Note, Caulkins, p. 540.) His brother, Capt. Chew, was also from Virginia, and a firm whig ; was killed on the 4th of March, 1778, in a conflict in the West India seas, with a letter-of-marque of twenty guns, and the brig carried into Boston, by Lieut. Leeds, and afterward taken by the British and burnt .*
was assigned to Connecticut by commissioners of the United Colonies, July 26, 1647. This order being revoked, the town petitioned the Massachusetts to become a town, which they granted Oct. 25, 1658, and was a part of Suffolk County, in Mass., where the town continued until after Connecticut obtained the royal charter in 1662, and being included in this grant, it was annexed to Connecticut. (See Felt's Statistics of Towns, p. 24.) It then included "We- quetiquock," the society of North Stonington, which was made a society in May, 1740, and named North Stonington, in May, 1724, and incorporated a town in May, 1807, by the same name. (See State Record.)
* CHEW, BENJAMIN, of Pennsylvania, Recorder of Philadelphia, Register of Wills, Attor-
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Coat of Arms. Chew, (Bedfordshire and London, granted 1703,) has one.
CHICHESTER, JAMES, of L. I., made free by Connecticut, May, 1664. Also, the following persons from Huntington, L. I., at the same session, viz .: John Teed, Edward Hornett, Samuel Titus, Thomas Jones, Wm. Williams, Samuel Ketcham, Joseph Whitman, Thomas Brush, Caleb Curwithee, Joseph Bayley, John Rogers, Sam-
ney General and Chief Justice of the State. Washington dined with him in 1774 ; in 1776 opposed to the whigs, and retired to private life. In 1777, refused to sign a parole, sent to prison in Virginia, and after the war in 1790, was appointed President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and held the office until the tribunal was abolished in 1806, and died in 1810, aged 87 years. His father, Hon. Samuel Chew, was a Quaker, judge and physician.
Joseph Chew, of New London, was a commissary in the royal service, and in 1777 was taken. prisoner at Sag Harbor, L. I., by a party of whigs. Joseph Chew, a magistrate of Tryon, now Montgomery county, N. Y., in 1775 signed a declaration of loyalty ; in 1792 was in Canada, an officer under Sir John Johnson, and an associate of Brant. Wm. Chew, a lieutenant in a corps of loyalists, settled at New Brunswick, after the war, under half pay, and died at Fred- ericton in 1812, aged 64 years. (Sabine's American Loyalists, p. 207.)
NOTE FOR TORIES .- Abiathar, Abiathar, Jun., and Eldad Camp, were all loyalists in Connecti- cut in 1783. Settled at St. John's, New Brunswick, and received grants of city lots. Abiathar, one of the fifty-five petitioners for land in Nova Scotia. He died in New Brunswick, in 1841, aged 84. He afterward, by his confession dated Oct. 2, 1775, appears to have regretted his course. (See CAMP ; also, American Loyalists, pp. 194, 195.) He was a citizen of New Haven.
Carpenter, Coles, Jacob, Isaac, James, John, Joseph, Joshua and Nehemiah, all were loyalists of Queens county, N. Y., and acknowledged allegiance, Oct., 1776. Nehemiah signed a decla- ration of loyalty in 1775. Thomas Carpenter was an ensign in De Lancey's third battalion, and an adjutant of the corps. He went to St. John's at the close of the war, and a grantee of the city, and had half-pay. Abraham Carrington, of Milford, Conn., with his wife, went to St. John's, New Brunswick, in 1783. Elisha Case, John Ceely, went with the British army to Halifax, at the evacuation of Boston, 1776. Gardner Chandler, a trader at Hardwick, Mass., proscribed, and banished in 1778. John Chandler, of Worcester, Mass., in 1774 driven from his family and sought protection at Boston. In 1776 went with the royal army to Halifax, and in 1778 was proscribed and banished. Joshua Chandler, of New Haven, Ct., a member of the Legislature in 1775 and in August, 1782, wrote a letter to Gov. Wm. Franklin, in favor of the loyalists. He removed to Nova Scotia at the close of the war, and perished when crossing the Bay of Fundy. His son William, conducted the royal forces to New Haven in 1779.
Nathan Chandler died at Portland, New Brunswick, in 1816. Nathaniel, of Worcester, Mass., son of Col. John, graduated at H. C., 1768; was a lawyer ; one of the eighteen who addressed Gage when he departed in 1775. In 1776 he went to Halifax, and was proscribed and ban- ished in 1778. He led a corps of British volunteers. After the war he returned and died at Worcester in 1801, aged 51 years. Rufus, son of Col. John Chandler, born at Worcester, 1747, graduated at H. C., 1766; one of the lawyers who addressed Hutchinson in 1774; went to Halifax in 1776 ; proscribed and banished in 1778, and died in London, Oct., 1823, aged 76 years. Wm. Chandler, son of Col. John, of Worcester, Mass., graduated at H. U. 1772. He was one of the eighteen country gentlemen driven from their homes to Boston, for addressing Gage on his departure in 1775. He went to Halifax in 1776, and was proscribed and banished under the act of 1778, yet returned to Massachusetts after the close of the war. (See The American Loyalists, by Lorenzo Sabine.)
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uel Wood, Thomas Workes, Henry Whisson, Henry Ludlow, Tho's Scudder, John Samway, Tho's Powell, Jonathan Rogers and Isaac Platt ; and the commissioners of Huntington ordered to give them the oath of freedom. (Col. Rec.)
A man of the name of Chichester, was in Hartford in 1649.
CHIDESTER, ANDREW, (probably Chichester,) had a son Samuel, born in Connecticut, Oct. 18, 1720. Peter Blatchford tes- tified in court, that in the latter end of the last year, (1648,) he put on board of CHICHESTER'S vessel, for Mr. Blackleach, by order of Jarvis Mudge, six bushels of wheat and three bushels of peas.
JAMES CHICHESTER, in the list of those of Taunton, able to bear arms in 1643. (His. Reg.)
ABRAHAM, of Norwalk, Conn., married Mary Arnold, May 30, 1782, and had children, Abijah, b. Aug. 6, 1783 ; Ab'm, Samuel, Polly, Phebe, Aaron, Hezekiah and Betsey, b. Sept. 26, 1797.
HENRY, of Norwalk, married Deborah Hoyt, June 1, 1784. Issue, Walter, b. Jan. 31, 1785; Sally, Amelia, Henry, Jun., Al- fred, Ward, Eliza and Emeline.
This was an early name in Massachusetts and Long Island. Farmer names WILLIAM, of Marblehead, in 1648; JAMES, of Salem, 1651.
CHICHESTER has twelve coats of arms.
CHIDSEY. (See CHEDSEY, ante.)
CHILD. The north part of the town of Woodstock, was settled some few years after the south part of the town, and mostly, if not all, entirely by persons from Roxbury, Mass., and from under the preaching of Rev. John Elliot. The precise time North Woodstock was settled, I am not able to state, as the original proprietor's book or record, has been lost. The town was settled and claimed by Massachusetts, and by them incorporated in March, 1690; and in Felt's Statistics, p. 23, we find that "Judge Sewall" wrote in his MS. diary, March 18, 1690, that he gave New Roxbury the name of Woodstock. The town was claimed by Connecticut as within her bounds, and came under the government of this state, May, 1749. The May and Child families have been prominent, active and re- spectable, from the early settlement of the place. The tradition of the family is, (which is all I have since the loss of the record book,) that the first of the Child family came from England to Roxbury, or Watertown, Mass., at an early period ; that he had seven or eight sons, all of whom settled at North Woodstock. I have not even the names of the seven or eight sons, by the name of Child, who first
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