Saturday, April 4, 2015

Surname Saturday - CHENEY (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1103 who is  Mehitabel CHENEY (1643-1693) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations in this CHENEY family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)


68.  Aaron Smith (1765-1841)
69.  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)

136.  Moses Smith (1732-1806)
137.  Patience Hamant (1735-1780)

274.  Timothy Hamant (1699-1774)
275.  Hepzibah Clark (1699-1791)

550.  Joseph Clark (1664-1731)
551.  Mary Wight (1667-1705)

1102.  Thomas Wight, born about 1629 in England; died 25 September 1690 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2204. Thomas Wight and 2205. Alice.  He married about 1661 in probably Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
1103.  Mehitabel Cheney, born 01 June 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; died 1693 in Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Thomas Wight and Mehitabel Cheney are:
*  Mehitable Wight (1663-????).
*  Thomas Wight (1665-????).
*  Mary Wight (1667-1705), married 1686 Joseph Clark (1664-1731).
Eleazer Wight (1670-1747), married 1694 Relief Warren (????-1740).
*  Joshua Wight (1679-1762), married (1) 1696 Abigail Rockwood (1679-1696); (2) 1699 Elizabeth Spowell (1683-1765).

2206.  William Cheney, born before 05 February 1599 in Barrington, Cambridgeshire, England; died 30 June 1667 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4412. John Cheney and 4413. Elizabeth.  He married about 1623 in England.
2207.  Margaret, born about 1603 in England; died 03 July 1686 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of William Cheney and Margaret are:
*  Ellen Cheney (1626-1678), married 1643 Humphrey Johnson (1620-1693).
*  Margaret Cheney (1628-1685), married 1651 Thomas Hastings (1605-1685).
*  Thomas Cheney (1633-1693), married 1656 Jane Atkinson (1635-1724).
*  William Cheney (1637-1681), married 1661 Deborah Wiswall (1641-1681).
*  John Cheney (1639-1671).
*  Mehitabel Cheney (1643-1693), married 1661 Thomas Wight (1629-1690)
*  Joseph Cheney (1647-1704), married (1) 1668 Hannah Thurston (1650-1690); (2) 1691 Mehitable Plimpton (1655-1725).

Information about the William Cheney family was obtained from Massachusetts vital records and the following authored works:

*  Joan S. Guilford , The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford (Sheridan Psychological Services, Inc., 1990), Volume 1.

*  Dean Crawford Smith, edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908, Part I: The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton (1817-1879) (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).


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