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John Chesnut1 (M)
b. 18 June 1743, d. 1 April 1813
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     John was thirteen years old when he moved to South Carolina and soon after he entered the mercantile business house of Colonel John Kershaw in Camden as an apprentice beginning his career as merchant at the expiration of his apprenticeship. By 1776 he was a member of the firm which had extensive and progressive branch stores throughout South Carolina. In 1765 he was appointed Inquirer and Collector for St. Mark. By the time of the Revolution his landed estates were very large. He was a delegate to the first Provincial Congress, which met in Charleston, South Carolina in 11 January 1775 and again on June 1st, of the same year he was elected the Committee of Continental Association. He was appointed "Justice of the Quorom" of the Orangeburg District in 1775, Justice of the Peace in April 1776 and was Paymaster, with the rank of Captain in the Third Carolina Regiment at the beginning of the Revolution, but a severe attack of rheumatism compelled him to resign. Recovering after the war was over he was prominent in politics, and in 1788 a member of the convention to frame the Constitution. He went to the State Senate twice, and was among the first election of trustees for the new South Carolina College. His intimate friends were leaders of the day, and among them were Charles Gotesworth Pinckney, Governor John Rutledge and Colonel Wade Hampton. John Chesnut was a very rich man, he owned numerous houses, giving a weekly ball an supper. He often traveled in a coach and four to Charleston or Columbia in the winter and rarely missed a visit to Virginia and Philadelphia or New York during the summer, traveling with servants and horses taking at least a month for the journey. He was well educated and had a fine library. During President Washington was taking a tour of the South during his first term, Washington was entertained by John Chesnut, and in the family archives was a letter from the president to his host, in which he describes the uses of "one of my drill plows," which he was sending Chesnut, as he had promised. On the walls of the hall at Mulberry hung a portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart, along with portraits of John and his son James and his wife, by the same painter. The portrait of John Chesnut was owned by his great grandson, David Rogerson Williams III. John was born at Shenandoah Co., Virginia, on 18 June 1743. He was the son of James Chesnut and Margaret Cantey. He married Sarah Cantey at Camden, Kershaw Co., South Carolina, in 1770. John died on 1 April 1813 at Camden, Kershaw Co., South Carolina, at age 69. His body was interred in April 1813 at Kershaw Co., South Carolina. Buried in the family buring ground at Knight Hill..

Children of John Chesnut and Sarah Cantey
Mary Chesnut+ b. 20 Jan 1771, d. Jan 1843
James Chesnut+ b. 19 Feb 1773, d. 17 Feb 1866
Sarah Cantey Chesnut+ b. 12 Dec 1774, d. 28 Jun 1851
Harriet Chesnut b. 19 Dec 1776, d. Sep 1831
Rebecca Chesnut b. 8 Jun 1779, d. 6 Nov 1799
John Chesnut b. 3 Jan 1783, d. 16 Aug 1799
Margaret Rebecca Chesnut b. 24 Jan 1786, d. 8 Nov 1874

Citations

  1. [S150] Descendants of Alexander Chesnut, online http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/h/e/Daniel-sr-L-Chesnut.

John Chesnut (M)
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     John Chesnut was the son of William Chesnut Jr. and Jean Gold. He married Ann Palmer at Augusta Co., Virginia, on 22 May 1790.

John Chesnut (M)
b. 15 June 1828, d. 15 June 1868
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     John was born on 15 June 1828. He was the son of John Chesnut and Charlotte Ellen Whitaker. John died on 15 June 1868 at age 40.

John Chesnut (M)
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     John was born at Ross Co., Ohio. He was the son of Daniel Chesnut and Isabella Blain.

John Chesnut (M)
b. 25 July 1795, d. 14 January 1873
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     John was born at Chester Co., South Carolina, on 25 July 1795. He was the son of Alexander Chesnut and Sarah Meek. He married Sara Maybin at Todd Co., Kentucky, on 4 October 1821. He married Ruth Wilson Vance at Todd Co., Kentucky, on 13 June 1836. John was listed as the head of a family on the 1850 Census at Todd Co., Kentucky. John died on 14 January 1873 at Todd Co., Kentucky, at age 77. His body was interred in January 1873 at Todd Co., Kentucky, at Old Seceder Cemetery.

Children of John Chesnut and Sara Maybin
A. Washington Chesnut b. 1823
Jane Chesnut b. 1825, d. b 1884
Mary Chesnut b. 5 Jan 1827, d. 13 Nov 1861

Children of John Chesnut and Ruth Wilson Vance
John W. Chesnut b. 1837, d. a 1850
James A. Chesnut b. 1839
Samuel Messena Chesnut b. 24 May 1843, d. 9 Aug 1865
Franklin Marion Chesnut+ b. 23 Feb 1844, d. 1910
Martin Luther Chesnut+ b. 1845, d. 9 Nov 1904
Underwood P. Chesnut+ b. 1848
Sarah Ellen Chesnut b. 1851
Margaret Jane Chesnut b. 1853

John Chesnut (M)
b. 3 January 1783, d. 16 August 1799
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     Died of yellow fever. John was born at Camden, Kershaw Co., South Carolina, on 3 January 1783. He was the son of John Chesnut and Sarah Cantey. John died on 16 August 1799 at Charleston, Charleston Co., South Carolina, at age 16.

John Chesnut (M)
b. 1805
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     John was born at Kentucky in 1805. He was the son of Benjamin Chesnut and Mahala Howard. He married Polly Inman on 16 February 1826.

John Chesnut (M)
b. circa 1810
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     John was born at Kentucky circa 1810. He was the son of Jacob Chesnut and Margaret Blake.

John Chesnut (M)
b. 12 February 1805, d. 31 May 1878
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     John was born at Laurel Co., Kentucky, on 12 February 1805. He was the son of Abraham Chesnut and Esther Evans. He married Margaret Jane McKee at Laurel Co., Kentucky, on 1 January 1829. John died on 31 May 1878 at Laurel Co., Kentucky, at age 73.

Children of John Chesnut and Margaret Jane McKee
George V. Chesnut
William Chesnut b. c 1830
Abraham Chesnut b. c 1830, d. 10 Sep 1859
Esther H. Chesnut b. c 1830
Evan Kincaid Chesnut b. c 1830
John Chesnut b. c 1830
Lucinda Chesnut b. c 1830
Amanda Elizabeth Chesnut b. c 1830
Margaret Chesnut b. c 1830
Arabelle E. Chesnut b. 8 Jun 1838, d. 19 Mar 1908
Robert M. Chesnut b. Nov 1852

John Chesnut (M)
b. 11 January 1827, d. 29 May 1914
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     John was born at Huntington Twp., Ross Co., Ohio, on 11 January 1827. He was the son of William Chesnut and Hannah Pitinger. He married Minerva Jane Beauchamp at Pittsboro, Hendricks Co., Indiana, on 6 February 1853. John died on 29 May 1914 at Rice Lake, Faribault Co., Minnesota, at age 87.

Children of John Chesnut and Minerva Jane Beauchamp
Martha Elizabeth Chesnut b. 1854, d. 1935
William Osborn Chesnut b. 1857, d. 25 Oct 1940
John Moyer Chesnut b. 1858, d. 1863
Charles Daniel Chesnut b. 7 Oct 1859, d. 24 Mar 1945
Walter Lybrand Chesnut b. Nov 1861
Luella Caroline Chesnut b. 6 Aug 1862, d. 12 Jan 1917
Minnerva Ellen Chesnut b. 1866

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