John Cheney

 

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John Cheney
Immigrant Ancestor see FAMILY TREE
Born:  Abt. 1600

   
Married:
Annie
Martha Smithe 03 Mar 1630/1 Lawford, Essex, England

 

   
Died: 28 Jul 1666 Newbury, Essex, MA    

WIFE

Martha Smithe

CHILDREN with Amy

1. Mary Cheney
    bap. 24 Jul 1625 Mistley, Essex, England

2. Martha Cheney
    bap.. 16 Nov 1626 Mistley, Essex, England

3. John Cheney
    bap. 17 Apr 1728 Mistley, Essex, England

CHILDREN with Martha Smithe

1. Pater Cheney
    bap. 17 Feb 1631/2 Lawford, Essex, England

2. Unnamed Daughter
    bap. 28 Apr 1734 Lawford, Essex, England

3. Daniel Cheney
    b. Abt. 1635
    m. 8 Oct 1665 Sarah Bailey
    d. 10 Sep 1694

4. Sarah Cheney
    bap. Feb 1635/6
    m. 23 Dec 1652 Joseph Plumer

5. Lydia Cheney
    b. 1638
    m. 12 Nov 1657 John Kendrick

6. Peter Cheney
     b. Abt. 1640
    m. 14 May 1663 Hannah Noyes

7 . Hannah Cheney b. 16 Nov 1642
    m. 16 Nov 1659 Richard Smith

8. Nathaniel Cheney
     b. 12 Jan 1644/5

9. Elizabeth Cheney
     b. 14 Jan 1647/8
    m. Stephen Cross

John Cheney
by Susan Brooke
Aug 2023

Based on the date of birth of his first child, John Cheney was probably born about 1600. According to the records of Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury, John Cheney immigrated to the colonies in 1635 bringing a wife and four children with him. (1) The first three children were baptized in Mistley, Essex, England to John Cheney and his wife Annie. (2)  He married Martha Smith in Lawford, Essex, England on 3 Mar 1630/1. (3) He was recorded as a shoemaker in Lawford, Essex, England and as noted in the inventory of his estate, he was a shoemaker in the colonies. (4)
By 1636 he was living in Newbury, MA where he recorded the birth birth of his son Daniel.  (5) And he had 3 acres of land by 1638. (6) John Cheney died 28 Jul 1666 in Newbury and an unnamed daughter died in November of that same year.  (7) He had written his will on 5 Jun 1666 naming his wife and children. (8)

Sources

 

(1) NEHGR Vol 35 page 246

Notes of Rev. Eliot

(2) see John Cheney on Wikitree

records on Family Search

Marye Chenney
bap. 24 Jul 1625
father: John
mother: Amye

Martha Cheney
bap 16 Nov 1626
father: John
mother:: Annie

John Cheaney
bap 17 Apr 1628
father: John
mother: Annie

(3) see John Cheney on Wikitree

He married at Lawford, Co. Essex, on 3 Mar 1630/1, as his 2nd, to Martha Smoithe.  His wife Martha was living on 31 May 1684, when appraisers of her son Nathaniel's estate stated she was yet living.

Mahler, Leslie, (Oct 2001) "The English Origin of John Cheney of Roxbury and Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist. AmericanAncestors.org (Vol 76, Pages 245-47).

(4)  see John Cheney on Wikitree 

John Cheney of Lansdale and Mistley evidently was identical with the John Cheney, immigrant to Massachusetts. Mahler points to the will of George Landalle, dated 16 Nov 1629, which mentioned "John Chenye shomaker now dwelling in my house in Lawford" and made arrangements for his future accommodation; John was also appointed as executor. The inventory of John's estate included tools and supplies of a shoemaker (p 206). The occupation, wife, and children's names all confirm his identity.  

Mahler, Leslie, (Oct 2001) "The English Origin of John Cheney of Roxbury and Newbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist. AmericanAncestors.org (Vol 76, Pages 245-47).

(5) Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
"Cheeney, Daniel, ch. John and Martha, _____, 1636, [in] Newburyport."

 (6) New England Families Vol 3

"John Cheney, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England. 'John Cheney,' wrote John Eliot, the famous Indian Apostle, minister of Roxbury, 'he came into the land in the years 1636. He brought 4 children Mary, Martha, John, Daniel. Sarah his 5th child was borne in the last month of the same year 1636 called February. He removed from our church to Newbury the end of the next su'er 1636. Martha Chany the wife of John Cheny.' At Newbury John Cheney prospered. His allotment of land was large. He had a good stand in the 'old town' and on shore and elsewhere. He had three acres granted, June 19, 1638, at the westerly end of the great swamp behind the great hill; on August 25, six acres of salt marsh; then a parcel of marsh with little island of upland on it, about twenty acres, little river of the northwest, formerly a part of the calf-common, assigned to him July 5, 1639. - He died July 28, 1666, leaving a will dated June 5, 1666, written in his own hand."

(7) Newbury Vital Records

Newbury Vital Records

(8) Cheney Genealogy by Charles Henry Pope, 1897 page 203

Will of John Cheney