Jefferson County, NY Pioneers


PIONEER CHENEY FAMILY



1. CALEB CHENEY (son of ELIPHALET and MARY (ELA) CHENEY) was born 7 Sep 1781. He died at Antwerp, Jefferson County, on 22 Aug 1845.

He married about 1809 at Antwerp
RACHEL RAVEN who was the daughter of PETER and RACHEL (GROOM) RAVEN. She was born 24 May 1791 in Vermont and died 12 Sep 1839 at Antwerp. They had seven children.

Children, CHENEY:

2 i DAVID CHENEY married BETSY (---)

3 ii CATHERINE MARIA CHENEY married BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LYNDE, son of ELLIOTT and HANNAH (WALKER) LYNDE

4 iii MARY BRADFORD CHENEY married JOHN RICKERSON, son of GUY CARLETON and ELIZABETH (---) RICKERSON

5 iv ELIPHALET CHENEY

6 v JOHN W. CHENEY married ALICE (---)

7 vi SOPHIA F. CHENEY married ROYAL HULL

8 vii CHARLES CHENEY married SARAH ALICE COLLINS

2. DAVID CHENEY (son of CALEB and RACHEL (RAVEN) CHENEY) was born 1805 at Tunbridge, Vermont. He died 11 Dec 1864 at Antwerp.

He married 3 Nov 1831 at Antwerp, Jefferson County
BETSY (---), who was born c1806

Children, CHENEY:

9 i MARTIN M. CHENEY

10 ii HENRY CHENEY

11 iii ELBRIDGE CHENEY

3. CATHERINE MARIA CHENEY (daughter of CALEB and RACHEL (RAVEN) CHENEY) was born at Antwerp 12 Jul 1812. She died 10 Oct 1884 at Antwerp.

She married 7 Oct 1832 at Antwerp
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LYNDE, son of ELLIOTT and HANNAH (WALKER) LYNDE of Antwerp. He was born in 1808 and died in 1879.

Children, LYNDE:

12 i ADOLPHUS LYNDE

13 ii WILLIAM P. LYNDE

14 iii EVALINE LYNDE

15 iv BENJAMIN F. LYNDE, Jr.

16 v ELLIOT W. LYNDE

17 vi FRANCIS LYNDE

18 vii ELIZABETH M. LYNDE

4. MARY BRADFORD CHENEY (daughter of CALEB and RACHEL (RAVEN) CHENEY) was born 8 Sep 1814 at Antwerp. She died 3 Feb 1891 at Hailsboro, NY.

She married 23 Jun 1831
JOHN RICKERSON, son of GUY CARLETON and ELIZABETH (---) RICKERSON, who was born in 1808 and died in 1891.

Children, RICKERSON:

19 i AUSTIN BRADFORD RICKERSON

20 ii SHERMAN BARTHOLOMEW RICKERSON

21 iii WILLIAM RICKERSON

22 iv MARY SOPHIA RICKERSON

23 v CHARLES WILLIAM RICKERSON

24 vi GEORGE FAYETT RICKERSON

25 vii OLIVER EUGENE RICKERSON

26 viii HARRIET ELIZABETH RICKERSON

8. CHARLES CHENEY (son of CALEB and RACHEL (RAVEN) CHENEY) was born 29 Feb 1828 at Antwerp. He died 25 Mar 1904 also at Antwerp.

He married
SARAH ALICE COLLINS, who was born in 1832 and died in 1915

Child, CHENEY:

27 i CHARLES CHENEY


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