John CHEADLE

                   SPOUSE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Pomfret, Vermont Genealogical Records.
PROBATE: Will of John Chedel; of Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont; dated13 May 1804;
           proved 21 Oct 1805.

HISTORY:  His first wife died, leaving two sons.

             Pomfret, Vermont, The Pioneer Settlers
       "John Chedel arrived but a few days later than the Durkees, who were
without doubt the first family to settle in Pomfret.  The two families came
together from Connecticut to Hartford, Vermont, and then were alternately
helpful to each other in moving into town on two successive days.  Both Durkee
and Chedel were certainly in town in 1769 to erect huts and start a clearing,
and both men must have depended largely on game for food.  Both families were
in town in March, 1770, and the 9th of March may be the correct date of the
arrival of John Chedel with his wife and three Cheldren.
      Mr. Chedel bought the right in Pomfret that originally belonged to Eligah
Chandler.  His name occurs first in the Proprietors' Book, July 2d, 1770, when
he was named one of the commitee to clear a road through Pomfret.  He was
already there and in his cabin, built on No. 31, First Division, prepared to
help.  There he lived and died, and the the farm remained in his family for
generations.  Mr. Chedel aided, not only in making the survey and cutting the
road, but he also furnished provisions for the working party.  Mr. Chedel at
the first election held in Pomfret was made assessor.  In 1776 he became
highway commisioner--a New York office.  In 1779 he was highway surveyor--a
Vermont office.  He was tithing man in 1787, and was frequently elected leather
sealer.
       He raised the first apples that were gathered from a tree in Pomfret. The
first one was cut in small pieces and distributed among the neighbors.  In
like manner, when the first loaf of bread was made from his home-grown wheat,
fragments were sent around.
       John Chedel kept his accounts in a small homemade book which was
reverently preserved by his descendants.  It is one of the earliest private
records extant in Pomfret.  Mr. Chedel came to Pomfret from Ashford,
Connecticut.  In the Revolution he served under Captain Edmund Hodges for
fouteen days at Fort Fortitude in Bethel, which was then a frontier town.
When Royalton was burned, he served in Captain John Throop's company.
       John Chedel was chairman of the committee appointed at a town meeting
April 11th, 1786, "to finde the Senter of the town of Pomfret."  This was done
in order to find just where the meeting-house ought to stand."

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SPOUSE-CHILDREN-DEATH: Pomfret, Vermont Genealogical Records.
PROBATE: Will of John Chedel; of Pomfret, Windsor, Vermont; dated13 May 1804;
           proved 21 Oct 1805.

HISTORY:  His first wife died, leaving two sons.

             Pomfret, Vermont, The Pioneer Settlers
       "John Chedel arrived but a few days later than the Durkees, who were
without doubt the first family to settle in Pomfret.  The two families came
together from Connecticut to Hartford, Vermont, and then were alternately
helpful to each other in moving into town on two successive days.  Both Durkee
and Chedel were certainly in town in 1769 to erect huts and start a clearing,
and both men must have depended largely on game for food.  Both families were
in town in March, 1770, and the 9th of March may be the correct date of the
arrival of John Chedel with his wife and three Cheldren.
      Mr. Chedel bought the right in Pomfret that originally belonged to Eligah
Chandler.  His name occurs first in the Proprietors' Book, July 2d, 1770, when
he was named one of the commitee to clear a road through Pomfret.  He was
already there and in his cabin, built on No. 31, First Division, prepared to
help.  There he lived and died, and the the farm remained in his family for
generations.  Mr. Chedel aided, not only in making the survey and cutting the
road, but he also furnished provisions for the working party.  Mr. Chedel at
the first election held in Pomfret was made assessor.  In 1776 he became
highway commisioner--a New York office.  In 1779 he was highway surveyor--a
Vermont office.  He was tithing man in 1787, and was frequently elected leather
sealer.
       He raised the first apples that were gathered from a tree in Pomfret. The
first one was cut in small pieces and distributed among the neighbors.  In
like manner, when the first loaf of bread was made from his home-grown wheat,
fragments were sent around.
       John Chedel kept his accounts in a small homemade book which was
reverently preserved by his descendants.  It is one of the earliest private
records extant in Pomfret.  Mr. Chedel came to Pomfret from Ashford,
Connecticut.  In the Revolution he served under Captain Edmund Hodges for
fouteen days at Fort Fortitude in Bethel, which was then a frontier town.
When Royalton was burned, he served in Captain John Throop's company.
       John Chedel was chairman of the committee appointed at a town meeting
April 11th, 1786, "to finde the Senter of the town of Pomfret."  This was done
in order to find just where the meeting-house ought to stand."