Samuel CHESHIRE

                   Notes from David L. Langenberg:
On 26 April 1743 "Samuel Cheshire of the
Township of Chesterfield, Yeoman" bought a tract of land in New Hanover
Township containing 54 3/4 acres (West New Jersey Conveyance of Realty,
Book EF, p. 298).  On 4 April 1745, "Samuel Chesshire acknowledged his
concern in having married out of the unity of Friends.  He is accepted
again" (Chesterfield Monthly meeting records).  Had various town offices
in Chesterfield, Burlington Co., New Jersey (overseer of roads, 1740 and
1753; surveyor of highways, 1744 and 1760;  overseer of the poor, 1747).
He was still living in Chesterfield in 1756, when he made an inventory of
the estate of William Taylor, Sr., of that place, but probably shortly
after 1760 he sold his plantation in Chesterfield to William Wood and
emigrated to Hampshire Co. He was still living in January 1775, when he
(Samuesl Chessher, Senr.) and his son (Samuel Chessher) are both mentioned
in a land survey record, Frederick Co., but was dead by 1777, when his
widow and children are mentioned in the will of Jonathan Cheshire. Notes
from Gladys Cheshire Stubbs:  Married 13 Sept 1740 in the Presbyterian
Church of Providence, NJ, which would indicate that Samuel was not a
Quaker as his father had been--or that the marriage was out of discipline
(i.e. by a "hireling priest" in Quaker terms).  "Grace Kelso Garner
thought that he probably died in an Indian attack on Ft. Edwards,
Hampshire Co., Va. in 1757 but the above dates do not suggest this [Samuel
was paid from the estate of John Schooley on 28 Feb 1766].  However, she
says that his wife, Ann, furnished supplies in the Revolutionary War as
head of household.  She and their son Sam are also listed as heads of
household in the Hampshire Co Census 1782-84. Conclusion:  he died in Va.
adfter 1766." Merged General Note: OCCU Farmer RESI Chesterfield,
Burlington, NJ