Some descendants of Ruth Jackman (Timothy,James,James) and Elias Cheney of Newbury and Thornton, Grafton, New Hampshire

  1. Elias Cheney was born about 1768. He was baptised on 24 Apr 1769 in the Byfield Parish in Newbury. [BPB, 6;54][MVRN] He died in 1805, age 37. [CTN] He is buried in the East Thornton Cemetery in Thornton. [CTN]
  2. Paul Jackman Cheney was baptised on 6 Jan 1771 in the Byfield Parish in Newbury. [BPB, 6;55][MVRN]
  3. Ruth Cheney was baptised on 9 May 1773 in Newbury. [CFEA, p. 182][MVRN] She married Dea. Abner Colby. [CFEA, p. 108][CG, 2;492]

 

References

CTN AmericanAncestors.org, Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.
BPB Dummer, Joseph N., "Byfield Parish Baptisms," Essex Antiquarian 2, 1898, 51-60; 6, 1902, 49-56.
MVRN Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Salem, Essex Institute, 1918.
CG

Pope, Charles Henry, The Cheney Genealogy, Boston, Pope, 1897.

CFEA Weis, Frederik Lewis, The Colby Family in Early America: Early Generations of Descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury, Massachusetts 1595-1661, Colonial Press, Concord, 1970.

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