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OUR CHESNEY FAMILY Copyright © 2006 Joel Thomas
Orcutt. All rights reserved. GENEAOLGY &
FAMILY HISTORY BOOK
FOR SALE OUR TENNESSEE CHESNEYS A Genealogy of the
Families of John Chesney 1794 — 1876 Early settler of Grainger County, Tennessee & Nathaniel Richard
Chesney 1796—ca 1885 Early settler of
Knox County, Tennessee & A Genealogy of the Family of Former Chesney
Slave Pharaoh Jackson
Chesney By Joel Thomas Orcutt Published February, 2006, ISBN 0-9778907-3-2 , 11
Chapters documenting early Chesney history, descendants of John Chesney Of Grainger and Union Counties, Tennessee,
and wives Sarah Skaggs, and Ruthy Lane., descendants and family history of
former slave Pharoah Jackson Chesney, and descendants of Nathaniel Richard
Chesney, early settler of Knox County, Tennessee. Includes information documenting both John
and Nathaniel's connections back to Richard and Jane Young Chesney, of
Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
Descendants of John Chesney
include famed country music star, Kenny Chesney. These are very nice cloth bound Library quality books, royal blue with gold
lettering. Price is $60.00
plus $10.00 shipping and handling.
Return to front page to order. Larger picture of this book at bottom of the
page. BOOK CONTENT
INFORMATION CHAPTER ONE Chapter
One deals with William McChesney, the early settler of Pennsylvania, and whom
is believed to have been the father of Richard Chesney, whom left
Pennsylvania and settled in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The locations are Dauphin, and York
Counties in Pennsylvania. Names of
allied families are Fulton, Wilson, Wallace, and Bell. CHAPTER TWO Chapter
Two begins on page eleven, and documents the family of Richard and Jane Young
Chesney, early Spartanburg County, south Carolina settlers. It includes information about the Young
family, also of York county, Pennsylvania, and the 96th District of South
Carolina, and the suspected connection between them and Jane Young Chesney. CHAPTER THREE Chapter three begins on page 21, and
documents the early history of John and Sarah Chesney, the early Grainger
County, Tennessee settlers, in
Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and early Grainger County, Tennessee,
including references to land documents in Spartanburg. The issue of John having been a member of
the Richard Chesney of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and having not
been a member of the Union County, South Carolina Chesney family, as has been mistaken in the
past, is addressed also in this
Chapter. CHAPTER FOUR Chapter
Four begins on page 25, and documents
the life of John Chesney
1794-1876, the early Settler of Grainger and Union Counties,
Tennessee, and the patriarch of a large number of Tennessee Chesney families.
Allied names are Skaggs and Lane. CHAPTER FIVE Chapter
Five begins on page 31, and documents the first two generations of John
Chesney’s descendants. Allied families
are Haynes, Lambden, Woody, Torbet, Wallace, Kitts, Kelly, Sellers, Lett,
Harless, Clapp, Sharp, and Needham.
Locations include mainly Grainger, Union, and Knox counties. CHAPTER SIX Chapter
six begins on page 45, and documents the third generation of John Chesney’s
descendants. Allied names include Yadon, McCauley, Graves, Colvin, Gibbs,
Tarver, Russell, Hankins, Miltonbarger, Willoughby, Powledge, McClain, Bailey, Booker, Hamilton, Davis,
Dodd, Rudolph, Wyneger, Popejoy, Crawley, and Hubbs. CHAPTER SEVEN Chapter
seven begins on page 65, and documents the fourth generation of John
Chesney’s descendants. Allied names
are Meltabarger, Hubbs, Loop, Cardwell, McPhetridge, Whited, Davis, Fisher,
Roby, Hill, Booker, Zachary, Renfrow, Young, Hall, Blanton, Shaffer,
Culpepper, Kirkpatrick, Maples, and Hansell. CHAPTER EIGHT Chapter
Eight begins on page 89, and documents the fifth generations of the
descendants of John Chesney. Allied
names are Irwin, Weaver, Griffin, Johnson, Combee, Dove, Profitt, Doty,
Dalton, Harris, Thompson, Corbett, and
Fleming. CHAPTER NINE Chapter
nine begins on page 97 and documents the 6th, 7th, and 8th generations of
John Chesney’s descendants. Allied
names are Gallagher, Zugura,
Frankenburger, Crowley, Sassen, Mason, Sulentich, Dunne, Cherry,
Campbell, Hodson, Meschter, Hudgens, Ziemer, Maciejewski, Barry, Levesque,
Atkinson, Diaz, and Lopez. CHAPTER TEN Chapter
ten begins on page 103 and documents the early history and genealogy of
former John Chesney slave, Pharaoh Jackson Chesney. Allied families are Hammett, Walker, Woods,
Gaither, Easterley, McFeeters, Robinson, Cunningham, Stewart, Houston, Kyle,
McGhee, Garrett, McCannelly, Mason, Marisette, Jorden, Walker, Brabson, Sharp, Reeves, Hackler, Wilson,
Bowie, Moore, and Burnside. CHAPTER ELEVEN Chapter
eleven begins on page 119, and documents the family of Nathaniel Richard
Chesney, early settler of Knox County, Tennessee, and the patriarch of many
Tennessee Chesney families. Allied
names are Rogers, McCroskey, Runyon, Hickman, Noland, Kitlandger, Oglesby, Cheatham, Huffaker, Whittle,
Williams, Mehaffey, Roberson, Mills, Galyon, Lane, Bailey, Smith, Glen,
Jones, Morgon, Compton, Parker, Hudson, Hatcher, Craven, Noe, Cline, Long,
Tillett, Brewer, Varvell, Bailey,
Cates, Strange, Goolsby, Crawford, and Carman. |
