Person:Abner Chinault (1)

Research Notes

• 1799 - Abner gets a land grant adjoining his father
• 1800 census - NC. Neighbors = Francis Fore and James Walker
• 1804 & 1808 - Abner purchases land from William Walker in Rockingham County, NC (see records)
• 1812 - Abner moves to Indiana. He sent a series of powers of attorney to Rockingham County, NC (one to Abner Walker) to manage his affairs there and to buy his sister's (Susanna Fore's) interest in their father's estate, 1815.
• 1819 & 1820 - Abner sells the Indiana land to William and James Ferguson, respectively.
• 1850 census - where is Abner?

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884).

   Vol 2, p 746 -
   ... Mrs. Larkin's parents, Abner and Mary (Ferguson) Chinault, were natives of North Carolina, of French descent. They removed to Union County, Indiana, in 1811, and settled three miles from Liberty. He was a leading member of the Baptist church and one of the founders of the church in Union County. He died in 1850, aged nearly eighty years. His wife died in 1848, aged sixty-five years. They had a family of eight children, two of whom are living --- Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbell, of Union County, Indiana, and Mrs. Susan Carter, of Fayette County, Indiana. Mrs. Judith Beck, Mrs. Mary Phillips, Mrs. Avos Christman, Mrs. Jane Davis, Mrs. Hannah Larkin and William are deceased.