Person:Charles Chauncy (2)

President Charles Chauncy
  1. President Charles Chauncy1592 - 1671/72
  • HPresident Charles Chauncy1592 - 1671/72
  • WCatherine EyreEst 1605 - 1668
m. 17 Mar 1630
  1. Sarah Chauncy1631 - 1699
  2. Rev. Isaac Chauncy1632 - 1712
  3. Dr. Ichabod ChauncyEst 1635 - 1691
  4. Barnabas ChauncyEst 1637 - Aft 1674
  5. Dr. Elnathan ChauncyEst 1639 - Bef 1684
  6. Rev. Nathaniel ChauncyEst 1639 - 1685
  7. Hannah ChauncyEst 1643 -
  8. Rev. Israel ChauncyCal 1644 - 1702/03
Facts and Events
Name President Charles Chauncy
Alt Name Charles Chauncey
Gender Male
Christening[3][4] 5 Nov 1592 Ardeley, Hertfordshire, England
Marriage 17 Mar 1630 Ware, Hertfordshire, Englandto Catherine Eyre
Emigration[2] 1638
Death[1][3][5] 19 Feb 1671/72 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q5076206?


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Charles Chauncy (baptised November 5, 1592 – February 19, 1672) was an Anglo-American Congregational clergyman, educator, and secondarily, a physician.

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References
  1. Charles Chauncy, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. Charles Chauncy, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    62.

    "Chauncy, Charles: [Origin] Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire; [Emigration] 1638; [Resided] Plymouth, Scituate, Cambridge [Lechford 45; WJ 1:397, 2:86; WP 4:129, 291; Davenport 78; Cotton 299; Waters 107-9; NEHGR 10:106-20, 251-62, 323-36, 11:148-53, 148:161-66; TG 16:183-88; William Chauncy Fowler, Chauncy Memorials (Boston 1858); MHSC 1:10:171; Morison 371]."

  3. 3.0 3.1 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:366-368.

    "Charles (Chauncy), Scituate, a gr. scholar, the ninth ch. fifth s. of George, b. at Yardly, in Co. Herts, a. 30 miles from London, bapt. on Sunday, 5 Nov. 1592, was bred at Westminister sch. and saved on 5 Nov. 1605 by the discov. of Gunpowder plot; at Trinity Coll. Camb. took his degr. A. B. 1613, A. M. 1617; B. D. 1624. Much reputa. at the Univ. he gain. by Latin verses of lamenta. on d. 1619, of Queen Ann, and by Greek and Latin on d. of her h. James, and access. of Charles, 1625, as in Cantab. Dolor et Solamen, so that he was chos. profess. for one, if not two chairs. But in cleric. life he was early at Marston St. Lawrence, and had the vicarage of Ware in his native shire, 1627-34 and from that valua. liv. for non-conform. in non-essentials he was forc. by Archbp. Laud. In search of comforta. and secure worship he came to N. E. arr. in Dec. 1637 at Plymouth, there preach. as aid to Reyner, some time, but in 1641 was call. to S. where above twelve yrs. he min. yet with freq. troubles; and was prepar. to go home for partak. the puritan triumph in Eng. when he was chos. head of the Coll. at Cambridge, on dismiss. in 1654, of Dunster, its first Presid. In this post he d. 19 Feb. 1672, aged 79 yrs. and less prob. than 4 mos. but Mather, mistak. the inscript. on his tomb, under his eye, of 80th for 82d yr. of his age, to make his error consistent, dares to affirm in Magn. III. 134, that he was b. in 1589, instead of 1592, and on p. 140 boldly asserts, that he d. (giv. the right time), 'in the eighty-second yr. of his age.' Explanat. of his blunder is easi. found. In Roman numerals the day and yr. of his dec. XIX Feb. MDCLXXI/II in our Arabic numbers 1671/2 aet. LXXX. seems plain eno. but the careless author forc. the II out of place, and add. them to the later number. Yet Green's Almanac of 1673 had said, 'in his 80th yr.' and hardly a min. in the country could have fail. to say, that the first Presid. wh. d. in office, was little over 79 yrs. old. The author (Rev. W. C. Fowler) of the elaborate life of Chauncy, his ancest. and descend. in Geneal. Reg. X. 251, has quot. two paragr. from the Magnalia, suppresing the word 'second' after eighty, whereby Mather seems to be compel. to speak the truth. 'Fourscore years of age despatched it not,' is the sweet commenda. of Mather for his labors; and contempt for the chronology should not, perhaps, be so express. especial. as the earlier author foll. his natural weakness, to show his knowl. of the value of a man, in shekels, above the age of sixty, only 15, but younger, 50 shekels, makes Chauncy's worth 'at 80 contin. much what as it was when he was 60.' In his valua. Biogr. Dict. Ed. 1857, Dr. Allen had more scrupulously foll. the error of the Magn. We see, in the Biogr. Britannica, that he descend. from a fam. that came in with the conquest, and he was gr. uncle of Sir Henry C. wh. dignif. the Hist. of Hertfordsh. in two large folios. His w. was Catharine, d. of Robert Eyre, Esq. of Wilts, barrister at law, by his w. Ann, d. of that John Still, Bp. of Bath and in the latter days of Eliz. a true ch. puritan, wh. desir. more reformat. than her majesty could submit to. She was m. to C. 17 Mar. 1630, and d. 24 Jan. 1668, aged 66, and had Sarah, b. at Ware, 13 Jan. 1631, wh. m. 26 Oct. 1659, Gershom Bulkely; Isaac, 23 Aug. 1632, H. C. 1651; Ichabod, 1635, H. C. 1651; Barnabas, H. C. 1657; Nathaniel, and Elnathan, tw. H. C. 1661, as in the same yr. was their younger br. Israel; and Hannah; the five last b. prob. at S. A celebr. descend. of the same name, min. of Boston bef. the mid. of the last centu. had furnish. a Mem. generous in tone, with slight error of detail, that was preserv. in 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. X. 171.

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:513] [Vol. 1] Page 368 l. 2, aft. tw. add b. at Plymouth, a. 1639, bapt. at Scituate 1641, both"

  4. Charles Chauncy, in Venn, John, and John Archibald Venn. Alumni Cantabrigienses: a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge: from the earliest times to 1900. (Cambridge, England: University Press, 1922-).

    "S. of George, of Yardley-Bury, Hertfordshire. Bapt. there, 1592:11:05 ."

  5. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    vol. 2:502.

    Chauncy, Charles, Rev. B.D., Pres. of Harvard College. Feb. 19, 1671-2. (a. 82 y., G.R.I.)