Person:Dorothy Chester (1)
Dorothy Chester
b.5 Sep 1692 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
d.26 Sep 1754 Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 17 Dec 1691
  1. Dorothy Chester1692 - 1754
  2. Sarah Chester1693/94 - 1754
  3. Mercy Chester1696 -
  4. Stephen John Chester1698 - 1725
Spouse and Children
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m. 13 Jan 1715/16
  1. Dorothy Kellogg1716 - 1772
  2. Captain Martin Kellogg1718 - 1791
  3. Anna Kellogg1720 - 1791
  4. Jemima Kellogg1723 - 1791
  5. Mary Kellogg1725 - 1799
  6. Sarah Kellogg1727 - 1795
  7. Stephen Chester Kellogg1729 - 1767
  8. Rebecca Kellogg1732 - 1816
  9. Joseph Kellogg1736 - 1759
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Dorothy Chester
Married Name Dorothy Kellogg
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 5 Sep 1692 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 13 Jan 1715/16 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Captain Martin Kellogg
Will[1][4] 21 Sep 1754 Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[1][2] 26 Sep 1754 Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[1][3] Newington Cemetery, Newington, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[1][4] 22 Oct 1754 Will proved.
Estate Inventory[4] 20 Nov 1754
Probate[4] 3 Dec 1754 Inventory exhibited.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 240. Dorothy4 Chester, in Mathews, Barbara Jean; Donna Holt Siemiatkoski; Kathryn Smith Black; and Nancy Pexa. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife Alice Tomes. (Wethersfield, Conn.: Welles Family Association, 2015)
    1:557-61.

    "240. Dorothy4 Chester (Stephen3 Chester, Sarah2, Gov. Thomas1), born 5 September 1692 in Wethersfield, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:18); and died 26 September 1754 in Newington, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:92), at age 62 according to her gravestone in Newington Cemetery there (Hale 27). …

    Dorothy Kellogg of Newington in Wethersfield left a will dated 21 September 1754 and proved 22 October 1754. It names her sons Martin, Stephen, and Joseph, and daughters Dorothy, Anna, Jemimah, Rebeckah, Sarah and Mary. None of her daughters are given surnames in her will. She gives her moveables to her daughters Sarah and Mary and asks them to be kind to their aged grandmother, Dorothy's mother Jemima (Treat) Chester; these two daughters are also appointed executors (Hartford Probate District, Connecticut Estate Files, docket no. 3142). Grandmother Jemima Chester died about a year later on 5 October 1755, at the age of 86, and was buried in Wethersfield (Hale 27)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    60; 169.

    "Chester, … Dorothy, d. Stephen, Jr. & Jemima, b. Sept. 5, 1692 [1:18]"
    "Kellogg, … Dorothy, wid. Capt. Martin, late of Kensington, (In pencil 'Newington') d. Sept. 26, 1754 [1:92]"

  3. ↑ Dorothy Chester Kellogg, in Find A Grave.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Kellogg, Dorothy, Newington in Wethersfield, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes, and Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Transcriber). Hartford District Probate Records. Connecticut Nutmegger (Connecticut Society of Genealogists)
    36:210-11.

    "17:63,95-96

    Kellogg, Dorothy [in pencil: widow of Capt Martin], Newington in Wethersfield

    will 21 Sept 1754, wit Joseph Andrus, Lois Andrus, Elisha Williams

    inv 20 Nov 1754, app Caleb Andrus, Samuel Hun

    daughter Mary & Sarah to be ex

    Legatees (mother still living) Martin, Stephen, Joseph, sons Dorothy, Anna, Jemima, Rebecca, Sarah, Mary, daughters

    Court Record, Page 42 - 22 Oct 1754 Will exhibited.

    Page 46-3 Dec 1754. Invt exhibited."

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