Person:George Chandler (10)

Research Notes

• One excellent source is Cope's Chandler Genealogy. Gilbert Cope did much genealogy in Chester County using original Quaker records.
• Came from an agricultural area of England to America.

1. ↑ Land Records - pending better citation.

   http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/Chandler.html
   
   ... Land Records
   There is a land record in Chester County of interest in showing George Chandler's intent to come to America and that his residence was indeed Wiltshire. It is a Lease and Release dated December 1725, but the history of the land includes the sale of land by William Penn beginning in 1681 to several parties in the county of Wilts [England]. These parties began selling off portions of the land to other parties in the county of Wilts. These sales included one by Daniel Smith on 29 September 1687 of 2000 acres excepting 100 acres that Daniel Smith had sold to George Chandler (Abstracts of Chester Co Land Records, Vol 2, page 56).
   
   Another record in Volume 4 of a deed recorded 13 September 1753 also contains land history of interest:
   "... Whereas James Brown by deed dated 9 March 1687 granted to John Chandler and Jane his wife, the 100 acres. Whereas John Chandler died and said land descended to his wife Jane, who by her deed dated 1695 granted to George Chandler, the 100 acres. Whereas John Taylor, Sheriff by virtue of a writ obtained in the court of Common Pleas seized 100 acres and by deed dated 18 July 1724 granted to George Chandler (the son of the aforesaid Chandler). Whereas Swithon Chandler, William Chandler and Thomas Chandler, sons of Jane Chandler, and Robert Jeffries and Jane his wife and Ann Romine (Jane & Ann being daughters of Jane Chandler) did release 100 acres to George Chandler, release being dated 26 March 1726. ..."
   
   This deed goes on to mention transactions by Robert Jeffries and George Chandler concerning the land. One almost needs a program to follow the relationships! The John Chandler with wife Jane appears to actually be George Chandler I and wife Jane and seems to refer to the same 100 acres that George Chandler purchased while still in England. Jane then granted the 100 acres to her son George Chandler II, and finally the land went to George Chandler III when seized by the Sheriff. Daughter Jane's marriage to Robert Jeffries is proven. The mention of Ann Romine is not so clear - was it actually Ann Robbins?
   
   Another deed (Vol 1) dated 11 Oct 1700 refers to a land transaction of one John Gibbons. It refers to a deed by William Penn dated 1 and 2 Aug 1681 to John Gibbons for 500 acres and
   
   "... whereas William Hawks of Chichester had a tract lying in the Governor's manor adjoining the land of John Gibbons Sr., containing 150 acres. William Hawks devised the tract to his wife Jane Hawks and Jane Hawks for the natural love she bears to her sons George Chandler and Swithin Chandler. George Chandler and Swithin Chandler by their deed dated 23 April 1696 granted 150 acres to John Gibbons. ..."

2. ↑ Inventory of Estate - pending better citation.

   http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/Chandler.html
   
   Estate of George Chandler
   
   A True Inventory of the goods & Chattelle of George Chandler who Deceased the xiii day of December 1687, in his passage to pennsilvania; Taken & apprized by us Whose Names are heer under written the xth Day of the Seaventh mo' 1688. (lb, s, d)
   
   first His wearing Apparrell ... iii 00 00
   Pt one fether bed & two bolsters, 2 blankets, 1 Coverled, 1 pare of Sheets ...iiii 00 00
   Pt in other beds & Bedding ... vi 00 00
   Pt in pewter, ... i xi 00
   Pt in Brass, ... iii xi iii
   Pt in tools & other Ironware, ... i x 00
   pt in nayles, Saws, Aug'rs, Chessells, Gouges,
   wedges, Locks, Keys, Riphooks & all other Iron Lumber, ... ii ix ix
   pt 2 gunns & powder & shot & powder Horne, ... i xii 00
   pt 2 Chests & five Boxes and 2 bedsteds, ... i xi 00
   pt in Sacks ... 00 x 00
   pt one Barrell, 1 pare of Bellows, 4 Kevers, 1 Doe trough, 2 pailes, 10 botles, & all other Lumber ... i 00 00
   pt one Sow & 9 piggs, ... ii 00 00
   pt 4 yards & halfe of Sarge at 4 s p yard, ... 00 xviii 00
   in whitles & Childbed Linnen ... 00 xviii 00
   pt 1 Ell of holland or Scotch Cloth, thred,
   pins & tapes ... 00 v 00
   pt one Coverled yt paid toward the byeing of one horse, ... i iiii 00
   pt paid towards one Hundred Acres of Land ... viii x 00
   in the whole ... xl viii 00
   
   Debts.
   paid A Debt to John Chandler ... xxvii 00 00
   To William Hues, ... 00 xii 00
   To philip Rummin for shooes ... 00 x 00
   To William Hawks for works & provission, ... 00 xv 00
   To Fra'cis Chadsey, ... 00 v 00
   To meat ... 00 iii 00
   To William Clowd ... i ii 00
   The whole ... xxx vii 00
   John Chandler,
   Thomas Rauellsion
   George Strode
   [Indorsed, "no adm'ra'n granted hereon - hee dyed Intestate."]
   
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   [Note: The transcript of George Chandler's inventory of goods was found filmed on top of one of the pages of Cope's transcription.]