Person:John Chester (11)
Captain John Chester
b.3 Aug 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.23 Feb 1697/98 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Bef 1634
  1. Captain John Chester1635 - 1697/98
  2. Mary ChesterEst 1636 - Aft 1637
  3. Dorcas Chester1637 - 1712/13
  4. Stephen ChesterEst 1640 - 1705
  5. Mercy ChesterEst 1647 - 1669
  6. Prudence ChesterEst 1649 -
  7. Eunice ChesterEst 1652 - 1676
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain John Chester1635 - 1697/98
  • W.  Sarah WellesAbt 1631 - 1698
m. Feb 1653/54
  1. Mary Chester1654 - 1689
  2. Major John Chester1656 - 1711
  3. Sarah Chester1657 - 1723
  4. Stephen Chester, Jr.1660 - 1697/98
  5. Thomas Chester1662 - 1712
  6. Samuel Chester1664 - 1689
  7. Prudence Chester1666 - 1727
  8. Eunice Chester1668 - 1698
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Captain John Chester
Alt Name[1] Justice John Chester
Gender Male
Alt Birth[1] Est 1634 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Birth[2][3][4] 3 Aug 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesRecorded at Wethersfield.
Marriage Feb 1653/54 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United Statesto Sarah Welles
Death[2][4] 23 Feb 1697/98 Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[4][5] 25 Feb 1697/98 Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Leonard Chester, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    1:347.

    "John (Chester), b. say 1634 (named in father's 1637 will, "eldest son" in mother's will)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 1. Gov. Thomas1 Welles, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    786.

    "… Capt. John Chester, b. at Watertown, Mass., 3 Aug. 1635, d. at Wethersfield, 23 Feb. 1697/8 in 63d yr., son of Leonard and Mary (_____) Chester. He was chosen Lieutenant of the Wethersfield Train Band, May 1672, and Captain, May 1677, but had served as Captain in King Philip's War and was so called Oct. 1676; Captain of the south Train Band, Sept. 1689; Deputy for Wethersfield, May and Oct. 1676, May and Oct. 1677, May and Oct. 1678, Oct. 1679, May and Oct. 1680, May 1681, May 1682, May 1683, May and Oct. 1684, May and Oct. 1685, May, July and Oct. 1686, Jan. and Oct. 1687, and Oct. 1689; he was Commissioner (Justice) for Wethersfield, 1678 until his death in 1698, except during the Andros usurpation of 1688."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chester, in Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
    2:736.

    "John (Chester), b. in Watertown, Mass., Aug. 3, 1635; a captain, of Wethersfield."

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Wethersfield Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    61.

    "Chester, … John, s. Lenord & Mary, b. Aug. 3, 1635 [LR1:15]"
    "Chester, … John, Capt., b. Aug. 3, 1635, in Watertown; d. Feb. 23, 1697/8; bd. Feb. 25, 1697/8, Æ 62 1/2 y. 20 days [1:77]"
    "Chester, … John, s. Leonord & Mary, b. Aug. 3, 1635 [1:77]"

  5. ↑ Capt John Chester, in Find A Grave.
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