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About Joseph Cheuvront

Notes for JOSEPH CHEUVRONT: >From Rose Olinger - Moses Ellsworth paid passage for Joseph Cheuvront to America on Ship "Virginia" December 18-22, 1773 from London. He was in the Revolutionary War with LaFayette and Washington. Joseph was a private in the Virginia lines. Ordained into the Methodist Ministry in Uniontown, PA 1790 at the Conference meeting. His will is recorded at the Clarksburg County Building, Harrison Co., Book #4.

More About JOSEPH CHEUVRONT: Burial: New Bethel Church Cem., Good Hope, Harrison, WV Immigration: Abt. 1774 Joined Baltimore Conferen: Bet. 1800 - 1801, Joined Baltimore Conference for Methodist Church, served 2 parishes in N. Va. and Ohio Languages: Said to speak 7 languages Military service: Bet. April 1780 - 1781, Served until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Present at surrender Occupation: Methodist Minister and Farmer Ordination: Abt. 1776, John's Street Church, NY, Methodist Minister Published History 1: Hammonds' History of Harrison County mentions Rev. Cheuvront Published History 2: Alexander Withers, Chronicles of Border Warfare Published History 3: J.M. Callahan's "History of West Virginia," page 118 mentions Rev. Cheuvront Religion: Methodist Will: 1832, On record at Harrison, WV ____________________________________________________________ He was a man of medium statue, with very black eyes and hair, in his younger days, but becoming gray and bald in later life. He was always a student, preferring to work alone, and assigning his boys a task of clearing land or attending or gathering crops, while he himself would work somewhere else. While he spoke and read seven different languages he never taught his children anything but English. ______________________________________________________________ Joseph Cheuvront was born near the Swiss border of France, Feb. 2, 1757.

Was educated for the Roman Catholic priesthood, became a Protestant, was disowned and disinherited by his family. While yet in his teens he came to America as a stow-a-away and was "bound out" to JOHN ELSWORTH to pay for passage.

In the fall of 1773, some 35 young men from London were indentured to America, with someone agreeing to pay their passage for four years' service. (They sailed on the ship "Virginia", Dec. 18-22, 1773, from London.)

Moses Elsworth, a very devout Virginia farmer who lived in Germany Valley, in what is now (1950) the North Fork District of Pendleton County, West Virginia, agreed to pay the passage of the young Frenchman, JOSEPH CHEUVRONT. MOSES ELSWORTH had married MARIA ELIZABETH HENKEL ( now Hinkle ), a daughter of JOHN JUSTUS (YOST) HINKLE. J.J. HINKLE was born in Germany in 1706, came to Pennsylvania with his father's family in 1717, and "pioneered in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Virginia". He died in August, 1778, and with his wife, MAGDALINE ESCHMANN, who was born in Switzerland, is buried on the old HINKLE farm not far from Seneca Caverns near Riverton, West Virginia.

While speaking six different languages he was not familiar with English and attended school in New York City. About 1776 JOHN and JACOB ELSWORTH, brothers, came from New York to Harrison County (then Augusta County) West Virginia and were accompanied by JOSEPH CHEUVRONT who married ELIZABETH, daughter of JOHN and MARY ELSWORTH. They first settled on Coburn's Creek, near Clarksburg, but later moved to the West Fork River Valley, some 10 miles southest of Clarksburg. ELIZABETH ELSWORTH was born March 20, 1759, probably in New York. ELIZABETH ELSWORTH CHEUVRONT died of typhoid fever, August 18, 1880, and Dec. 2, 1802, JOSEPH CHEUVRONT married Sarah Bollen, of Painesville, Ohio.

In the spring of the year 1780, JOSEPH CHEUVRONT enlisted in the American Army of the Revolutionary War, continuing in the service until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va., Oct. 19, 1781. He received an honorable discharge.

He was ordained into the Wesleyan ministry before the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church and on May 1, 1801, was admitted to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church and served two charges in the Pittsburgh District of that conference, both being in Ohio.

The first recorded marriage celebrated by Joseph Cheuvront is that of DAVID BENNETT and CHRISTINA BUMGARDNER, April 5, 1791. Then April 11 of the same year, he officated at the marriage of EDMOND WEST and CATHERINE ELSWORTH (his wife's sister). On Feb. 28, 1818, he officiated at the marriage of GIDEON CHEUVRONT and PHOEBE POST and the last marriage he performed was that of ISAAC CHEUVRONT and CATHERINE CHILDERS.

Old records show that he owned 1358 acres of land in Harrison and Lewis counties and extensive acreage in Jackson County. His will was written Feb. 2, 1832, and is an interesting document.

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   Rev Joseph Louis Cheuvront Sr.
   Birth 1 Feb 1757
   Alsace, France
   Death 12 Aug 1832 (aged 75)
   Goodhope, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Cheuvront Family Graveyard
   Goodhope, Harrison County, West Virginia, USA
   
   The notable Joseph Louis Cheuvront was born 1 February 1757 (christened on the 2nd) at Strasbourg, Alsace, France, son of Francis Cheuvront and Nicole Febrve Cheuvront. He died about 12 August 1832 in Harrison County, Virginia (WV), and was buried on the old Cheuvront farm beside his first wife, located in the Good Hope community. Joseph was reared and received his education in the city of Nantes, France.
   
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