Person:Richard Cheever (1)

Lands & Property

Richard was a Boston merchant and in 1747 (or 1748), he and his brother, Bartholomew, moved to Rutland, Mass. Crane states that on May 25, 1747, his brother bought a tract of land (Lot No. 16) of Thomas Hubbard (of Boston) and he sold half of his interest in the tract to Richard, Dec. 7, 1747. Blake states Richard received the lot from his Uncle Bartholomew.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Richard Cheever, in Crane, Ellery B. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity. (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907)
   v 3 p 368.

   Richard Cheever, son of Daniel Cheever (3), was born at Boston, October 30, 1724, and died May 6, 1789, aged sixty-six years, at Princeton, Massachusetts. He was a merchant of Boston until 1747 when he and his brother Bartholomew removed to Rutland, Massachusetts... both brothers are called merchants in deeds.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Richard Cheever, in Blake, Francis E. (Francis Everett). History of the town of Princeton: in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1759-1915. (Princeton [Massachusetts]: The Town, 1915)
   v 2 p 56.

   Cheever Richard³ (Daniel², Richard¹), son of Daniel and Mary (Downes) Cheever, born in Boston, Oct. 30, 1724, married in Holden, Jany. 2, 1750, Rebecca Bigelow. His uncle Bartholomew, converyed to him in 1747 certain lands in Rutland. He was in Princeton as early as Aug, 7, 1762. In a deed of that date he styles himself of Princeton District. In 1769, he is recorded as being "presented" for not attending meeting for three months ___. He died May 6, 1789, ae. 66, and she, Nov. 20, 1797, ae 72.