Person:Samuel McChesney (3)

Disambiguation

NOT to be confused with Samuel McChesney of Augusta and Rockbridge County, Virginia, who married Joanna Hening. These two Samuel McChesney's have been confused by many researchers. They are likely related (possible cousins?), but additional research is needed to prove any suspected relationship.

Records in Virginia

• 14 January 1800, Augusta County, Virginia. Archibald Armstrong's will:

"To wife, Margaret, tract purchased of Samuel McChesney on which Samuel now lives; to son, Robert; daughter, Ann Elliot; son-in-law, James Elliot; to heirs of deceased son, Thomas; heirs, of deceased daughter, Isabella; to son, William, and his little son, Archibald Armstong; to grandson, Thomas Armstrong, son to William; to grandson, Archibald Armstrong McCray; to grandson, Margaret McCray; to daughter, Jean McCray; to daughter-in-law, Peggy Armstrong (William's wife). Executors, son William Armstrong and James Berry." [Note: this is likely a record of this Samuel McChesney as it includes James Berry [half-brother of this Samuel McChesney's wife Susannah Berry], who was an Executor of Archibald Armstrong's will].

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
   Database online.

   Record for Thomas McChesney

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
   Database online.

   Record for Samuel McChesney

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
   Database online.

   Record for James McChesney _FOOT: Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.), Database online.

4.   Find A Grave.

   Samuel McChesney
   Birth 22 Jun 1753
   Northern Ireland
   Death 4 Apr 1803 (aged 49)
   Washington County, Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Green Spring Cemetery
   Green Spring, Washington County, Virginia, USA
   
   Samuel McChesney was born in Northern Ireland (believed to be in County Armagh) on 22 Jun 1753 to James McChesney and Sarah Patterson. His parents and siblings all moved to the new English colony, America, settling in Virginia in about 1770.
   
   15 May 1775, Samuel McChesney witnessed both an indenture for Walter McChesney of Augusta Co., VA, who purchased land in Deed Book 21, p 145 and also a 9 Mar 1793 indenture in same county for Robert McChesney. James McChesney also witnessed it.
   
   In about 1777, he married Susannah D. Berry, the daughter of Thomas Berry and Esther McClure Ward. They had their only known child: Thomas, 2 Jul 1778 to 30 Oct 1836. Thomas married 3 times: Sallie Sharpe, 1799; Patsy Hall, 1818 and Susan McChesney, 1830.
   
   Samuel was living in Rockbridge County, VA in 1778 and in 1781 and owned land in Washington County, VA at the time. He is on the 1782 Washington County, VA tax lists thereafter. Samuel was a Captain and patriot and contributed to the war efforts in the Rockbridge County, Virginia Commissioner's book(s): V, p. 80. He was a "Company Commander in Campbell Co. Militia."
   
   He was the Executor of the will of his father in law, Thomas Berry, on 31 Aug 1798.
   
   On 22 Nov 1800, grantee, Saml McChesney, purchased 150 acres on a branch of Holstein River, adjoining his own land, in Washington Co., VA.
   
   Samuel made his will out on 25 Mar 1803, in Washington County, Virginia. It's recorded in Will Book 3, pages 403-405.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31645824