William Chesebrough Sr (1745 - 1840)

Born 7 Jan 1745 in Stonington, New London County, CT

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Williams) Chesebrough — married 3 Feb 1774 (to 2 Jun 1814) in Stonington, New London County, CT

Descendants

Died 21 Dec 1840 at age 95 in Auburn, Cayuga County, NY, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Deacon William Chesebrough Sr performed Patriotic Service in Connecticut in the American Revolution.

Military Service October 14, 1776 Revolutionary War Patriot Committee of One Hundred member acting in conjunction with the Stonington Committee of Safety, aka Committee of Safety of Stonington. Stonington, New London County, CT, USA

Burial 1840 Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY, USA

Notes

1. In May, 1776, Reverend Nathaniel Eells of Long Point, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut was appointed Chaplain of the regiment stationed at New London. There was much delay in providing the means of defense, and the dissatisfaction caused a "memorial" to be presented to the Connecticut General Assembly.

On October 14, 1776 Samuel was one of the signers of this memorial recorded in the Capitol Building, Hartford. (See "Revolutionary War, IV", Document 400 and Hurd's "History of New London County"*, page 629.) :

"Your Honors may remember that this town is the only one in this State that has received any damages from those sons of tyranny and despotism, sent by that more savage tyrant, George the Third, to deprive us of those unalienable rights that the Supreme Governor of Heaven and Earth has invested us with. Your memorialists therefore pray that the number of men ordered here may remain; and that the two eighteen-pounders and four twelve-pounders, and shot, &c., that were previously ordered here may be delivered as soon as possible, as the harbor is perhaps more used by coasters, and vessels bound to sea than any other harbor in the state; and is a place of great consequence, not only to this, but to other states.

We therefore beg leave to inform your Honors that several vessels have been chased into this harbor by the King's Ships, and have been protected.

Your memorialists further pray that the three large cannon (now at New London) belonging to this town be likewise ordered to this place; and the two field pieces lent to the town of New London, by this town, be ordered back to Stonington.

And your memorialists will ever pray, &c.

Signed -

Nathaniel Minor, Paul Wheeler, John Brown, Jr., John Denison, Henry Babcock, Simeon Rhodes, Committee;

Joseph Denison, Alexander Bradford, Robert Stanton, Nathan Palmer, Nathaniel Palmer, Nathan Palmer, Jr., John Davis, Andrew Palmer, Michael Ash, Lemuel Dewey, John Rathbun, John Rathbun, Jr., Peleg Brown, Elisha Denison, Asa Palmer, Edward Hancox, Jr., Oliver Hilliard, John Dodge, Peter Crary, Clement Minor, Naboth Chesebrough, John Minor 2d, John Newman, Andrew Brown, Elkanah Cobb, Samuel Satterlee, Sands Niles, Thomas Robinson, John Denison 5th, Elijah Utley, James Tripp, Edward Eells, Zebulon Chesebrough, John Hancox, SAMUEL CHESEBROUGH, Moses Bromley, Jonathan Gray, William Slack, Henry Burtch, William Chesebrough, James Palmer, Nathaniel Crandall, Jared Crandall, Rufus Palmer, Elijah Palmer, Thomas Stanton 4th, Asa Lewis, Nathan Hinckley, Elijah Hinckley, John Rock, James Noyes Jr., Edward Crosby, Wyatt Hinckley, Elihu Babcock, George Batolph, Abel Hinckley, James Noyes, Peleg Noyes, John Randall, Eliphalet Buddington, James Cornish, John Breed Jr. Isaac Brown, Fish Brown, Hempsted Minor, Thomas Randall, John Denison, Joseph Champlin, Walter Palmer, Jed. Thompson, Thomas Palmer, David Thompson, Charlie Thompson, William Thompson, Joseph Vincent, Joseph Page, Gilbert Fanning, Daniel Hobart, John Cotton Rossiter, Eliphalet Hobart, James Hancox, John Haley, Peleg Chesebrough, Nathaniel Fellows, Nathaniel Fellows Jr., Simeon Hiscox, Thomas Hiscox Israel Lewis, Sylvester Pendleton, Achors Sheffield, William Palmer, Eliphalet Buddington Jr., Charles Welch, Job Taylor, William Scovill.

Dated, October 14, 1776."

All descendants of this memorial are eligible for societies of the Revolution.

* Library of Congress Control Number: 05013594 Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.) Brief Description: Hurd, D[uane] Hamilton, [from old catalog] ed. History of New London County, Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co., 1882. 768 pageillus., plates (partly double) ports., double mapage29 cm. CALL NUMBER: Microfilm 18540 F Copy 1 Request in: Microform Reading Room (Jefferson, LJ139B)

This group of Patriots was referred to as the Committee of One Hundred that acted in conjunction with the Stonington Committee of Safety (aka Committee of Safety of Stonington).

Sources

• DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A021422
• Anna Chesebrough Wildey, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough, Founder of Stonington, Ct., (New York: Press of T. A. Wright 1903), pages 26, 51, 528, 540 and 541.
• Richard Anson Wheeler, History of Stonington, Connecticut, 1649 - 1900, (New London, CT, USA, Press of The Day Publishing Company, 1900), page 514.
• Lineage Book, National Society, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, (1931), Vol, VII page 44: Vol XIX, pages 102-103; and Vol XXI pages 73-74.
• James Joseph Leogue, Jr, Leogue Family Records, (1998-2001).

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Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Larry Chesebro' for starting, adopting, correcting or adding to this profile and/or merging it with other profiles of the same person.