Wales Cheney

1732 - 1825  (92 years)

• Name	Wales Cheney
  Birth	31 Aug 1732	Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3]
  Married	10 Nov 1756 (24 years)	Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Sarah Whitney, the daughter of Jonathan and Lydia (Jones) Whitney. She was born on 14 March 1735/36 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Pope (1897) gives her birth as in the year 1730. She died on Wednesday 6 November 1822 or she died on 9 November 1829 in Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Josiah Cheney (1757-____) 2. Nathaniel Cheney (1758-____) 3. Susanna Cheney (1760-1848) 4. David Cheney (1763-1834) 5. Nathan Cheney (1765-1844) 6. Lydia Cheney (1767-1865) 7. Asa Cheney (1769-1830) 8. Amos Cheney (1773-____) 9. Anna Cheney (1777-____) 10. Alexander Cheney (1780-1843)
  Death	27 Mar 1825	Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  History	1882 (149 years)  [1, 2]
  According to Ballou (1882) he was "uniformly represented to have been a laborious, frugal, temperate, and most punctiliously upright man; sometimes stern and blunt-spoken, but a kind-hearted and accommodating neighbor."
  Siblings	5 brothers and 4 sisters
  1. Joanna Cheney,   b. 26 May 1728, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   2. Suzanna Cheney,   b. 23 Jul 1730, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Nov 1736, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 6 years)   3. Wales Cheney,   b. 31 Aug 1732, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 27 Mar 1825, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 92 years)   4. Nathaniel Cheney,   b. 24 Feb 1733/34, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 1795, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 60 years)   5. Mary Cheney,   b. 27 Jul 1736, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 4 Jun 1777, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 40 years)   6. Caleb Cheney,   b. 12 Jan 1738/39, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 5 Jul 1800, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 61 years)   7. Ebenezer Cheney,   b. 10 Jul 1741, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 14 Nov 1828, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 87 years)   8. Abigail Cheney,   b. 20 Nov 1743, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.   9. William Cheney,   b. 18 May 1746, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 10 Sep 1829, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 83 years) + 10. Levi Cheney,   b. 23 Nov 1756, Mendon, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 18 Apr 1847, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  (Age 90 years) ▻ Mary Hill,  m. After 4 Jun 1772 ;   Sarah Ballou,  m. 20 Jan 1820
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Sir John Cheney of Fen Ditton   d. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   (8 x Great Grandfather)  Margaret  (4 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID, Branch	I15138
  Last Modified	6 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	William Cheney,   b. 7 Feb 1703/04, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. d. 18 Jul 1756, Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Joanna Thayer,   b. 18 Aug 1706, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F166	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Pedigree

  ← Click to display 1Wales Cheney(1732 – 1825) 2William Cheney(7 Feb 1703/04 – 1756) 4William Cheney(1666 – 1753) 8William Cheney(1636/37 – 1681) 16William Cheney(5 Feb 1598/99 – 1667) 17Margaret Cule(1612 – 1686) 9Sarah Daniels(1638 – ) 18Robert Daniels(Abt 1592 – 1655) 19Elizabeth Morse(6 Mar 1605/06 – 1643) 5Margaret( – 1740) 10 20 21 11 22 23 3Joanna Thayer(1706 – ) 6Nathaniel Thayer(1680 – 1752) 12Nathaniel Thayer(1 Jan 1657/58 – 1726) 24Richard Thayer(10 Feb 1624/25 – 1705) 25Dorothy Pray(Abt 1634 – 1705) 13Hannah Hayden(1661 – ) 26John Hayden(1634 – 1718) 27Hannah Ames(1641 – 1690) 7Sarah Wales(1680 – 1707) 14Elder Nathaniel Wales(1650 – 1718) 28Nathaniel Wales(Abt 1623 – 1662) 29Isabel Atherton(1630 – 1661) 15Joanna Faxon(1661 – 1704) 30Thomas Faxon( – 1662) 31Deborah Thayer(27 Mar 1633/34 – 1662)

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 31 Aug 1732 - Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Married - 10 Nov 1756 - Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Death - 27 Mar 1825 - Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S467] Pope, Charles H. The Cheney Genealogy, (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1897). [S461] Ballou, Adin. History of the Town of Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts From its First Settlement to 1881, ( Boston: Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Co., 1882). [S1011] Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 , (Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1920). [S462] Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Milford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1917).