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Personal data Nathaniel Cheney 

• He was born on January 12, 1644 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts.
• A child of John Cheney and Martha Parrat
• This information was last updated on September 21, 2008.

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Notes about Nathaniel Cheney

NATHANIEL, b. in Newbury, Jan. 12, 1644; he does not appear to have married. Before his death, which occurred April 4, 1684, he made a will, in which he bequeathed one third of his estate (including what was yet to fall to him from his father's estate). He gave it to his brother Peter and his sisters, Lydia Kenrick and Elizabeth Cross ; but devised a few things to others. His great Bible, after the death of his mother, was to go to his sister Elizabeth, or, in the event of her death, to her son Daniel Smith; his “skillet" to Sarah, eldest daughter of his brother Daniel, or to "his cousin," her sister Hannah; he requested his friends and brothers in the Lord, George Little and Cutting Noyes, to act as executors. In his inventory we note " a parcel of meadow at haverhall " appraised at £25, which shows how he had been looking westward. The records of Siffield in the Connecticut valley show that he had travelled much further, for he had lands assigned him there Dec. i, 1680. He deeded this to his nephew John, son of Peter, April i, 1684, just before making his will. His name occurs in the list of the members of the First Baptist chorea of Newbury, in 1681. George Little, one of those he asked to attend to his estate, was a "brother" in that particular church.

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