John Chiles

John CHILES was born about 1664 in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia. He served as as Justice of the Peace in 1714 in King William County, Virginia. He died about 1723 in King William County, Virginia. Parents: Walter CHILES III and Mary PAGE.

Spouse: Mary BOUCHER. Children were: John CHILES, William CHILES, Mary CHILES, Eleanor CHILES, Susannah CHILES, Jane CHILES.

Spouse: Mrs Eleanor WEBBER, a widow. John CHILES and Mrs Eleanor WEBBER were married about 1720. A daughter was Valentine CHILES.

Biography

“ Hammack-Martin-Chiles Connection: Chiles Family” (FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2009) < link >

Walter Chiles II and Mary Page had two children:

• I. John Chiles (1669-1700) who married twice in his lifetime. His first wife was Mary Boucher (?) and second wife was Eleanor Webber (1675-1738).
• II. Elizabeth Chiles who married Henry Tyler.

Walter II and Mary Page’s only son, John Chiles was born in 1669 in Virginia. John inherited a third of his father’s estate, and thus was able to become well-established as a planter and land owner. He was a mace bearer and a messenger to the House of Burgesses in 1702. In 1714, he was appointed a justice in King William County. John’s business interests included part ownership of “The Westover”, in 1700-1702. It was a sloop of forty tons, built in Virginia in 1693.

John was a Burgess for King William City and was a messenger for the Virginia Council to Maryland and New York; a member of the Virginia Assembly in 1723. He inherited Kemp House from his father. He received a grant of 345 acres in New Kent County on October 3, 1690 and again in 1691, he received a grant of 900 acres in the same county, which was apart of Hanover at the time. He settled in Carolina City, in 1722 where he entered 300 acres in King William County. According to this grant he was churchwarden of St. Margaret’s Perish. The Compendium of American Genealogy, Volume VII, page 194, notes him as a Messenger of the Virginia Council in 1693.

He married twice. His first wife was (1) Mary Boucher (1672-1699), daughter of John Boucher who he married by Sept. 1693. Eleanor Webber, daughter of Henry and Jane Webber, was John Chiles’ second wife.

Children of John Chiles & Mary Boucher are:

• I. John
• II. Elizabeth

Children of John Chiles and Eleanor Webber:

• I. Henry married (1) Mary Carr (?-1756) & (2) Susannah Dicken Graves in 1756.
• II. John never married
• III. Jane married John Wright
• IV. Susannah (1701-1754) married Joseph Martin (1710-1760) in 1736, in Albemarle, VA.

Joseph Martin, who married Susannah Chiles came to Virginia when a young man, married in King William and later settled in Albemarle. His wife survived him. Gen. Joseph Martin, their third son, was a patriot and prisoner, and Martinsville, Virginia, was named for him.

Origins

Family of Walter Chiles ll

References

• Ancestry.com. Tidewater Virginia Families [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006. Original data:Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Tidewater Virginia Families. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. “Chiles Family.” Page 264. < AncestrySharing >
• "The Chiles Family in Virginia (Continued)" is an article from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 19. < Archive.Org >
• http://sneakers.pair.com/roots//b49.htm#P410
• “The Chiles Family in Virginia (Continued)”.  W. B. Cridlin. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 19, No. 2 (Apr., 1911), pp. 211-215 Published by: Virginia Historical Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243134
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chiles-42

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