Eunice Chichester

Believed to be buried with her husband James Chichester, in the old Chichester burial graveyard, approx. 100 yards, on the hill, behind The Peace and Plenty Inn, Huntington,Suffolk County, NY

Eunice's father was Jonathan Porter, he was of Salem Massachusetts in 1636, a sergeant in 1647, and in (vol. 3, p. 462) Sept. of that yr. had gr. of 200 acres, was selectman 1653 and 4, but late in that year conveyed his estate at Salem to son-in-law James Chichester, on condition that he should provide for his widow Eunice if she outlived him and removed to Huntington, L. I. had died bef. 1660, when Eunice sued for her right in November of that year, and in 1670 estate was divested to the heirs, who were all females. His three daus. married respectively, James Chichester, Edward Harnett, and Stephen Jarvis; and the widow. Eunice re-married Giles Smith of Fairfield CT. Sourced from "Early Settlers of New England" by James Savage.

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