James Chaughum

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From https://conidubois.com/2012/06/05/some-in-michigan-are-living/

It all starts with JAMES CHAGUM and MOLLY BARBER.
James Chagum, son of Great James Chagum and Jane/Priscilla Sands, was born in Jun 1710 in Block Island, Washington County, RI. James went to worked as a gardener for Molly's father. Other notable events are; Land Grant: 1760 James Chaugham being awarded a land grant in 1760 by the British Gov. of GT Military Service: Possible that he served in the French Indian Wars. Molly Barber was born about 1714, uncertian where, some reports of Ireland others Wethersfield, CT. Her father's name could be Peter Barber, but it is unknown. In the 1800, Litchfield County, CT Mary Chaugum, P. 32, with 1 Female-over 45, 3 free persons in family ...
... They had 8 children in all; Two boys Samuel who married Miss. Green of Sharon, CT and Solomon who married Miss Hayes & now I have found that he may have also married a Ms. Sophia Bills (Webster) who died while giving birth on 3 Mar 1848 in Kent, Litchfield County, CT. Six girls, two who never married Elizabeth who died in 1854 and Sally who died young. Meribah (aka: Mary) who married Samuel Lawerence. Hannah Sands who married Ruben Barber in 1784. Mercy married Isaac Jacklyn. Mary (aka: Polly) married William Preston Wilson Sr, who was a preacher (some say Baptist) and a school teacher, he also served in the Revolution War, he was lame possibly from battle of Monmouth.

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Notes

From "Outcasts" Build Their Own Village in 18th-Century Barkhamsted connecticuthistory.org accessed 30 March 2018

Around 1740, tradition holds that Mary Barber (also known as Molly), a white woman from Wethersfield, Connecticut, made the decision to marry a Narragansett Indian from Block Island named James Chaugham. To escape her disapproving father, Mary and James took to the woods of northwestern Connecticut; they eventually settled along the Farmington River in what became the town of Barkhamsted. While some details of the story (such as Mary’s Wethersfield origins) have not been conclusively proven, church and town records—along with archaeological evidence—document the growth of a small community where the Chaughams made their new home.

References

• Feder, Kenneth L. A Village of Outcasts: Historical Archaeology and Documentary Research at the Lighthouse Site. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing company, 1994.
• Mills, Lewis Sprague. Legends of Barkhamsted Lighthouse and Satan’s Kingdom in New Hartford. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1961.

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Sources

• Mary Webster's death notice "died at home in Silverton due to old age" November 7, 2016. By Coni Dubois, "Ever Widening Circle." accessed 30 March 2018
  • The Daily morning journal and courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, December 25, 1901, Image 1 Image provided by Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 30 March 2018), memorial page for Mary Wilson Webster (Jan 1827 to 24 Dec 1901), Find A Grave Memorial no. 85391486, citing Barkhamsted Lighthouse Cemetery, Barkhamsted, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Sherry Carsten (contributor 46504709) .link

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