Mary Cheesman

Mary Cheesman, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Forman) Cheesman,

• 1m= Benjamin Eyre, 1774, NYC, NY.
• 2m= Benjamin Cheesman (1748-1798) a paternal cousin, in 1791. 

Sister of Forman Cheesman, who was the brother of Capt Jacob Cheesman.

Her children were:

1. Eliza Ann Eyre. Born Oct. 13, 1775. Married Jacob H. Valentine.
2. Harriet Eyre. Born July 27, 1777. Married Samuel Robbins.

From From The Valentines in America, 1644-1874. By T. W. Valentine. Published 1874 by Clark & Maynard in New York .

Mary, daughter of Thomas Cheeseman, of New York, born January 30, 1773. She was born March 22, 1756, married in her sixteenth year, and died while on a visit to Glen Cove, September 7,18 .. She was a descendant of Thomas Cheeseman, of Somersetshire, England, who was attached to the British service, and came to New York in 1664. Mary Cheeseman was sister of Captain Jacob Cheeeman, of the New York troops, who was killed, with General Richard Montgomery, at the storming of Quebec, December 31, 1775, aged 29.

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