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Thomas, son of William and Margaret (Cole) Cheney.
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Thomas Cheney was born in Roxbury in 1639 (others say 1633), son of William Cheney and Margaret Cule. He married in Roxbury Jan. 11, 1655, Jane Atkinson. She lived to a good old age, and died not far from the 29th of July, 1724. Thomas Cheney lived in Roxbury only a few years after his marriage. He was a member of a committee appointed by the town to inspect the bounds between Roxbury and Dorchester, Jan. 29, 1654/5 ; then he selected a spot on the south side of Charles River, within the limits of Cambridge at that time, but later included in Brighton, now in Boston, and made his home there. The deed of this earliest purchase is on record. In 1675 he served in Capt. Johnson's celebrated Roxbury company of soldiers, who marched from Boston July 6, 1675, for Mt. Hope, the stronghold of the Indian enemy, and rendered very eflicient service, in December, 1675, when Capt. Johnson was killed. His continued residence in Roxbury is attested by the fact that April 13, 1684, three of his children, namely Thomas, William and John, " owned the covenant" in the Roxbury church. He died in 1694 at age 55. [1]
Jane Atkinson must have been very aged, for it had been sixty-nine years since her marriage ! Her age would render it conceivable that she might have been either a sister of Theodore Atkinson of Boston, or a daughter of Thomas Atkinson of Concord. But no evidence has yet been discovered to settle the question of her family connections.
Children of Thomas Cheney and Jane Atkinson:
1633 |
1633
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1656 |
November 26, 1656
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Cambridge, Middlesex County , Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
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1658 |
December 25, 1658
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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1660 |
1660
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1662 |
1662
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1663 |
June 30, 1663
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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1665 |
April 17, 1665
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1669 |
February 16, 1669
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Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
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June 5, 1669
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Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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