Mary Chute [55418]

  General Notes:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp400.htm#head1


Deacon John Cheney and Mary Chute Cheney:

"Who were the deacons of the new church [i.e. of the Byfield Parish]? This question has never, so far as I know, been fully answered. William Moody, the husband of Mehetabel Sewall, was one. But who was his associate? It has been said that Joshua Boynton, who was born in 1640, was one of the first deacons, but I find no evidence to support that statement. I know no law requiring a small church to have two deacons, but the Weston church records contain this entry:
Deacon John Cheney and Mary his wife recomendd and dismissd from a Chh in Newbury (under ye Pastoral care of Mr Hale) rec'd into or Comunion Aug. 23, 1724." ("Cheney Family," p. 232)
John Cheney was a son of Peter the mill-builder and owned for a time part of the estate now held by Mr. Benjamin Pearson and his family. He was a worthy and enterprising man, who made four or five removals during his life. This record indicates that he was a deacon in the Byfield church in or before 1724. He was born in 1666, and lived in Byfield as early as 1693; so that it is very possible that he was one of the original deacons."
Source: The Story of Byfield, John Louis Ewell. For a discussion on the creation and need for the Byfield Parish, see Lionel Chute II <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp10.htm#head0> notes.



Record Type: Chute Family History/Book
Title: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: William Edward Chute
Published: Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
Comments: Copy originally owned by George Maynard Chute, nephew of William Edward Chute with his signature on the flyleaf; handwritten notes in margins; passed to George Maynard Chute, Jr. who published an updated addendum to this work in 1968; passed to George Maynard

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence, 23 Aug 1724, Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Mary married Deacon John Cheney [55419] [MRIN: 551614507], son of Peter Cheney Esq. [49038] and Hannah Noyes [49039], on 23 Aug 1724 in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (Deacon John Cheney [55419] was born on 10 May 1666 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony and died on 23 Aug 1724 in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.)