Ancestry of
Dick Cheney

46th U.S. Vice-President

Benjamin Cheney

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Dick Cheney — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 256 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Cheney 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Atkinson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Jan 1675/1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jul 1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Harbert
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1706 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Cheney (Ahnentafel No:128 )

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Cheney

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Cheney

• Sources for Benjamin Cheney

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Marriage record for Benjamin Cheney, Vol. 1, Page 220.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Births, Vol. 1, Page 61.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 503.
  • ⁴ Cheney, Lynne, Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, New York: Threshold Editions (2009), Chart on pages 308-309.
  • ⁵ Pope, Charles Henry, The Cheney Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts: The Barta Press (1897), 42, 48-50.
  • ⁶ Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 1, The Ancestry of Warren Francis Kempton 1817-1879, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1996), 232.
  • ⁷ Turner, Ethel McLaughlin et. al., Wisconsin Page Pioneers and Kinsfolk, Waterloo, Wisconsin: Artcraft Press (1953), 354.