Ancestry of
Emory Washburn

22nd Governor of Massachusetts

William Cheney

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Emory Washburn — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 74 
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  • ABT 1603 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1667 
  • Death Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Margaret -----
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  Ellen Cheney (Ahnentafel No:37 )

  Thomas Cheney

  Margaret Cheney

  Joseph Cheney

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  • Some claim that William Cheney is the son of Lawrence and Julian (Waldron) Cheney from Lambourne, Berkshire, England. Evidence is needed to support this claim.

• Sources for William Cheney

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Humphrey Johnson (m. 1641), p. 1.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Roxbury Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 487.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1990, Vol. 7, p. 157.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 206.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 63.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 238-239.
  • ⁷ Cheney, Lynne, Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family, New York: Threshold Editions (2009), Chart on pages 308-309.
  • ⁸ Leach, Josiah Granville, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts: unknown (1894), 130.
  • ⁹ Pope, Charles Henry, The Cheney Genealogy, Boston, Massachusetts: The Barta Press (1897), 17-34.
  • ¹⁰ 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), 224-233.
  • ¹¹ Turner, Ethel McLaughlin et. al., Wisconsin Page Pioneers and Kinsfolk, Waterloo, Wisconsin: Artcraft Press (1953), 350.
  • ¹² Washburn, Mabel Thacher Rosemary, Ancestry of William Howard Taft, New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company (1908), 43-44.
  • ¹³ Williams, Alicia Crane, Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. 1, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Socity (2015), 191.