Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Leonard Chester

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1816 
  • Father:
  • John Chester 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Hooker   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Jul 1610 
  • Christening Location:
  • Blaby, Leicestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 11 Dec 1648 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Sharpe
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1632 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Chester (Ahnentafel No:908 )

  Dorcas Chester

• Sources for Leonard Chester

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, p. 163.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 195.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 345-349.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 984.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1753.
  • ⁶ 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.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 292.
  • ⁸ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 55.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 757.
  • ¹¹ Whiting, William, Memoir of Rev. Samuel Whiting, D.D., and of his wife, Elizabeth St. John, Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company (1873), 196.