Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

John Chester

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Archibald MacLeish — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 908 
  • Father:
  • Leonard Chester 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Sharpe   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Aug 1635 
  • Birth Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Feb 1697/1698 
  • Death Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
  • 25 Feb 1697/1698 
  • Burial Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Welles
  • Marriage Date:
  • Feb 1653 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Stephen Chester (Ahnentafel No:454 )

• Sources for John Chester

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 62, Birth record for son Stephen Chester.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Wethersfield, p. 61, Death record for John Chester.
  • 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), 347.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 292.
  • ⁵ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 55.
  • ⁶ Whittlesey, John S., et. al., Memorial of the Whittlesey Family in the United States, n.p.: The Whittlesey Association (1855), 74.