Leonard Chester

Bef 1610 - 1648  (> 38 years)

• Name	Leonard Chester  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 15 Jul 1610  [3, 4]
  Baptism	15 Jul 1610	Blaby, Leicestershire, England   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Dec 1648	Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [4, 5, 6, 7]
  Burial	Wethersfield Village Cemetery, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut   [4, 7]
  Person ID	I18819	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Chester,   b. of Blaby, Leicestershire, England d. Between 28 Jul 1628 and 15 Oct 1628, Blaby, Leicestershire, England
  Mother	Dorothy Hooker   d. 1662, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Marriage	1 Jun 1609	Birstall, Leicestershire, England   [5, 8, 9, 10]
  Family ID	F11411	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary   d. 30 Nov 1688, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets
  Children	+ 1. Capt. John Chester,   b. 3 Aug 1635, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Feb 1698, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F11412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated 1633; first at Watertown, then Wethersfield in 1636. Surmounted by a crudely-rendered armorial shield, his grave at Wethersfield Village Cemetery, said to be the third oldest tombstone in Connecticut, proclaims his late-medieval ancestry: HERE LYES THE BODY OF LEON ARD CHESTER, ARMIGER LATE OF THE TOWN OF BLABY AND SEVERALL OTHER LORDSHIPS IN LEISTERSHEIRE DECEASED IN WETHERSFEILD ANNO DOMINI 1648 ETATIS 39

  
  

• Sources

  [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S1357] The Visitation of the Counter of Leicester in the Year 1619, Taken by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms ed. John Fetherston. London: Harleian Society, 1870. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year only. [S4958] Genealogical Notes of the Families of Chester of Blaby by Edmond Chester-Waters. Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson, 1886. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year and place only. [S4961] Find a Grave page for Leonard Chester Chester. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S4957] Frances Ida Schureman Judd, "American Ancestry of Samuel Tompkins and Martha Alphena (Todd) Schureman and Their Descendants." Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine 5:121, March 1942. [S4958] Genealogical Notes of the Families of Chester of Blaby by Edmond Chester-Waters. Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson, 1886., year only.