John Chester

- 1628

• Name	John Chester
  Birth	of Blaby, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 28 Jul 1628 and 15 Oct 1628	Blaby, Leicestershire, England   [2, 3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. John Chester ,   b. of Blaby, Leicestershire, England d. Between 28 Jul 1628 and 15 Oct 1628, Blaby, Leicestershire, England ▻ Dorothy Hooker ,  m. 1 Jun 1609   2. Sampson Chester ,   b. Abt 1592, Leicestershire, England d. Between 5 Nov 1623 and Feb 1628  (Age ~ 31 years) ▻ Frances Tough ,  m. 26 Nov 1617
  Person ID	I18823	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Leonard Chester,   b. of Blaby, Leicestershire, England d. 8 Aug 1615
  Mother	Bridget Sharp   d. Bef 12 Jun 1606
  Family ID	F18485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dorothy Hooker   d. 1662, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut
  Marriage	1 Jun 1609	Birstall, Leicestershire, England   [1, 2, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Leonard Chester,   b. Bef 15 Jul 1610   d. 11 Dec 1648, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age > 38 years)
  Family ID	F11411	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He was definitely a son of Leonard Chester and Bridget Sharp; he was the family member who signed the 1619 Leicester visitation pedigree.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [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. [S4958] Genealogical Notes of the Families of Chester of Blaby by Edmond Chester-Waters. Leicester: Clarke and Hodgson, 1886. [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. [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.