Desire (Williams) Chesebrough (1712 - aft. 1787)

Born 25 Aug 1712 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Amos Chesebrough Sr. — married 2 Dec 1729 in First Cong Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Descendants

Died after 29 May 1787 after age 74 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

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Biography

This profile is part of the Stonington, Connecticut One Place Study.

This Desire Williams was born 29 Aug 1712, the first child of Desire Denison, the first wife of John Williams of Stonington, Connecticut.

She married 02 Dec 1729 @ Stonington, Connecticut, Amos Chesebrough; they were married at the First Congregational Church. They had 10 children during the ensuing timespan through July 1726.

On 10 January 1775 she bought items at the public sale of her husband's insolvent estate.

The death date of Desire (Williams) Chesebrough is not known, nor is the location of her final resting place : Find A Grave: Memorial #75891248

Sources

• Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 182: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/7/mode/1up

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 298, no. 71: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n320/mode/1up; p. 669 no. 172: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n690/mode/1up

• White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, Page 480.