Pierre Louis Chastain Jr (1707 - 1775)

Born 1707 in Manakin, King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Mildred (Archer) Chastain — married 1730 in Buckingham County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 1775 at about age 68 in Buckingham County, Commonwealth of Virginia

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Biography

Pierre Chastain Jr was a son of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Name: Pierre (Peter) Louis Chastain Jr.^[1][2][3]

The Pierre Louis Chastain Jr. ("Peter") of this profile was born c. 1707 at Manakin Town, King William Parish, Goochland County, Virginia Colony. He was the 2nd son of Pierre Louis Chastain, Sr., to be named "Pierre Chastain". See (1st son below) on his older, deceased, brother. Pierre Louis Chastain, Jr was of the first generation born in America; he was the son of Pierre Chastain Sr., MD (1659-1728) and his 2nd wife, Anne (Soblet) Chastain (1675-1723), whom he married in November 1701 at Manakin-Town, Goochland, English Colony of Virginia.

Origin

1st son This section refers to "Pierre Samuel Chastain," born about 1692, most-likely at Vevey, Vaud Canton, Switzerland, where the family lived until 1696. He was the son of Pierre Chastain Sr., MD and his first wife, Susanne (Renaud) Chastain. This son, who emigrated to Virginia, died about the same time as his mother during the "starving winter" of 1700-1701, at Manakin-Town, Virginia, where the French colonists arrived too late to grow a first year's crop before winter arrived.^[4]

The Pierre Louis Chastain of this WikiTree profile is for his brother, born in 1707 in Virginia. ( see this pierre below )

According to James G. Chastain in his A Brief History of the Huguenots ...,Peter [Chastain] was among the six children who immigrated with their parents [Pierre Chastain, Sr. & Suzanne Renaud] in 1699.^[1]

Birth

Pierre Louis Chastain, Jr. was born in 1707 in Manakin-Town, King William Parish, Goochland County, English Colony of Virginia.

Marriage and Children

NOTE: Pierre Louis Chastain Jr. had only ONE wife and her maiden name was Archer, not Witt.

Pierre (Peter) Louis Chastain Jr. married Mildred Archer in 1730 at Manakin Town, Goochland, Virginia.^[2]

The couple had 9 Children:

1. John Chastain
2. Martha Chastain
3. James Chastain
4. Abraham Chastain
5. Archer Chastain
6. Rene Chastain
7. Magdalene Chastain
8. Judith Chastain
9. William Chastain

Death and Legacy

Pierre (Peter) Louis Chastain Jr. died in the winter of 1774/1775 in Buckingham County, Commonwealth of Virginia, just before the American Revolution.^[5]

Father's Will:

Peter's father, Dr. Pierre (Peter) Chastain Sr., willed Peter Chastain, Jr., his son and an heir, 111 acres of land on the 3rd day of October, 1728. At a Court hearing held for Goochland County on the 20th day of November, 1728 - this will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Randolph and Daniel Guerrent Jr. and was admitted to record. Henry Wood Clcur. County of Goochland and Parish of King William. ^[6]

Widow's 1790 Residence

Pierre (Peter) Louis Chastain Jr. died in 1774/75 in Buckingham County, Commonwealth of Virginia.

His widow, Mildred (Archer Chastain) , moved to South Carolina after his death.

1790 US Census: She was recorded living as a "Head of Household" on the First US Census in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States.^[3]

Notes

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Spurious Chastain Genealogy Information

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Chastain, James Garvin, A Brief History of the Huguenots : and Three Family Trees: Chastain-Lochridge-Stockton ... (Pages 262-67) Shaw, MS : The author, 1933, HathiTrust.org accessed November 29, 2015.
   • Note: This book has old, inaccurate and incomplete information. Do not rely on it without other corroboration. Chet Snow, Leader Huguenot Migration Project on WikiTree, Feb. 28, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Ancestry.com. This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases.
   • Note: This collection is largely based on family group sheets and not primary records. ~~~~~
   • Source number: 5479.003; Family group sheet
     • Pierre Louis Chastain
     • Gender: Male
     • Birth Place: VA
     • Birth Year: 1707
     • Spouse Name: Mildred Archer
     • Marriage Year:1730
     • Number Pages: 1
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} 1790 United States Federal Census. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). Residence place: Edgefield, South Carolina.
4. ↑ The Pierre Chastain Family Association, Dr. Pierre Chastain. link updated Mar 2024.
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images : accessed 29 March 2021), memorial page for Pierre “Peter” Chastain Jr. (1707–1775), Find A Grave: Memorial #70987499 ; Maintained by karyoktx (contributor 49351967) Body lost or destroyed, who reports a Lost to time.
6. ↑ The Pierre Chastain Family Association; Pierre Chastain's Will; Website; accessed Mar 2024;
   • "I give and Devise unto my Son Peter Chastaine and to his Heirs for ever the tract of Land wheron I live it being One Hundred and Eleven Acres and is bounded on ye lower side by ye Gleabland and the upper side by ye land of Susanna Kerner and Glode Gory." Proven 20 Nov 1728, Goochland Co, VA.

• Pierre Chastain Website

• Manakin (VA). Church of the French Refugees; Wynne, Thos. H., Register containing the baptisms made in the Church of the French Refugees at Mannikintown, in Virginia : in the parish of King William, in the year of Our Lord, 1721, the 25 March. (Pages 1, 2, 9); Richmond VA: Priv. pub. by T. H. Wynne in 1860, Archive.org accessed November 29, 2015.
• Pierre Chastain and His Descendants; Vol I: first Five Generations in America. Pierre Chastain Family Association, 1995.
• http://www.directlinesoftware.com/Pool/buckingh.txt (accessed 17 Jan 2015)
  • Peter Chastain; 400a Gooch/bs Hunts Ck; 28; 1 Dec 1740; VPB 19:888-1
  • Peter Chastain; 396a Albemarl/brs Hunts Ck; 60; 16 Aug 1756; VPB 34:116-2;
  • Rane Chastain; 68a Buckingh/wo Greens Ck;745: 9 Apr 1799; CGB 38:563-1;
• List of settlers
• FamilySearch Person: LD5M-RKL; cites 13 sources.
• World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Release date: November 29, 1995; Family Archive CD
• Ancestry Family Trees: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Chastan-1 was created from an unsourced family tree handed down to Gordon Chastain.
• Shirley Autrey Chasteen Family Tree; Ancestry.com