Abner Shevalier (1747 - aft. 1816)

Born 22 Jul 1747 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Deborah (Wood) Chevalier — married 23 Oct 1765 in Sharon, Litchfield, Connecticut

Died after 6 Apr 1816 after age 68 in Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States

Biography

Abner was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, on 22 July 1747, identified in town records as Abner Shavauleer, son of Elias and Mary Shavauleer.^[1]

His father, Elias Cheval(l)ier, was an immigrant from Jersey, in the Channel Islands. His mother was Mary Adams of Pomfret, Connecticut. Phonetic spellings of the family name seen in American records include Shevalier, Shavalear, Shavileer, Shavelier, and Shavauleer. A 1731 document shows Elias signing his last name as Shevalier.^[2]

When Abner was still very young the family removed to Amenia, New York, where he and two of his siblings were baptized on 7 March 1750.^[3]

Abner Shavileer and Deborah Wood were married on 23 October 1765 by Roswell Hopkins, a justice of the peace of Amenia, New York. The marriage is documented in records of Sharon, Connecticut, a town that is adjacent to Amenia.^[4]

Abner Chevalier was appointed guardian to William and Edward Roberts, minor children of Jonathan Roberts, in Dutchess County, New York, on 29 August 1803.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Canterbury, page 141.
2. ↑ Harrison, pages 173 and 180-181.
3. ↑ Harrison, page 174.
4. ↑ VanAlstyne, Lawrence. Born, Married and Died, in Sharon, Connecticut : A Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, in the Town of Sharon, Conn. from 1721 to 1879. Sharon, Conn., Published by Press of Pawling Chronicle, 1897. page 140.
5. ↑ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016), (Orig. Pub. by Frank J. Doherty, Pleasant Valley, NY. Frank J. Doherty, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, ten volumes. 1990–2003). Vol. 10, pages 874-875.

• Harrison, Edward J., Elias¹ Shevalier, Immigrant to Connecticut: His Origin and Migration, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol. 165 (2011), WN 659, Pages 173-182.
• Modified Register for Pierre Chevallier by Ed Harrison.