| BIRTH | William was born circa 1584 in England. 1594 is also given. |
| OCCUPATION & FAMILY | William was a Skinner. On 26 June 1605, William "...hath putt himselfe apprentice with Ralph Hill citizen, and Skinner from the same feaste last past (St. John Baptist) for 8 years..." On 4 June 1613, "...William Cheever admitted to Freedom..." and became a Skinner in his own right. On 9 March 1616/1617, "Christopher Cheever, sonne of James Cheever, late of Mansfield in the countie of Nottingham, yeoman, deceased, hath put himself apprentice to William Cheever, citizen and Skynner of London from Candlemas last past for eight years..." In other words, Christopher became an apprentice to his older brother as a Skinner. |
| MARRIAGE | On 6 January 1613/14 when William was 29, he married Margaret NEWMAN, in All Hallowes Church, Lombard Street, London. A note with their marrige record states "not in the due place" indicating that they were probably married by license, but not in the church. |
| CHILD | i. | Ezekiel CHEEVER | Please see his own page. |
| GENERATION | G9 (Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great) Grandfather |
| FAMILY NUMBER | 3776 |
| SOURCES |
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[Charlestown], 209. 2. Ibid. 206. 3. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 4. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 3:103; 33:164,170,182,192; 38:172. 5. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 3:141. 6. Booth, Charles Edwin, One Branch of the Booth Family, Showing the Lines of Connection with One Hundred Massachusetts Bay Colonists, (New York: privately printed, 1910), [Booth (1910)], 70. 7. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:371 8. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [DommerichChart], 24. 9. Hassam, John T., The Cheever Family, (Boston: privately printed, 1896), [Cheever], 5. 10. Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, (Cambridge: C.W. Sever, 1873-85), [Sibley's Harv. Grad.], 2:38. 11. Ibid. 2:501. 12. [NEHGR], 33:170,192; 38:172. 13. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 1:283; 3:141. 14. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1908), [PopesPioneersofMEandNH], 292, 96. 15. Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors; Their Part in Making American History, (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., ca. 1933), [RooseveltAnc], 89. 16. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 54:123. 17. The Genealogical Magazine, (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1890+), [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 7:9; 3:27. 18. Huntington, Rev. E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family, (Ridgefield Conn.: privately printed, 1884), [Lathrop], 407. 19. Farwell, John Dennis, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605 to 1927, with Twelve Generations of Their Descendants; Also Many Lineages of Allied Families, 2 vols., (Rutland, Vt.: F.H. Farwell, 1929), [Farwell(1929)], 281. 20. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig.], II:1204. 21. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes, (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], 6:93-7. 22. The Probate Records of Essex County, [Essex Prob or EPR], 3:25-32. 23. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig.], II:1203. 24. Marblehead, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [MarbleheadVR], 515 [C.R. 1] 25. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [IpswichVR], I:85 [Ct. R.]. 26. Shurtleff, Benjamin, The History of the Town of Revere, (Boston: 1937), [Shurtleff-Revere], 43. 27. Ibid. 427. 28. Chelsea, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records, [ChelseaVR], 464. 29. Ibid. 428. 30. [Shurtleff-Revere], 427-8. 31. Ibid. 428. 32. Ibid. 92. 33. Ibid. 42. 34. Ibid. 139. 35. [Sibley's Harv. Grad.], 2:505. 36. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 38:176. 37. Bill, Ledyard, History of the Bill Family, (New York, 1867), [Bill], 68. 38. Hassam, John T., The Cheever Family, (Boston: privately printed, 1896), [Cheever], 9. 39. [DommerichChart], 48. 40. Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, From its First Settlement to 1860, (2 vols.), (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), [Lexington], 4:337. 41. Boston, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records, [BostonVR or BVR], 28:9. 42. [ChelseaVR], 463. 43. [BostonVR or BVR], 28:164. 44. [IpswichVR], I:521 [Ct. R.]. 45. Essex County Archives, Salem Witchcraft, 1:36. 46. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 15-16. 47. Ibid. 58. 48. Essex County Archives, Salem Witchcraft, 2:11. 49. Ibid. Withchcraft, 1:12-13. 50. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 104-105. 51. Ibid. 107-8. 52. Essex County Archives, Salem Witchcraft, 1:13. 53. Ibid. Witchcraft, 1:11. 54. The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Documentary History of 1692, (Salem, MA: The Nova Anglia Company, 2001), [SalemWitch], 357. 55. Salem, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [SalemVR], III:208 56. [Shurtleff-Revere], 76,84. 57. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:455. 58. [BostonVR or BVR], 28:95. 59. [Shurtleff-Revere], 83. 60. Lewis, Alonzo, The History of Lynn, Including Nahant, (Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, second edition, 1844), [LynnHist(1844)], 269-270. 61. [BostonVR or BVR], 28:3. 62. [Shurtleff-Revere], 76. 63. [LynnVR], II:93. 64. [Shurtleff-Revere], 84. 65. [BostonVR or BVR], 9:173. 66. Ibid. 9:189. 67. Ibid. 9:195. 68. Ibid. 2:220 [First Church]. 69. Ibid. 9:200. 70. Ibid. 9:214. 71. [LynnVR], I:104. 72. Ibid. I:105. 73. Ibid. [P.R. 5 - Zaccheus Collins Diary]. 74. Malden, Middlesex co., MA Vital Records, [MaldenVR], 95 75. [LynnVR], I:103. 76. [IpswichVR], II:96 [Ct. R.]. 77. [Shurtleff-Revere], 85. 78. [LynnVR], II:151. 79. Beverly, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [BevVR], I:149 [C.R. 1 - First Parish Unitarian Church in Beverly]. 80. Commonwealth of MA Vital Records, [MAVR], Death Records 1880, Volume 319, Page 230, #5, Lynn [Maria A. Sweetser]. 81. [LynnVR], II:599. 82. Ibid. II:363. 83. Ibid. I:388.
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