It has been a dream of mine for many years to go to New England and visit the area my ancestors lived two hundred years ago. In 2007 I was contacted by the current owner of my third great grandfather's home and that only solidified my wish to visit... The original family came from England and are now known as part of "The First Settlers to America." They arrived in Roxbury in 1635 and were mention by Reverend John Elliot in his record of the church. "John Cheny (-1666) he came into the Land in the yeare 1635. He brought 4 children, Mary, Martha, John, Daniel. Sarah his 5th child was borne in the last month of the same year 1635, cold February. He removed from or church to Newbury the end of the next suer 1636. Martha Cheny the wife of John Cheny." (Cheney Genealogy, Charles Henry Pope, 1897) Four generations of the Cheney family lived in Newbury, Massachusetts. Records show land belonging to the family was sold in 1765 and Timothy Sr.(1713-1772) moved &quo
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