Display Patriot - P-332803 - Jacob CHANEY/CHENEY

Jacob CHANEY/CHENEY

SAR Patriot #: P-332803

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State of Service: VA      Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR #: A201202

Birth: abt 1705 / Anne Arundel / MD
Death: 21 Sep 1801 Keeling / Pittsylvania / VA

Qualifying Service Description:

Signed the Oath of Allegiance, Pittsylvania Co., VA 1777


Additional References:
  1. SAR #182434-Jacob Chaney
  2. Magazine of VA Genealogy, Vol 23, No 1, pg 4

Spouse: Sarah Midkiff
Children: Nathan; Elizabeth; Abraham; Moses; Mary
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
2013-04-30 TN 52851 Henry Edward Phillips III (169280) Elizabeth   
2016-02-24 VA 68058 Lawrence Eugene Liles (182434) Elizabeth   
2016-02-24 VA 68059 Carl Frederick Liles (182435) Elizabeth   
2018-09-28 SC 82565 Luther Brabham Dukes Jr. (162702) Nathan   
Burial:
Chaney Burying Grounds (C-0092015)
Location:
Keeling / Pittsylvania / VA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
2224866
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
71684034
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • No entry found in Find-A-Grave – Sep 2022
  • Gravesite Photo provided by Craig Batten, George Washington Chapter, VASSAR


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:


Author: Henry Edward Phillips III
My fourth great grandfather, Jonathan Davis Pittsylvania County Militia, 10th Regt., was married to Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of Jacob Cheney and Sarah Midkiff (my fifth great grandparents). The story of the Cheney’s begins with the family patriarch, Richard Cheney of London. As legend and belief suggest, Richard arrived in Virginia Colony during the 1640s. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife, Eleanor Pindell migrated to Anne Arundel County, Maryland, where they prospered and raised their family. The move to Maryland occurred before 1650.

According to Harry Wright Newman, author of Anne Arundel Gentry (1933), the Cheneys were an ennobled family that supported King Charles during the time of Cromwell. Richard’s son Charles Cheney (my sixth great grandfather) married Ann Jones Pattison, widow of Gilbert Pattison and daughter of William Jones, Sr. and Elizabeth Planter.

Charles Cheney and Anne Jones had ten children including my fifth great grandfather; Jacob, who was born on December 8, 1724. The Cheney family owned large tracts of land in the area of All Hallows Parish on the South River, Cheney’s Neck and Cheney’s Hundred. Young Jacob migrated to Brunswick Virginia in the 1740s, and appears in property records of Pittsylvania County by 1755.

It is confirmed that at least two of his sons, Abraham and Joseph served in the Pittsylvania County Militia during the Revolution. While his son Abraham was fighting to suppress Cherokee raids on the Holston River in 1776, Jacob Cheney personally supported the Patriot cause. Jacob’s commitment and fidelity were memorialized in 1777, when he swore an oath of allegiance. Jacob’s oath was given only two generations after his grandfather Richard Cheney fled England as a Loyalist.

In 1780, Jacob Cheney was granted 400 acres from the State of Virginia. The grant was signed by Virginia Governor, Thomas Jefferson. The original grant is preserved in the archives of the Library of Virginia

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