Alfred Lyman Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Oct 1850
Baptism:
Death: 14 Sep 1881
Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain William Chandler (1807-1895) 2
Mother: Anna Stevens Small (1808-1884) 1
Anna Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1640 - Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death: After 1662
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Edmund Chandler (Bef 1587-1662) 4
Mother: Wife 2 (Est 1610-Bef 1662)
Anzel R Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Jan 1874 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1954
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Chandler (1811-1890)
Mother: Amelia A Talbot (1832-1911)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah C (1874 - 1952)
Marriage: 1895
Status:
Benjamin Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism: 12 Apr 1685 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony 6
Death: 26 Mar 1771 - Duxbury, Massachusetts 7
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Chandler (Abt 1644-1691) 3
Mother: Elizabeth Buck (1653-1732) 8
Benjamin Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 May 1727 - Duxbury, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 16 Aug 1777 - Bennington, Vermont
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Chandler (1694-1774)
Mother: Elizabeth Delano (1694-1727)
Benjamin Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1644 - Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death: 6 Oct 1691 - Scituate, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Edmund Chandler (Bef 1587-1662) 4
Mother: Wife 2 (Est 1610-Bef 1662)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Buck (16 Jul 1653 - 6 Dec 1732) 8
Marriage: Bef 1672 - Plymouth Colony
Status:
Children:
1. Martha Chandler (1672-1742)
2. Samuel Chandler (1674-1742) 8
3. John Chandler (1676-1759)
4. Mary Chandler (1679-1768)
5. Keturah Chandler (1682-1771)
6. Benjamin Chandler (1685-1771)
7. Elizabeth Chandler (1687- )
8. Joseph Chandler (1694-1774)
Betsey P Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Jan 1830 - Truro, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death: 1863 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro 10
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Chandler (1801-1829)
Mother: Mehitable Atkins (1802-1840) 11
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Selew Stevens (29 Sep 1829 - 1879) 12
Marriage:
Status:
Blanche Eliza Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1890 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father:
Mother: Susie Chandler (Est 1870- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Paul L Peterson (1892 - )
Marriage: 30 Sep 1912 - Orleans, Massachusetts 13
Status:
Notes
General:
1912 at home, Orleans
Edmund Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1675 - Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1717 - Duxbury, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Chandler (Abt 1646-1721) 3
Mother: Mercy (Est 1650-1727)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Alden (Est 1674 - After 1722)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Captain John Chandler (1696-1764)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Elizabeth Alden)
"We know that he was married to Elizabeth Alden because on July 2, 1711, Edmund Chandler and Elizabeth his wife along with others signed a deed relating to property that belonged to her father, Jonathan Alden. (Plymouth County Deeds, Book 16: 197 as related in "The Genealogy of Edward Small" - see sources below).
Edmund died without a Will. It is believed that he died after May 20 1715 and before October 8, 1717. On the May 20, 1715 date, his property was mentioned in regard to a highway (Duxbury Town Rec. 108 as related in "Mayflower Families through Five Generations, the John Alden Family" as listed below). On the October 8, 1717 date, a deed was acknowledged by all of the grantors except Edmund Chandler (Plymouth Co. LR 16:197).
His widow, Elizabeth, was ordered by the Judge of Probate for the County of Plymouth to do an inventory of the estate on February 5 1721/22. (Plymouth County Probate, Book 4: 299, 356, 357 as related in "The Genealogy of Edward Small")
Edmund's assets were disposed of with no mention of heirs (See "The Genealogy of Edward Small"), nor was a guardian appointed for minor children. John, Nathaniel, Zebedee and Mercy have long been speculated as being Edmund and Elizabeth's children, although with the possible exception of John, documentation has not been found.
Both Edmond's widow, Elizabeth, and a grandson named John Chandler were named in the Will of Edmund's father, Joseph, made on April 21 1721 and proved on January 1 1721/22. " 14
Edmund Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Bef 1587 - England
Baptism:
Death: 1662 - Duxbury, Plymouth Colony
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• residence 15, , Plymouth, Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Spouses and Children
1. *Wife 1 ( - )
Marriage: Bef 1612
Status:
Children:
1. Samuel Chandler (Abt 1612-Cir 1683)
2. Lydia Chandler (Abt 1614-1650)
3. John Chandler (Bef 1632-1653)
2. Wife 2 (Est 1610 - Bef 1662)
Marriage: Abt 1632
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah Chandler (Abt 1638-After 1662) 3
2. Anna Chandler (Abt 1640-After 1662) 3
3. Mary Chandler (Abt 1642-After 1662) 3
4. Benjamin Chandler (Abt 1644-1691) 3
5. Joseph Chandler (Abt 1646-1721) 3
6. Ruth Chandler (Est 1648- ) 16
Notes
General:
"EDMUND CHANDLER
ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury
OCCUPATION: Sayweaver, draper, pipemaker (In Leiden [Dexter 609]).
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]; on list of Plymouth freemen of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Duxbury portions of lists of freemen of 1639 and 1658 [PCR 8:174, 198].
EDUCATION: The inventory included "a parcel of books" valued at 10s.
OFFICES: Duxbury representative to committee on "the nearer uniting of Plymoth & those on Duxburrough side," 11 March 1635/6 [PCR 1:41]; trial jury, 7 June 1636 [PCR 1:42]; Duxbury constable, 3 January 1636/7, 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:48, 54]; Duxbury representative to committee on dividing meadow, 2 October 1637 [PCR 1:67]; Duxbury deputy to Plymouth General Court, 4 June 1639, 29 August 1643, 5 March 1643/4 [PCR 1:126, 2:60, 68]; petit jury, 1 September 1640, 5 October 1640 [PCR 7:17, 18].
ESTATE: Land of Edmund Chandler mentioned on 1 July 1633 [PCR 1:14]; on 20 October 1634 sold to John Rogers "a lot of ground adjoining to the lots of Robert Hicks, on Duxbury side, it being a lot which the said Edward bought of John Barnes" [PCR 1:31]; on 4 July 1635 Isaac Robinson sold to Joseph Bidle "half a lot of ground lying above the island creek, which the said Isaake bought of Edmond Chanler, and he of John Barnes" [PCR 1:34]; granted forty acres "on the east side of Moyses Symonson, where Morris formerly began to clear for Mr. Bowman," 2 January 1636/7 [PCR 1:47, 49]; granted sixty acres on Duxbury side "on the northeast side of the lands granted to Moyses Symons," 2 April 1638 [PCR 1:82]; granted fifty acres with some meadow at the North River, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:165].
On 19 July 1639 Mr. Thomas Besbeech of Duxbury sold to "Edmond Chaundler of the same one acre of land lying to the north side of the lands of the said Thomas Besbeech" [PCR 12:46]. On 8 June 1650 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" sold to John Browne of Duxbury, weaver, "an house situate in Duxburrow aforesaid and an acre of land on which the said house standeth next adjoining unto the house and land of Mr. John Rener above the path" [PCR 12:187]. On 7 June 1651 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" sold to Thomas Byrd of Scituate fifty acres at the North River, "with all the meadow land or marsh abutting upon the aforesaid fifty acres of upland" [PCR 12:207).
On 4 May 1653 James Lendal of Duxbury, tailor, sold to "Edmond Chandeler of the town aforesaid ... planter ... two acres of marsh meadow ... which was sometimes the meadow of Peeter Brown's children" [MD 2:169, citing PCLR 2:1:51]. On 15 July 1653 "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow" exchanged land with Edward Bumpas of Marshfield, Chandler relinquishing all his rights to any lands or meadows in "Duxburrow New Plantation commonly called and known by the Indian names of Satuckquett and Nunckatatesett and places adjacent" in return for the rights of Bumpas as "one of the thirty-four purchasers who are to have their proportions of land at the places commonly called and known by the Indian names of Cushenett and Coaksett and places adjacent" [MD 2:245-46, citing PCLR 2:1:53]. On 30 March 1655 Edward Bumpas of Marshfield (with the consent of Hannah his wife) sold to "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow ... all his land lying at Ducke Hill lying between the lands of John Rouse and the lands of the said Edmond Chandeler" [MD 10:73, citing PCLR 2:1:169]. On 16 June 1659 Samuel Eaton sold to "Edmond Chandeler of Duxburrow two acres of meadow lying between Mr. Kempe's land and John Rouse's" [MD 14:14, citing PCLR 2:2:27].
In his will, dated 3 May 1662 and proved 4 June 1662, "Edmond Chandeler" bequeathed to "my son Samuell Chandeler my whole share of land that is at ... Akoaksett and Cushenah"; to "my son Benjamine Chandeler ... all that tract ... of land lying in Duxburrow both upland and meadow with all the housing belonging thereunto"; to "my son Josepth [sic] Chandeler ... my whole share of land which now lieth by Taunton River"; to "my three daughters Sarah, Anna and Mary three thousand and five hundred of sugar which belongs to me at Barbadoes"; to "my three children viz: Benjamine, Josepth and Ruth Chandeler" rent due from "my son Samuell Chandeler"; the cattle which have been in the hands of "my son Samuel" to be equally divided between "my three children Benjamine, Josepth and Ruth" [MD 14:68, citing PCPR 2:2:75].
The inventory of the estate was taken 2 June 1662 and totalled £38 7s. 6d., with no real estate included [MD 14:69, citing PCPR 2:2:76].
" Probably related to ROGER CHANDLER, as both were sayworkers in Leiden, both came to Plymouth about the same time, and both removed to Duxbury.
Although we cannot place Edmund Chandler in Plymouth prior to 1632 based on New England records, he was probably one of the last group of Leiden church members who came to Plymouth in 1629 and 1630.
Edmund Chandler does not appear in the 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 Plymouth tax lists, even though his age, wealth and social status would lead one to expect that he should.
Records for a Samuel Chandler of Plymouth and then of Duxbury begin with appearances on the 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 Plymouth tax lists [PCR 1:11, 28], and continue through the 1683 estate records in Duxbury. Attempts have been made to distribute these records between two Samuel Chandlers, the elder being possibly the son of Roger Chandler seen in Leiden records, who did not survive his father, and the younger being the Samuel Chandler named in the will of Edmund Chandler. We will argue here that these records, spread over sixty years, pertain to only one Samuel Chandler, who was son of Edmund.
First, the Samuel Chandler taxed in 1633 must have been at least 21, and therefore born no later than 1612. Edmund Chandler was made a citizen of Leiden in 1613, and was therefore born no later than 1592, and perhaps earlier; he could easily have been father of a Samuel born in 1612.
Second, the records for Samuel Chandler from 1633 to 1683 do not at any point imply two persons of that name at Duxbury during these years. The designations "Sr." and "Jr." are never employed in the records.
Third, when Samuel Chandler was charged with slander against the Plymouth government in 1639, one of his bondsmen was Richard Higgins, who had married in 1634 at Plymouth Lydia Chandler. If she married at the normal age, Lydia would have been born about 1614, and so could well have been a sister of Samuel.
Fourth, on 20 May 1637 John Jenney sued Samuel Chandler for a debt of £20. "Edmond Chaundler became bail to the action, and to satisfy the debt," and on 2 October 1637 "Edmond Chaundler undertook to pay the Plaintiff the amount remaining due [PCR 7:6].
All of these arguments are consistent with the hypothesis that Edmund Chandler had three children by a first wife: Samuel, Lydia, and the child buried at Leiden in 1619.
The will of Edmund Chandler names six other children, but we have little to help us in dating them. Two of these six were sons, Benjamin and Joseph, with Benjamin always named first in the will. Three of the daughters (Sarah, Anna and Mary) are grouped together, after which the other three children were grouped together (Benjamin, Joseph and Ruth). Our arrangement of the children above assumes that these six were named in birth order, and were all by a second (or later) wife.
The argument has been made that Joseph must have been born by 1641, since he was named executor by his father in 1662; but since a testator might not be planning to die immediately, this is not necessarily true. Benjamin married by about 1671, and Joseph probably sometime in the mid-1670s, and rough estimates of birthdates for these six children are assigned on this basis.
Nothing is known of the fate of the four daughters of Edmund Chandler. The grouping together of Sarah, Anna and Mary may possibly indicate that they were married by 3 May 1662, the date of their father's will.
The son John, who died testate at Barbados, would be older by some years than all of these children by the second wife, if we assume that he was twenty-one when he made his will.
On 23 January 1638/9 "Edmond Chandler, of Duxborrow, yeom[an]," took John Edwards as an apprentice for five years [PCR 1:110]." 17
Elizabeth Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1764
Baptism:
Death: 19 Jan 1830 - Worcester, Massachusetts 18
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Gardiner Chandler (1723-1782)
Mother: Hannah Green (Cir 1725-Bef 1767)
Spouses and Children
1. *Nathaniel Paine (5 Jan 1759 - 7 Oct 1840)
Marriage: 18 Dec 1785 - Worcester, Massachusetts 19
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Leonard Paine (1786- ) 20
2. Nancy Leonard Paine (1786- ) 20
3. Charlotte Paine (1788- )
4. Nathaniel Anthony Paine (1791- ) 21
5. Sarah Chandler Paine (1794-1840) 21
6. Gardiner Paine (1799- )
7. Charles Paine (1804- )
8. Henry Paine (1804-1844)
Elizabeth Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1687 - Scituate, Plymouth Colony
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Benjamin Chandler (Abt 1644-1691) 3
Mother: Elizabeth Buck (1653-1732) 8
Frederick D Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Mar 1862 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 22
Baptism:
Death: 28 Apr 1864 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 22
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Chandler (1811-1890)
Mother: Amelia A Talbot (1832-1911)
Gardiner Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Sep 1723 - Woodstock, Connecticut
Baptism:
Death: 1782 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Chandler (1693-1762)
Mother: Hannah Gardiner (1699-1738)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah Green (Cir 1725 - Bef Aug 1767)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Elizabeth Chandler (Cir 1764-1830)
Notes
General:
m2 Anne Leonard, 2 aug 1767
George L Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1864 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1932
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Chandler (1811-1890)
Mother: Susannah Lewis Lorton (1820-1858) 23
Spouses and Children
1. *Cornelia S Eldredge (1871 - 1936)
Marriage: 15 Jan 1902 - Eastham, Massachusetts 13
Status:
Grace A Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 4 Apr 1869 - Orleans, Massachusetts 13
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Chandler (1811-1890)
Mother: Amelia A Talbot (1832-1911)
Hannah Atkins Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Jul 1827 - Truro, Massachusetts 9
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth 25, , Truro, Massachusetts in Truro, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Joseph Chandler (1801-1829)
Mother: Mehitable Atkins (1802-1840) 11
Helen Chandler
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 May 1835 - Truro, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 31 Mar 1895 - North Truro, Massachusetts 26
Burial:
Cause of Death: angina pectoris
Parents
Father: Captain William Chandler (1807-1895) 2
Mother: Anna Stevens Small (1808-1884) 1
Notes
Medical:
age 59-10-19
single
at home
b Truro, res No. Truro
d/o William Chandler & Annie Stevens [sic], both b Truro 26
Henry Stevens Chandler
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Jun 1804 - Truro, Massachusetts 2
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Joseph Chandler (Cir 1770-1815)
Mother: Abigail Stevens (1774-1841)
James Chandler Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Mar 1845 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 15 Mar 1912 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: paresis
Parents
Father: James Chandler (1811-1890)
Mother: Lucinda Dexter (1815-1850)
Spouses and Children
1. *Lottie Johnson (1841 - 28 Jul 1920)
Marriage: 14 Oct 1866 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 27
Status:
Children:
1. Abbie T Chandler (1869-1914)
2. Chandler (1867-1867) 13
Notes
General:
stage driver, 1866, for his father's companyMedical:
1867 stable keeper, Orleans
age 67-4-5Marriage Notes (Lottie Johnson)
1880, 1900, 1910 US census, Wellfleet
Sources
1. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), lot 39 north. William Chandler family.
2. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 215.
3. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 328.
4. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 326-329.
5. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
6. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850. Vol. 1, Births (1909. Boston: NEHGS), 65.
7. Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1911. Boston: NEHGS), 358.
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10. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), lot 23. Richard & Tamsin Stevens family.
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17. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 326-330.
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19. Vital Records of Worcester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Worcester/), 2:400.
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21. Vital Records of Worcester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Worcester/), 1:201.
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24. Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), 253, 305.
25. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 253.
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27. Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass [archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 23 oct 1866.