A Rough Draft of My Family Tree

Captain Ziba Chessman

M, #301, b. about September 1784, d. 9 February 1858

Father	Ziba Chessman (b. between 1757 and 1758, d. 27 March 1796)
Mother	Mehitable Belchor (b. 17 May 1765, d. 1 May 1840)

Son	Ziba Chessman (b. 1804)
Daughter	Esther Chessman (b. 1805)

Daughter	Mary Thayer Chessman (b. 20 January 1823)
Daughter	Esther Hollis Chessman (b. 11 June 1825)
Daughter	Harriet N. Chessman (b. 8 September 1826)
Son	Edward Blanchard Chessman+ (b. 12 February 1829, d. 27 December 1863)
Daughter	Susan Augusta Chessman (b. 22 May 1832)
Son	Jonathan Holbrook Chessman (b. 22 April 1833)

Birth	about September 1784	Captain Ziba Chessman was born about September 1784 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Marriage	December 1802	He and Mary Thayer were married in December 1802.^1,2
Marriage	17 May 1818	He and Deborah White Blanchard were married on 17 May 1818 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.^1,3,4
Death	9 February 1858	He died on 9 February 1858 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.⁵
Burial	10 February 1858	He was buried on 10 February 1858 at Lake View Cem., Pond. St., in South Weymouth, Massachusetts.⁶

Residence

1818

Captain Ziba Chessman lived in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, in 1818.¹

Last Edited

11 April 2016

[S8] George Walter Chamberlain, Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth, Massachusetts (1923; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1984), p. 158. Hereinafter cited as Genealogies of the Early Families of Weymouth.
[S1335] Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, transcriber, Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2016), 14 December 2016; "Cheesman Ziba & Polly Thayer of Randolph int. Dec. 18 1802"; online database, New England Historic Genealogy Society, AmericanAncestors (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/braintree-ma-vital-records-1638-1850 : accessed 14 Dec 2016; "Cheesman Ziba & Polly Thayer of Randolph int. Dec. 18 1802".
[S1219] Samuel Chessman, Genealogy of the Chessman Family in the United States from 1713 to 1893 (n.p.: n.p., 1893), 32.
[S1335] Sprague, Braintree, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1638-1850, 14 December 2016; "Cheesman Ziba & Debora W. Blanchard of Weymouth int. Ap. 12 1818".
[S12] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 from original records held by the Massachusetts State Archives (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004), Weymouth, Vol 121, Page 222. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910.
[S11] , compiler, Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910). Hereinafter cited as Vital Records of Weymouth.