Callahan, Va.>1778
by Daniel L. Chesnut Sr. & Carolyn Sue Kincaid Chesnut
Dear Family,
Does anyone have any information on Catherine Callahan, daughter of Daniel
Callahan who lived in that part of Rockcastle County, Virginia (pre 1778)
which was cut off to form part of Augusta County, Virginia.
I am a descendant of Catherine Calahan (dau. of Daniel Calahan (Rockastle
County pre 1778), Augusta County, Virginia (aft. 1778), who married, William
Chesnut before 1770, and lived in Augusta County, Virginia.
Daniel Callahan, Catherine Callahan (w. William Chesnut, Augusta County,
Va.), John Chesnut, Jacob Chesnut, Abraham (Little Abe) Chesnut, Abraham
Chesnut II, James Lyons Chesnut, James Jackson Chesnut, Lawrence james
Chesnut, Daniel Lawrence Chesnut Sr.
Please notice in the Hiden Family Article in whcih William Chesnut Jr. is
said to have inherited land in the stead of his deceased mother, from her
father Daniel Calahan (Augusta County, Va.).
Please Find Below a copy of a letter from a noted historian, of forty years
ago in which He (Atty. Homer Jones) notes from an article in Chalkey's on
the Callahan Family History of Augusta County Virginia (that part which was
cut off of Rockingham County pre 1778).
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Letter, Homer Jones to Gordon Walker, Dated March 5,1955"
Paragraph # 3
Please excuse me if I seem to correct you again. You show that the first
wife of William Chesnut ( father of John and William ) was Catherine
Callahan, and that his second wife was Mary Sophia- . Tylers, Volume.
XXIV, Page 139 _ , has a genealogy of the Hiden Family, compiled by Mrs.
P.W. Hiden, and accomplished genealogist, from which the following
excerpts are copied:
"Joshua 12 Hiden was born probably in Fauquier County and died in Augusta
County on February 27, 1869 near Cross Keys, age 86 years and six months,
son of Richard and Catherine Hyden (Vital Statistics Augusta County). This
would be the place where he spent his youth we do not know, but he probably
was in Augusta by 1795 as on February 2, 1796 he married Martha Chesnut of
that County. "A few notes on her ancestry may be given at this point. In
1762
( Chalkley Volume. 3, Page 392 ) Nicholas Green of Culpeper sold to William
Chesnut 400 acres; in 1772 William Chesnut conveyed land to his son John,
and in 1773, 58 « acres to William Jr. ( Ibid page 525 ). A William Chesnut,
probably William Senior about 1788, as on September 16, 1788 his widow
Sophia qualified as administratrix of his estate (Ibid Volume. 1,Page 255 ).
William Jr. married ( 1 ) Catherine, Daughter of Daniel Callahan, who had
lived on an adjoining Plantation (Ibid Volume. 3, Page 932 ) but had either
moved or, been cut off into Rockingham County (formed 1778 from Augusta).
On April 27, 1779 (Ibid Volume. 2, Page 365 ) the Court of Rockingham County
ordered that he receive his proportionate part of the estate of Daniel Callahan
for his four children in right of their mother Catherine, daughter of said
Callahan, and late wife of said Chesnut.
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Daniel L. and Carolyn Sue Kincaid Chesnut, Sr.
3500 South McKinley
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73109-2936
Oklahoma City Phone (405) 632-1163
Ranch Phone (405) 469-4352
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