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Would like to chat about early Chambers in PA and VA.
M. Preston
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:04 PM, gc-gateway(a)rootsweb.com <
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If anyone still sees this thread, I don't believe Benjamin Chambers father
was a Maj. James Chambers. I found something which indicates his father
was "Randle or Rowland" Chambers, born in County Antrim in Ireland. This
is from a book published in 1887 in Harrisburg that seems to have two
parts: "Notes and Queries ... Dauphine County PA, (where Harrisburg is
located), and Notes and Queries Chiefly relating to Interior Pennsylvania,
Volumn 1."
There is a section on the Chambers that starts like this:
CHAMBERS OF DERRY AND PAXTANG (Twps. Of Lancaster County)
I. Randle or Rowland Chambers son of Arthur Chambers, with his family,
all born in County Antrim, Ireland, emigrated to America in 1720, and
settled in what was subsequently Derry and Paxtang townships, Lancaster
County, Province of Pennsylvania, where they each took up separate and
distinct tracts of land on which they resided several years. Rowland
Chambers died in the winter of 1747-8 in Derry, leaving a wife Elizabeth
and children among others, as follows:
i. Joseph, b. 1705; m. Catharine ____
ii. Benjamin, b. 1708; m. and removed to the Cumberland Valley - where he
took up large tracts of land at Falling Spring, and subsequently laid out
the town which perpetuates the family name.
iii. John, b. 1711; m. and had issue.
iv. Arthur, b. 1714; m. and had issue.
v. James, b. 1716; m. and had issue.
vi. Robert, b. 1719; m. and had issue; settled in the Cumberland Valley
vii. Henry; little is known of him.
viii. William.
II. Joseph Chambers (Roland) (And so on)
So Benjamin, who founded Chambersburg, was the son of Randle or Rowland
Chambers who came with his children in 1720 and they all settled initially
in the same area. Benjamin and Robert moved up into the Cumberland Valley.
Sadly, it doesn't give either of their children. I'm related to a Rowland
Chambers, b. 1743 who died in Franklin County in 1791. He is likely the
son of one of these, but which I don't know. Any ideas?
Here is a link to the book on-line, and Chambers is on page 244.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z-gUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&...,
b.
1711&source=bl&ots=NgoRPiUrNt&sig=ObtkXSk8tMcmdHrdgXOrlpqYFGI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jWm2T8eYK6jq2QXD7Ii4Dg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Arthur
Chambers, b. 1711&f=false
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