When reading this thread, does anyone have knowledge of where Moses Chambers fits into
this link? He is thought to be a nephew of Benjamin Chambers? This is my brick wall!
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On May 18, 2012, at 5:04 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&...
Chambers, 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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