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From: Joyce Foerster <joycefoerster(a)usa.net>
To: <chambers(a)egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 8:13 PM
Subject: [chambers] Research
Here are some things I found at the library at Tell City, IN.
1. From the book "Census of Indiana Territory for 1807"
pg. 21. - A list of males above the age of twenty-one in Dearborn County in
March, 1807:
#80. Benjamin Chambers
Knox County
pg. 16. - John Chambers #8
pg. 14. - Thomas Chambers #2
pg. 14. - Thomas Chambers, Sen. #3
2. From the book "Pioneer Ancestors of Members of the Society of Indiana
(All have the surname of Chambers)
Ancestor Birth Birth Indiana Co. Date Previous
Place Date Settled Settled Residence
Alexander Ireland 1749 Knox 1808 KY
Alexander3 VA 1756 Jefferson 1809 KY
Enoch4 NC 1776 Fayette 1814 KY
Grace 1777 Orange by 1811 NC
Isaac5 KY 1795 Jefferson 1815
James Jefferson 1821
County, IN
Joseph NJ 1792 Bartholomew ca. 1820
Mehitable Goodwin KY 1797 Jefferson 1816
William Phemster Monroe Co., IN 1818
(# after names mean:
1. Associate Judge, Green Co; County Clerk
2. In Battle of Tippecanoe
3. In War of Revolution
4. In War of 1812
5. In War of 1812; Member State Legislature
3. From the book "Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records":
Anderson County Kentucky- Anderson County, Will Abstracts, Book A
pg. 7. Gill, Jame L.- Will- page 39- Names wife Martha Gill. 3 children,
William, George and James. Exec's wife, Martha, Samuel W. Chambers and
Gideon
Mitchell. Written Nov. 18, 1836. Witnesses, J.H. Waler and James D.
Hardin.
Probated December Court, 1836.
Fayette County, Kentucky Will Book C
pg. 25. McCrary, Martha- Will- Page 507- Signed April 23, 1814. Names,
Hiram, Wm. Thomas and Margaret Phemster, children of brother John Phemster.
Jane Bradshaw, Margaret Chambers, Martha Newton, and Rachel Morgan, children
of brother William Phemster. Andrew Littleton, son of Robert Littleton.
Elizabeth Bratton. Samuel and John Carlisle, sons of sister, Rachel
Carlisle.
Polly Kenny and Robert McCreary, son of Wm. McCreary of Clark Co. Exec's.,
Mathew Kenny and William Prewitt. Witnesses, Wharton Schooler, Wm. M. Kenny
and Robert P. Kenny. Probated October Court 1815.
Harrison County, Kentucky
Original Lot owners. Town of Cynthiana, KY
pg. 45. 1797 James Chambers
Bethel Church Presbyterian- Fayette Co., Ky- 7 1/2 miles from Lexington off
the Leestown Pike
Members in Full Communion
pg. 171. Roland Chambers. (Died), and wife
pg. 171. Rachel Chambers
pg. 171. Wm. Chambers, Sr.
Deaths and Baptisms
pg. 171. Mary Eliza and William Edward Chambers, children of Thomas
Chambers, and his wife Rachel, were baptized Nov. 1824.
pg. 171. Catherine Chambers, baptized Feb. 2, 1828.
pg. 172. Mrs. Martha Chambers, consort of Roland Chambers, departed this
life, April 12, 1830. Aged 62 years.
pg. 172. 1833, Jan 5. Eleanor C. Chambers had her children, Catherine
and Rowland baptized.
pg. 173. 1835, Aug. 2. Baptized, Nancy McClay Chambers, infant dau. of
Ellen and George Chambers.
pg. 173. 1836, Nov. 10. Rowland Chambers, Sen. departed this life.
pg. 173. 1837, March 25. Baptized, John Irvin Chambers, infant son of
George and Ellen Chambers.
David's Fork Baptist Church- Fayette Co., KY- 9 miles from Lexington
List of Male Members
pg. 179. Uriel Chambers, 184- Dismissed, Jan., 1817
Deeds, Old Churches, Harrison Co., KY
pg. 192. Methodist Church- Deed book 6, page 22. Oct. 9, 1818. Indenture
between Richard Henderson and Fanny, his wife, of Harrison Co., of the first
part, and Leroy Cole, Peter Barret, John Frazier, Joshua Jones, James
Finley,
James Chambers and Carter Anderson, Trustees of the second part ***lot
No.2***
in town of Cynthiana.
Bible of Joel Reid Lyle of Fayette Co., KY. Now owned by Charles Nourse
Lyle
of Lexington, KY. (copied by Mrs. H.K. McAdams)
pg. 269. John A. Lyle and Laura Chambers were married 22nd of Nov., 1848,
by
Reverend Jas. S. Kemper.
Joseph McAdams Bible (All children born in Kentucky, near Franklin) (Donated
by F.G. McAdams, Abelene, Kansas)
pg. 274. William Chambers, son of Alice McAdams Mowery Chambers, was born
April 17, 1907, at New Kensington, PA.
pg. 274. Priscilla Mae Chambers, daughter of Alice Chambers, was born
March 15, 1911, at New Kensington, PA.
pg. 274. Alice McAdams Mowery married W.B. Chambers (of New Kensington,
PA), April, 1905.
4. From book about Breckinridge Co., KY. (Sorry, I didn't write down the
name
of the book, but I will find out Monday.)
pg. 186- p. 501, November 4, 1809
Thomas Owen and Isabelle, his wife and Thomas Allen and Polly, his wife of
Mercer County to Henry Chambers of Madison Co., For 58 pounds, land in
Madison
County on Kentucky River, part of preemption granted as heirs of William
Walker, deceased. Recorded Nov. 14, 1809.
I will find out more info the next time I go. Let me know if any of this is
our family.
Your cousin,
Joyce
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