Susan,
I have a lot of information concerning Jesse Chandler and his descendants
to include wills and other documents. I also can track some of his
descendants - particularly his son Moses.
I have been trying to get past my stone wall which is a Thompson Chandler
b. Feb. 11, 1811 somewhere in the area of SW VA around
Patrick/Henry/Franklin Co. along the NC border. Thompson was married in
Giles Co in 1831 and I have almost complete information on him and his
descendants. I have strong indicators that he was the son of a William
Chandler married in Patrick Co. in 1809. This William was probably the
son of a William from Surry Co. NC.
Now to Jesse- The reason I have a great amount of material is that in my
efforts to find Thompson's ancestors, I analylized the census reports for
all Chandlers in SW VA who were in a distance of Giles Co. (I originally
thought Thompson was born there) to possibly have been his parents. Since
he was born in 1811 I concentrated on the 1810 census and found there
were only three possibilities and two of them were only remote
possibilities. The Main possibility was Jesse Chandler of Franklin Co. I
was lucky to find an excellent genealogist in Franklin Co and I paid her
to research Jesse and family. I have a lot of material she uncovered -
BUT - it served to prove that Jesse was not Thompson's father - even
though Jesse's son Moses was living in Giles Co. during a number of years
that Thompson was there. They were the only Chandlers in that Co. at that
time and both were of an age to have been brothers.
The information I have on Jesse is at variance with the information
published by the Chandler Family Association. There notes have him living
in that area and then moving to SC. This move did not happen, he can be
tracked in Franklin Co for many years. Unless there were two Jesse's in
the area (and that is possible, but no record of two being there at the
same time has been found), then the SC Jesse could not be the same one as
the Henry/Franklin Co. Jesse.
This is all the time that I have to respond this morning. I will be happy
to provide the data I have (at least part of it, there may be over 100
pages and some is not relevant). I will abstract this info and send it in
a later message and if you want hard copy, please send your address.
DO ANY OF YOU CHANDLERS on CHANDLER-L@roots
web.com WANT THIS
INFORMATION? If so send me an e-mail request. If there are enough of you,
I will put it on roots web, otherwise I hate to clutter up the web and
will send it individually.
One more item, I think Jesse was 90 to 100 years old when he died.
Tom
Dr. H. Thomas Chandler
1714 Besley Road
Vienna, Virginia 22182
Phone 703-281-6137
FAX 703-281-3040
E-Mail htchandler(a)earthlink.net
Web page address:
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/h/a/Hubert-T-Chandler/