Larry,
I believe I am also researching the same John Chandler, b. 1599
England, line that you are. My only problem is that another cousin of mine
has brought up possibilities of another father/son tie in my Chandler lines
that would make the connection the different from what another earlier family
researcher had stated in his work.
The way my earlier researcher had put in his work (from Chandler
Stewart of Virginia, 1986) that my 3xg grandfather, Melchizedek Chandler, b.
1820 in North Carolina was a son of Thomas Chandler, and then he had the line
running along with
Joel Chandler and then one more Joel Chandler. With further looking through
FTM discs and
Ancestry.com entries, I found the line running as follows:
Melchizedek Chandler, Thomas Chandler b. 1785, Joel Chandler b. 1727, Henry
Co., Virginia,
Joel Chandler b. 1683, New Kent Co., Robert Chandler, 1654, Virginia, Robert
Chandler, b. 1626, Virginia and the John Chandler, b. 1599 in England.
However, another family researcher believes that Melchizedek's father
is a Simeon Chandler through research of land records and Census locations,
but she isn't totally positive. The last Joel and Thomas show in census
records to have migrated to the Northern counties of Granville and Person in
North Carolina in the 1790 and 1800 censuses and through Thomas' marriage
record to Sarah Yarbrough in 1809 in Person Co. Melchizedek was born in
Yancey Co. in the Western, Appalachian end of North Carolina and Simeon
Chandler was in Buncombe Co., census in 1830, next to Yancey. The newer
researcher believes also that Simeon is a grandson of a Timothy Chandler who
I think also could be one of Joel's sons as well. A large part of Joel's
decedents migrated to the Sevier Co., area of Tennessee right across the
border from Yancey and Buncombe, so one way or another I believe I am still
connected to this same line.
Larry Blowers