Hi Ed,
I checked the Mongenes database as well as
familysearch.org and Ancestry.
No obvious Cheeseman/Chessman in Monmouthshire. I did some searching for
Richard but as you said no records. I did find a tree at Ancestry that
suggests Ephraim Cheeseman b abt 1754 Lower , Landing, Camden NJ, d 1807
Gloucester NJ and Mary b 1758 are his parents. Their parents Richard and ? (
no dates). The only source given was "Geneanet database" which I searched
and found a bunch of trees that had Cheeseman in NJ:
http://en.geneanet.org/search/?name=cheeseman
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http://en.geneanet.org/search/?name=cheeseman&country=USA®ion=...
debut=1740&annee_fin=1840&ressource=arbre>
&country=USA®ion=NJE&annee_debut=1740&annee_fin=1840&ressource=arbre
also searched old rootsweb trees- here are quite a few that you might find
more info on:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&...
n&ti=&surname=cheeseman&stype=Exact&given=richard&bplace=new+jersey&byear=17
82&brange=5&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&
spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search>
&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=cheeseman&stype=Exact&given=richard&bplace=n
ew+jersey&byear=1782&brange=5&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=
0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search
Hopefully one of these will have more records. If he was Quaker the records
should be there.you may have to do some time sucking searches to find his
records as the last name could easily have been misspelled. Diane