Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameWilliam CHESEBROUGH 
Birth1594, Boston, Lincolnshire, England2840, p 292,2353, p 17,2898, p 208
Death9 Jun 1667, Stonington, New London, Connecticut2840, p 292; place only,2898, p 208 Age: 73
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
Individual Notes
• Cheeseborough, William, Boston, freeman 1631, resided in Braintree, Rehoboth,and Stonington, Conn. to which place he removed in 1649. His descendants are in Connecticut, where three have grad. at Yale college, and several have been ministers.2698, p 57
• He was the first white man who made what is now Stonington, Connecticut, his permanent place of abode. He was a gunsmith, and worked at this trade in England and this country until he went to Stonington in 1649, when he changed his occupation to farming and stock raising and resided upon and improved the large tracts of land granted him by the town of Pequot (now New London), Connecticut.2898, p 208
• He was the first white man who made what is now Stonington, Connecticut, his permanent place of abode. He was a gunsmith, and worked at this trade in England and this country until he went to Stonington in 1649, when he changed his occupation to farming and stock raising and resided upon and improved the large tracts of land granted him by the town of Pequot (now New London), Connecticut.2898, p 208
Spouses
Birth1598, England2840, p 292
Death24 Aug 1673, Stonington, New London, Connecticut2353, p 13 Age: 75
FatherPeter STEVENSON
MotherUNNAMED
Marriage15 Dec 1620, Boston, Lincolnshire, England2447, p 149,2840, p 292,2353, p 17
Marr Memoby “the blessed John Cotton,” in St. Botolph’s Church
Family Notes
• 12 children.2840, p 292