Chester, Massachusetts, USA
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Where is Chester, Massachusetts, USA? Chester, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
The area opened for settlement in the 1750s as Township No. 9, chartered as Murrayfield on October 31, 1765. The town was incorporated as Chester on February 21, 1783.
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7. CHESTER. [Pop. 1,632. Inc. 1765.]
A factory village is at the southeastern corner of the township, but the rest of the town is...Read MORE...
A factory village is at the southeastern corner of the township, but the rest of the town is...Read MORE...
1848 - Chester
This town was incorporated in 1765. The Rev. Aaron Bascom and. Samuel M. Emerson appear to have...Read MORE...
This town was incorporated in 1765. The Rev. Aaron Bascom and. Samuel M. Emerson appear to have...Read MORE...
1848 - Justice?A few days since, Edwin Austen, of Chester, Mass, ran away with the wife and two children of Edwin...Read MORE...
1859
CHESTER, a township of Hampden co., in the state of Massachusetts, 116 m. SW of Boston. It is...Read MORE...
CHESTER, a township of Hampden co., in the state of Massachusetts, 116 m. SW of Boston. It is...Read MORE...
1868 - Hiram Smith, and eccentric old bachelor at Chester, Mass., is having his sepulcher hewn in a large rock in that town.He pays a man $700 to do the work, and by the stipulation the cave is to be seven feet long, four...Read MORE...
1880 - A New York dispatch says: It is believed a practically inexhaustible supply of emery ore has been discovered near Peekskill.The discovery is regarded as one of the greatest importance, from the fact that this metal, in a...Read MORE...
Chester Massachusetts, 1890
Chester, noted for its wild and picturesque scenery, occupies the northwest extremity of Hampden...Read MORE...
Chester, noted for its wild and picturesque scenery, occupies the northwest extremity of Hampden...Read MORE...
1893 - A TRAIN'S FATAL PLUNGE IT GOES THROUGH A BRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTSThe Locomotive Got Across Safely, But Four Wagner Cars Plunged Into the Stream - Many Persons...Read MORE...
1916
Chester, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., on a branch of the Westfield River and on the Boston ...Read MORE...
Chester, a post-village of Hampden co., Mass., on a branch of the Westfield River and on the Boston ...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
We currently have information about 35 ancestors who were born in Chester, Massachusetts, USA.
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Ancestors Who Died Here
 
Abigail ALLING
(abt. 1700, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - June 1771, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Amos Judson DAVENPORT
(10/1893, Middlefield, Massachusetts, USA - 12/1957, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Nellie RICKER
(, Sanford, Maine, USA (Springvale) - 01/1895, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Abner SMITH
(9 November 1722, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - 19 October 1794, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Abner SMITH
(20 April 1752, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - 13 May 1811, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Daniel SMITH
(4 July 1693, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - 6 January 1771, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Daniel SMITH
(17 May 1716, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - 11 May 1808, Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Reuben WHITCHER
(, - , Chester, Massachusetts, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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John LACORE (27 February 1749 - 24 September 1808) &
Sarah SMITH (30 January 1754 - 1802)
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Amos Judson DAVENPORT (10/1893 - 12/1957) &
Ruth Edith WHITCHER (09/10/1893 - February 1980)
married June 1913 |
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