This tree, dedicated to William Chesebrough who was the first European settler of what is now Stonington, CT in 1649, not only contains his descendants and collateral families and their ancestors, but also the ancestors of the children of Larry and Nancy (Cagle) Chesebro’, and the ancestors of the children of Larry and Nancy Chesebro’s siblings.

William Chesebrough (recorded "Cheesbrough" in England), the immigrant of proven English ancestry, is a 10th great-grandfather of our grandchildren. Sarah Chesebrough, whose name stands number 78 on the roll of the First Church of Boston, Massachusetts, was a passenger with William on the ship, "Arbella", and is thought to have been his mother. His wife, Anna and three surviving children of the fifteen that had been born to him including the youngest, Nathaniel, an infant in arms, came with him in the same company.

We believe William's father was William Cheesbrough II married to Sarah (William's mother is Sarah as recorded on the Boston church rolls) and the next ancestral generation is William Cheesbrough I married to Margaret Jenkinson. William I and Margaret are confirmed in our immigrant William's county in England and with the overwhelming use of the given name "William", they probably are his ancestral family!

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