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Deacon White died at Hadley, February
15- 1742.
Ebenezer White, son of Deacon Nathaniel
(2) and Elizabeth (Savage)
White, was born in Hadley, April 9, 1701,
and died March 23, 1733, when nearly
thirty-two years old. He remained with
his father during his entire lifetime. He
married, October 28, 1730, Ruth Atherton,
and after the death of her husband she
continued to reside with his parents, and
cared for them in their old age. In return
her father-in-law gave her a portion of
the home lot and it is still in possession
of her descendants. She never remarried,
and she died April 29, 1785, aged eighty-
five years.
Ebenezer (2) White, son of Ebenezer
(1) and Ruth (Atherton) White, was
born in Hadley about 1733. He lived on
the White farm and died there, October
11, 1817. He married Sarah Church, born
August 17, 1736, died about 1802, daughter
of Samuel Church, of Amherst.
Elijah White, son of Ebenezer (2) and
Sarah (Church) White, was born in Hadley,
June 28, 1778. He married, Decem-
ber 24, 1799, Lucy Pierce, daughter of
Josiah Pierce, Jr. and Lucy (Fairfield)
Pierce. She was born April 26, 1778. He
went to New London to defend the port
in 1812, and died November 24, 1856, at
the age of seventy-eight.
Josiah White, son of Elijah and Lucy
(Pierce) White, was born August 1, 1800,
and died in Owosso, Michigan, June 5,
1882. He married Hannah Cushing, of
Chesterfield, Massachusetts, born Febru-
ary 6, 1798. She died in Carson Valley,
Nevada, while on a horseback trip with
her daughter and grandson in 1863.
Josiah (2) White, son of Josiah (1)
and Hannah (Cushing) White, was born
May 18, 1831. He married Hannah C.
Pease, of Somers, Connecticut, daughter
of Azel and Hannah (Ashley) Pease,
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March 16, 1851. She was born March 7,
1830, and died April 22, 1896.
Nellie A. White, daughter of Josiah
(2) and Hannah C. (Pease) White, was
born June 25, 1857, and married, May 23,
1877, Walter Collyer Faxon. They re-
side in Hartford, Connecticut.
CHENEY, Frank,
Pioneer Silk Manufacturer.
Originally of French extraction, the
Cheney family has received notice in
English records since some time after
the year 1066, although the patronymic
has at different times and by different
generations and branches been vari-
ously rendered, Cheney, Chine, Cheyney,
Cheyne, Chenney, Cheyner, and other
spellings. Sir Nicholas Chenney acquired
the Manor of Up-Ottery, in Devonshire
in the reign of Henry in. (1207-72).
Thomas Cheyney, mercer, died in Lon-
don, in 1361, a man of wealth and varied
interests. Henry Cheyney made his will,
August 18, 1361. John Cheyney was
archdeacon of Exeter, in 1379, and dur-
ing the sixteenth and seventeenth centur-
ies branches of the family were recorded
as resident in many midland and southern
counties of England. John Cheney immigrant
ancestor, was born in England, and
of him John Eliot, the famous Indian
Apostle, minister of Roxbury, wrote:
John Cheny came into the land in the yeare
1636. He brought 4 children, Martha, Mary,
John, Daniel. Sarah, his fifth child, was borne
in the last month of the same yeare, 1636, called
February. He removed from our church to
Newbury the end of the next su'er, 1636. Mar-
tha Cheny the wife of John Cheny.
At Newbury John Cheny prospered,
and his allotment of land was a large
one. He had three acres granted, June
19, 1638, at the westerly end of the great