The great-great-great-great-grandparents of Vice-President Dick Cheney, William Cheney and Elizabeth Sweet/Swett settled Cheney's Island, near Grand Manan. See: "Ancestry of Richard Bruce Cheney" by William Addams Reitwiesner at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/cheney.html.
"Thirty-five kilometres (22 mi.) off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada, lies the Island of Grand Manan - the punctuation mark at the end of the Canada-United States border."
There is a delightful map of Cheney Island at http://www.grandmanannb.com/gmtrailm.jpg.
The story of William CHENEY (8 SEP 1741 - APR 1803), and his prodigy, may be found on the World Wide Web at http://pages.prodigy.com/QJNT72A/g0000117.htm and http://members.tripod.com/KenCarrico/williamcheney.html.
"William enlisted from Newbury, when a mere boy, in Captain William
Davenport's Co. of Infantry for
service in the French War. [Was this Captain William Davenport
of Isle of Wight County who was murdered by the Creek Indians in 1786.]
He was reported to be in Louisburg on June 13, 1759.
At left, an Anglican church in St. Andrew is shown.
He married, and removed to an island in Passamaquoddy Bay, called Indian
Island. After residing there
a number of years, he made his residence at St. Andrews.
[There is a delightful map of the Passamaquoddy Region at http://www.coastguides.com/charts,%20tables/passa.html and a description of Indians Island's location at http://www.coastguides.com/r7/r7.html?http%3A//www.coastguides.com/r7/7.24OldSow.html. The map od Deer Island at http://www.deerisland.nb.ca/maps.htm Indian Island in relation to St. Andrews. It is very close to Eastport, Maine.
Indian Island is located at 44°55'00"N, 66°58'00"W in the St.
Stephen/St. Andrews region of the Fundy
Coastal Drive, Charlotte county. See Agreement between James
Boyd, Joseph Connick and William Cheney, 1768. Crown Land Office, NB. at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbstdavi/connick.html#boyd.
Two of William Cheney's children, Edmund and Susanna, were born on Indian
Island.
William Cheney, Jr., was born in St. Andrews.]
William in 1783 moved to Grand Menan in the province of New Brunswick.
He settled on an Island, now
called Cheney Island, situated between Ross Island and White Head in
the Grand Manan Archipelage.
When he moved to Grand Menan, it was inhabited by Indians who drove
off the first families. But, by fair
treatment, he won their friendship and secured permanent footing.
William's daughter, Barbara was the first white child born on Grand Manon [sic] [in 1786]. Her brother Moses, born in 1790, was said to be the first white male child to be born to permanent settlers.
William was a very respectable farmer and fisherman."
On the site, it is written that William Cheney had 12 children. On another Web site, http://www.angelfire.com/nb/deb/cheneyisland.html, it is written that he had 13 children.
We learn about the fate of a second daughter of William Cheney on a Web page about the Ingalls on Grand Manan by Elaine Ingalls Hogg, http://elainehogg.tripod.com/webpages/id16.html.
At right, Greenock Presbyterian Church is shown. Of all the photographs that I have taken, this one is my favourite and it brings back some of my best memories.
"...[In 1807], John Ingalls married his second wife, Sarah Cheney. Sarah was born in St. Andrews NB [in 1783] but moved with her family to Cheney's Island around 1800. Here her family claimed about one hundred of the two hundred and fifty acres of the island. Her sister, Barbara was the first white girl born on the island of Grand Manan, while her father, William, was the first male child of permanent residents. William was drowned in 1806 while driving cattle across the passage that divided Ross's Island and Cheney's Island. [The passage is clearly visible on the map of Cheney Island at http://www.grandmanannb.com/gmtrailm.jpg.]He made an error in judging the oncoming tide, and like the Thoroughfare, this passage is covered in a high tide."
According to Hans Bakker, "The story of Cheney's Island (one of the smallest of the Grand Manan Islands in the Bay of Fundy) is an adventure tale worthy of Robert Louis Stevenson." The story is in:
The Last Illusion. Letters From Dutch Immigrants in the 'Land of Opportunity'
1924-1930. Herman
Ganzevoort (Trans. and Ed.), Calgary: University of Calgary Press,
1999. 238 pp. Paperback ISBN 1 55238 013 0.
It is reviewed on his Web page at http://www.uoguelph.ca/~vincent/hbakker/work/book_illusion.htm.
There is a delightful Web site about Cheney's Island at http://www.angelfire.com/nb/deb/cheneyisland.html. The island is about 200 acres, approximately 1 1/2 miles long, 1/4 to 1/2 mile wide.
According to this Web site, William Cheney was murdered. This claim is supported by a leter from Simeon Frankland Cheney, William Cheney's grandson and Moses' son.
In the early 1970s a family from Quebec purchased the island and built two houses, a large house with six bedrooms and a smaller three bedroom house for the caretaker. It rents the large house in the summer.
There is a small cemetery in the forest on the island. It has two small tombstones. One marks the graves of William Cheney and his wife Susan. William was the son of Edmund and Rebecca (Doggett) Cheney, and a grandson of the first William. Susan, his wife, was a daughter of John and Susannah Kent of Kent Island.
According to the inscription, WILLIAM CHENEY died July 22, 1884, aged 83 years. Also, his wife SUSAN died on Aug. 25, 1878, aged 76 years.
The second tombstone marks the grave of Mary C. Ingersoll. Mary C. Ingersoll, was William and Susan's daughter, Mary Caroline, and was married to John Ingersoll, son of Joel and Rebecca (Ingalls) Ingersoll.
MARY C, wife of John L. Ingersoll, died June 11, 1864, aged 23 yrs 6 mos.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure,
and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being
helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
- Phillip Brooks
Dick Cheney's great-great-great-grandfather, Ebenezer Cheney, was born in Newbury, Mass. on February 24, 1764. He married Hannah Eaton in 1789 and they had five children. He died in Campton, New Hampshire on August 3, 1832.
Dick Cheney's great-great-grandfather, Elias Eaton Cheney, a joiner and carpenter, was born in Campton, New Hampshire on May 30, 1793. He died in Thetford, Vermont on February 2, 1859. Elias and his wife, Lucy Fletcher, had nine children.
Dick Cheney's great-grandfather, Samuel Fletcher Cheney, Captain of Co. B, 21st Ohio Infantry in the Civil War, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire on February12,1829. He married Ella A. Phillips in Defiance, Ohio on September 24, 1861. They had five children.
Dick Cheney's grandfather, Thomas Herbert Cheney, was born in Defiance, Ohio on April 10, 1869. He died in Sumner, Nebraska on March 29, 1947. He married Margaret Ellen Tyler on May 20, 1914. They had one child.
Dick Cheney's father, Richard Herbert Cheney, was born in Nebraska on January 26, 1915. Richard Cheney married, Marjorie Lorraine Dickey, Dick Cheney's mother.
Acording to "Ancestry of Richard Bruce Cheney" by William Addams Reitwiesner at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/cheney.html, Dick Cheney is not only George W. Bush's vice-president, he is also a distant cousin through his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, or 8/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, William Fletcher and Lydia..
"William Fletcher m. Lydia (?Fairbanks)
.William Fletcher m. Sarah Richardson
.Esther Fletcher m. Stephen Pierce
.Benjamin Pierce m. Elizabeth Merrill (see 1122 & 1123,
below)
|.Benjamin Pierce m. Anna Kendrick
| .FRANKLIN PIERCE (1804-1869), US President
.Esther Pierce m. Nathan Richardson
.Esther Richardson m. Joshua Pierce
.James Pierce m. Polly/Mary Stacy
.Gen. James Pierce m. Chloe Holbrook
.Jonas James Pierce m. Kate Pritzel
.Scott Pierce m. Mabel Marvin
.Marvin Pierce m. Pauline
Robinson
.Barbara Pierce m.
George Herbert Walker Bush (see 2234, below)
.GEORGE WALKER
BUSH (b. 1946), US President"
Dick Cheney is also related to WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, J.P. Morgan, and FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT through his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, or 8/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, William Cheney and Margaret.
"William Cheney m. Margaret ----
.Eleanor Cheney m. Humphrey Johnson
|.Mehitable Johnson m. Samuel Hinsdale
| .Mary Hinsdale m. Thomas Sheldon
| .Benjamin Sheldon m. Mary Strong
| .Mary Sheldon m. Joseph Lyman
| |.Joseph Lyman m. Anne Jean Robbins
| || .Catherine Robbins Lyman m. Warren Delano
| || .Sara Delano m. James Roosevelt
| || .FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882-1945),
US President
| |.Mary Lyman m. Lynde Lord Jr.
| | .Mary Sheldon Lord m. John Pierpont
| | .Juliet Pierpont m. Junius Spencer Morgan
| | .JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN (1837-1913), banker,
m. Frances Louise Tracy
| | |.JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN JR. (1867-1943),
banker
| | .Mary Lyman Morgan m. Walter Hayes Burns
| | .Mary Ethel Burns m. LEWIS HARCOURT,
1st Vct HARCOURT (1863-1922)
| .Rebecca Sheldon m. Benjamin Parsons
| .Justin Parsons m. Electa Frary
| .Lucretia Parsons m. Daniel Oliver Morton
| .LEVI PARSONS MORTON (1824-1920) m.
Anna Livingston Reade Street
| .Helen Stuyvesant Morton m. BOSON
duc de TALLEYRAND (1867-1952)
.Joseph Cheney m. Hannah Thurston
.Josiah Cheney m. Hannah ----
.Elizabeth Cheney m. Peter Taft
.Aaron Taft m. Rhoda Rawson
.Peter Rawson Taft m. Sylvia Howard
.Alphonso Taft m. Louisa Maria Torrey
.WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930), US
President, m. Helen Herron
.ROBERT ALPHONSO TAFT (1889-1953),
US Senator, m. Martha Wheaton Bowers
.ROBERT ALPHONSO TAFT (1917-1993),
US Senator, m. Blanca Duncan Noel
.ROBERT ALPHONSO TAFT
(b. 1942), Governor of Ohio"
Dick Cheney is related to Harry S. Truman through his great-great-great-great-grandparents, Robert and Margaret Tyler. They have other descendants, such as:
"Robert Tyler m. Margaret ----
.Ann Drusilla (Nancy) Tyler m. Jesse Holmes
.Mary Jane Holmes m. Anderson Shipp Truman
.John Anderson Truman m. Martha Ellen Young
.HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884-1972), U.S. President"
According to family lore, I am related to Harry S. Truman through my maternal grandparents who are Youngs.
It would appear that William Cheney was not a loyalist in the traditional sense of the word. See Agreement between James Boyd, Joseph Connick and William Cheney, 1768. Crown Land Office, NB. at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbstdavi/connick.html#boyd.
May Loyalists did settle in and around St. Andrews at around the same time that William Cheney was settling Cheney Island.
"Daniel and James McMaster were doing business as merchants, in Boston
before the war; but,
because of their loyalty and obedience to the laws, they were compelled
to leave. One or both of them
joined the British at Castine, and came here with the Penobscot Loyalists.
They carried on business in
different parts of Charlotte county, and held positions of trust and
honor. Daniel married [Hannah Ann: 1768-1827] the only daughter of
Rev. Samuel Andrews, first rector of St. Andrews. One of the daughters
of his brother James became the wife of Rev. Samuel Thompson, first rector
of St. George."
See: LXXXIV - THE GRANTEES OF ST. ANDREWS at
http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Glimpses/LXXXIV.html.
At left, the tombstone of Hannah Ann McMaster, wife of Daniel McMaster, Esq. and only daughter of Rev. Samuel Andrews, is shown. It reads: "This stone marks the hallowed spot where the remains of a faithful wife, a most dutiful daughter, and a tender mother, are deposited." It must have spoken to me for I took this picture when I was a waitress in St. Andrews in 1987 and I have kept it ever since. A larger version of the picture may be seen at http://www.geocities.com/rexanna_keats/Andrews.jpg.
The records of the picturesque cemetery in St. Andrews, N.B., called
the "OLD LOYALIST BURYING
GROUND" , may be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbstandr/stan4b.htm.
The cemetery, "...situated at the head of King Street and surrounded by
an iron fence, is the resting place of many of the founding Loyalists
who came to St. Andrews. The land was given to the Church of England in
1794. The cemetery is currently maintained by the local Anglican Church.
The earliest stone is 1788, possibly a reburial.... "
