Richard and Charity Cheney lived near the South River in Anne Arundel County in the Province of Maryland.
In 1659, they had been granted one hundred acres of land, a grant named Cheney Hill.
Continue reading312 – Life in South River Hundred
Month: October 2025
311 – Meet the Cheneys
We’ve written stories about three of our ancestor family pairs – Jarvis/Webb, Teply/Kloppenberg, and Gallagher/Riley. We’re exploring one more family pair – Cheney and Maninger.
In our last series, we followed our Maninger family from 1700s Germany to 1920 Kansas.
Now we’ll turn to stories of our Cheney family.
In this series, we’ll follow the Cheney family from their arrival in colonial Maryland in the mid-1600s, tracing their path through land grants, settlement records, and family trees. Their legacy begins on the banks of the South River, in a province founded on religious tolerance and new beginnings.
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