In the years following independence, Gilbert and Martha Cheney transitioned from renters on Penn Proprietorship land to landowners in the new American republic.
Their names appear in oaths of allegiance, tax rolls, and land warrants—each record a step toward permanence in the Pennsylvania frontier.
Continue readingBy the mid-1700s, the Appalachian frontier beckoned. Gilbert and Martha Cheney—our fifth great-grandparents—joined the wave of settlers seeking land and opportunity in the remote valleys of central Pennsylvania.
Their story unfolds on Warrior’s Ridge, between Shaver’s Creek and Standing Stone Creek, where wilderness met perseverance.
Gilbert and Martha Cheney are our 5th great-grandparents. We’re sure of that. We have a paper trail from Gilbert and Martha to our present-day Cheneys.
But we have a problem. We don’t know Gilbert Cheney’s parents.
Continue readingCharles Cheney’s neighbor Col. William Burgess had built a wharf on the South River and laid out some lots for a town. He named it London Town.
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