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Maryland and Delaware families, and the old wills of our
ancestors are of perculiar interest to me, and I doubt not to all
who read these pages.
My first wife, Margaret, was the
daughter of Henry S. and
Sally (Chinn) Hawkins. Her father was born in Maryland, near
Port Tobacco, Charles Co., about 1753. The will of his father
will soon appear. My wife's mother, Sally Chinn, was his second
wife, whom he married 1822, when quite an old man. He
died 1842, loved and honored by every one of his acquaintances.
He and his wife were both members of the Baptist Church. Sally,
his wife, was the daughter of Joseph and Polly Groves, and was
born in Bourbon Co., Ky., Nov. 22, 1800.
Polly Graves was one of the very
numerous family of Graves
in Fayette Co., Ky., who came from Virginia with the earliest
settlers (when Kentucky was truly "the dark and bloody ground"
occupied by the red men of the forest), many of them serving
with distinction in the Indian wars and that of 1812-1815.
Joseph Chinn was a grandson of
Raleigh Chinn, who was the
brother-in-law of Augustine Washington (the father of George
Washington), their wives being sisters, Misses Ball.
Augustine Washington married a
second wife, Mary Ball,
in 1730. Their son, George Washington, was born Feb. 22, 1732,
died Dec. 14, 1799.
Mary Ball was a younger sister
of Esther Ball, who married
Raleigh Chinn, who genealogy is as follows:
| RALEIGH CHINN, born in
1684, died in 1741; will probated in Lancaster Co., Va., in 1741, second Friday in March. |
Married before 1703 to Esther
Ball; she died in May, 1751, and her will was probated in Fauquier Co., Va., the same year. |
| CHARLES CHINN, born
17_, died 1787, and his will was probated the same year in Fauquier Co., Va. |
Married Scythia Davis, who
died about 1818. |
| JOSEPH CHINN, born 1722,
and died at his home in Bourbon Co., Ky., with cholera, 1833. |
Married Polly Graves in
Fayette Co., Ky., who died 1819. |
Thanks to Catherine Bradford for transcribing this page.
Copyright (c) 1999, 2007 Brian Cragun.