Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Lancelot Chunn

Male 1722 - 1809  (87 years)


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  • Name Lancelot Chunn 
    Birth 1722  Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Jun 1809  Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland - Probate Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I18737  Tree1
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

    Father Benjamin Chunn,   b. 1696, Chaptico Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1753, Charles County, Maryland - inventory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Rebecca Wain   d. Aft 1769, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1716  Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F12527  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Judith Cartwright,   b. Between 1725 and 1735, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1813, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 88 years) 
    Marriage 11 May 1753  Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Jonathan Chunn,   b. 7 Nov 1754, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 6 Mar 1777, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 22 years)  [Father: natural]
     2. Thomas Chunn,   b. 10 Dec 1758, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
     3. Amos Chunn,   b. Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1808, Trinity Parish, Charles County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]
    Family ID F9611  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2024 

  • Notes 
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      Charles County Maryland Will Book HBBH-13, 1808-1817; {Abstract by Mike Marshall}; Page 31.
      Lancelot Chunn, Will, November 29, 1804; June 13, 1809
      I, Lancelot Chunn of CC, being far advanced in life, tho of good health and sound mind;
      To son Amos Chunn, all my real estate and all and everything thereunto, provided he pay all my just debts that may standing against me at my death.
      To wife Judith, all my personal property of whatsoever nature it may be at her disposal and for her own proper use and behoof forever.
      Executor: none stated
      Signed: November 29, 1804 Lancelot Chunn
      Wit: Walter Dyson, Zachariah Mattingly, Walter Bond

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      Benjamin Chunn 36.369 A CH £329.5.9 £10.11.7 Aug 17 1754
      Sureties: Andrew Chunn, Thomas Pettit.
      Payments to: Rev. Isaac Cambel, Daniel Dulany, Esq., Benjamin Tasker, Daniel Jenepher.
      Representatives: widow (unnamed), 12 children: Lancelot (at age), Samuel (at age), Rebecca (at age), Anne (at age), Joseph (aged 19). Benjamin (aged 17). Sybell (aged 15). Phebe (aged 13). Eleazor (aged 11), Cloe (aged 9), Levi, aqed 7).
      Administratrix: Rebecca Chun.
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      Joseph Chunn 113.429 CH £.214.11.3 Oct 28 1773
      Appraisers: Stephen Compton, John Wilder.
      Creditors: James Jordan for John Glassford & Co.
      Creditors/Next of kin: Lancelot Chunn, Henry Chun.
      Administrator: Benjamin King.
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      Charles County, Maryland Liber L#2, Page 406. The mark of Benja Chunn was recorded this Dec 7, 1727. And for Lancelot Chunn, a mark was recorded.
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      Charles County Land Record Book S#3, 1770-1775; Page 365. Feb 10, 1773 from Stephen Davis of CC, planter, to Lancelot Chunn of CC, for 30 £, part of a tract of land in CC called Lumley, bounded by the division line between sd Stephen Davis & William Compton, containing 50 acres. Signed - Stephen Davis. Wit - Philip Briscoe*, Saml_ Briscoe*, Patrick McGlen. Susanah Davis, wife to sd Stephen Davis, acknowledged this deed. Recorded Mar 10, 1773.
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      Charles County Land Record Book S#3, 1770-1775; Page 367. Feb 10, 1773 from Lancelot Chunn of CC, planter, to Zachariah Chunn of CC, planter, for 30 £, part of a tract of land in CC called East Marling, bounded by the east line of a parcel of land belonging formerly to John Cadge, containing about 100 acres. Signed - Lancelot Churn, Wit -Philip Briscoe*, Saml Briscoe*, Patrick McGlen. Judith Chunn, wife to the sd Lancelot Chunn, acknowledged this deed. Recorded Mar 12, 1773.
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      Charles County Land Records 1782-1786; Liber Z#3; Page 9. Depositions, recorded at the request of Samuel Briscoe_
      Sep 10, 1782. 1 certify that at the request of Samuel Briscoe, I proceeded to take the following depositions, the parties having been served with 20 days' notice as follows -
      CC, Sep 10, 1782, came John Willson Compton before me, a CC JP and made oath that, at the request of Samuel Briscoe, he gave 20 days notice to Doct. John Parnham, Robert Brent Sr, Thomas Ching, Eleanor Slye, Robert Slye, James Chappelear, Richard Carnes, Elizabeth Barber, Edward Wilder, Charles Mills, James Haden, Francis Hamersly, Baptist Barber, William Compton, and Christopher Lemmon, that the sd Samuel Briscoe intended to take the following depositions to prove the possession, tenure, and occupation of certain tracts of land, now in the possession of sd Samuel Briscoe, to wit, Baltimores Gift, Baltimores Gift Addition, Batchelors Hope, and Morrises Hope. Sworn before - Walter Winter.

      The Deposition of Henry Haislope, age 76, deposes that 70 years ago, on the east side of Birds Creek Run, stood a mill house belonging to John Perry, and afterwards was owned and possessed by Colo Robert Hanson who married John Perry's widow, and that all the lands from the head of a branch making into the fresh run of Birds Cr to the afd Perry's mill, was owned, peaceably possessed, worked, and enjoyed by John Perry, his widow, and Colo Robert Hanson as far as 'Stonestreets Gut, and that the sd Perry's land joined the lands of John Vaadry and John Slye, and the parcels of the sd lands have been entwat (?) by Perry, his widow, Colo Robert Ranson and their tenants as far back as 60 years (ago). Signed - Henry Haislip.

      The Deposition of Lancelot Chunn, aged 59, deposes that Elias Darby was tenant to Colo Robert Hanson as this Deponent was informed by sd Darby, and that Darby worked that part of Hanson's land known as Duke's Old Field, and. that Darby lived on sd land 50 years ago or thereabouts. Signed - Lancelot Chunn,

      The Deposition of Cornelius Barber, aged 67, deposes that as he walked from where an old mill house, now in the possession of Charles Mills stands to where this Deponent now stands, was the original course of Birds Creek Run, and that the space of ground from the old course of the run to where the present run is, was owned and possessed by John Perry, and that he never understood that sd land was claimed in Perry's time by any other person, and that divers parcels of Colo Robert Hanson's land, which he got by marrying with Perry's widow, were worked by Colo Robert Hanson and his tenants, and that about 60 years ago, Thomas Perry went to England and afterwards sold the land afd to Philip Key, who Negro Quarters on sd land, and cultivated his sd land in diverse places. Signed - Cornelius Barber. Recorded Dec 9, 1782.
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      1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 370-60: EAST MARTIN: 100 acres; Possession of - 100 Acres - Chunn, John: : Surveyed 30 Aug 1667 for Rice Jones and assigned John Hunt at one of the Easternmost bound tree of CAGES: Other Tracts Mentioned: CAGES; ; ; Conveyance notes - 50 Acres - Benjamin Chunn from John Chunn; 11 March 1734, 50 Acres - Andrew Chunn from John Chunn; 11 March 1734,
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      1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 368-47: LUMBEY: 450 acres; Possession of - 225 Acres - Burch, Oliver: 225 Acres - Noe, John: Surveyed 31 Jan 1664 for Thomas Lomax on the North side the main swamp that falls into Piles fresh: Conveyance notes - 125 Acres - Thomas Dyson from John Noe; 27 Feb 1726, 100 Acres - John Ingram Twainbrook from John Noe; 25 Sept 1727,100 Acres - Edmund Murphy from John Ingram Twainbrook; 13 Nov 1728, 46 Acres - Sarah Noe from Thomas Dyson; 10 June 1729, 100 Acres - William Davis from Edmund Murphy; 24 March 1734, 112-1/2 Acres - Justinian Burch Jr. From Justinian Burch Sr.; 14 June 1743,

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