Pierre Chastain And His Descendants First Five Generations In America

The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.

A collection of two articles by Cameron H. Allen, F.A.S.G.: "The Chastain Families of Manakin Town in Virginia and their Origin Abroad" and "Pierre Chastain Revisited," documenting the genealogy of Huguenot refugees in America in the 1700s, and their European origins. This collection is reprinted with permission by the Pierre Chastain Family Association. * About the Author: Cameron Harrison Allen, J.D., retired as a law librarian at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, N.J., and was a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists since 1962. In addition to researching and publishing articles on the Chastains, Soblets, and other Huguenot families over four decades, he was a contributing editor to The American Genealogist and a popular lecturer at genealogy conferences. Cameron Allen is also the author of "The Sublett (Soblet) Family of Manakintown, King William Parish, Virginia," documenting the family of Pierre Chastain's wife Anne Soblet, her siblings, and parents.

Chastain genealogy is traced back to Chateigner, Seigneur de la Chateignier of France (fl. 1084). His descendant Peter Chastain (1660-1729) and Marie Madaline de la Rochefaucauld (1666-1726) emigrated to Powhatan Co., Virginia in 1699 with their six children. The Lochridges or Loughridges descend from James Lochridge and Susan Goodwin of Carnesville, Franklin Co., Georgia, who had eight children born to them in the early 1800s. The Stocktons descend from William Stockton, who came with his family from Ireland to the Sugar Loaf Valley, near Russellville, Kentucky about 1780; and Mary Morrow, who bore him sixteen children. They later settled in Madison and Walker Co., Alabama and Monroe Co., Mississippi.

The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.