Individual Details

John Chandler I

(14 March 1655 - 19 September 1721)

Our Andover ancestor John Chandler I was the older brother of Sarah Chandler (1661-1757) who was the grandmother of the Samuel Phelps III (1712-1795) who married John's granddaughter Priscilla Chandler (1713-1998), his second cousin. Two of his great-grandchildren (Priscilla Chandler Phelps's son Joshua Phelps I (1738-1798) and Lois Ballard (1746-1836) were also married as second cousins. Not only that, but John himself, in spite of prevailing Puritan admonitions, married Hannah Abbott (1650-1741), his own first cousin. New England apparently had a very restricted gene pool.

John was the second of eight siblings in his family.

Events

Birth14 March 1655Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
Marriage20 December 1676Hannah Abbott
Death19 September 1721Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Families

SpouseHannah Abbott (1650 - 1740)
ChildJohn Chandler II (1679 - 1741)
ChildHannah Chandler (1690 - 1755)
ChildSarah Chandler (1693 - 1737)
ChildJohn Chandler (1677 - 1679)
ChildJosiah Chandler (1685 - 1723)
ChildAbiell Chandler (1686 - 1711)
ChildZebediah Chandler (1683 - 1766)
FatherCapt Thomas Chandler ( - 1703)
MotherHannah Brewer (1630 - 1717)
SiblingThomas Chandler (1664 - 1737)
SiblingHannah Chandler (1659 - 1730)
SiblingWilliam Chandler (1659 - 1728)
SiblingSarah Chandler (1661 - 1757)
SiblingHenry Chandler (1667 - 1737)
SiblingJoseph Chandler (1669 - )
SiblingThomas Chandler (1652 - 1659)