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Pierre Chastain

Male 1659 - 1728  (69 years)


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  • Name Pierre Chastain 
    Birth 9 Apr 1659  Charost, Cher, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 20 Nov 1728  Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I0759  forneyclark
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2024 

    Father Estienne Chastain,   b. 30 Mar 1625, Charost Prov. of Berri, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. AFT. 1694 (Age > 70 years) 
    Mother JEANNE LAURENT,   b. ABT. 1625, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage BEF. 1652 
    Family ID F0229  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Susanne "Anne" Soblet,   b. 1675, Sedan Provence of Champagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Apr 1723, Manakin, Henrico Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 1701  Parish of King William, Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Judith Chastain,   b. 1703, Henrico Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1765-1784, Lucy's Spring, Chesterfield Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     2. Susanna Chastain,   b. 1705, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Peter Chastain,   b. ABT. 1707, Parr of King Wm., Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1756, Buckingham Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 49 years)
     4. Mary Chastain,   b. 1709, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. BEF. 15 Jun 1761, Buckingham Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 52 years)
     5. Elizabeth Chastain,   b. 1711, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Rene Chastain,   b. 1713, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1786, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     7. Jane Chastain,   b. 1716, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jan 1722/23 (Age 7 years)
     8. Marie Magdalaine Chastain,   b. 1721, Parish of King Wm. Goochland Co., VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. BEF. 1810 (Age < 88 years)
    Family ID F0228  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2024 

  • Photos
    Chastain, Pierre  (1659-1728) & Susanne 'Anne' Soblet (1675-1723) & Judith Chastain (b. 1703; d: 1765-1784) & Susanna Chastain (b. 1705) & Peter Chastain (1707-1756) & Mary Chastain (b. 1709; d: before June 16, 1761) & Elizabeth Chastain (b. 1711) & Rene Chastain (1713-1786) & Jane Chastain (1716-1722/23) & (Marie Magdalaine Chastain (b. 1721; d. before 1810) **SOME INDIVIDUALS APPEAR MORE THAN ONCE IN OUR TREE AND HAVE BEEN LINKED ACCORDINGLY.
    Chastain, Pierre (1659-1728) & Susanne "Anne" Soblet (1675-1723) & Judith Chastain (b. 1703; d: 1765-1784) & Susanna Chastain (b. 1705) & Peter Chastain (1707-1756) & Mary Chastain (b. 1709; d: before June 16, 1761) & Elizabeth Chastain (b. 1711) & Rene Chastain (1713-1786) & Jane Chastain (1716-1722/23) & (Marie Magdalaine Chastain (b. 1721; d. before 1810) **SOME INDIVIDUALS APPEAR MORE THAN ONCE IN OUR TREE AND HAVE BEEN LINKED ACCORDINGLY.
    Residence photo of the Pierre Chastain & Susanne "Anne" Soblet Chastain family came from the Eador Collection by John M. Eador. It originally appeared at http://manakin.addr.com/houses/monacan.htm Huguenot Houses in Powhatan and Chesterfield Counties, compiled by Lucille C. Moseley for the 300th Anniversary Celebrating the Arrival of the Huguenots in Virginia. The Huguenot Houses’ URL is part of a larger site the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin In the Colony of Virginia at http://manakin.addr.com /The following description and acknowledgement appear at http://manakin.addr.com/houses/monacan.htm “The Monacan farm was once the site of an abandoned Monacan Indian village. It was the first tract of land surveyed by the Huguenot settlers. This may be the oldest house in the county./ Huguenot settler Peter Chastain received a patent here in the early 1700s. The frame part of today's main house was built in 1720 by Chastain, who left it to his son at his death in 1728; he is buried on the grounds. The younger Peter granted the property to Edward Scott in 1729 to pay a gambling debt. The property remained in the Scott family until the late 1930s, more than 200 years. They added the brick portion of the house around 1830-32./ Mrs. Collins Denny and her husband purchased the property in the early 1940s when it had no heat, electricity, or running water. They carefully restored Monacan to the lovely home seen today./ *Special appreciation to the family of the late Raymond H. Boelt for permission to use his photographs of the Powhatan houses.”/

    Headstones
    Chastain, Pierre (1659-1728)
    Chastain, Pierre (1659-1728)
    Pierre Chastain (1659-1728); Family Cemetery, Manakin, Goochland Co., VA, USA; erected in 1982 by Lowell Chastain, then President of the Pierre Chastain Family Association. It is now known that Pierre was born on April 9, 1659. Photo by Teekeela Ann Williams.

  • Notes 
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      Source:
      Pierre Chastain Family Association
      The sites below are defunct (3-18-2006), but at one time the following conjectural history appeared at one or more of these sites:
      http://www.kopower.com/~jimchstn/pierreb.htm
      http://www.kopower.com/~jimchstn/main.htm
      http://www.pierrechastain.com/index.htm

      "The year was 1659 when Pierre Chastain was born in the ancient Province of Berry, in or near the village of Charost, which is almost the geographic center of France. Pierre Chastain was the son of Estienne Chastain and Jeanne Laurent. Pierre's father, Estienne and this grandfather, Jacques Chastain, had both served as notaire royal at Charost. Estienne was born circa 1625, the son of Jacques and Jeanne Audet Chastain. It is thought that Jacques, born circa 1598-1600, was either the son or grandson of the Estienne Chastain who fled the city of Bourges at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. Proof of Pierre's first wife comes from the registers of Vevey in cantonal archives in Lausanne, Switzerland. This proof also corrects the assumption that Magdalaine de la Rochefaucald was Pierre's first wife. Pierre Chastain married Susanne Reynaud, daughter of Pierre Reynaud, from the village of Issoudun. By 1696, the Pierre Chastain family had fled from Charost across the Jura Mountains to Vevey, Canton Vaud, Switzerland to escape religious persecution. Sometime after September 1698, the family departed Vevey and was found at The Haque in The Netherlands (Holland). From there, the family moved to London, England where they remained a short time while Pierre became active in gathering together a group of French Huguenot refugees for colonization in Virginia. Pierre Chastain, his wife Susanne Reynaud Chastain and five children were among the group of 207 passengers who embarked from Gravesend, England on April 19, 1700 aboard the ship Mary and Ann of London. This ship arrived at the mouth of the James River on July 12, 1700. The group settled in Manakin, Virginia about twenty miles up the James River. The group was given a 10,000 acre tract of land south of the James in an area once occupied by the Monacan Tribe of Indians.

      Pierre's wife, Susanne, died after February 1701 and before November 1701, two of the children also had died. Pierre then married Anne Soblet. Ann was the daughter of Abraham Soblet and Susanne Brian. The marriage to Anne Soblet produced eight children. Anne Soblet Chastain died on April 3, 1723. Pierre married a third time to Mary Magdaline (Verrueil) Trabue, daughter of Moise and Madelene Verrueil and widow of Antoine Trabue. Pierre Chastain died in Goochland County, Virginia in the fall of 1728. He had made his will on October 3, 1728 and this will was probated on November 20, 1728. He was buried in the family cemetery near his home. Magdeline Chastain died in late Spring of 1731, she and Pierre did not have children.

      The family cemetery where Pierre Chastain was buried is located near Manakin Episcopal church. The Cemetery was located a few yards from the family home and contained several field stones and as many as 30 graves. A brick wall surrounding the family plot was torn down in 1929 by a farmer who used the bricks to build a house. In 1982, Lowell Chastain, then President of the Association, erected a grave marker for Pierre Chastain and constructed a chain-link fence around his grave.

      By 1696 Pierre and his family fled Charost across the Jura Mountains to Switzerland to escape religious persecution. They latter went to the Hague in the Netherlands and from there went to London, England, where Pierre helped organize a group of French Huguenot refugees for colonization in Virginia.

      Pierre and his family , among 207 passengers, embarked from Gravesend, England, on April 19, 1700 aboard the ship Mary and Ann. They arrive in Va on July 12, 1700. Pierre's first wife, Susanne, died after February 1701 and before November 1701. Two of their children also died. It is unknown how many children he had.

      After Pierre's second wife, Anne died, he married Mary Verrueil, widow of Antoine Trabue. His grave can be seen in King William Parish, VA.
      The Pierre Chastain Family Association was created in his honor and is dedicated to the research of all Chastain and related spellings, families in America."
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      Source:
      SEE SHIRLEY HORN & DON BRAY'S SITE FOR COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION AND REFERENCES:
      http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/a/Shirley-D-Bray/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0172.html
      The Many Branches of our Tree by Shirley Horn & Don Bray:
      Chastain is a fairly common name in France. It has been spelled many, many ways and continues to be so. In the United States, it is usually spelled Chastain but has been found as Chasteen, Chastine and Shasteen. The standard way is Chatsignier, meaning chestnut tree, the name coming from either the tree or the reddish-brown color of the nut. The word Chatin is the French form to mean chestnut color, nut-brown or auburn. It has been said that various "Chastains" are not one family but were different families scattered throughout France. It is generally believed that almost all of the Chastains in this country are descended from Pierre Chastain who settled in Virginia in 1700.
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      Source:
      Reprinted by permission. Copyright (c) 1999 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
      http://www.familysearch.org
      FamilySearch:
      Husband
      Estienne Chastain
      irth: 30 MAR 1625 Charost, Cher, France
      Marriage: , , France
      Father: Jacques Chastain Family
      Mother: Jeanne Audet
      Wife
      Jeanne Laurent
      Children
      1. Jacques Chastain
      Male
      Birth: 22 DEC 1652 Charost, Cher, France
      2. Anne Chastain Pedigree
      Female
      Birth: 25 FEB 1655 Charost, Cher, France
      3. Jeanne Chastain
      Female
      Birth: 11 FEB 1657 Charost, Cher, France
      4. Pierre Jacob Chastain
      Male
      Birth: APR 1659 Charost, Cher, France
      Death: 1728
      5. Jean Chastain
      Male
      Birth: 1661 Charost, Cher, France
      6. Marie Chastain Pedigree
      Female
      Birth: 03 FEB 1664 Charost, Cher, France
      7. Marie Chastain Pedigree
      Female
      Birth: 27 FEB 1667 Charost, Cher, France
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      Source:
      Reprinted by permission. Copyright (c) 1999 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
      http://www.familysearch.org
      FamilySearch:
      Husband's Name
      Pierre Or Peter CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-17) Pedigree
      Born: 9 Apr 1659 Place: Near, Nantes, Dauphiny, France
      Christened: 9 Apr 1659 Place: , Issoudun, Berry, France
      Died: 3 Oct 1728 Place: , Manakin, Goochland, Virginia
      Buried: Place: , Manakin, Goochland, Virginia
      Married: 1701/1703 Place: King William, Goochland, Va
      Father: Jean Francois CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-4Q) Family
      Mother: Francoise Jane (Renault) RENO (RE'NAULT) (REGNAULT) (AFN:21R4-5W)
      Wife's Name
      Anne SUBLETT (AFN:21R4-2D) Pedigree
      Born: 27 Oct 1684 Place: Sedan, Champagne, France
      Christened: 27 Oct 1675 Place: Sedan, Champagne, France
      Died: 3 Apr 1723 Place: Manakin, Goochland, Va
      Buried: 4 Apr 1723 Place: Manakin, Goochland, Va
      Married: 1701/1703 Place: King William, Goochland, Va
      Father: Abraham SUBLETT (AFN:9Z3N-X6) Family
      Mother: Susanne BRIAN (AFN:9Z3N-42)
      Children
      1. Sex Name
      F Judith CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-JS) Pedigree
      Born: 1690 Place: , Berry, France
      Died: 6 Nov 1773 Place:
      2. Sex Name
      M Pierre (Peter) CHASTAIN (AFN:21QT-M4) Pedigree
      Born: 1707 Place: Manakin, Goochland, Va
      Died: 1756 Place: , Buckingham Co., Va
      3. Sex Name
      M Rane CHASTAIN (AFN:21QT-PG) Pedigree
      Born: 1713 Place: Parish Of, King William, Goochland Co., Va.
      Died: 6 Dec 1786 Place: Edgefield Dist, Abbeville, Sc
      4. Sex Name
      F Susanna CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-63) Pedigree
      Born: 1705 Place: Parish Of, King William, Goochland Co., Va.
      5. Sex Name
      F Mary Chastain DUCRAY (AFN:21R4-78) Pedigree
      Born: 1709 Place: Parish Of, King William, Goochland Co., Va.
      Died: 20 Nov 1728 Place: , Goochland, Va
      6. Sex Name
      F Elizabeth CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-8F) Pedigree
      Born: 1711 Place: Parish Of, King William, Goochland Co., Va.
      Died: 1786 Place:
      7. Sex Name
      F Janne (Jane) CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-BR) Pedigree
      Born: 1716 Place: , King William Parish, Goochland, Virginia
      Died: 12 Jan 1722/1723 Place: , , , Virginia
      Buried: 13 Jan 1722/1723 Place: , King William Parish, Goochland, Virginia
      8. Sex Name
      F Magdalene CHASTAIN (AFN:21R4-CX) Pedigree
      Born: 1720/1721 Place: Parish Of, King William, Goochland Co., Va.
      Died: 1803 Place: Buckingham, Buckingham Co., Va
      [Donna Forney Clark: I eliminated the two final listings of children that were shown at the above sites because they were repeats of #3 and #8.]
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