Chandler

My Chandler ancestors

01. Roger Chandler was born on April 04, 1580 in Colchester, England.  He married Isabella Chilton on July 21, 1615 in Leyden, Holland.  She was the daughter of Mayflower passenger James Chilton.  The Leyden poll tax of 15 Oct. 1622 includes "Rogier Chandelaer, Isabel Chandelaer" his wife and children Samuel and Sara.  Roger and his family probably came to Plymouth in 1629 or 1630, when according to Bradford the Leyden contingent arrived.  He was taxed in Plymouth 25 March 1633, and listed as a freeman the same year-- the earliest record of him in this country.  He was enumerated among those able to bear arms in Duxbury in 1643 and sold land there in 1644; he was listed among freemen of Duxbury in a tally presumed taken in 1658.  In October 1665 the Plymouth Court granted 150 acres of land to the three (unnamed) daughters of Roger Chandler deceased.  Articles in TAG indicate their names and husbands.  (Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations).  This book also notes that Samuel Chandler does not appear to be a son of Roger.  Children of Roger and Isabella verified by this book:

02. Sarah Chandler, born about 1616 in Leyden, Holland.  She died on Oct 27, 1675 in West Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA.  She first married Solomon Leonard who was born in about 1610 in Monmouthshire, England.  She then married Moses Simmons who came from England to Plymouth on the "Fortune" in 1621.  I descend from their son Samuel Leonard who married Abigail Wood.

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The Chandler Family Assocation has annual reunions.   Click HERE to see pictures taken from past reunions.

1

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 2 p. 5-6. Mentions "Rogier Candelaer" and his family.

2

Mem.: gen., hist., & biogr. of Solomon Leonard, 1637, of Duxbury & Bridgewater, Mass. & some of his desc., by M. Leonard. 454p. (1896).   Higgenson books and NEHGS has it.  Also here.