Francis CHANEY JR

                   Went to Mississippi

A land grant w as given to Francis from EArl of  Granville  30 June l762,  He lived in Randolph Co.,  N. C. also.
info from Circuit Court minutes, Overton Co., Tenn l8l5-1824, Pg 321

Chaney family migrated from Ky to Overton Co., Tenn then on to Ark in early l830's..settled in Osage (which was called Faairview until l848) Creek valley of Carroll Co..  Wm Chaney Sr died between l834 and l838.

Family History of Chaney's..Sometime in the latter part of l600 or early part of l700 that there lived in the city of Dublin,Ireland who had two sons but no daughters.These young men had heard of the wonderful America and being intelligent ambitious boys decided they would come to America.  Their parents were wealthy but as they were the only children they were sure their parents would not consent to part with them and they concluded the best way for them was to leave home secretly, so packed a large chest with just such articles as they could, but their mother  happened  to over hear some of their talk and when they were absent from home one day, she and their father unpacked their chest and in the bottom put in many comfortable  and useful articles such as warm clothing, blankets, and household utensils and closed it up which was a great surprise to them when they arrived at their destination.  They had visited the captain and made arrangements with him to take them and then to sell them out..they slipped their chest secretly after night as they thought and went on board. and after ten or  t welve weeks voyage in an old sailing vessel they landed at Jamestown Va. They went to the captain and told him they were ready to be sold but to their surprise he informed them that their father had privately paid their passage and also handed each a bag of money enough to start in business.  Their name was  Chaney and one of my grandmothers was a daughter of one of these men.  I saw in a newspaper once that a member of the Va legislature was a Chaney. Possibly a descendant of the same family . I do not know their given names.  (This is from Family History ofAngelilna Harvey p. l3-l4)