Cheswell, Wentworth, 1746-1817

found: NUCMC data from New Market Hist. Soc. for Town of Newmarket, N.H., collection, ca. 1786-[ongoing](Wentworth Cheswell; lawyer, justice of the peace, and civic leader, of Newmarket, N.H.; part African-American)

found: LC man. auth. cd., etc.(hdg.: Cheswill, Wentworth; a.e.: Newmarket, N.H. A duplicate of the records of the town of Newmarket... [book no longer in LC as of 1983])

found: Grave matter WWW, July 24, 2009(Wentworth Cheswell; variant: Wentworth Cheswill; b. in Newmarket, Apr. 11, 1746 [OS]; only child of Hopestill and Katherine Keniston Cheswell; studied at Dummer Acad. in Byfield, Mass.; teacher; politically active during Revol. War; d. Mar. 8, 1817)

found: African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cheswell, Wentworth; W. Cheswill; teacher, scrivener, selectman, justice of the peace; born 11 April 1746 in Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States. He attended Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts. He was a signer of the Association Test (1776). He was elected town messenger for the Committee of Safety and served in Langdon's Independent Company of Volunteers (1777). He later became a board member of Newmarket's first school (1776) and founded the Newmarket Social Library (1801). He was a Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County (1805-1817); copied all of the town records and took notes of town events as they occurred;. His original work is kept in Milne Special Collections and Archives at the University of New Hampshire's Dimond Library. He died 08 March 1817 in Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States)