Note 27 — Chapter VI

Mr. Samuel Beach Chester is the only child of the eldest (married) son, the late Captain Paul Townsend Jones, Jones’ Independent Battery, Pennsylvania Artillery, of the late Rev. Samuel Beach Jones, D.D., of Bridgeton, New Jersey, a trustee of Princeton University, and a graduate of Princeton and Yale, who married the eldest child (all daughters) of the Rev. John Chester, head of the Wethersfield branch of the Chesters of Blaby in Leicestershire. The Chesters of Wethersfield stood at the head of affairs in Connecticut in the 17th, 18th, and (early part of the) 19th centuries. By order of the New York Supreme Court, 1901, Mr. Chester assumed the maiden name of his grandmother, Sarah Ralston Chester. Mr. William Chester represents the junior male line and Mr. Beach Chester the senior female line, genealogically, at the present time. The Chesters of Wethersfield, Connecticut, are not related to any other family of the same name established in Connecticut or elsewhere in the United States.