When Hephzibah Chesley was born on 23 April 1773, in Granville Centre, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Maj. Samuel Chesley Esq., was 38 and her mother, Eleanor Moore, was 35. She married Elijah Phinney on 18 May 1796, in Granville Centre, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 10 daughters. She died on 27 March 1866, in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 92, and was buried in Kingston, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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English: from Chearsley (Buckinghamshire), early recorded as Cherdesle or Chardesleye.
Possibly an Americanized form of German Schüssler (see Schuessler ).
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