REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER 1758 Ė 1847 Chenoweth, the
Revolutionary War Soldier, was born April 1, 1758 in Maryland
and died in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, in December of 1847.
Richardís grandfather, John Chenoweth, was born circa 1682 in
England, is thought to have emigrated from Wales sometime before
1704. In about 1705-06, he married Mary Calvert, the daughter of
John Calvert and Judith Stamper. They were the parents of 8
children all born in Maryland; John, Mary, Richard, Hannah,
Arthur, William, Thomas and Ruth. They are known to have settled
on a large tract of land by the Gunpowder River in Baltimore
County, Maryland, near the thriving seaport of Joppa. John
Chenoweth was a blacksmith by trade and left a will. Thomas,
born in 1720, the last son born to John and Mary, married Mary
Pricket on 27 November 1742 in Maryland and afterward moved to
Frederick County, Virginia where he purchased 275 acres of land
in 1761. Thomas and Mary had 12 children; Abraham, Martha,
Sarah, Mary, John, Thomas, Arthur, Richar