You can also check the Pierre Chastain Family Association website at:
http://www.kopower.com/~jimchstn/
Good luck...Janice Chastain Lund
-----Original Message-----
From: Netti Schreiner-Yantis <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: 1729 King William Parish, Goochland
>As you are no doubt aware, this is a French name. It was
>more commonly spelled Chastain. Sometimes Shasteen, etc.
>There were a large group of French who came to Goochland
>(now Powhatan) County in early 1700's as free land had been
>set aside for them. Genealogies have been published on
>many of these French families. Check the Virginia State
>Library's [LVA] on-line catalog. Also check the Hugenot
>records.
>
>
>Virginia Patent Bk 10:266.
> Patent to Peter [Pierre] Chastaine, 111 acres in Henrico
>Co on S side James R; adj. Anthony Malloone; his own land;
>. . . part of first 5,000 acres surveyed for the French
>refugees. 23 Mar 1715.
>
>Virginia Patent Bk 12:15.
> Patent to Capt. Peter Chastain . . . Henrico Co on W side
>Jones Cr, on S side James River . . . For importing Mary
>Chastain, Jane Chastain, Peter Chastain, Junr. & Walter Beatle.
>9 July 1724.
>
>
>Virginia Patent Bk 14:181.
> Patent of Thomas Prosser, 400 a of new land in Goochland Co betw the
two Manacan crs, on S side
>James R; adj Geo Smith; on S side ?Chastain's Br; Francis Farsy; Stephen
Chastain; Nicholas Soullie;
>& Henry Bayly. 26 June 1731.
>---
>
>Goochland Co Dd Bk 1, p. 60 .
> Deed fr Thomas Prosser of Hanover Co to Joseph Bingley of Goochland
Co. For L28. Land betw
>two Manakin Creeks on S side James R. 400 acres, bounded by Chastains
branch, Stephen Chastain,
>Nicholas Soullie, and Henry Bayly. As by patent to Thomas Prosser dated 26
June 1731.
>No wit.
>Made 18 Mar 1734. Rec: 18 Mar 1734.
>---
>
>Netti
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: DPeterson <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 11:07 PM
>Subject: 1729 King William Parish, Goochland
>
>
>Looking for information on a Pierre SASSAIN christened in King William
>Parish in 1729.
>
>
>Dianne in Ohio
>
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