[Note: He is believed to be buried in the Pine Level Methodist Church Cemetery according to various sources. He might be buried in Pine Level but the church was organized around 1833. The church did not own land until 1833 when Billy Tatum donated the land so there is still some question regarding exactly where he is buried.]
* * *
Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783
Name: Jerry Chancellor
Birth Place: England
Residence Place: Autauga, Alabama, USA
Death Date: Nov 1831
Death Place: Autauga County, Alabama∼Jerry Chancellor. "This soldier of the Revolution is buried in a county churchyard at Pine Level Methodist church, in Autauga County, eighteen miles west of Montgomery, AL."
"A short sketch of the life of Jerry Chancellor may be found in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii., p. 895. He was born in England and came to America with his father and two brothers, when he was sixteen years of age. This was during the Revolutionary War. After remaining a short time in Virginia, the father and two oldest sons, William and Jerry, came to South Carolina, leaving the youngest son, Jackson Chancellor, in Virginia. Tradition says that Chancellorville, Virginia, was named for the family of this youngest son".
"When the Chancellors arrived in South Carolina they found the war raging violently all around them and it became necessary for them to decide what their own course should be. The father, whose loyalty to England could not be shaken, told his sons that he should join the British; the sons declaired that they admired the Americans for standing up for their rights and they intended to cast their lots with the people of their adopted country. The father and sons never met again, but fought on opposite sides until the close of the Revolutionary War. We do not know in what regiment that Jerry Chancellor served, but Saffell's Records, p. 293, states that Nov. 1, 1779, William Chancellor was a private in the South Carolina regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Francis Marion, Seventh Company, Thomas Dunbar, Captain".
"Jerry Chancellor married Galatea Gilbert and settled in South Carolina after the Revolution, where he remained until 1818, when he organized a colony in South Carolina and came with them to Alabama. They settled on the Autauga side of the Alabama River. He remained with this colony until his death. Decendants of Jerry Chancellor are now living in Childersburg and Coosa County. His grandson, William S. Chancellor was one of the oldest Masons in Alabama.
* * *
Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783
Name: Jerry Chancellor
Birth Place: England
Residence Place: Autauga, Alabama, USA
Death Date: Nov 1831
Death Place: Autauga County, Alabama∼Jerry Chancellor. "This soldier of the Revolution is buried in a county churchyard at Pine Level Methodist church, in Autauga County, eighteen miles west of Montgomery, AL."
"A short sketch of the life of Jerry Chancellor may be found in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii., p. 895. He was born in England and came to America with his father and two brothers, when he was sixteen years of age. This was during the Revolutionary War. After remaining a short time in Virginia, the father and two oldest sons, William and Jerry, came to South Carolina, leaving the youngest son, Jackson Chancellor, in Virginia. Tradition says that Chancellorville, Virginia, was named for the family of this youngest son".
"When the Chancellors arrived in South Carolina they found the war raging violently all around them and it became necessary for them to decide what their own course should be. The father, whose loyalty to England could not be shaken, told his sons that he should join the British; the sons declaired that they admired the Americans for standing up for their rights and they intended to cast their lots with the people of their adopted country. The father and sons never met again, but fought on opposite sides until the close of the Revolutionary War. We do not know in what regiment that Jerry Chancellor served, but Saffell's Records, p. 293, states that Nov. 1, 1779, William Chancellor was a private in the South Carolina regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Francis Marion, Seventh Company, Thomas Dunbar, Captain".
"Jerry Chancellor married Galatea Gilbert and settled in South Carolina after the Revolution, where he remained until 1818, when he organized a colony in South Carolina and came with them to Alabama. They settled on the Autauga side of the Alabama River. He remained with this colony until his death. Decendants of Jerry Chancellor are now living in Childersburg and Coosa County. His grandson, William S. Chancellor was one of the oldest Masons in Alabama.
[Note: He is believed to be buried in the Pine Level Methodist Church Cemetery according to various sources. He might be buried in Pine Level but the church was organized around 1833. The church did not own land until 1833 when Billy Tatum donated the land so there is still some question regarding exactly where he is buried.]
* * *
Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783
Name: Jerry Chancellor
Birth Place: England
Residence Place: Autauga, Alabama, USA
Death Date: Nov 1831
Death Place: Autauga County, Alabama∼Jerry Chancellor. "This soldier of the Revolution is buried in a county churchyard at Pine Level Methodist church, in Autauga County, eighteen miles west of Montgomery, AL."
"A short sketch of the life of Jerry Chancellor may be found in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii., p. 895. He was born in England and came to America with his father and two brothers, when he was sixteen years of age. This was during the Revolutionary War. After remaining a short time in Virginia, the father and two oldest sons, William and Jerry, came to South Carolina, leaving the youngest son, Jackson Chancellor, in Virginia. Tradition says that Chancellorville, Virginia, was named for the family of this youngest son".
"When the Chancellors arrived in South Carolina they found the war raging violently all around them and it became necessary for them to decide what their own course should be. The father, whose loyalty to England could not be shaken, told his sons that he should join the British; the sons declaired that they admired the Americans for standing up for their rights and they intended to cast their lots with the people of their adopted country. The father and sons never met again, but fought on opposite sides until the close of the Revolutionary War. We do not know in what regiment that Jerry Chancellor served, but Saffell's Records, p. 293, states that Nov. 1, 1779, William Chancellor was a private in the South Carolina regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Francis Marion, Seventh Company, Thomas Dunbar, Captain".
"Jerry Chancellor married Galatea Gilbert and settled in South Carolina after the Revolution, where he remained until 1818, when he organized a colony in South Carolina and came with them to Alabama. They settled on the Autauga side of the Alabama River. He remained with this colony until his death. Decendants of Jerry Chancellor are now living in Childersburg and Coosa County. His grandson, William S. Chancellor was one of the oldest Masons in Alabama.
* * *
Alabama, Revolutionary War Residents, 1776-1783
Name: Jerry Chancellor
Birth Place: England
Residence Place: Autauga, Alabama, USA
Death Date: Nov 1831
Death Place: Autauga County, Alabama∼Jerry Chancellor. "This soldier of the Revolution is buried in a county churchyard at Pine Level Methodist church, in Autauga County, eighteen miles west of Montgomery, AL."
"A short sketch of the life of Jerry Chancellor may be found in the Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. ii., p. 895. He was born in England and came to America with his father and two brothers, when he was sixteen years of age. This was during the Revolutionary War. After remaining a short time in Virginia, the father and two oldest sons, William and Jerry, came to South Carolina, leaving the youngest son, Jackson Chancellor, in Virginia. Tradition says that Chancellorville, Virginia, was named for the family of this youngest son".
"When the Chancellors arrived in South Carolina they found the war raging violently all around them and it became necessary for them to decide what their own course should be. The father, whose loyalty to England could not be shaken, told his sons that he should join the British; the sons declaired that they admired the Americans for standing up for their rights and they intended to cast their lots with the people of their adopted country. The father and sons never met again, but fought on opposite sides until the close of the Revolutionary War. We do not know in what regiment that Jerry Chancellor served, but Saffell's Records, p. 293, states that Nov. 1, 1779, William Chancellor was a private in the South Carolina regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Francis Marion, Seventh Company, Thomas Dunbar, Captain".
"Jerry Chancellor married Galatea Gilbert and settled in South Carolina after the Revolution, where he remained until 1818, when he organized a colony in South Carolina and came with them to Alabama. They settled on the Autauga side of the Alabama River. He remained with this colony until his death. Decendants of Jerry Chancellor are now living in Childersburg and Coosa County. His grandson, William S. Chancellor was one of the oldest Masons in Alabama.
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
