Moses Cheney

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Short Name:	Moses Cheney
Full Name:	Cheney, Moses, 1776-1856
Birth Year:	1776
Death Year:	1856

Moses Cheney lived in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. He converted to Christianity after the death of his three year old son. He attended Gilmanton Academy in order to become a minister. He later moved to New Durham and was associated with Rev. B. Randall, the founder of the Free Will Baptist denomination. He later moved back to Sanborton Bay, then Gilmanton, Meredith, Brentwood, and finally Derby, Vermont, serving as a minister for about fifty years. He died in Sheffeld, Vermont.

Dianne Shapiro, from "History of Sanburton, New Hampshire, Vol. II-Genealogies by Rev. M. T. Runnels (Boston: Alfred Mudge & Sons, Printers, 1881), pp. 124-125

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