The printed register, p. 143, gives Ruth’s birth as 9 October 1736 and her baptism as 21 October. The 17 October date sometimes assigned to her belongs to the preceding entry for Susanna Davis.

Some trees report that Ruth died in 1737, but no supporting death or burial record has been identified. Her later life remains open.

Birth and marriage. Charles’s parish entry appears on printed p. 149. His 10 March birth precedes the 25 March 1739 baptism; the birth is shown here as 1738/39. The reported 7 August 1760 marriage to Milly Stephens has not been located in the Christ Church Parish register. Caroline County is a possible marriage location, rather than an established one.

Religious dissent and military associations. The collected research, citing Elliott’s history of Caroline County, places Charles Chewning with John Goodrich, Thomas Collins Jr., Micajah Stevens, and Edmund and Elizabeth Beazley in a 1771 unauthorized-worship case whose charges were dismissed. Campbell’s Colonial Caroline, p. 373, also lists Charles Chewning among Caroline soldiers and sailors. That list does not give the age or parentage needed to establish a particular military identity by itself.

His father’s estate. The retained Caroline County references name Charles Chowning, administrator of Robert Chowning, deceased, in a debt action against John Broaddus Jr. and John Houston on 11 November 1785, with a further proceeding dated 11 August 1786. The mercantile-claims extract identifies Robert’s son Charles in Culpeper, but uses the term executor and gives the conflicting death chronology discussed in the Family Evidence Notes.

Kentucky property and household. The collected Fayette tax entries for 1805 and 1806 list no land, one voter, one white tithe, four Black tithes and four Black persons in total, with four horses in 1805 and five in 1806. The 1807 and 1808 entries list 75 acres of first-rate land on David’s Fork, surveyed by Johnson and entered by Bradford, one white male over 21, four Black persons over 16 and four in total; seven horses in 1807 and ten in 1808, and a four-wheeled carriage in each year. The 1807 abstract also records no white males aged 16–20. These entries preserve evidence of slaveholding alongside the household’s land and other taxable property.

The retained 1810 Lexington, Fayette County census summary lists one man and one woman aged 45 or older, two girls under ten, and four enslaved people, making eight people in the household. The two girls have not been identified; their relationship to Charles is not stated in that census.

The 1817 will abstract. The supplied image is a typed abstract on printed p. 21, citing will p. 204. It gives the writing date as 21 March 1817 and probate as May 1817. It names wife Milly; children Charles, Robert, Milly Tap, and Betsey Kemper; Lucy Stephens’s children Milly, Lucinda, Mahaly, and Thursey; and daughters Ann Vaughn and Sally Tass in Virginia. George Berry and Lewis Bryant are named as executors, with James Daley and Thomas Nutall as witnesses.

The abstract supports Charles’s death between the writing and probate dates, but it is not the handwritten will. Its surname forms and the precise bequests remain subjects for comparison with the original. Milly’s reported survival beyond 1821 comes from the collected family research.

Charles and Tillitha. The family research labels their 16 April 1796 marriage as Jessamine County. The historical jurisdiction for that date needs to be checked against the marriage record; Kentucky is used in the family table. Their later residence in Jessamine County is a separate event.

Robert and his wives. Middlesex County is the reported birthplace for Robert on 30 June 1766; the specific birth record has not been supplied. His Scott County property is described in the collected account as being on the “McClure River,” a watercourse description requiring confirmation from the original record. An 1830 Fanny Blackburn household includes a woman aged 30–39, a girl aged 10–14, and a boy aged 5–9. This is a possible earlier household for Robert’s second wife, but the age groups alone do not prove her identity, widowhood, or the children’s relationships. Robert’s 1840–1850 death range remains the estimate used in the family research.

Sally and James Tapp. The marriage date is cited through Genealogy of the Cloyd, Basye, and Tapp Families. James’s proposed identification as a son of Vincent Tapp and Mollie Jett remains a genealogical theory. Sally’s birth year is variously given as 1772 or 1773. The will abstract’s surname “Tass” should be compared with the original before its spelling is treated as decisive.

Lucy Stephens. The supplied abstract reads Thursey for the fourth grandchild; other collected accounts use a different reading, including Hussey. Milly/Milley and Mahaly/Mahaley also vary between transcriptions. The original will and later records would help establish the daughters’ names and identities.

Millie Tapp. Her birth is reported as 13 August 1776 or 1779. The reported age of 72 at her January 1852 death is consistent with an August 1779 birth, but the conflicting dates remain until the underlying records are compared.

Betsy Kemper. The collected birth dates are 9 or 12 September 1781. The reported death dates are 2 April 1842 or 4 February 1843. Neither pair has been resolved by the evidence reviewed here.

DNA participation. Autosomal representation is recorded through Charles’s son Robert. A Chowning male-line Y-DNA test would follow the Chowning paternal line; it would not carry Betty Guthrie’s father’s Y-DNA. The visible project participation chart follows in Explore the Records.

The warrant number, date, acreage, service term, and heir’s name are retained from the collected family research. The underlying warrant and any supporting heir certificate or affidavits would help establish the relationship and the exact service history.

An heir-at-law designation does not by itself establish that Christopher never married or that he had no children at any point in his life. The reported identification of Charles as his brother needs to be read alongside the full family and military-land evidence.

The service account associated with this family places Christopher in the First Virginia Cavalry under Captain Robert Yancey, with enlistment references in December 1778 and January 1779. It also mentions a bounty of 400, without a clear currency designation, and a monetary warrant for $57.14 with 5% interest. These details have not been checked against the original military file.

The supplied Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution index, p. 147, lists Christopher Chewning with an “Inf.” abbreviation. Its source key and the underlying records are needed before that entry and the cavalry account can be reconciled.

The printed parish register, p. 152, supplies the birth and baptism dates. His father, born in 1711/12, is the older Robert associated in the family research with the Caroline support petitions.

The collected account refers to a Robert Chowning in an Auditor’s Account for a Virginia regiment. Campbell’s military list and the supplied revolutionary index also include a Robert Chewning, but the entries available here do not establish the younger Robert’s identity through age or parentage.

The father’s 1777 petition refers to sons in United States service, and the 1780 petition to a son in service. Neither names the son or sons. Those petitions cannot establish a pre-1777 death for the younger Robert.