This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Read, Wallace, Morriss, Carney, Chesser, Hawkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gYI.2ACEB/260 Message Board Post: Hosea Chesser appears in the 1812 Nashville, Davidson Co. TN Enumeration/Census of All Free Male Inhabitants as: "Chissin, Hosia 1297" Our Chessers descend from: John Chesher/Chesser b. abt. 1769 d. abt.1804 who married Sarah Hawkins, dau. of William and Elizabeth Hawkins in Fauquier Co. VA in 1795. Is Hosea related to John in any way?