This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chesser, Godwin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gYI.2ACEB/231.1 Message Board Post: There is a book in the Allen Co. IN Genealogical Library about the Godwin Family (and Chessers) written by a man named Warren Godwin Chesser of Pennsylvania. He died in the 60's as I recall, but did the entire 2nd generation Chesser family incl Purnell Chesser of Accomack Co. VA. There are photos incl. Purnell's home on the Delmarva Peninsula (Where Delaware, Maryland, Virginia meet east of Chesapeake Bay.) Chincoteague Is. is a little to the north of where they lived. No mention of Native American Heritage--only Anglo-Irish. My husband also descends from these Chessers, earlier than Purnell, but my husband and his father Francis Chesser looked amazingly like Warren Godwin (All with light brown hair with blue eyes.)