Walley Chauncey Family Collection
1827-2007
Manuscript Collection #862- Creator(s)
- Chauncey family
- Physical description
- 0.239 Cubic Feet
- Preferred Citation
- Walley Chauncey Family Collection (#862), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- ECU Manuscript Collection
- Access
- Access to audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
Walley Chauncey Family Collection (ca. 1827 - 1982) including photocopies of correspondence, photographs, clippings, plats, and genealogical charts, relating to Walley Chauncey and his descendants in Eastern North Carolina.
Biographical/historical information
The Chauncey name in the United States began with Charles Chauncey, the second President of Harvard College. Charles Chauncey was born in England in 1592 and immigrated to America in 1637 where he began teaching at Plymouth. Charles Chauncey had six sons, and his ancestors began to migrate to the South. Family and decedents that can be linked to Charles Chauncey include the Walley, Snoad, and Bradford families.
Scope and arrangement
The bulk of this collection are genealogical charts and biographical accounts of members from the Chauncey Family. Supporting documents include letters, news clippings, and phototgraphs.
Administrative information
Custodial History
Source of acquisition
Gift of Beatrice Chauncey
Processing information
Encoded by Apex Data Services
Descriptions updated by Ashlyn Racine, August 2023
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Metadata Rights Declaration
This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Key terms
Personal Names
Chauncey, Mary SnoadChauncey, Walley