Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 773
Chesley Daniel married Judith Christian, of Albermarle Co., VA, a daughter of the distinguished family of Virginia Cavaliers who fled England during the Commonwealth and appeared in Middlesex Co., Va, as early as 1656. These Christians were the lineal descendants of the Christian family. (W & M Quartely V, 261, VIII,70) residuary Deemsters of the Isle of Mann. Chesley Daniel crossed the line into the old county of Granville, in NC and in 1740 built his country seat"Tranquility" named simlarly with the seat of Col Peter, Vivian Daniel, of Middlesex Co., VA., for an ancestoral seat in England. This property is still in the Daniel family.