J. Bayard Backus

Leonard Chester (1609-1648) and his wife, Mary, immigrated in 1633 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, later moving to Wethersfield, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England (including nobility) to Ethelred II (968?-1016), called the "unready" king of England.