The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.

The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.

Chastain genealogy is traced back to Chateigner, Seigneur de la Chateignier of France (fl. 1084). His descendant Peter Chastain (1660-1729) and Marie Madaline de la Rochefaucauld (1666-1726) emigrated to Powhatan Co., Virginia in 1699 with their six children. The Lochridges or Loughridges descend from James Lochridge and Susan Goodwin of Carnesville, Franklin Co., Georgia, who had eight children born to them in the early 1800s. The Stocktons descend from William Stockton, who came with his family from Ireland to the Sugar Loaf Valley, near Russellville, Kentucky about 1780; and Mary Morrow, who bore him sixteen children. They later settled in Madison and Walker Co., Alabama and Monroe Co., Mississippi.

The Reverend William Douglas served both St. James Northam Parish (Dover Church) in Goochland County and in Manakin Town which was part of King William Parish. King William Parish was in Goochland County during this time period but is now in Powhatan County because of county boundary changes.

Pierre Chastain (ca. 1659-1728), a Huguenot and a physician, was born at Charost, France, the son of Estienne Chastain. He married three times and was the father of seventeen children, 1690-ca. 1720. Because of religious persecution, he fled to Switzerland, ca. 1692, and was joined by his family by 1696. From there the family immigrated to South Holland; then London, England; and in 1700 to America, where they settled at Manakin Town, Henrico County, Virginia. Descendants listed lived in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and elsewhere. The surname is spelled Chastain, Chasteen, and other variant spellings.