William Chenault

William Chenault was a Revolutionary soldier in Captain Henry Terrill's company of Col. Josiah Parker's 5th Regiment of Virginia Continental Line. He spent the winter at Valley Forge, was in Washington's march in pursuit of the British in 1778 through New Jersey to New York. He was in the battles of Stillwater, Brandywine, and Saratoga.

He emigrated to Kentucky in 1786 and settled in Madison County, Kentucky, on a farm purchased from Josiah Phelps. Phelps in turn bought it from George Boone, Daniel Boone's brother.

Chenault was a signer, in 1779, of the Albemarle Declaration of Independence.

He and his wife, Elizabeth Mullins Chenault, are listed on a monument at Fort Boonesboro State Park, KY as being among those who were with Daniel Boone at the old fort and fought the Indians. William Chenault died in 1813 of "The Cold Plague" (tuberculosis).

He and Elizabeth had 11 children.

From Chenault, Belle Montgomery, Descendants of Estienne Chenault, 1991 Ed. Gregath Publishing, (Cullman, AL 1992).