(1)  Charles Chauncey, baptized November 5, 1692, in Yardley-Bury church, Hertfordshire, England, of noble descent, son of George Chauncey and his second wife, Ann/Agnes Welsh; married 17 March 1630 Catherine Eyre, daughter of Robert Eyre of Sarum, Wiltshire, and Agnes Still, his wife, daughter of John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells.  He served as second President of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1654 to 1671 and died while in office.  All six of their sons were ministers and graduates of Harvard.
        He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned a Master of Arts degree in 1617, and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1624. He was chosen a professor of Hebrew, but became a professor of Greek instead. In 1627, he became vicar of Ware. His puritan views brought him in opposition to those of the established church, so much so that he was imprisioned in 1635, and obliged to make a humiliating recantation.
        Undoubtedly to escape persecution for his beliefs, he left England in late 1637, and arrived in Plymouth. There he preached along with Rev. Reynor. However, his belief in infant baptism prevented him from becoming the regular preacher there. In 1641 he was elected pastor of the church at Scituate. Besides his ministerial labors, he was a practicing physician. Problems in Scituate, however, led him to make preparations to return to England. He instead was offered the positon as the second president of Harvard University, in 1654.
        Cotton Mather wrote: "How learnedly he now conveyed all the liberal arts unto those who sat at his feet; how wittily he moderated their disputations and other excesses; how constantly he expounded to them the scriptures in the college hall; how fluently he expressed himself unto them in the Latin of Terentian phrase, in all his discourses; and how carefully he inspected their manners, and above all things was concerned for them - will never be forgotten by many of our most worthy men, who were such men, by their education under him."
        He died February 19, 1671. His wife died January 24, 1667. They are buried in the old burying ground in Cambridge.

Children:

1. Sarah; married Rev. Gershom Bulkeley
2. Rev. Israel Chauncey of Stratfield, died 1714; married Sarah Wolcott, sister of Roger Wolcott, Governor of Connecticut.
1. Rev. Charles Chauncey, of Stratfield
1. Robert Chauncey, born 1701; married Hannah Wheeler
1. Wolcott Chauncey, born 1732; married Ann Brown.
1. Isaac Chauncey, Commodore, and Commander of the U.S. Navy on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812, had his headquarters at Sackets Harbor, New York, during the height of the war.  He is buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.