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Author: Cheffins, Samuel

Biography:

CHEFFINS, Samuel (1780-1854: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 9 Apr. 1780 at Wainfleet, Lincs., the son of Joshua Cheffins and his second wife Susannah Dowse. On 13 Nov. 1798 he married Jane (Jenny) Phillipson (1779-1858) at Skidbrooke, Lincs. They went on to have at least thirteen children. Around 1814, he became Presbyterian minister at Sleaford, a post he held for forty years until his death. His Sighs of the Poor (Sleaford 1822) consists of religious verse and hymns. He later published a short Poetical Epistle to a Friend (1829). He died on 19 Dec. 1854 at Quarrington, Sleaford. (ancestry.co.uk 23 Jan. 2021; Stamford Mercury 22 Dec. 1854; Grantham Journal 4 Dec. 1858) AA

 

Books written (1):

The Sighs of the Poor, and the Cries of the Needy: With a Few Songs for the Liberated Citizens of Zion. Being Original Hymns and Poems on Various Subjects.

Sleaford/ London/ Derby/ Boston (Lincs.)/ Grantham/ Wainfleet: for the author by J. Creasey/ Baynes and Son and S. Huntington/ Mozley/ Noble/ Ridge/ J. Cheffins, 1822