The following are just scraps and pieces that I have managed to collect over time. How much they all apply to this Richard Chadwell is left to debate.

The New England Ancestry of Dana Converse Backus;

THOMAS CHADWELL was received as an inhabitant at a town meeting in Salem, Mass. March 2, 1636/7, and was allowed a ten-acre lot upon Cape Ann Side near Cedar stand. He removed soon after to Lynn, where he is listed in 1638 as one of the proprietors, having a sixty-acre lot. In the Note-book of Thomas Lechford (a practicing lawyer in Boston for three years) will be found an account of a case in 1641 between Richard Chadwell and an apprentice, which shows that Richard and Thomas (whom Richard calls brother) were shipwrights in Charlestown at the time when Thomas' home was in the neighboring town of Lynn. He was a constable there in 1656. The historian of Lynn names three sons, Thomas, Moses and Benjamin. Their mother, Margaret, died in Lynn September 29, 1658. Savage says their father removed to Boston. His brother Richard was now living in Sandwich.

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William Presbury and His Descendnats;

There is a record that John Presbury was buried May 19, 1648. His widow m. July 22, 1649, Richard Chadwell of Sandwich. He is mentioned as being a shipwright in Saugus, Mass., in 1636, a witness in the Salem court in 1637, as a proprietor in Sandwich, April 3, 1637, and concerned in a lawsuit in 1641. Pioneers of Mass. C. H. Pope, p. 91. Also Cape Cod Annals, Thirteen towns of Barnstable County, Vol. 2, p. 44.

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First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge Olde East New Jersey part 3

SHADEWELL or SHOTWELL FAMILY

Only one main form in New Jersey, and that was SHOTWELL, headed by that ABRAHAM SHOTWELL, Quaker, one of the original Elizabethtown Associates, in 1665. (See, PART ONE, p. 101). His sons, JOHN SHOTWELL and DANIEL SHOTWELL were first on Staten Island, but intermarried and settled with other kin, in Woodbridge. (PART ONE, p. 121).

The original and true form of this name was the English SHADEWELL. It was a place name in England, at an early date, and is preserved in one of the suburbs of London, to this day. Early records there give it but in one form, and Shatswell and Satchwell, and other similar variants has not been found there.

However, the recurrence of the latter variants, including Chadwell, etc., in the Staten Island Records and references to JOHN SHOTWELL tell the whole story of origin.

The Family came to America and settled at Ipswich, Mass., where Satchwell was varied to or from Shatswell, and Ipswich records give other variants. JOHN SHADEWELL came in 1633 and died in 1647, and his brothers and sisters then had children in New England; RICHARD SHADEWELL and THEOPHILUS SHADEWELL were in Ipswich before 1643-8, and to one of these families, ABRAHAM SHOTWELL of New Jersey undoubtedly belonged, because of this and other defined evidences, and particularly as indicated by the numerous tribe of Ipswich settlers, who went to Piscataway and Woodbridge, N. J., to become FIRST SETTLERS of the latter places, a fact beretofore, almost completely ignored.

THOMAS SHADEWELL, (1640-1682), was one of the noted authors of English literature.