1.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: International Genealogical Index (IGI).

Elijah CHENEY Birth: 3 Aug 1788, Brandon Twp, Rutland, Vermont Father: Edward CHENEY Source: General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, early to 1870. Vermont. Secretary of State.

2.  1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #8 of 13; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):•

1820

NY

Genesee Co.

Le Roy

Roll M33_72

p. 152

Ln. 4

Elijah Cheney

400010-00010-0-100

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
4 males	9 or under	1810-1820	= Son C = Son B = Son A = Edward (b. 1813)
1 male	26-44	1775-1794	= Elijah (b. 1788)
1 female	26-44	1775-1794	= Wife-1
1	person engaged in agriculture

Listed one line below Elijah's brother-in-law, Daniel ROWLEY.

3.  Family Quest Archives:  New York Federal Census 1830:  Montgomery and Niagara Counties.  Heritage Quest CD M19-95:

1830

NY

Niagara Co.

Somerset

Roll M19_95

p. 344A

Ln. 7

Elijah Chaney

100 100 100 - 100 010 000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1825-1830	= Son D
1 male	15-19	1810-1815	= Edward (b. 1813)
1 male	40-49	1780-1790	= Elijah (b. 1788)
1 female	4 or under	1825-1830	= Laverna (b. 1830)
1 female	20-29	1800-1810	= Delilah (b. 1811)

Listed three lines below Elijah's father-in-law, Jacob FITTS (æ 50-60), and four lines above Elijah's nephew, Elisha P. CHENEY, who is one line above Elijah's sister, Abigail (CHENEY) HOLT GALUSHA.

4.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1840 (Broderbund CD-316):

1840

Cheney, Elijah

NY

Genesee Co.

Alabama

p. 491

This may not be our subject.

5.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1850 (Broderbund CD-317):

1850	Cheeney, Eli	OH	Cuyahoga Co.	Dover Twp.	p. 219
1850	Chaney, Eli	OH	Highland Co.	Union Twp.	p. 206
1850	Chaney, E.S.	NY	Onondaga Co.	Salina	p. 272

Checking the images online at Ancestry.com, none of the above is our subject.

6.  1860

7.  1870 

8.  Charles Henry Pope.  1897.  The Cheney Genealogy. (Self-published) Barta Press, Boston (online at GenealogyLibrary.com). See excerpt for Elijah's parents.  Elijah's own entry is missing from the book (both from the hard copy and from the online copy). 

9.  Frederick Adams Virkus, ed.  1937.  The Compendium of American Genealogy: the Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of the First Families of America.  Vol. VI.  Institute of American Genealogy, Chicago (reprinted 1968 by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-200).  Pedigree of Ray ALLEN.  For complete entry, click here.  In brief: 

1--ALLEN, Ray, b Pavilion, N.Y., Mar. 22, 1860...

3--Elijah [Cheney] (1788-1878), m Delilah Fitts; 2--Laverna (2 below)...

2--Laverna Cheney (1830-1889), m 1853, Daniel Allen (1829-99); Issue: I--George Edward (b 1856); II--Ray (1 above); III--Cora Laverna (1867-1930).

Virkus is a compilation of undocumented, patron-submitted pedigrees, so — as with the LDS Ancestral File or Broderbund World Family Trees — one should verify these pedigrees before accepting them, at least with regard to earlier generations.  In the case of Virkus, the informant is usually the subject, who was alive at the time and supplying first-hand information with regard to his near kin — and paying for his entry in the book by subscription to it.  In the case of Ray ALLEN, he is testifying to the identities of his own parents and grandparents, so we should give great weight to this part of the pedigree as being both first hand and contemporary, with the caveat that Virkus may have made an error compiling the information given to him by the informant.

10.  Broderbund.  World Family Trees.  Vol. 19, Pedigree No. 402.  Says Delilah FITTS, d/o Jacob & Elizabeth (TAYLOR) FITTS, was born 1811, Somerset, Niagara Co., NY — the first birth recorded in Somerset.

11.  James Hill Fitts.  1809.  Genealogy of the Fitts or Fitz Family in America.  Wm. J. Coulter, Clinton (online at GenealogyLibrary.com).  On p. 16, there is a mention of a Sophia CHENEY who married a Currier FITTS/FITZ on 18 Apr 1851 (of or in Vermont).  A relative?

12.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).