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William Chapell and Christian, his wife, had children :
1. Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1668-9, m. John Wood.
2. John, b. Feb. 25, 1671-2, m. Sarah Lewis, Aug. 26, 1698.
3. William, b. Sept., 1677.
4. Christian, b. Feb., 1680-1, m. William Fairbanks.
5. 2d William.
6. Joseph, m. Bethiah Dart. After the death of William Chapell, his relict m. Edward Stallion, 1693. Edward Stallion was drowned by falling out of a canoe, on the 14th of May, 1703. (Caulkins.) Samuel Chappel, of West Hartford, had a son, Nathaniel, bap. there May 2, 1736.
CHAPPELL, NATHANIEL, made free in Mass., 1639.
CHAPPELL, JONATHAN, m. Lucy Tennant, of Colchester, Conn., Dec., 1750.
CHAPPEL, CYRUS, died at Ellington, April 2, 1807. Thomas Chappell, Rowland Cotton, &c., embarked for Virginia, June 23, 1635, in the America, from England.
Coats of arms .- Chappell, (London,) one, and one other for Chap- pell.
Chapell, or Chappell, (Cambridgeshire,) one.
Chapell, gu. three chaplets, or, one.
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CHAPIN, EBENEZER, one of the early settlers of Enfield, was the son of Japhet Chapin, of Springfield, and grandson of Deacon Samuel Chapin, one of the first settlers of the same place. Samuel, at Springfield as early as 1644. He (Ebenezer) was born at Spring- field, 1675, lived at Enfield, died Dec. 13, 1772, aged 97. He left eleven sons and two daughters, viz.
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1. Rachel.
2. Ebenezer, b. 1705 ; lived in Enfield; had two sons; d. aged 97; m. E. Pease.
3. Noah, b. 1707 ; lived in Somers ; had three sons and four daughters.
4. Seth, b. 1709; lived in Somers; had one son and three daughters ; died 1808.
5. Catharine, history unknown.
6. Moses, b. 1712; lived in Somers ; had six sons and five daughters.
7. Aaron, b. 1714 ; lived in Somers ; had seven sons and three daughters ; m. S. Markham.
S. Elias, b. 1716 ; lived in Somers ; had two sons.
9. Reuben, b. 1718; lived in Salisbury.
10. Charles, b. 1720 ; lived in Salisbury and Bloomfield, N. Y. ; had two sons.
11. David, b. 1722 ; lived in New Hartford ; had two sons.
12. Elisha, b. 1725; died unmarried.,
13. Phineas, b. 1726 ; died unmarried .*
* (2) Ebenezer, 2d, married Elizabeth Pease. Hle died 1751, leaving two sons.
Ebenezer, 3d, b. 1735 ; lived in Enfield ; died 1822, leaving children.
Eliphalet, was brigade-major under Gen. Wolcott ; Lieut. ; lived in Somers ; son of Ebenezer and Ruth, of Enfield ; b. 1707 ; m. Mary Wright, of Deerfield, Mass.
(3) Noah, lieutenant, had three sons and four daughters.
Oliver, died in the service.
Noah, lived in Somers ; left one son, Oliver, M. D., Esq .; graduated at Williamstown, 1805; for many years town clerk of Somers. He has a son, Seth, who is a physician.
David, died young.
Chapin, Cornet Noah, b. 1748, d. 1790, son of Lieut. Noah, in. Mary Williams, daughter of John and Ann, Jan. 22, 1778, and had issue: Ann, Abigail, Oliver, Mary, Dorcas, Submit. Cornet Noah, the father, died May 5, 1790.
(4) Seth, b. 1709, married a Bliss, of Longmeadow ; died 1808, and had :
Elizabeth, married Ezekiel Spencer, of Somers.
Catharine, married Daniel Sheldon, of Stafford.
Samuel, b. 1739, married Elizabeth Spencer, of Somers ; died 1833; issue :
Margaret, who married Daniel Davis, of Stafford ; lived in Stafford.
Seth, who married Mary Stacy, of Wilbraham ; lived in Somers.
Samuel, who married Mary Pease, of Somers, and lived in Somers. The enterprising keepers of the Massasoit Hlouse, Springfield, are children of this couple.
Reuben, b. 1778 ; graduated at Williamstown, 1805 ; studied divinity with Rev. Messrs. Hyde, of Lee, Mass., and Pruden, of Enfield; married Louisa Russel, of Somers, in 1807; lost his health and settled in Somers ; died 1834, leaving-
Alonzo Bowen, b. 1808 admitted to the bar in 1831 ; ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, 1839, and priest, in 1839.
John Russel, b. 1811 ; graduated at the Berkshire Medical College, 1834 ; practiced in New York city ; died in 1832.
Louisa Cooley, born 1813 ; died 1822.
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CHAPIN, EPHRAIM, was a first settler at Stafford.
CHAPIN, JAPHET, of Springfield, m. Thankful Dickinson, of Hatfield, May 26, 1726.
CHAPIN, DEACON SAMUEL, made free at Braintree in 1644, and at Springfield, the same year, where he was a leading man.
CHAPIN, CHEAPIN, JAPHET, had a daughter, Sarah, born at Milford, March 15, 1667-8; Thomas, born May 20, 1671.
CHAPIN, JOSIAH, and MARY, had Samuel, born Nov. 11, 1659, at Weymouth, Mass .; David, free at Springfield, in 1649.
CHAPIN, LIEUT. NOAH, of Somers, was son of Ebenezer and Ruth Chapin, of Enfield ; was born Oct. 25, 1707; he m. Mary Wright, of Deerfield, Mass .; issue : Mary, born Nov. 12, 1734 ; Sarah, born 1736 ; Oliver, born April 9, 1739; Experience, born May, 1742 ; Eunice, born 1746, died 1816; Noah, born July 20, 1748, died May 5, 1790; David, born March 24, 1753. Lieut. Noah, the father, died Aug. 21, 1787, and Mary, the mother, died March 3, 1795.
Reuben Spencer, horn 1818; licensed to practice medicine by the Medical Society of New York city, 1848.
Seth Smith, born 1821; ordained deacon in the Episcopal church, 1851.
Louisa Cooley, born 1826.
Bliss, born 17 -; married Eunice Benton, of Tolland, and settled in that place. He had :
Elisha Benton, M. D, born 1808; graduated at Berkshire Medical College, 1832; lived in Granby, Mass. ; died 1842. He had also one other son and three daughters.
Elizabeth, married Philip Davis, and settled in Greenwich, Mass.
Lucy, married Daniel Smith, of Westfield, Mass.
(5) Moses, married and had issue : Phineas, settled in Newport, N. H. ; had four sons and four daughters. Daniel, born 1758 ; settled in Newport, N. H. ; married Joanna Arms, of Deerfield, Mass., and had William Arms, born 1790; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1816 ; licensed to preach, 1821, and has had seven children. Philomela, born 1792; married Reuben Basan ; died 1824. Elizabeth, married Moses Ilaven. Daniel Dwight, lived in Newport; had threc children living in 1842. David Belding. Horace, was unmarried in 1842. Jason, graduated at Amherst College, 1827; studied divinity at Andover. Joanna, married Stephen G. Allis. Frederick, settled in Hatfield, Mass, ; had two sons and two daughters. Moses Augustus, lived and died at West Springfield. Ile had Mary ; Moses, attorney at law, judge of circuit court, Genesee county, N. Y .; Elizabeth ; Augustus Lyman ; Alpha ; Seth Dwight ; Elizabeth ; Alonzo, M. D., missionary to Sandwich Islands ; Lucina ; Louis. Jason, settled in Wilbraham, Mass. ; had one son, Henry, a lawyer in Baltimore. Samuel Dwight, lived in Somers ; left one son, Samuel Dwight.
(6) Aaron, settled in Somers, and had seven sons and three daughters. Hiram, settled in Surry, N. II. Justus, settled in Gilson, N. H. Aaron, Jr., settled in Stafford. Jeremiah, settled in Somers. Gideon, died in the Revolution. Oliver, settled in Somers. Joseph, died unmarried. (7) Elias, settled in Somers, and had two sons.
Elias and Asa.
(8) Reuben, settled in Salisbury.
IIon. Graham HI. Chapin is supposed to be a descendant of this man.
(9) Charles. lived in Salisbury ; removed to Western New York ; had :
Phincas ; David. (The foregoing communicated by A. B. Chapin, D. D, of Glastenbury.)
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CHAPLIN, MR. CLEMENT, aged 48, came from England with his wife in company with Mr. Wm. Swayne, aged 50, &c., in the ship Eliza and Ann, Cooper, Master, in 1634, to Cambridge, Mass., where he had lands. He remained there more than a year, and then went to Hartford, probably, with Mr. Hooker and his company, in 1636, and owned land in Hartford in 1639, in the first division. He did not remain many years in Hartford before he located in Wethersfield with Mr. Swayne, and others. He became a large landholder there and sustained an exalted reputation among the citizens of the town and colony, as elder, first treasurer of the colony in 1637, and first secretary. He is first found on the colony record of Conn., Dec., 1636, where " A Corte at New Towne" "ordered y' Mr. Clement Chaplin shall diligentlie inquire af- ter any the goodes of Mr. Oldam deceased," &c. ; and the next notice of him on record is his appointment to the high office of treasurer and collector of the colony in 1637, and the appointment of his sub-col- lectors, viz. : Wm. Wadsworth, Henry Wolcott, Sen., Andrew Warde and Jehu Bur. In May, 1637, Mr. Chaplin was one of the Committee (or House of Assembly) who boldly " ordered that there shalbe an offensiue warr ag' the Pequoitt, and that there shalbe 90 men levied out of the 3 Plantations," &c. ; and Mr. Chaplyn is in the list of creditors to W. Oldam's estate, in 1639, £146, 18s. 0d. Elder Chaplin in June, 1640, is found in a bitter quarrel with Mr. Michell of Wethersfield, and the latter ordered by the General Courte to make satisfaction to Mr. Chaplin, in some " publike meeting," as part of his censure by acknowledging his fault, &c., and Mr. Michell for undertaking the office of town clerk or recorder " notwithstanding his uncapableness of such office by censure of courte, he is fyned to pay to the country twenty nobles," and those persons who voted for Mr. Michell for the office, " notwithstanding the censure of Courte," were fined to the country five pounds each. Mr. Chaplin, though a deputy to the general court in 1643, was fined by the court, eleven pounds, for divulging and setting his hand to a written dec- ' laration of slander, defaming the character of Rev. Mr. Smith of Wethersfield, with Francis Norton, John Goodridge, Mr. Plum and Robert Rose, &c. Elder Chaplin was also deputy, Feb. 14, 1643. Mr. Chaplin was in court as plaintiff against Henry and Samuel Smith, 1644, and Thomas Staples plaintiff against Clement Chaplin defendant, June, 1645, and plaintiff in Court 1646. He was also plaintiff against Dickerson in June, 1646, and had other law- suits, as was the fashion of the day. (While Mr. Chaplin remained
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at Hartford in 1640, he was on a lot at market place, bounded north on market-place, east on meeting-house alley, south, on John Steel, and west on the road from the Palisadoes to Centinel Hill .- Porter.)
In 1639, Mr. Chaplin was one of a committee of six, viz. : Mr. Deputy, Capt. Mason, Mr. Stone, Mr. Goodwin, Geo. Hubbard and Elder Chaplin, appointed by the General Court for the better keeping in mind of those passages of God's providence, which had been remarkable, since their first undertaking in the plantations : and report the facts to the General Court, &c. (This report, if made, is not found.) The time of his death is not known, as nei- ther stone or record is now found to give the day or year of his decease. He left by will, all his property to his wife Sarah, and from this fact, he probably left no children. His widow, Sarah, returned to England after the death of Elder Chaplin, (about 1647, or 1648, " where she executed a general power of Attorney to Wm. Parks, of Roxbury, Mass,") in which she calls herself of Edmonds- bury, in the county of Suffolk, in the kingdom of England, widow and relict of Clement Chaplin, late of Thetford, in the county of Norfolk, in said kingdom, clerk, deceased." (Goodwin.) By vir- tue of which Mr. Parks sold to Hon Henry Wolcot, various tracts of land and buildings in Wethersfield, which had been the property of Elder Chaplin, dated Sept. 24th, 1661, amounting to over 1300 acres of land, with buildings. It is not known that he left any relatives in this country. He had eight parcels of land recorded in Wethersfield, as early as 1641.
It was voted at Hartford, Jan. 14th, 1639, to deal with Clement Chaplin for land forfeited to the town. Mr. Wm. Swayne who came to New England in the ship with Elder Chaplin, probably came with him to Hartford and located at Wethersfield a few years, and then removed to Branford or Totoket, where he died. (See SWAIN.) Coats of arms-Chaplin, (Scotland,) 1. Chaplin or Chapelin, (Londonor Stoneham, co., Hants, granted 1593,) 1. Chap- lin, (Lord Mayor of London 1678) 1. Three others for Chaplin.
CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN, from Reading, in Mass., was received into the church at Hampton, Conn., June 14, 1736 ; Nathaniel ad- mitted to the church, Sept., 1741; Janny, also, Benjamin and his wife ; Mary, admitted Nov. 15th, 1741, removed to Mansfield or Coventry ; Ebenezer, son of Benjamin, Sen., a minister, admitted August 21, 1763; Sarah, wife of Dr. Joseph Chaplin, also ad- mitted into the church at Hampton, Jan. 6, 1760 ; Mary Chaplin,
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from Pomfret, united with the church at Hampton, Nov 17th, 1751 ; Jammison Chaplin, widow, in 1757.
CHAPLIN, EBENEZER, (son of Benjamin, Sen,) and Jammi- son, his wife, had children, baptized at Hampton. Ebenezer, Jun., baptized, June 2d, 1734; Mary, April 3d, 1748 ; Jamma, Dec. 3, 1749 ; Hannah, August 9th, 1752; Benjamin, Nov. 30, 1755 ; Anna, Dec. 11th, 1757 ; Mehitabel, baptized Oct. 14, 1759.
CHAPLIN, JOSEPH, of Hampton, m. Sarah Stedman, June 13, 1754 ; issue, Joseph, April 10, 1755 ; John, born Nov. 30, 1756 ; Nathaniel, b. Mar. 20, 1759, died 1763 ; Daniel, born July 10, 1761; 2d Nath., born May 1st, 1764; Sarah, born Oct. 22, 1766. (This has been a noted family.)
CHAPLIN, BENJAMIN and Sarah, had a daughter Martha, bap. April, at Hampton, May 20, 1764. Benjamin, Jr., joined the church in Hampton, 1741. Chaplin, Hugh, of Rowley, Mass., will proved, 1657. Benjamin was the first of the name in Hampton, Conn, ; Nathaniel joined 1741.
CHAPLIN, ROBERT, aged 22, passenger in the Paule of Lon- don, for Virginia, July 6, 1635.
CHAPLIN, WILLIAM, embarked in the Thomas and John, Jan. 6, 1635, John Lombard, Master, for Virginia ; examined and took the oath of allegiance, (as was the custom. )
The town of Chaplin was probably named after some one of the above family, formed into a society from a part of Windham, Mans- field and Hampton, in 1806, and incorporated a town in May, 1822.
CHAPMAN, HON. ROBERT, came to Saybrook about 1636. Tradition says he came to this country from Hull, England, in 1635. He appeared first at Saybrook, the next year. His father was a chandler in England, (then called soap-boilers.) One or more sis- ters either came with him or soon after, and one of his sisters mar- ried Francis Bushnell. There were but few men came into the Connecticut colony who rose higher in public estimation, or proved more useful, than Robert Chapman. He was a deputy to the Gen- eral Court of Connecticut, Sept. 9, 1652 ; May, 1653 ; Sept., 1653; Sept., 1854 ; in 1656 ; four sessions in 1657, three in 1658, two in 1659, two in 1660, one in 1661, two in 1662, four in 1663, one in 1664, two in 1665; in May, 1667; Oct., 1667; May, 1668; Oct., 1668. In May, 1669, he was elected an assistant, and deputy. also ; deputy, Oct., 1669; deputy in May, 1670 ; Oct., 1670. In May, 1671, he was nominated for assistant ; chosen deputy, May, 1671 ; Oct., 1671. He was again nominated for assistant, May, 1672 ;
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also, May, 1673; deputy, May, 1674; May, 1675; Oct., 1675; Oct., 1676 and '77. Capt. Robert nominated for assistant, May, 1677, and elected deputy, 1677 ; Oct., 1677, &c. (See. Col. Rec.)
Mr. Chapman was chosen commissioner for Saybrook in 1666 ; also, commissioner for Saybrook and Lyme in 1668. Mr. Chapman and Lieut. Wm. Pratt were chosen commissioners by the plantation for Saybrook and Lyme, May, 1669; also, in May, 1671 ; also, May, 1672 and '73. Mr. Chapman of Saybrook, O. Bruen and John Smith of New London, were appointed by the General Court to settle difficulties with the Niantick Indians for burning fences in 1653. He was grand juror the same year ; also, grand juror, 1661. In 1653 the General Court ordered 65 men raised from the several towns in the colony to be forthwith prepared with provisions, on a day's warning to march, and ordered that one man in each town should be appointed a committee for the constables to advise with about pressing the men for the expedition. Capt. Mason, Good'n Clark and Mr. Robert Chapman were appointed in Saybrook. In 1654 a like order was made, and John Clark and Robert Chapman ap- pointed a committee to advise with the Major (Major Mason) as to thepressing of men and necessaries for the service in the Narragan- sett expedition.
The General Court confirmed a former grant of Twenty-Mile Island, with the meadow adjoining on the east side of the great river, (Conn.,) and commonage appertaining, to Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, in 1656. In 1665, Mr. Chapman, Mr. Wyllis, Mr. Leet and Capt. Nash, or any three of them, were appointed a committee to hear Uncas's* complaints, and report to the Gen. Court. Robert
* The earliest records of the town of Hebron are the proceedings of meetings held in Say- brook and Lyme by persons styling themselves legatees of Joshua, Sachem. The following are extracts :
"In Sabrook and Lyme.
" At a meeting of ye Legatees of Joshua Sachem: that is ye Legatees it was agreed that ye Legatees doe give unto the Trustees of ye Collegiate Schoole in Conecticott, for ye use of sd Schoole, the quantity of two thousand acre right, in ye Lands given by sd Joshua, allwayes provided yt sd Schoole be erected at Saybrooke.
" Ye 10th Febu : 1701-In testimony liereof we set to our hands. And ordr to be recorded. Tho: Buckingham Sen" Willm Pratt. James Lord
John Chapman. Benja Lord.
SamIt Cla. ke
Sam Jones Sean™
Stepn Post.
Ebenezar Ingham
John Parker, Seans
Nathì Pratt.
John Kirtland
Thomas Norton Sean"
John Tillitson.
Daniell Lord
Robt Chapman.
Samll Jones Jun
Steophen Bushnell
William Parker
Tho : Buckingm JunT
John Parker, JunT."
John Pratt Sean?
Daniel Buckingm
John Clarke
Mezikiah Buckingm
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Chapman, Mr. Tinker and Mr. Campfield were chosen and sworn assistants, May, 1661. He was directed to swear the people as freemen in " Sea Brooke," who had been orderly propounded. (Col. Rec., 1665.) The same session, Mr. Chapman, with the Gov- ernor, Deputy Governor and Mathew Griswold, were appointed a committee to try and determine a case presented to His Majesty in a petition of Mr. Morton, and report to the General Court in May, 1666, &c. He was grand juror for Saybrook, May, 1660. He and Matthew Griswold were appointed by the General Court to lay out Mr. Allyn's farm, Oct., 1661.
Facts sufficient are related to show the exalted rank in the Con- necticut colony occupied by Hon. Robert Chapman of Saybrook, in the early settlement of Connecticut, and the organization of its gov- ernment.
CHAPMAN, HON. ROBERT, of Saybrook, m. Ann Blith at "Seabrook," April 29, Anno, 1642, and had children, viz. : John, b. July, 1644.
2. Robert, Jr., b. Sept., 1646.
3. Anna, b. Sept., 1645; d. 1049.
4. Hanna, b. Oct. 4, 1650.
"Say-brooke Febu : 19th 17067 __
" At a meeting of the Legatees of the last Will and Testament of Joshua Sachem belonging to Say-brook." " It was agreed and vouted that Capt John Clarke, Mr Rob' Chapman, Ensu John Pratt, and Sergt Stephen Post should preferr a petision unto the Gen !! Court to be holden at Hartford next May for the granting a Township within said Land. And yt the name of the said place may be called Ilebron-And that sd petision be by said men signed in the name and behalf, and preferred at the charge of us the Legatees." ( Hebron Record, copied by Hendee, Town Clerk.)
There is a deed recorded in the Town Records of Hebron, book 3d, page 65, from " Ben Uncose Sachem of Mohegin Benjamin Uncose and Ann daughter to Ceasor and wife to said Benjamin," conveying the township of Ilebron to "Capt Hezekiah Gaylord Capt. Obadiah Hos- ford, Capt Nathaniell Phelps, Jolin Phelps Jonathan White Moses Cass, Joseph Phelps, Charles Dewey and Rachell Jones, inhabitance" and proprietors of the town of Hebron and "Nathan. iell Man and ye rest of ye inhabitance of ye town of Ilebron." The deed was executed at Col- chester, January 11th, 1737-8. (The magistrate before whom the deed was acknowledged, appended the following certificate :)
" Baitford County ss. Colchester, Jany 11th, A. D. 1738 Mr. John Avery interpretor, being sworn dic. before me ye subscriber Roger Woolcot Assistant in ye Colony of Connecticut interpret ye in. trument contained on ye other side of this paper unto ye granters therein men- tioned, l'en U'ncose, Benjamin U'ncose, Inn Uncose ye wife of s! Benjamin Uncose, and de- clars upon cath: that he had tande them all fully to understand ye same and that ye said granters did declar that they had received fall satisfaction as expressed in said instrument and ye said Ben Unea' and Benjamin Uncas and Ann were then sober and of sound understanding and that ye said instrument was their volintary act and deed.
"Corar ROOER WOLCOT, Assistant."
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5. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 16, 1653.
6. Mary, b. April 15, 1655.
7. Sarau, (Sarah,) b. Sept. 25, 1657.
His wife, Ann, d. Nov. 20, 1685, and Capt. Robert Chapman d. Oct. 13, 1687.
CHAPMAN, CAPT. JOHN, son of Hon. Robert, m. Elizabeth Hally, or Holly, of Stratford, June 7, 1670, and had children : John, Jr., b. Sept. 8, 1671; Joseph, b. July, 1673 ; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 10, 1676, d. 1676. His wife, Elizabeth, d. May 10, 1676, and he m. for second wife, Elizabeth Beamon, March 26, 1677, and had issue : Andrew, b. April 24, 1678, d, May 16, 1683 ; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 26, 1679 ; Thomas, b. Jan. 23, 1681, d. in 1682 ; Lydia, b. Feb. 13, 1682; Anne, b. Nov. 5, 1684 ; second Andrew, b. Oct. 1, 1686, and d. same year. His wife, Elizabeth, d. Oct. 30, 1694.
CHAPMAN, ROBERT, JR., son of Hon. Robert, m. Sarah Griswold, of Norwich, June 27, 1671. Issue, Samuel, b. Sept. 12, 1672 ; Robert, b. April 19, 1675; Sarah, b. Sept. 12, and d. Oct. 15, 1677; Francis, b. Aug. 5, 1678; Dorkis, b. Aug. 26, 1680, d. soon after ; Stephen, b. Nov. 24, 1681, d. 1686; a son, b. and d. March, 1683-4; Sarah, b. Dec. 19, 1686, d. soon after; his sixth son and ninth child b. Nov. 6, (no date, ) and d. Nov. 9, 1689. His wife, Sarah, d. April 7, 1692, and he m. for second wife, Mary Sheather, Oct. 29, 1694, and had Benjamin, b. Jan. 1, 1695 ; Me- hitabel, b. May 15, 1697, d. 1697-8 ; Stephen, b. March 5, 1698-9. Robert Chapman died when a member of the Gen. Court at Hart- ford, and was there buried, where his monument yet says : " Here lyeth Robert Chapman; who departed this life Nov. ye 10, 1711, aged 63." (The birth and age disagree.)
The Chapmans of Ellington are, many of them, descendants of Robert, 3d. John, son of Robert, removed to East Haddam before 1690. His second son resided at Oyster River, in Saybrook, and was a member of that noted body of Puritans who formed the Say- brook Platform, in 1708. He died suddenly at Hartford while a member of the Gen. Assembly, and was interred at Hartford in Oct., 1711. His son, Robert, the grandson of Hon. Robert, Ist, set- tled and d. at East Haddam, and was b. 1674. His first wife was Mary, and first child b. Dec. 16, 1698. John had thirteen children, several died young ; Joseph, Jabez and Samuel only had families. Joseph lived and d. in Saybrook ; Jabez settled and d. in East Haddam ; and Samuel, the youngest, was b. in 1692; he removed to Stonington ; his wife was Mary, and she d. young in Saybrook.
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Samuel deeded land to his son, Samuel, in Saybrook, 1745, and Samuel, the son, deeds the same land and buildings, as of Salis- bury, in 1748. Jabez has few descendants, and now only one or two families in East Haddam, but most of the Chapmans there are descendants of Robert, 3d. The Chapmans of Ellington are, many of them, descendants of Robert, 3d, by his third son, Jonathan, b. in 1702, and m. Hannah Brainard, Dec., 1730, and had sons : Jabez, b. 1731 ; Jonathan, b. Aug. 21, 1734 ; Joseph, b. Sept. 6, 1736; and John, b. Nov. 10, 1739. John and Joseph never married ; lived and d. at Millington. Jabez and Jonathan married and settled in Ellington from 1760 to '65.
As Rev. F. W. Chapman, a descendant of Hon. Robert, is pre- paring a full genealogy of the family, I publish a small part of it. Hon. Asa Chapman, an eminent lawyer and judge of the S. Court of Conn., and his son, Hon. Charles Chapman, of Hartford, late member of Congress; Geo. H., of Saybrook ; Lilvous, of New York ; Rev. F. W. Chapman, and very many other / respect- able men, are found descended from Hon. Robert nan, once of Saybrook.
CHAPMAN, JOHN, d. at Colchester in 1745, aged 60. John and Robert, of Saybrook, nominated for freemen, Oct., 1667.
Thomas Chapman, deputy to Gen. Court in Conn., May, 1652, and Oct., 1654. He testified with others in court, in May, 1651, that he knew nothing of John Dyer's carrying Indians on board the Dutch vessel, and that that was no cause of their scizing the vessel and goods.
There was a THOMAS CHAPMAN admitted to the church at Hampton, Conn., July 31, 1726 ; and Thomas and his wife are en- tered as having joined the church at Hampton, Feb. 18, 1728, (per- haps father and son.)
CHAPMAN, EDWARD, of Windsor, m. Eliz'th Fox in Eng- land, and had children born at Windsor, viz., 1, Henry, b. July 4, 1663 ; 2, Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1664, d .; 3, Mary, b. Oct. 22, (or 7,) 1654 ; 4, Eliz'th, b. Jan. 18, 1667; 5, Simon, b. April 30, 1669; 6, Hanna, b. May 3, 1671; 7, Margaret, b. March 7, 1672; 8, Sarah, b. May 24, 1675. Some of his daughters appear to have been born before he came to Windsor; he d. at Windsor in 1675. Edward Chapman, Corp'l Samuel Marshall, Ebenezer Dibble, Nath'l Pond and Richard Sexton, all of Windsor, were in the Indian fight, and were wounded, and d. Dec., 1675. The inventory of said Ed- ward is dated Feb., 1675, £184, 10s. ; offered in court, March 2,
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