CHAPIN
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| "The Puritan" at Springfield, Massachusetts |
Chapin followed William Pynchon who left Roxbury in
1636 with a dozen families for Springfield which was first known as
Agawam. He was very influential in his
new settlement, and served as one of the first five selectman, magistrate and
was a deacon of the church for 25 years. He died in 1675 a few months after the
town of Springfield was attacked by Indians and burned during King Phillip’s
War. His wife survived him by seven
year, and his seven children all lived to adulthood and produced 72 grandchildren.
There is a large bronze statue of Deacon Samuel
Chapin in Springfield. It is called “The
Puritan” and was sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudins in 1887. You can read a blog post about this statue HERE.
Sources for Chapin family information:
Thirty-One
English Emigrants Who Came to New England by 1662,
by Dorothy C. and Gerald E. Knoff, Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1989, pages44 to
51.
Search
for the Passengers of the Mary & John, 1630,
Volume 17, pages 27 to 28. See the
website http://www.maryandjohn1630.com/
The
Chapin Book of Genealogical Data of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin
by Gilbert Warren Chapin, in two volumes, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family
Association, 1924 reprinted by Higginson Book Company.
Life
of Deacon Samuel Chapin of Springfield, by Howard
Miller Chapin, Providence, Rhode Island: Snow & Farnham, Co. Printers,
1908. Available to read online at www.Archive.org
My Chapin genealogy:
Generation 1: Samuel Chapin, son of John Chapin and
Phillippa Easton, baptized 8 October 1598 in Paignton, Devonshire, England,
died 11 November 1675 in Springfield, Massachusetts; married on 9 February 1624
in Paignton to Cicely Penney. She was
the daughter of Henry Penney and Jane Unknown, born on 27 February 1602 in
Paignton, died 8 February 1683 in Springfield. Seven children.
Generation 2: Catherine Chapin, baptized in April
1626 in Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, England; died 4 February 1712 in
Springfield; married on 20 November 1646 to Nathaniel Bliss, son of Thomas Bliss
and Margaret Hulins, baptized on 28 December 1622 in Rodborough, Gloucestershire,
England, died on 18 November 1654 in Springfield. Four children. Catherine Chapin remarried in 1655 to Thomas
Gilbert, and in 1664 to Samuel Marshfield.
Generation 3:
Margaret Bliss m. Nathaniel Foote
Generation 4: Eunice Foote m. Michael Taintor
Generation 5: Eunice Taintor m. Aaron Skinner
Generation 6: Charles Skinner m. Sarah Osborn
Generation 7: Ann Skinner m. Thomas Ratchford Lyons
Generation 8: Isabella Lyons m. Reverend Ingraham
Ebenezer Bill
Generation 9: Caleb Rand Bill m. Ann Margaret
Bollman
Generation 10: Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert Munroe
Wilkinson
Generation 11: Donald Munroe Wilkinson m. Bertha
Louise Roberts (my grandparents)
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| "The Puritan" at Boston's Museum of Fine Art |
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Copyright © 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Hello cousin! I hope you don't mind if I share the link to my Surname Saturday post for Chapin at http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2013/04/surname-saturday-chapin-of-springfield.html. I'm surprised you only have one line from Samuel Chapin. I have several lines which intermarried (making my lines quite a tangle).
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