Elder John Chipman, died 1709 Sandwich, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday

This tombstone was photographed at the Old Town Cemetery in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  

HERE LYES BURIED

Ye BODY OF ELDER

JOHN CHIPMAN

AGED 88 YEARS

DIED APRIL Ye 7th

1709

The tiny tombstone to the right is Elder John Chipman, and the larger stone to the left is his second wife,  Ruth Sargent, who died in 1711.  I descend from his first wife, Hope Howland Chipman, daughter of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, who died on 8 January 1684 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.  

John Chipman was born about 1620 in Bryant's Puddle, Dorset, England, and died 8 January 1709 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.  He married Hope Howland on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  He became a member of the church in Barnstable on 30 June 1653, and his wife was a member on 7 August 1650.  He removed to Sandwich after his second marriage, where he died and was buried. 

John Chipman and Hope Howland had twelve children.  I descend from their fifth child, Hannah Chipman (1659 - 1696), who married Thomas Huckins and lived in Barnstable.  

Please see my blog post on my Chipman lineage here:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-chipman-of-cape-cod.html   

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Elder John Chipman, died 1709 Sandwich, Massachusetts - Tombstone Tuesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 22, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/06/elder-john-chipman-died-1709-sandwich.html: accessed [access date]).