Moses Chapin (1791 - 1865)

Born 2 May 1791 in Springfield, Hamden Co., Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Esther Maria (Ward) Chapin — married Sep 1818 (to 9 Oct 1823) in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1865 at age 74 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

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Biography

Moses Chapin ... He passed away in 1865.

Biographies of Monroe County People^[1]

Judge Moses Chapin, the first of this family in Rochester, was the son of Moses A. and Lucina (Graves) Chapin, of West Springfield, Mass. Born May 2, 1791. Died in Rochester October 8, 1865. Ordained from Yale college 1811. Settled in Rochester, where he practised law. County judge 1826. Elder of the First Presbyterian Church July 18, 1824. A charter trustee and attorney for the Monroe County Savings bank. He married first Esther Maria Ward, in September 1818, a daughter of Dr. Levi Ward. She was born December 11, 1798, died October 9, 1823. Married second, Mrs. Lucy T. Kibbe, of Canandaigua, widow of Simeon T. Kibbe and daughter of William Barton, of Enfield, Conn. She was born October 18, 1797, died December 4, 1885.

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By first wife—

1. Maria Ward, born May 31, 1819; died May 27, 1842. Married Rev. Eli Smith, March 9, 1841.; they went to Beirut, Syria as missionaries of the A. B. C. F. M. She died May 27, 1842, and left one child, Charles Henry, born May 14, 1842.

2. Edward Mercer, born November 10, 1820, died February 21, 1821.

3. Caroline Elizabeth, born on April 27, 1822; died April 1, 1896. Married Rev. D. Chichester; settled in Corning, N. Y. Removed to Wolcott, Wayne county, N. Y. Had four children.

By second wife—

4. Rev. Henry Barton, born on September 14, 1827. Graduated at Yale college and from Union Theological seminary. Settled at Trenton, N. J. Married Harriet A. Smith, of New York city. Now lives in New York city. Had four children.

5. Charles Hall, born January 6, 1830; died March 1882. Married Elizabeth Kidd, of Rochester, N. Y. Had six children.

6. Harriet Ward, born March 1, 1832; died July 24, 1872. Married Rev. C. W. Higgins, of Newfield, N. Y. Had seven children.

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Sources

4606 ESTHER MARIA WARD Rochester NY b Dec 11 1798 d Oct 9 1828 m Moses Chapin Rochester NY d Oct 8 1865 7558 Maria Ward 7559 Edward Mercer 7560 Caroline Elizabeth ^[2]

Death

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33820684 Burial: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

1. ↑ http://mcnygenealogy.com/bios/biographies041.htm
2. ↑ Andrew Warde and his descendants, 1597-1910: being a compilation of facts relating to one of the oldest New England families and embracing many families of other names, descended from a worthy ancestor even unto the tenth and eleventh generations (Google eBook), A.T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, 1910, p 224

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