Thomas Chipman (abt. 1567 - abt. 1623)

Born about 1567 in Whitechurch, Dorset, England

Descendants

Died about 1623 at about age 56 in Whitechurch, Dorset, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Thomas Chipman was born about 1567, probably at Whitechurch, near Dorchester, Dorset Co., England. He died about 1623. Thomas Chipman married, after 1590, unknown who died about 1637. There is a record of three children — two daughters, "Hanner," or Hannah, and "Tumsen," or Thomasine, and one son.

Children of Thomas Chipman

1. Hannah Chipman
2. Thomasine Chipman
3. John Chipman, born about 1614, near Dorchester, probably at Bryan's-Piddle, Dorset Co., Eng.; died April 7, 1708.

“Always brotherless and early left fatherless, he [John Chipman] sailed from Barnstable, Devon County, England, in May 1631, in the ship Friendship, arriving in Boston, July 14, 1631. John Chipman was the first and only one of the name to seek a home in America, and up to 1850 there was no Chipman in this country who was not descended from him.”^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Excerpt From: Chipman, Alberto Lee, b. 1878. “The Chipman family, a genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920.” Winston-Salem, N.C., B. L. Chipman, [c1920].

• Swain, William Chester. Swain and Allied Families (Swain & Tate Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1896) Page 58
• Miner Descent. John Chipman (the elder) was the only son of Thomas Chipman of Briantspuddle, Dorchester, who had an estate there. He had two sisters Hannah and Tamson, who remained in England. His father Thomas died before John left England in 1637, and his mother died before 1642.

Notes

Thomas Chipman, his father, inherited a valuable mill property as a young man which had been administered and then taken over by his distant cousin Christopher Derby. Thomas had later married, but had never received any capital from Derby. John lived a few years during his youth with his uncle Christopher Derby who was prosperous at the time. He probably made provision for John to attend some sort of school where he learned to read and write. After Thomas’ death, his only son, John, at age seventeen emigrated to Plymouth in 1637 under indenture to Richard Derby, son of Christopher. When he was twenty-one, John Chipman made an effort to establish a claim against Christopher Derby, supported by testimony from Ann Hynd, a domestic from the Derby house, who had also come to Plymouth.