Caleb Chapin (1736 - 1815)

Born 2 Jul 1736 in Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1815 at age 79 in Bernardston, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Captain Caleb Chapin served with Porter's Regiment, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Caleb Chapin is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A020739.

Caleb Chapin was born July 2, 1736.^[1][2][3][4]He was the son of Caleb Chapin^[1][2]and his wife Catherine (Dickinson) Chapin of Bernardston.^[1][2]

Marriage

He married Rebecca Bascom.^[1] of Greenfield.^[2][3]Rebecca was the daughter of Ezekiel Bascom of Gill.^[1]Ezekiel (whose father, grandfather, and great grandfather were named "Thomas") came to Dorchester, Massachusetts about 1634.^[3]Rebecca, Caleb's wife, was baptized December 24, 1740.^[1]

Children of Caleb and Rebecca Chapin

1. Caleb was born August 20, 1759 and died November 28, 1838^[1][2]
2. Rebecca was born November 26, 1761 and died May 12, 1766^[1][2]
3. Zalmuna was born April 3, 1764 and died May 20, 1854^[1][2]
4. Consider was born August 26, 1766.^[1]or August 22, 1766. About 1786 he married Esther Wallace.^[3]He resided in Elk Creek, Tennessee where died in 1860^[2][3]on March 17, 1860^[1]
5. Cyrenius was born February 7, 1769.^[1]He was a physician and surgeon in Buffalo, New York.^[4]He was Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers in the War of 1812.^[3][4]He lived at Buffalo, New York and died there^[2]on February 20, 1838.^[1]

Selectman

Caleb Chapin was a selectman years 1774, 1781, and 1791.^[1]

Occupation

Caleb Chapin made mill stones, he laid stone, and he was a farmer.^[2]

Military - Revolutionary War

Caleb Chapin began his military career on November 30, 1758. In the Revolutionary War he was Commissioner of Correspondence, Inspection & Safety for 1776. He was at Cambridge in 1775^[1][4]and was Captain of the Militia Company under General Shepard in the Shay's Rebellion of 1787.^[1][2][3][4]During this engagement he had two sons with him. Zalmuna was a soldier^[2] and Cyrenius was his father's waiter.^[2][4]He was also Captain of the 4th Company, 5th Reg't, 2nd Brigade on July 1, 1781.^[1]He was a Minute Man in the Revolutionary War.^[3][5]

Death

Caleb Chapin died November 10, 1815.^[1][2][3][4]His wife Rebecca died February 14, 1825 at the age of 84 years.^[1]

Biographical Notes

The Chapin lineage is Puritan. Samuel Chapin of Massachusetts Colony took the freeman's oath in Boston in 1641 and removed to Springfield, Mass. Japhet Chapin, son of Samuel, was in the great Indian fight at Twiner's Falls on the 19th of May, 1676. Samuel Chapin (2d), son of Japhet, had a son, Caleb Chapin, who was killed in the French War. Caleb Chapin (2d), son of Caleb, was an officer in the Revolutionary War.

DK. CYRENIUS CHAPIN, son of Capt. Caleb Chapin, was a man whose career fills a memorable chapter in the pioneer history of Buffalo. Physician, soldier and frontiersman. Dr. Chapin was a typical American of that stern epoch when hardship and peril developed the latent resources of character.

Captain Caleb Chapin was buried in "Old Cemetery", Burks Flat, Bernardston, MA ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18} Gilbert Warren Chapin "The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data" Published at Hartford Connecticut by Chapin Family Association 1924. Vol. 1, p. 132
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} Orange Chapin. "The Chapin Genealogy, containing a very large proportion of the Descendants of Dea Samuel Chapin" Printed by Metcalf & Company, 1862. p. 32
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Frederic Lathrop Colver"Colver-Culver Genealogy" published by Frank Allaben Genealogical Company of New York, 1910. p. 155-156
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} Wells Chapin. "Chapins who Served in The French and Indian Wars, 1754-60; The Revolutionary War, 1775-83; The War of 1812-15, and Others" Springfield, Mass. 1895. p. 13,14
5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed June 26, 2020), "Record of CHAPIN, CALEB ", Ancestor # A020739.
6. ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=4110&h=9950&ssrc=pt&tid=38283360&pid=20476811887&usePUB=true

• Gilbert Warren Chapin "The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data" Published at Hartford Connecticut by Chapin Family Association 1924. Vol. 1, p. 132see at hathitrust
• Orange Chapin. "The Chapin Genealogy, containing a very large proportion of the Descendants of Dea Samuel Chapin" Printed by Metcalf & Company, 1862. p. 32see at archive.org
• Frederic Lathrop Colver"Colver-Culver Genealogy" published by Frank Allaben Genealogical Company of New York, 1910. p. 155-156see at google books
• Charles Wells Chapin. "Chapins who Served in The French and Indian Wars, 1754-60; The Revolutionary War, 1775-83; The War of 1812-15, and Others" Springfield, Mass. 1895. p. 13,14see at archive.org
• Lucy Jane Cutler Kellogg. "History of the town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts." Press of E. A. Hall & Company, Greenfield, Mass. 1902. p. 82, 251, 254.see at google books
• David P. Szatmary. "Shays Rebellion, The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection" The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. p. 113see at google books

additional sources

• Julius F. Miner, MD. "Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal" Warren, Johnson & Company, Buffalo, 1869. Vol. VIII. "Biographical Sketch of the Late Dr. Cyrenius Chapin, of Buffalo" prepared by Dr. G. F. Pratt. Found after page 120. Caleb Chapin #IV on p. 2see at google books
• Louise Pearsons Dolliver."Lineage Book, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution"Vol XXIII. 1898. Printed in Washington, D.C. 1907. End of book, "Errata For The Lineage Book, Vol. 1 to 21 Inclusive. p. 6, National Number: 11207.see at google books
• MEMORIAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY NEW YORK. VOLUME I, BIOGRAPHICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ILLUSTRATED. NEW YORK- BUFFALO THE GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1906-8. THE WINTHEOP PRESS 419-421 LAFAYETTE STREET NEW YORKlink

• "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3Q-C3M2-3?cc=2546162&wc=WD6Q-RM8%3A1588792201 : 24 January 2018), Massachusetts, vol 3, Caal, William-Cory, William > image 309 of 1030; citing various published state rosters, United States.