Michael Chatterton (abt. 1614 - abt. 1676)

Born about 1614 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut [uncertain]

Died about 20 May 1676 at about age 62 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut [uncertain]

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Biography ?

Disputed Origins & Descendants

Michael Chatterton, was not the son of Thomas Chittenden & Rebecca.
He was not the husband of Martha Vinal.
He was not the father of William Chatterton.

See below. He has been disconnected from all these profiles.

Biography Supported by Ancestry Trees and Indexes

Michael Chatterton/Chittenden was born 1614 in New Haven, Connecticut

son of : Husband: Thomas Chatterton & Wife: Rebecca Chittenden

He married Martha Vinel 1639 in New Haven, Connecticut.

Child William Chatterton

Then Michael Chatterton arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1640

He died in New Haven 20 May 1676

• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.;;
• Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc, 2010. Original data - Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010.
• Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

Note

Incorrect information has been left on the profile to prevent recreation of Michael's profile with the common internet information.

Is there some Reality?

Connecticut

There was an adult Michael Chatterton in Connecticut in 1645. There is one record to prove his existence. There is nothing to indicate a marriage or children or death in any other early records of Connecticut or New Haven.

20 March 1645. William Lotham owed Michael Chatterton 10s.^[1]

Parents Thomas & Rebecca

Chittingden Emigration 1635

The above clearly shows that they did not have a son Michael who emigrated with them.

7 Oct 1668, Will of Thomas Chittenden, weaver, of Scituate, left his estate to his sons, Isaac and Henry Chittenden. Full Text^[2]

Which further shows that Thomas had no son Michael.

Marriage

There is no record of a marriage of Michael. It was Isaac Chittenden who married Martha Vinal.

Isaac Chittenden m. Martha Vinal Apr 1646 in Scituate, Massachusetts^[3][4]

Portsmouth 1640

Savage's Gen. Dict. lists a Michael Chatterton in Portsmouth, 1640.^[5] He cites Belkn.I.28^[6]

The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire contains the following entries.^[7]

"Chatterton, Chatherton, Chadderton a chapelry in Lancashire"

- JANE was in Piscataqua when she was warned to go to her husband in 1642 and 1646. She was possibly the goodwife Chatterton fined 5 July 1653.

- MICHAEL was in Piscataqua 1640. He sold house and lands to Wm. Palmer and Clement Campion prior to 1651. He was a witness in 1647. Goodman Chatterton's house and 10 acres were mentioned in 1652. Mentions the Michael in Hartford.

- WILLIAM, was a legatee and exec of James Woodward of Saco in 1648 James will was made in Portsmouth. Comments he may have been in New Haven in 1646 and later.

Death

New Haven records were well kept by the time 1676. There is no record of this death in New Haven.^[8]

It is however the death of Isaac Chittenden

Other

In addition Jacobus' Families of Ancient New Haven does not list any Chittendens in the correct time frame.

A search at American Ancestors gets no results

Conclusion

Michael Chittenden is a conglomeration of facts cobbled together to create a logical father for William Chatterton of New Haven, whose origins are unknown.

Sources

1. ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Public_Records_of_the_Colony_of_Conn.html?id=X8VSAAAAcAAJ Google Books
2. ↑ Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories" The Mayflower Descendant Vol. 17-18 p. 114 at Google Books
3. ↑ Early Marriages and Birth at Scituate, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 19:219.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: NEHGS 1909. p. 55
5. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862
6. ↑ Belknap, Jeremy. John Farmer edition. The History of New-Hampshire. Dover, N.H.: G. Wadleigh, 1862.
7. ↑ Libby, Charles Thornton. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Portland, ME, USA: The Southward Press, 1928. p. 139 link at Ancestry ($)
8. ↑ Vital Records of New Haven 1649-1850 Part I.] Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917 https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofne01orde#page/44/mode/2up/search/1676