John Chipman (1670 - 1756)

Born 3 Mar 1670 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Marcy (Skiff) Chipman — married 1691 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Elizabeth (Handley) Chipman — married 29 Jan 1716 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Hannah (Hoxie) Chipman — married 1725 in Newport, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 4 Jan 1756 at age 85 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

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Biography

Hon. John Chipman, son of John Chipman and Hope Howland, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts 3 Mar 1670.^[1][2][3]

Chipman was a magistrate, a member of the General Court, and a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1722. In Rhode Island, where he lived after 1727, he was first of the six Associates of that colony and with the other Associates, was a member of the Commissioners of Review appointed by royal authority, who met at Norwich, Conn., and decided Connecticut's course toward the Indians.^[2]

Chipman married first, Mary, a daughter of Capt. Stephen Skiff of Sandwich, born 13 Nov 1671; died 12 Mar 1711. About 1715/16, he married his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of Russell and previously of Pope and daughter of Thomas Handley.^[2][3]

After residing first at Sandwich, Massachusetts, John moved the family to Martha's Vineyard where they lived for seven years before Elizabeth died 29 Jan 1725. She became very ill while visiting her former father-in-law, Capt. Pope in Dartmouth, and died of consumption at his home four or five months later. John and Elizabeth's son, Handley, writes, "My Dear Father used to go back and forth to Visit her until about the 30 day of Jany A.D. 1725 when she departed this life."^[4]

On his last trip to visit Elizabeth before she died, John Chipman met the widow Hannah Case of Rhode Island. Mrs Case had just buried her husband on Martha's Vineyard and was returning to the mainland. They took the ferry and traveled together on one horse to Dartmouth. John and Hannah (Hoxie) Case married in 1725 at Newport, Rhode Island. Hannah died 21 Feb 1747.^[4] Another source gives John's marriage to Hannah as about 1727.^[3]

Hon. John Chipman died 4 Jan 1756 at the age of 85.^[2] He is buried at the Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island.^[5]

Hon. John Chipman had 10 children by his first wife, and two by his second wife.^[2] John Chipman's children are also recorded in the Memoir of his son, Handley Chipman.^[4]

Children of John Chipman and Mary Skiffe

1. James Chipman, clother
2. Perez Chipman, blacksmith
3. John Chipman, farmer
4. Ebenezer Chipman, blacksmith
5. Bethia Chipman (Mary's twin)
6. Mary Chipman (Bethia's twin)
7. Lidia Chipman (Stephen's twin)
8. Stephen Chipman (Lidia's twin), cooper
9. Deborah Chipman

Children of John Chipman and Elizabeth Handley

1. Handley Chipman b. 31 Aug 1717
2. Rebecca Chipman b. 10 Nov 1719

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable Births Chipman
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Chipman, Bert Lee. The Chipman Family, a genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920. Bert L. Chipman, Publisher. Winston-Salem, N.C. 1920. pg. 16
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, published 1990. Reference pages 52-55
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Acadia University : Esther Clarke Archives : Handley Chipman Memoir.
5. ↑ John Chipman Find A Grave: Memorial #106492780

• Pope, Charles Henry. A history of the Dorchester Pope family 1634-1888: The Plymouth Pope Family. Published by the author. Boston, MA. 1888. Pge 286.
• Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., 1888) Page 159
• Barnstable Vital Records: Birth, Marriages and Deaths, 1643-1715 (transcribed in 1736). Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSY-C1Z?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DM-JW5%3A353349701%2C353349702%2C353357101 : 13 July 2016), Barnstable > Sandwich > Births, marriages, deaths 1682-1842 > image 33 of 181; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.

Acknowledgments

• Berto Blaesi, G. Knudsen, Jessica Green, David Voelker, Becky Syphers, W. DeCoursey. This list is probably incomplete.
• Sara V Mosher