Atherton Chaffee (1715 - 1776)

Born 7 Apr 1715 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Squire) Chaffee — married 1735 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Husband of Rachel (Fuller) Chaffee — married 25 Mar 1756 in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 14 Mar 1776 at age 60 in Westminster, Cumberland, New York

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Biography

CHAFFEE^[1]

Atherton4 Chaffee (David3, Nathaniel2, Thomas1) with his wife and two children were in Westminster, then called No. 1 and under a Massachusetts charter, in the Spring of 1751. There were only two houses in town at the time --- one which was built by Richard Ellis and then unoccupied, and another, the one they shared with William Goold, John Goold and Amos Carpenter. John Averill and his family arrived in the Spring of 1751 and moved in with them. See also "John Averill." During the following summer, Goold and Carpenter brought their families up from Northfield. The house, whose builder is unknown, was "at the lower end of the street; at the top of Willard's Hill." This house afterwards became known as the Averill place. He was chosen for the committee appointed to lay out the roads and build them after the Westminster renewed charter of 1760. Atherton Chaffee was listed on the 1771 Census for Westminster. He was a private in the military company of Capt. Azariah Wright during the 1770's in Westminster. Atherton surveyed Westminster.

Served as a Private in a volunteer company from Westminster (then Massachusetts) during the Revolutionary War.

Re. Abstracts of graves of Revolutionary Patriots

No record in DAR index

In 1738 Atherton Chaffee of Ashford, bought of Moses Fuller of that place, one hundred acres of land there. It says that in 1751 Atherton went to Westminster, NH. In 1759 he is spoken of as of Westminster. Atherton Chaffee is said to have helped build a blockhouse in Vermont andto have lived in it with twenty other families for four years. He is said to have 21 children, the youngest, Crean Bush, being posthumous.

Birth

07 APR 1715 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Marriage

1735 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Wife: Abigail Squire

25 MAR 1756 Ashford, Windham, Connecticut

Wife: Rachel Fuller

Child: Otis Chaffee

Death

04 MAR 1778 Westminster, Republic of Vermont

Burial

Old Westminster Cemetery, Westminster, Windham, Vermont

Sources

1. ↑ First Families of Westminster

• Find A Grave: Memorial #77734466
• Chaffee, William Henry The Chaffee Genealogy (Grafton Press, New York, 1909) Page 34 & Page 62.