Asa Chaplin (1740 - 1807)

Born 8 Feb 1740 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Bailey) Chaplin — married 1771 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Died 11 Apr 1807 at age 67 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Asa Chaplin was born in 1739/40, the son of Jonathan Chaplin and Sarah Boynton.^[1]

On 2 Aug. 1771, marriage intentions were filed in Rowley, MA. between Asa and Mary Bailey of Haverhill.^[2] The couple settled in the part of Rowley, MA which is now Georgetown, MA. Asa Chaplin served in the American Revolution.^[3] Asa and Mary had the following children, born in Rowley:

1. Mary, b. 10 Oct. 1772; d. 9 Oct. 1773
2. Mary, b. 15 Feb. 1774; d. 28 Sep. 1775
3. Jeremiah, b. 2 Jan. 1776; m. Marcia Scott O'Brien; d. 7 May 1841
4. Asa, b. abt. 1778; d. 29 Aug. 1781
5. Benjamin Adams, b. 23 Sep. 1780; m. Susan Brown, Nov. 1805
6. Asa, b. 5 Dec. 1782; d. 29 Aug. 1783
7. Martha, b. 4 Sep. 1784; m. John Stickney, 2 Oct. 1804; d. 6 Dec. 1867; and
8. Richard Bailey, b. 28 Feb. 1788; m. Sophia Brown, 1 Dec. 1809; d. 31 Oct. 1862.

Asa was recorded on the 1790 and 1800 censuses for Rowley, MA.

Asa executed a will Mar. 17, 1807 in which he mentioned his wife Mary, son Jeremiah “who has already received the greater part of his portion”, son Benjamin to half of his lands and buildings, son Richard Bailey Chaplin, then a minor, and daughter Martha Stickney.

He passed away in 1807, at the age of 67.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex institute, Salem, Mass., 1928-31)| Page 42"
2. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex institute, Salem, Mass., 1928-31)| Page 264"
3. ↑ Revolutionary War pension # S-6582
4. ↑ Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex institute, Salem, Mass., 1928-31)| Page 450"

See Also;

• Family Search | Asa Chaplin
• Ransom, Jeanne Bailey. The Bailey Family; History and genealogy of descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts who came to Michigan by way of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, 1635-1990, with Allied Families (Ann Arbor, Michigan : After Thoughts, Inc., 1991) , pg. 44.
• A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts, Historical and Genealogical Researches, of Merrimack Valley, Vol 1, Nbr. 1, April 1857, Published by Alfred Poor, Haverhill,| Page 97, top left-hand column