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John Chapman (1653 - 1750)

John Chapman
Born in New London, New London, Connecticut Colonymap
Son of and
Brother of , , , , and
Husband of — married about 1684 in New London County, Connecticutmap
Husband of — married Apr 1738 in Colchester, Connecticutmap
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Father of , , , , , , and
Died at age 96 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, Colonymap
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Contents

Biography

John Chapman was born in November 1653, four years before the first mention of his father William's name in New London records. He is named as the eldest son in William's 1 April 1696 will.[1]

In May 1746, Joshua Hempstead went to Colchester and visited 'old John Chapman formerly of Newlondon in his 93d year'[2] and in May 1748 visited 'old John Chapman 95 yr old he Says next November.'[2]

Marriage, Children

John married about 1684, Sarah (_____).

Children, born in New London:

  1. John, b. abt. 1685; m. Sarah Carrier.
  2. William, b. abt. 1687; m. (1) _____ _____; (2) Mercy (Wentworth) Chapman.
  3. Samuel, b. abt. 1690; m. (1) Hannah Spencer; (2) Sarah Cahoon.
  4. Obadiah, b. abt. 1691; m. _____ _____.
  5. Daniel, b. abt. 1692; m. Katherine Wentworth.
  6. Sarah, b. abt 1693. Named in father's will; likely married, husband unknown.
  7. Ichabod, b. abt. 1695; m. Abigail Clothier.
  8. Martha, b. abt. 1697; m. Pelatiah Mills.

Colchester

John Chapman removed with his family to Colchester, New London, Connecticut.

At a town meeting in Colchester 29 December 1703, he was chosen a fence viewer with John Hopson.[3]

At a town meeting in Colchester 3 July 1704, 'granted unto John Chapman his 1t deuision of upland at the west side of new london road where norage road goeth across lime road he relinquishing his former grant'.[3]

24 January 1705, 'the towne granted unto John Chapman one hundred pownd lottment & fowr pounds in Mony on Condistion that he said chapman giue up to the town his Dwellinge hows in Colchester which stands on his home lott that Joyns to Nathaniell kaloggs lott south | To giue it vp to the towne at or before the first of may next — the town voated that said hows shall be Drawn to the place that the Town agreeth on: on the hill neere mr bulkeys'.[3]

30 December 1706, chosen a way warden with Josiah Strong.[3]

13 October 1707, with James Rogers, Capt. Gilbert and John Skinner, chosen to lay out eighty acres to a two hundred pound right and forty to a hundred pound right.[3]

25 December 1707, again chosen a way warden with Josiah Strong.[3]

1 October 1711, chosen to be on a committee to see the frame of a house to be used as a school finished, and to hire a schoolmaster.[3]

7 April 1734, John Chapman, 'aged above 70 years' (closer to 80; a November 1653 birth would put his age at 80 years and 5 months) was baptized in the First Congregational Church in Colchester.[4]

Second Marriage, Death

Sarah (_____), wife of John Chapman, died 24 April 1738.

John married second (bef. 16 April 1744), Desire (_____). She died 30 November 1749.

John Chapman died 19 February 1750 in Colchester, 'aged 97 years & 5 months'[5]

Will

Dated 16 April 1744, proved 17 March 1750.[6]

In the Name of God Amen I John Chapman of Colchester In the County of Hartford and Colony of Contt: In New England being very aged but in perfect health both in Body & mind Blessed be God for it and not knowing how soon God will take me out of this world & having a mind to leave peace after my Decease Do make this my Last Will & Testament Revoking Disannulling & making void all other former wills or Bequeaths whatsoever; and primarily in the first place I Give my spirit to God that gave it & my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be Decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as touching ye. little matter of Estate which pleased God to Bless me with My will is and my will is it shall be Disposed of in manner hereafter mentioned: as to my real Estate I have already Disposed of to my Children and what little remains of my movable Estate I Disposed of a manner following & first I will all my Just Debts funerall Charges and Charges of setling my Estate to be paid and firstly as to my Loving wife Desire I Do Give to her (besides what I have given to her by jointure) Twenty pounds old tenr. & my lining wheal and one third part of my Butter and Cheese that shall be: one third part of my meat & a third part of my mollasses: and as to my Daughr. Sarah the feather Bed in the Chamber & two Coverlids two sheets for Sarah has had a brass kittle above what my Daughr. Martha hath had, so I Give to Martha the feather Bed I lye on and a Coverlid & two sheets and my Sugar Box & one Indian Dish: and the rest of the household stuff to be Equally Divided Between them two and as to all the rest of my Estate my will is that William & Obadiah have 5 shillings Each to be paid by my Execrs. & all the rest of my Estate to be Equally Divided to the rest of my Sons namely John Danll Samll. and Ichabod by my Execrs. & I Do make my Son John Chapman and Nathll. Foot Execrs. to this my Last Will & Testament & in witness hereof I set to my hand and seal this 16th. day of April AD 1744 & in the 17th. year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George ye. 2d &c:
John Chapman his mark & seal
Signed Sealed & Declared to be my Last Will & Testament in presence of
Mercy Foot
Margarett Foot
Mary Persons

Deeds

2 May 1706, John Chapman of Colchester sells to Nathaniel Kellogg of Colchester all his right, title, interest, etc. in or to one home-lot in Colchester containing twenty-one acres, 'whose ends abuts the Town Street West & on common Lands East,' etc.[7]

20 March 1707, John Chapman of Colchester sells to James Newton of Kingstown, Rhode Island, all his right, title and interest in or to one hundred pound right in the township of Colchester, sixty acres of which 'is granted to be on the East Side of the Pond commonly known by the Name of the long Pond nigh Lyme road which sd hundred pound right was granted to me the aforesd John Chapman by the Inhabitants of the Town of Colchester as part of pay for a House conveyed by me sd Chapman to the sd inhabitants'.[8]

21 April 1718, John Chapman, Sr. sells to Joseph Chapman a tract of land in Colchester, 'southerly from ye town platt,' containing forty acres.[9]

22 January 1719/20, John Chapman, yeoman, sells to John Gustin ('Gurstin') of Colchester a tract of land containing one hundred acres.[10]

3 April 1722, John Chapman sells to his brother William Chapman of Colchester a tract of land containing fifty acres on the east side of the Governor's Road and north of John's other land.[11]

5 May 1725, John Chapman sells to Benjamin Fuller of Haddam a parcel of land containing thirty acres 'together with a mansion house or housing fen[c]e or fences frute trees of any sort standing on said land'.[12]

29 March 1728, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to son William Chapman, gives and grants to said William a tract of land where he now dwells containing sixty acres.[13]

29 March 1728, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to son Obadiah Chapman, gives and grants to said Obadiah, after his and his wife's decease, a messuage or tract of land containing seventy-one acres [and three quarters], being in length ten score rods and sixty rods in breadth, with all the housing, barns, tan house or buildings whatsoever with the fences, orchards or fruit trees, etc., also four acres of meadow in Stebinses meadow, being the southerly half of his Stebinses meadow and being six score rods in length and in breadth twelve rods.[14]

29 March 1728, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to son Samuel Chapman, gives and grants to said Samuel a tract of land Samuel now lives on containing sixty acres and forty rods bounded 'north on a highway, east part on Land of Richard Church & part on land that lyeth Comon south on my own land which I intend to give to my son Daniel Chapman west on my own land which I intend for my son [Ichabod], being in length ten scoor Rods & in bredth fifty & thre Rods.'[15]

7 August 1728, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to his son Daniel Chapman, gives and grants to said Daniel (two) certain parcels of land in Colchester, one containing fifty-six acres and thirty rods, the other being one half of his meadow lot known as Stubinses meadow.[16]

7 August 1728, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to his son Ichabod Chapman, gives and grants to said Ichabod a parcel of land containing sixty-seven acres, which land is part of his second division.[17]

27 January 1728/29, John Chapman, tanner, in consideration of love and good will borne to his son John Chapman, gives and grants to said John three parcels of land: the first is his first division of sixty acres and eight acres laid out joining on the north end; the second, two acres of meadow in Cosado meadow not yet bounded out; the third, thirty-one acres and thirty-two rods which is part of his fifth division.[18]

10 May 1736, John Chapman sells to his son Samuel Chapman a tract of land containing eight acres and forty rods of sixth division land, as also the one half of fifteen acres laid out to him in said sixth division lying at the south end of his 100 acres and by son Ichabod's land.[19]

27 June 1738, John Chapman, husbandman, sells to his son John Chapman a parcel of land containing sixteen acres and one hundred fifty-one rods.[20]

29 August 1738, John Chapman, husbandman, in consideration of love and good will born to son John Chapman, Jr., gives and grants to said John one hundred pound right of land bought of Daniel Stubbins, also two divisions of land which is not yet laid out on said hundred pound right.[21]

9 April 1739, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to his son William Chapman, gives and grants to said William one half of a tract laid out to John in the sixth division at a place called Panywonk, the said William to take the half of said tract which contains thirty-three acres and fifty rods at the west end of same.[22]

8 May 1739, John Chapman, yeoman, in consideration of parental love borne to son Obadiah Chapman, and also in consideration that said Obadiah 'doth Live with me to support me in my old age', gives and grand to said Obadiah a parcel of land in Colchester containing nine acres, 'it being all the Land I have in that place', also all his right in the Township of Colchester in the undivided common lands, it being a two hundred pound right.[23]

7 September 1739, John Chapman sells to son Daniel Chapman a piece of land in Colchester, part of his sixth division, and adjoins land that was laid out for said Daniel and in Panywonk.[24]

13 February 1742, John Chapman, in consideration of love and good will borne to his son Ichabod Chapman and three pounds six shillings, gives, grants, sells and confirms to said Ichabod eighteen acres and ninety-six rods of land which is part of his sixth division adjoining the west end of Ichabod's land.[25]


Sources

  1. ↑ Probate records, 1675-1916". Probate Court (New London District): Film number: 007629909 > image 328 of 731. FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L92Y-L3LW (accessed 26 March 2023).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hempstead, Joshua. Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut. New London, CT: New London County Historical Society, 1901. Pages 461, 500.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Taintor, Charles M. Extracts from the Records of Colchester. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company, 1864. Pages 40, 42, 55, 46, 48, 60.
  4. ↑ "Church records. Catalog: Church records Church records. Film number: 007592456 > image 15 of 486. FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G9F5-49LX (accessed 23 March 2023).
  5. ↑ "Church records". Catalog: Church records Church records. Film number: 007592456 > image 30 of 486. FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-L9F5-49GX (accessed 26 March 2023).
  6. ↑ "Probate records, 1741-1922". Catalog: Probate records, 1741-1922 Probate records v. 1-4 1741-1784. Film number: 007626285 > image 186 of 899. FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-992N-LS2V (accessed 26 March 2023).
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  • Chapman, F. W. The Chapman Family: or the Descendants of Robert Chapman, one of the First Settlers of Say-Brook, Conn.. with Genealogical Notes of William Chapman, who settled in New London, Conn.; Edward Chapman, who settled at Windsor, Conn.; John Chapman, of Stonington, Conn.; and Rev Benjamin Chapman, of Southington, Conn. Hartford: Printed by Case, Tiffany and Company, 1854. Page 267.
  • Caulkins, Frances Manwaring. History of New London, Connecticut, from the first Survey of the Coast in 1612, to 1860. New London, H. D. Utley, 1895. Page 340.




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Susan Lamond
Chapman-10827 and Chapman-3812 appear to represent the same person because: same father death date
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Susan Lamond
Chapman-10827 and Chapman-241 appear to represent the same person because: same parents
posted by Susan Lamond
Kenneth Kinman
Chapman-3812 and Chapman-241 appear to represent the same person because: Same dates; same parents; same siblings.
posted by Kenneth Kinman
Tom Quick
Chapman-3812 and Chapman-241 are not ready to be merged because: Need to resolve fathers before proceeding with a merge.
posted by Tom Quick
J-276 Paula J
Can we please complete this merge? Thanks!
posted by Paula J

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