Mary (Huston) Chipman (abt. 1756 - bef. 1786)

Born about 1756 in Cumberland, Nova Scotia

Wife of Thomas Handley Chipman — married Sep 1776 in Annapolis, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died before Oct 1786 before about age 30 in Annapolis, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Mary Huston was born about 1756, probably at Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia. She was the only daughter of John Huston of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. He was among the grantees of land in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, near the Missiquash river, in 1763.^[1]

Mary (Huston) Chipman passed away, probably at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, before her husband, Rev. Thomas Handley Chipman married his second wife in Oct 1786.

Mary's father, Capt. John Huston of Cumberland, was the protector and foster father of Sir Brook Watson, whom he found as a one-legged orphan boy in Boston and took with him to Cumberland. Brook Watson became a notable merchant in London, long acted there as agent for Nova Scotia, was knighted, became Lord Mayor of London, and afterward received a baronetcy. When he died it is said he left legacies to Mary (Huston) Chipman's family.^[1]

Mary married in 1776, Thomas Handley Chipman, fourth son of Handley Chipman and Jane Allen. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island, 17 Jan 1756; and died 11 Oct 1830. He lived at Annapolis, Nova Scotia and was pastor of the First Baptist Church there.^[2]

Thomas had moved from Cornwallis to Annapolis, Nova Scotia about 1790, settled on a farm in Annapolis County, and in 1807 moved to a lot in Nictaux on which a grandson lived.^[3]

Thomas married, first, Sep 1776, Mary, only daughter of John Huston of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; second, Oct 1786, Jane Harding of Boston, Massachusetts; third 14 Sep 1820, Mary Briggs of Portland, Maine; fourth, Mary Dunn.^[2]

Handley Chipman wrote:^[4]

"The Eighth [child], my son Thomas Handley, was born January 17th, A. D. 1756, was also baptized by said Minister Vinal, his first wife was John Huston's Esq. Daughter by whom he had a Son and three daughters, all living. She dying, He is Married again to a Boston or Charlestown young woman whose name was Harding, by whom he has two sons and two daughters Living. He is turned Baptist and is their Minister in Annapolis. O may God bless him in it."

Rev. Chipman had four children by his first marriage, and six by the second.^[2]

Children of Thomas Handley Chipman and Mary Huston

1. Jane Chipman, born 20 Oct 1777; m. 1789, John Morse of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and they had 3 sons and 5 daughters
2. Margaret Chipman, b. 8 Sep 1779; m. 1822, George Troop of Annapolis
3. John Huston Chipman, b. 12 Jun 1781
4. Ann Chipman, b. 6 May 1784; m. 1801, Daniel Lovett of Annapolis, Nova Scotia and Beverly, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton, 1849-1937. The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land. 1910. Huston Family, pp. 695-6
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Chipman, Alberto Lee. The Chipman family, a genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920. B. L. Chipman. Winston, Salem, N.C. 1920. Rev. Thomas Handley Chipman, pp. 43-4
3. ↑ W. Calnek, Edited by A. W Savary, M.A. History of the County of Annapolis. 1897. Rev. Thomas Handley Chipman, pg. 490
4. ↑ Mrs. Arthur James Trethewey, A Chipman Family History New England Historical and Genealogical Register 91 (1937), 159-176, at 173. Images of Handley Chipman's family memoir are available in the Digital Collections of the Acadia University Library.