Chapman Family Line
Chapman Family Line
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Grandy's 6x Great-Grandmother:
My 8x Great-Grandmother:
Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 9x Great-Grandmother:
Mary Chapman (1655 - 1726)
Mary Bates
Also known as: "Susan Marie Chapman"
Birthdate: April 15, 1655
Birthplace: Old Saybrook, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Denomination: (probably) Puritan / Congregationalist
Date of Marriage: May 2, 1676
Place of Marriage: Old Saybrook, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Mary Chapman
Death: April 5, 1726 in Old Saybrook, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Parents:
Robert Chapman, of Boston & Saybrook
1617-1687
Ann Bliss
1617-1685
Family
Spouse:
Samuel Bates
Also known as: "Bate"
Birthdate: June 18, 1648 (some sources give April 19)
Birthplace: Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Christening: June 19, 1648, Haddam, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Denomination: (probably) Puritan / Congregationalist
Death: December 28, 1699 in Old Saybrook, New London County, Connecticut Colony
Immediate Family:
Son of James Bates and Hannah Withington
Children:
1. Anna Bates 1678- Married 12 November 1702 to Benjamin Pratt 1681-
2. Silence Bates 1680- Married 10 April 1707, Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, to Jonathan Hough 1680-1720
3. Samuel Bates 1682-1715 Married 5 April 1705, Old Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, to Hannah Jordan 1681-
4. James Bates 1683-1718 Married 18 September 1707, Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, to Hannah Bull 1681-1772
5. Stephen Bates 1689-1767 Married 29 December 1715, Durham, Middlesex Co., CT, to Patience Seward 1694-1770
About Mary Chapman
The Life Summary of Mary
When Mary Chapman was born on 15 April 1655, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Chapman, was 38 and her mother, Ann Bliss, was 37. She married Samuel Bates on 2 May 1676, in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 April 1726, in her hometown, at the age of 70.
References:
https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Bates/6000000006808058722
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chapman-3542
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LKVB-WKY/mary-chapman-1655-1726
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=mary&n=chapman&oc=6
http://tree.wellswooster.com/getperson.php?personID=I21984&tree=bryant
https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~reetrees/wc03/wc03_315.htm
https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Mary-Chapman/p76344
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Chapman_%28102%29
https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Bates/6000000081878188019
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Grandy's 7x Great-Grandfather:
My 9x Great-Grandfather:
Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 10x Great-Grandfather:
Robert Chapman, of Boston & Saybrook (1617 - 1687)
Capt. Robert Chapman
Birthdate: 1616
Birthplace: Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Denomination: (probably) Puritan
Arrival: came from Hull, England to Boston in 1635.
Military Service: Served in the Pequot War under Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, and King Philip's War.
Appointed Captain by the General Court at Hartford, October 14.1675.
Public Service: Ferris, in her book, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines" says of his character, "There were but few men in the Connecticut Colony who rose higher in public estimation or proved more useful than Robert Chapman." He was elected as the town's deputy to the General Court forty-three times and assistant nine times,serving the Colony of Connecticut continuously from 1654 to 1684. The term "Assistant" was the same as a State Senator. For many years he was commissioner for Saybrook, Connecticut. Often he served on various town committees, such as auditing the treasurer's account, hearing cases between the English and the Indians, arranging limits for plantations and laying out highways, and considering whether the town should erect a new meeting house. He administered the freeman's oath, engaged men for prospective expeditions and for repairing the fort, and served on grand juries.
Death: October 13, 1687 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Burial: Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Parents [questionable]:
Timothy Robert Chapman
1591–1645
Rebecca Ann Willoughby
1594–1651
Family
Spouse:
Ann Bliss
1617-1685
Ann Chapman
Also Known As: "Ann Bith"
Birthdate: cA. 1617-1624
Birthplace: Belstone, Devonshire, England
Arrival: bet. 1620-1640
Date of Marriage: April 29, 1642
Place of Marriage: Saybrook, Middlesex County. Connecticut Colony
Death: November 20, 1685 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut Colony
Burial: Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Thomas Bliss, Jr. and Margaret Hulinge
Children:
1. John Chapman 1644–1712
2. Robert Chapman 1646–1711
3. Anna Chapman 1648–1648
4. Hannah Chapman 1650–1719
5. Nathaniel Chapman 1653–1726
6. Mary Chapman 1655–1726
7. Sarah Chapman 1657–1703
About Robert Chapman, of Boston & Saybrook
Robert Chapman migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).
Capt. Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, Connecticut (1616 - 1687). He apparently was one of the founders of Hebron, CT. and an ally & friend of Uncas - Sachem of the Mohegans! He also virtually adopted one of Uncas' grandsons, and petitioned the town to take care of him. He was a close friend of his father, Attawanhood (Joshua) - one of Uncas' sons, and was granted land by him to build the town of Hebron.
He married Ann Bliss, who's father was one of the founders of Hartford, CT.
This was the real Uncas, who inspired James Fennimore Cooper's characters of "Uncas" and "Chingachgook", in his book, "The Last of The Mohicans" (made into the 1993 film). But in the book it was the orphaned White man who was adopted by the Indians. Interestingly and apparently inspired by our ancestor, Robert Chapman 😊
So the real Uncas was the inspiration for the fictional "Chingachgook" of the story, 'The Last of The Mohicans'. His son, Attawanhood (Joshua) being the inspiration for the fictional "Uncas", which leaves our ancestor, Robert Chapman being the (apparent) inspiration for the fictional "Nathaniel "Hawkeye" Poe", which was played by Daniel Day-Lewis.
Pretty cool, huh! 😁
And it's from Grandy's Bates line, which is also the same ancestors as mine & Holly's Nana, Mabel Bates.
McFarland > Smith > Wilson > Hough > Bates > Chapman
It seems that the true birthdate of Robert Chapman has gone with him to his grave. I have found many references of birth years and areas of origin, but knowing that records have been transcribed, it is possible that there are errors. I'm choosing to leave it as 1616 as that seems to be the birthyear that I have seen in most notations. Note on the plaque on his memorial, his birthyear is 161?. When was this Robert Chapman really born?
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The following information is courtesy of:
Gene Zubrinsky (47226970).
The oft-repeated family traditions that Robert Chapman was born in 1616 and that he had come from Hull, Yorkshire, were first presented in F. W. Chapman, The Chapman Family (1854). These assertions have since been weakened by the determination that the Robert Chapman baptized in Kingston upon Hull on 1 January 1616 was not the eventual Saybrook man (see Dorothy Chapman Saunders, “The Origin of Robert1 Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut: A Theory Nipped in the Bud,” American Genealogist 66[1991]:30–32).
The rediscovered end-of-life letter of Robert Chapman to his children contains passages that further undermine the conventional wisdom as to Chapman’s place of origin and birth year (“Capt. Robert Chapmans Legacie to his Children Left to them in writing before his decease who departed this Life the 13th day of October 1687”; see the original letter and transcription at
http://digitalcollections.americanancestors.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15869coll16/id/1270); a less satisfactory presentation of the letter may be found at http://oliveandeliza.com/boyd/bliss/letter_RobertChapman.pdf).
Chapman wrote that at about age 15, he was “put out to Learn a trade [and that] great care was taken [by his Puritan parents] to Place me in Some Godly famaly [sic] and because there was not of that trade then known near my fathers house I was bound out to a man that Lived about 30 miles off.” After “Some years Service” he returned to his father’s house and in 1635 (he did not say how many years later this was) “tooke ship” for New England shortly after visiting friends in Kent and Sussex—at the other end of England from Yorkshire. One might surmise that he lived in one of these southern counties and apprenticed in the other. Despite the 1854 Chapman genealogy’s acceptance of the family tradition that Robert Chapman was born in Hull, Yorkshire, it nevertheless acknowledges (p. 29) that “[o]thers suppose . . . he was a native of Kent.”
Chapman also stated that he spent “almost a 3rd part” of his life in England. If born in 1616, however, he would have been about 19 years old (18 according to family tradition) when he emigrated, in 1635, and about 71 when he died; a third of 71 is almost 24, from which 18 or 19 is a far cry. If instead of 1616 we postulate a birth year of about 1612, his age at death would have been about 75, and his age at emigration would have been about 23—nearly a third of his life.
Memorial at His Grave
Biography
Robert Chapman, was, according to family tradition, born in 1616.[1][2] and came from Hull, England[1][2][3]to Boston in 1635.[1][2][3]Lion Gardiner was probably one of his associates,[1]and they together with the rest of his company were the first settlers of Saybrook, Connecticut, arriving in 1635-36, or the succeeding spring.[4][1]
Parents of Robert Chapman are unknown/disputed
His parents and date of birth are unknown according to the latest peer reviewed research by Dorothy Chapman Saunders, The American Genealogist: The Origin of Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut, A Theory Nipped in the Bud (New Haven, Conn.: D.L. Jacobus, 1991) Vol 66 p 30 – 32 Quote:
"As attractive as the theory is, Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Conn., was not the son of Robert and Alice (Robinson) Chapman who was baptized in Kingston upon Hull in January 1616/7."
He could not be the son of Robert Chapman and his wife Alice Robinson, baptized 1/1/1617 at Holy Trinity Parish, Kingston on Hull, Yorkshire, England because that Alice was deceased before 22 Oct 1633. Yet in 1651 in court testimony it stated that his mother was very much alive and influential (Heritage Books reprint of Records of tlie Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663 (originally published Hartford 1928) and discovered the following under the court held 14 May 1651 (pp. 99, 100)).[5][6]
Anderson in 2015 and NEHGR 2005 Vol 159 p 316 both confirm this is the latest information we have on his parents.[7] Therefore the parents of this profile have been removed to reflect the latest research.
Marriage
He married, in 1642,[4]on April 29, 1642[8]Ann Bliss/Blith.[9][1][2][3][8]Ann was born in England[1]and died in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut on November 20, 1685.[1][8]She was the daughter of Thomas Bliss[3]of Hartford, Connecticut[3]and his wife Margaret whose surname may be "Lawrence."[1]Ann was one of eleven children born to Thomas and Margaret Bliss of Braintree, Massachusetts, then Hartford, Connecticut.[1]
Children of Robert Chapman and Ann (Bliss) Chapman
John Chapman was born (the beginning of July 1644[8]) July 16, 1644[1][2]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut[1][2]and died 1712[2]in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.[1]On June 7, 1670[1][2]he married (1) Elizabeth Hawley[1][2][3]who was born December 17, 1651[1]in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut[1]and died May 10, 1676 in Stratford.[1]She was the daughter of Joseph Hawley[3]and his wife Katherine (Birdsey) Hawley.[1]They had three children.[2]On March 26, 1677 John Chapman married (2) Elizabeth Beament-Beamon-Beaumont-Beman[2]in Saybrook,[1]who was born March 2, 1649[1]and died October 30, 1694.[1][2][8]They had ten children, eight born in Say-Brook and two in East Haddam.[2]She was the daughter of William Beament[2] and Lydia Danforth[1]There is some question as to Lydia's surname, some say her name was "Gilbert."
Robert Chapman was born in September of 1646[3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.[1][2]He died November 10, 1711 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut[1][2]and is buried in Old Burial Ground in Hartford.[2]On July 27, 1671[1][2]he married in Saybrook, (1) Sarah Griswold[1][2][3]who was born March 28, 1653 in Windsor, and died April 7, 1692.[2]She was the daughter of Francis Griswold[2][3]They had nine children.[2] On October 29, 1694[2][8]he married (2) in Kenilworth (Killingworth) Mary Durant[2]-Sheather.[2][8]They had four children.[2]Mary was the widow of Samuel Sheather of Killingworth.[1][2]
Anna Chapman was born September 12, 1648[1][3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut[1] and died in September 1649[1][8]in SayBrook.[1]at age 1 year.[3]
Hannah Chapman was born October 4, 1650[2][3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.[1]On December 27, 1677[1][2][8]she married David Bull[1][2][3][8]who was born 1650. Three daughters were born to this couple, one died young.[2]
Nathaniel Chapman was born February 16, 1653[1][2][3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut,[1] and died April 5, 1726 in SayBrook.[1]He was buried in the Ancient Burial Ground at Say-Brook.[2]On June 29, 1681[1][2][8]he married (1) Mary Collins[2][8]in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut.[1]Mary was born in 1663[10]in Guilford and died in 1695[10]in SayBrook.[10]She was the daughter of John Collins, Jr.,[10]and his wife Mary Trowbridge[10]Four children were born to this couple.[2]On July 26, 1698[1][2]Nathaniel married (2) Hannah Bates.[1][2]Five children were born to them.[2]Hannah was born September 7, 1668 at Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut and died December 5, 1750[2]at SayBrook. She is buried at the Ancient Burial Ground at Say-Brook.[2]She was the daughter of James Bates, Jr., and Anne Withington.
Mary Chapman was born April 15, 1655[1][2][3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut[citation needed]On May 2, 1676[2][3]she married Samuel Bates.[1][2][3]The couple had nine children.[2]Samuel was born in June of 1648 in Dorchester, Massachusetts[citation needed] and in died December of 1699 in Saybrook.[citation needed] He was the son of Samuell Bates.[citation needed]
Sarah Chapman was born September 25, 1657[1][2][3][8]in SayBrook, Middlesex, Connecticut[1]and died after 1703.[1]In September of 1686[2][3]she married Joseph Pratt, the son of William Pratt.[1][2][3]Sarah died August 12, 1703.[2]
Religious Conviction
He was a man of exemplary piety.[2]He and his family were all members of the church.[1]He took his oath as a freeman before October 4, 1669.[1][4]A short time prior to his death, he wrote a letter to his children exhorting them to live devoted lives,[1]to abide by the covenant into which they had entered with God and his church.[2]
Civic Responsibilities
Ferris, in her book, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines" says of his character, "There were but few men in the Connecticut Colony who rose higher in public estimation or proved more useful than Robert Chapman."[1]He was elected as the town's deputy to the General Court forty-three times and assistant nine times,[4]serving the Colony of Connecticut continuously from 1654 to 1684.[4]The term "Assistant" was the same as a State Senator.[3]For many years he was commissioner for Saybrook, Connecticut.[4]Often he served on various town committees, such as auditing the treasurer's account, hearing cases between the English and the Indians, arranging limits for plantations and laying out highways, and considering whether the town should erect a new meeting house. He administered the freeman's oath, engaged men for prospective expeditions and for repairing the fort, and served on grand juries[1][2]
Property
The settlement of "Say-brook,"at the mouth of the Connecticut River, was named after two of the Gentlemen who held the patent, Lord Saye and Sele, and Lord Brooke.[1]Robert made his home on fertile ground about 3 miles west of the fort that was built at Saybrook.[1].[4]Its boundaries were the Oyster River on the east, two hills on the north and west, and Long Island Sound on the south, land that had been previously cleared and cultivated by the Indians.[1]Originally the family home was built near the center of the farm.[1]
Robert additionally obtained (by purchase, grant or legacy) very large land holdings on Twenty Mile Island, at Haddam and vicinity, and at Hebron.[1]
Military Service
He was a Captain.[3]
Chapman, Captain Robert, 1616-1689.
Served in the Pequot War under Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, and King Philip's War.
Appointed Captain by the General Court at Hartford, October 14.1675.
Annual register of officers and members of the Society of colonial wars; constitution of the General society (1895)
https://archive.org/details/registerofficers00generich
His Last Will and Testament
Robert received a large tract of land in Hebron as one of the legatees of Uncas and his sons. In his will, each of his three sons received fifteen hundred acres of this land.[2]
Death and Burial
Robert Chapman's wife, Ann (Bliss) Chapman died in 1685,[4]November 20, 1685[3][8]He died in 1687 - [4]October 13,1687.
He is supposedly buried at Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut.[11][3][8]
Research Notes
Colonial Connecticut
The Connecticut Colony was originally a number of separate, smaller settlements including Windsor, Wethersfield, Saybrook, Hartford, and New Haven. John Winthrop, the Younger, of Massachusetts received a commission to create a new colony at Saybrook in 1635.
A large group of Puritan settlers from Massachusetts Bay came in 1636, establishing Connecticut Colony; not including New Haven Colony which had its own constitution, which was signed on June 4, 1639.
The settlements were established without official sanction of the English Crown and considered secessionist outposts of Massachusetts Bay or Plymouth Colony; In 1662, John Winthrop traveled to England and obtained a charter from Charles II which united the settlements of Connecticut.
Important colonial settlements included Windsor (1633), Wethersfield (1634), Saybrook (1635), Hartford (1636), New Haven (1638), Fairfield (1639), Guilford (1639), Milford (1639), Stratford (1639), Farmington (1640), Stamford (1641), and New London (1646).
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↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Hall, Edwin. Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co, 1901) Classifications Library of Congress F102.H3 C7 ; The Physical Object, Pagination 2 p. l., 1591 p. port. Number of pages 1591. ID Numbers Open Library OL24543467M Internet Archive ommemorativebio03chic LC Control Number 02019053
↑ NEHGR 2005 Vol 159 p 316 link (subscription required)
↑ The American Genealogist Vol 66 p 30 – 32 link (subscription required)
↑ NEHGR 2005 Vol 159 p 316
↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 VITAL RECORDS of SAYBROOK, CT 1647-1834 Chapman Family Association
↑ Vital Records from The NEHGS Register. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) Vol. 4, p. 21.subscriber$
↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Collins, William H. "The Collins Family; Genealogical Record" Quincy, Illinois. 1897. p. 10.
↑ Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 27 January 2020), memorial page for Robert Chapman (1 Jan 1616–13 Oct 1687), Find A Grave: Memorial #204551091, citing Cypress Cemetery, Old Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by Grandma (contributor 46890409) This is a different Find A Grave than initially included. There is no plaque or gravestone
Judith H Halseth, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Autobiographical letter of Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 2005) Vol 159 p 316.subscription cite link
Dorothy Chapman Saunders, The American Genealogist: The Origin of Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut, A Theory Nipped in the Bud (New Haven, Conn.: D.L. Jacobus, 1991) Vol 66 p 30 – 32
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Massachusetts Historical Society, 1833).Series 3, Volume 3 and p 143.
VITAL RECORDS of SAYBROOK, CT 1647-1834 Chapman Family Association.link
Hall, Edwin. Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co, 1901) Classifications Library of Congress F102.H3 C7 ; The Physical Object, Pagination 2 p. l., 1591 p. port. Number of pages 1591. ID Numbers Open Library OL24543467M Internet Archive ommemorativebio03chic LC Control Number 02019053 [1] [2]
Bodge, George. Soldiers in King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War (Leominster, Mass., 1896) p. 468 see at archive.org
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F. W. Chapman, “’’The Chapman Family: or the Descendants of Robert Chapman one of the First Settlers of Say-Brook, Conn., with Genealogical Notes on 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. p. (printed by Case, Tiffany and Company, Hartford)1854. pp 26 - 36.see at archive.org
Hawley, Elias. The Hawley Record (E. H. Hutchinson & Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 1890) Page 440
Collins, William H. "The Collins Family; Genealogical Record" Quincy, Illinois. 1897. p. 10.see at archive.org
See Also:
Gates, Gilman C. "Saybrook at the Mouth of the Connecticut, The First One Hundred Years" Press of The Wilson H Lee Co., Orange and New Haven Connecticut. 1935. pp 151, 154.see at hathitrust
Uncas, Sachem of the Mohegans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncas
Sachems and Sagamores were paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of the northeast. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms (c. 1622) from different Eastern Algonquian languages. The Sagamore was a lesser chief than the Sachem.[1][2][3][4] Both of these chiefs are elected by their people. Sagamores are chosen by single bands to represent them, and the Sachem is chosen to represent a tribe or group of bands. Neither title is hereditary but each requires selection by the band thus led.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachem
Reference
Capt. Robert and Ann (Bliss) Chapman
https://www.bapresley.com/genealogy/hawkins/chapman/
Robert Chapman ca. 1617-1687 of Saybrook, Connecticut
https://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2014/11/robert-chapman-ca-1617-1687-of-saybrook-connecticut.html
Hebron's Beginnings
https://hebronhistoricalsociety.org/hebron-s-beginnings.html
References:
https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Chapman-of-Boston-Saybrook/6000000002603479802
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chapman-441
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KN84-SXJ/robert-chapman-1617-1687
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204551091/robert-chapman
https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Chapman_%2813%29
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=robert&n=chapman&oc=1
http://tree.wellswooster.com/getperson.php?personID=I21977&tree=bryant
https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~reetrees/wc03/wc03_318.htm
https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Ann-Bliss/p234805
http://www.crossedbrushstudio.com/windowsintoourpast//Vol4/robert_chapman_1530.htm
https://www.bapresley.com/genealogy/hawkins/chapman/
https://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2014/11/robert-chapman-ca-1617-1687-of-saybrook-connecticut.html
Spouse:
References
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Bliss, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
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"Ann (Bliss), b. [say 1620]; d. at Saybrook, Conn., 20 Nov. 1685; m. at Saybrook, 29 Apr. 1642, Robert Chapman, b. abt. 1617, d. at Saybrook, 13 Oct. 1687 ae. 70."
↑ 2.0 2.1 Ann Bliss, in Bliss, John Homer; Sylvester Bliss; and Oliver Bliss Morris. Genealogy of the Bliss family in America (1881): from about the year 1550 to 1880 ... including the compilations of Judge Oliver Bliss Morris ... and Sylvester Bliss. (Boston, Masachusetts: The author, 1881)
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"Ann (Bliss), b. in England, ____ m. April 29, 1642 Robert Chapman, of Saybrook, Conn., and d. Nov. 20, 1685. He was born ab. 1616, and came from Hull, England, to Boston, in August, 1635, and in Nov. to Saybrook, Ct. He d. Oct. 13, 1687."
↑ Bennett, Anne Selene. The First Wife and Older Children of Thomas Bliss of Gloucester, England, and Hartford, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 2019)
91:45.
"Anne Bliss2, b. say 1620; …"
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Grandy's 8x Great-Grandfather:
My 10x Great-Grandfather:
Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 11x Great-Grandfather:
Timothy Robert Chapman (1591 – 1645)
Robert Chapman
Birthdate: ca. 1590-1591
Birthplace: Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England
Christened: (probably) St. Bartholomew's Church, Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire
Denomination: (probably) Anglican / Puritan
Death: 1645 in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England
Burial: Saint Bartholomew Churchyard, Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England
Parents:
Robert Chapman, VI
1570-1633
Alice Robinson
1570-1633
Family
Spouse:
Rebecca Ann Willoughby
1594-1651
Rebecca Ann Chapman
Birthdate: 1594
Birthplace: Lincolnshire, England
Denomination: (probably) Puritan
Date of Marriage: February 8, 1614
Place of Marriage: Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England
Death: 1651 in Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Richard Willoughby and Jane Fisher
Children:
1. Robert Chapman, of Boston & Saybrook 1617-1687
2. Edward Chapman 1621–1694
3. Marye Chapman 1624–
4. Ann Chapman 1628–1632
About Timothy Robert Chapman
The Life Summary of Timothy Robert
When Timothy Robert Chapman was born on 11 January 1591, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, his father, Robert Chapman, was 21 and his mother, Alice Robinson, was 21. He married Ann Willoughby on 8 February 1614, in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died in 1645, in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England, at the age of 54, and was buried in Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.
References:
https://www.geni.com/people/Timothy-Chapman/6000000052617354828
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L1Z2-QVV/timothy-robert-chapman-1591-1645
https://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&pz=timothy+michael&nz=dowling&p=robert&n=chapman&oc=2
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181362621/timothy-robert-chapman
http://tree.wellswooster.com/getperson.php?personID=I21997&tree=bryant
Wrong Parents:
https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Robert-Chapman/f154030
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Grandy's 9x Great-Grandfather:
My 11x Great-Grandfather:
Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 12x Great-Grandfather:
Robert Chapman, VI (1570 - 1633)
Birthdate: 1570
Birthplace: Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Christened: (probably) Holy Trinity Church, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
Denomination: (probably) Anglican
Death: October 22, 1633 in London, Greater London, England
Burial: St. Giles Cripplegate Churchyard in London, Greater London, England
Parents:
Sir Robert Chapman, V
1549-1620
Lady Elizabeth Chapman
1552-1610
Family
Spouse:
Alice Robinson
1570-1633
Alice Chapman
Birthdate: 1572
Birthplace: Yorkshire, England
Denomination: (probably) Anglican
Date of Marriage: 1590
Place of Marriage: Essex, England
Death: October 22, 1633 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Robert Robinson and Alice Sowter
Children:
1. Sarah Chapman 1583–
2. Hester Chapman 1587–
3. Robert Chapman II 1591–1620
4. Timothy Robert Chapman 1591–1645
5. Amy Chapman 1593–
6. Alce Chapman 1601–
7. Robert Chapman 1602–
About Robert Chapman, VI
Robert Chapman (1570–1633) born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, he was buried at the Collegiate Church of St Katherine by the Tower, London, Greater London, on October 26, 1634. He married Alice Robinson and had three children.
The Life Summary of Robert
When Robert Chapman was born in 1570, in Hull, Yorkshire, England, his father, John Chapman, was 31 and his mother, Elenor Moss, was 27. He married Alice Robinson in 1590, in Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 22 October 1633, in Yorkshire, England, at the age of 63, and was buried in London, England, United Kingdom.
References:
https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Chapman-VI/6000000076697212952
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KZV5-2CT/robert-chapman-1570-1633
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181365702/robert-chapman
http://tree.wellswooster.com/getperson.php?personID=I22274&tree=bryant
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Grandy's 10x Great-Grandfather:
My 12x Great-Grandfather:
Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 13x Great-Grandfather:
Sir Robert Chapman, V (1549 - 1620)
Birthdate: January 1549
Birthplace: Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Christened: (probably) Beverley Minster, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire
Denomination: (probably) Anglican
Death: January 11, 1620 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
Burial: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Parents:
Robert Chapman, of Beverly
1525-1581
Alice Chapman
1535-
Family
Spouse:
Lady Elizabeth Williamson
1552-1610
Lady Elizabeth Chapman
Also known as: "Elizabeth Bayliffe"
Birthdate: ca. 1552
Birthplace: East Yorkshire, England
Denomination: (probably) Anglican
Date of Marriage: July 2, 1547
Place of Marriage: England
Death: July 1610 in Clerkenwell, Greater London, England
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Nicholas Williamson and Ann [unknown]
Children:
1. Thomas Chapman 1568-
2. Robert Chapman, VI 1570-1633
About Robert Chapman, of Beverly
Robert Chapman was born 1530 in Beverly, Yorkshire, England, and died 12 Jul 1581.
Children of Robert Chapman are:
Robert Chapman Sr., b. 1570, Hull, Yorkshire, England, d. 22 Oct 1633, (will proved) Hull, England.
http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/j/u/e/Jesse-J-Juen/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0314.html
Robert Chapman #4 (1525–1581) born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and died in Providence Row, Hull, City of Kingston-upon-Hull. He married Alice Robinson and had one known son.
References:
https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Robert-Chapman-V/6000000002889675650
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181365394/robert-chapman
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Chapman History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The ancestry of the name Chapman can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. It is a name for a merchant. Chapman is an occupational surname, which belongs to the category of hereditary surnames. Occupational surnames were derived from the primary activity of the bearer. In the Middle Ages, people did not generally live off of the fruits of their labor in a particular job. Rather, they performed a specialized task, as well as farming, for subsistence. Other occupational names were derived from an object associated with a particular activity. The surname Chapman is derived from the Old English word ceapman, which means merchant. Therefore, this surname would have been taken by someone whose primary occupation was that of a merchant. The earliest record of someone bearing the surname Chapman in England was in Cambridgeshire, prior to the Norman Conquest in 1066.
The Chapman name is one of Saxon origin and means a Chapman, marketman, a monger or merchant.
Early Origins of the Chapman Family
The surname Chapman was first found in Cambridgeshire, but early rolls proved the widespread use of the name, By example, the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273 listed Thomas le Chapman in Leicestershire and Grante le Chapman in Devon; the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 had entries for the surname and as a trade, Alicia Shepshank, chapman; Agnes Chapman; Magota de Brandon, chapman; and Henricus Schapman.
"From Kent to the North Riding the descendants of the ancient travelling merchants, or "cheap - men" (Anglo - Saxon Ce'apman) occur in singularly constant numbers. Their preference for the coast counties would seem to show that their travels were sometimes on the seas; yet it would also appear that the attractions of the great metropolis brought them together in numbers in the south - eastern counties. Kent stands foremost as their present abode. "
To the north in Scotland, the earliest "ocurrence of the name seems to be in 1296 when a pardon was granted to a man for causing the death of Ralph Chepman in Dundee." A few years later, William Chapman was provost of Aberdeen in 1327 and is probably the Willelmus dictus Chapman who appears on an inquisition in the same town in 1333. Hugh called Chepman held a land in fee in the town of Roxburgh in 1338 and King David II granted a charter of the lands of Rotherstoun near Dee to Duncan Chapman.
Walter Chepman (1473?-1538?), was a Scottish printer, burgess and merchant in Edinburgh. "The years of Chepman's birth and death are not precisely known, probably 1473-1538. His name, frequently misspelt Chapman, was by himself always written and printed Chepman. He first appears in 1494, when a payment of 20l. was made to him and Stobo by the treasurer for their services as clerks in the office of the king's secretary."
Chapman Spelling Variations
Chapman has been spelled many different ways. Before English spelling became standardized over the last few hundred years, spelling variations in names were a common occurrence. As the English language changed in the Middle Ages, absorbing pieces of Latin and French, as well as other languages, the spelling of people's names also changed considerably, even over a single lifetime. Many variations of the name Chapman have been found, including Chapman, Chappman, Chepman, Cheppman and others.
Chapman Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Francis Chapman, who arrived in Virginia in 1608
Ann Chapman, who landed in Virginia in 1619
Nicholas Chapman, who arrived in Virginia in 1619
Phillip Chapman, who landed in Virginia in 1621
Francis Chapman, who settled in Virginia in 1623