Person Sheet


Name Henry CHAPIN
Birth 25 Jan 1630/1631, Paignton, Devonshire, England
Death 15 Aug 1718, Springfield or Chicopee, MA182
Father Samuel CHAPIN (<1598-1675)
Mother Cicely PENNY (<1601-1681)
Spouses:
1 Bethia COOLEY
Birth 16 Sep 1643, Springfield, Hampden, MA
Death 9 Sep 1711
Father Benjamin COOLEY
Mother Sarah COLTON
Marriage 1664, MA
Children: Henry (1666-1668)
Sarah (1670-1732)
Bethia (1671-)
Henry (1678-1754)
Benjamine (1682-1756)
Notes for Henry CHAPIN
182Henry Chapin at an early age entered on a seafaring life; was impressed on board a British ship and served seven years, and was in an engagement with the Dutch; afterwards, he commanded a merchant ship sailing between London and Boston. Tired of the sea, he came to Springfield in 1659, and shared with Japhet his father's gift of lands in Chicopee. There he built his house.
Notes for Bethia (Spouse 1)
Death: NEHG Register, Volume 34, July 1880, p266
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