John 'Elder' Chipman

John CHIPMAN, elder, was born in 1614 in Bryan’s-Piddle, near Dorchester, England; died on 7 Apr 1708 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA; buried in Sandwich, Barnstable,MA.

• from http://4dtraveler.net/2011/08/27/john-chipman-and-hope-howland/

TRAVEL: Brotherless and early left fatherless, John sailed from Barnstable, Devon Co., England, in May 1631, on the Friendship, arriving in Boston, 14 July 1631. John was the first and only one of the name, Chipman, in this country, and until 1850 there was no Chipman in this country who was not descended from him.{D2}

MARRIAGE: He first married Hope Howland, when she died, he secondly married Ruth Sargent. John Chipman lists his living children in his Will, dated 12 Nov 1702. {D1}{D2}

LIVELIHOOD: John was a carpenter and deputy.{D5} Also, “John Chipman was for successive years a selectman, then in Plymouth Colony invested with the authority of a magistrate, and was often a deputy of the court; and he with three assistants was designated to frequent the early Quaker meetings and ‘endeavor to reduce them from the errors of their wayes’.”

HOME: Plymouth in 1637, Yarmouth in 1647, and Barnstable in 1649.{D5} The elder John Chipman family homestead was located near the Barnstable Custom House. His son, Samuel, built the “Chipman Tavern” on the homestead, which then continued in the line of his prosperity until 1830.{D2}

RELIGION: On 30 Jun 1653, John joined his wife (Hope Howland) in becoming a member of the church at Barnstable. He became an Elder in Minister Russel’s Congregational Church at Barnstable.{D4}

HISTORICAL NOTE: John Chipman, son-in-law of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley signed his name (at age 58) to a Bond of Administration on the John Howland estate, dated 5 March 1672, see also Elizabeth Tilley notes. {D3}

DEATH John died at 88 years of age.

Notes

• parents seen as "son of Thomas Chipman and Darbye"
• from John Chipman | Miner Descent

"John Chipman was born 3 Jun 1621 in Briantspuddle, Dorset, England. Briantspuddle is  situated within the Piddle Valley near to the villages of Affpuddle,  Tolpuddle and  Puddletown and approximately eight miles east of the county town of Dorchester. The village takes its name from Brian de Turberville, who was lord of the manor during the reign of Edward III and is in the Purbeck conservation. ... John’s parents were Thomas CHIPMAN and [__?__].  He was 17 when he came to New England in May, 1637, in the service of his cousin Mr. Richard Derby, who settled in Plymouth ..."

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descent

• 1. John TILLEY (1571-1620) m. Joan HURST (1567-1620)

• 2. Elizabeth TILLEY (1607-1687) m. John HOWLAND (1593-1672)

• 3. Hope HOWLAND (1629-1683) m. John CHIPMAN (1613-1708)

• 4. Hope CHIPMAN m. John HUCKINS

• 5. Hope HUCKINS m. Thomas NELSON

• 6. Hannah NELSON m. Jabez WOOD

• 7. Jabez WOOD (1718-) m. Joanna SHORT

• 8. Joanna WOOD (1750-1813) m. Comfort HORTON (1743-1805)

• 9. Sarah HORTON (1777-1856) m. Jarvis WHEELER (1774-1852)

• 10. Betsey S. WHEELER (1800-1881) m. Levi PIERCE (1797-1838)

• 11. Elizabeth Slade PIERCE (1822-1901) m. Courtland Philip Livingston BUTLER (1813-1891)

• 12. Mary Elizabeth BUTLER (1850-1897) m. Robert Emmet SHELDON (1845-1917)

• 13. Flora SHELDON (1872-1920) m. Samuel Prescott BUSH (1863-1948)

• 14. Prescott Sheldon BUSH (1895-1972) m. Dorothy WALKER (1901-)

• 15. George Herbert Walker BUSH President (1924-) m. Barbara PIERCE

• 16. George Walker BUSH President (1946-) m. Laura Lane WELCH (1946-)

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Came to America in 1637 at age 17

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Source: ancestry.com: John Chipman Found 10 Records, 10 Photos and 342,913 Family Trees Born in Bryants Puddle, England on 1613 to Thomas Chipman and Thomas Chipman. John married Hope Howland and had 12 children. He passed away on 1775 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Family Members Parents Thomas Chipman 1580-1637 Thomas Chipman 1600-1637 Spouse(s) Hope Howland 1629-1684 Children Chipman 1650-1650 Bethia Chipman 1670-1702 Desire Chipman 1674-1705 Lydia Chipman 1654-1730 Lydia Chipman Sargeant Samuel Chipman 1661-1722 Elizabeth Chipman 1647-1711 Hope Chipman 1652-1728 Hannah Chipman 1658-1696 Ruth Chipman 1663-1698 Mercy Chipman 1667-1724 John Chipman 1657-1657

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Elder John Chipman

Birth 1614 North Dorset District, Dorset, England Death 7 Apr 1708 (aged 93–94) Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Burial Old Town Cemetery Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA Show Map Plot Memorial ID 16584028 Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16584028/john-chipman

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GEDCOM Note

Disputed Origins

6 Apr 2015 — Removed mother.<ref>White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 3, p. 29.</ref> John Chipman was bornabout 1621<ref name=Oatis>Oatis. Barnstable Families pp. 155-6.</ref> at Bryan's Puddle, Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England to Chipman-53|Thomas Chipman. It is unclear who John's mother was.
Some sources show that the wife of Thomas had the maiden name of Derby.<ref name=Chipman>Chipman, Bert Lee. The Chipman Family, a genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920. Bert L. Chipman, Publisher.Winston-Salem, N.C. 1920. pp. 13-14.</ref> She could have been Derby-6|Ann Derby or Derby-161|Patience Derby, who were sisters of John Derby. John Derby was John Chipman's cousin and held his apprenticeship papers.<ref name=Oatis /> The Mayflower Five Generation Book for his wifeHope Howland does not name John Chipman's mother.

Alternative Birth Date

Two sources state John Chipman was born about 1614. However, Find a Grave has a photo of his headstone that says he died age 88 in 1708, which puts his DOB about 1621.<ref>Swain, WilliamChester. Space:Swain and Allied Families|Swain and Allied Families (Swain & Tate Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 1896) Page 58.</ref><ref name=grave>ElderJohn Chipman 16584028.</ref>

Biography

John Hale Chipman was born about 1621 in Brinspittal, Dorset, England,son of Chipman-53|Thomas Chipman. He was baptized at Brinspittal<ref> 'Brinspittal is a ‘phonetic' corruption of ‘Briantspuddle', a small hamlet in Dorset, Dictionary of English Place names. The name seems to havebeen in the Doomsday Book under the general' name of Pidele which istranslated as being an estate on the River (in this case, a lesser Trent) and from 1452, this particular one was owned by a man called Brian. It is located approx. midway between Dorchester and Poole and liesa little south of the A35 main road. Nearest town is Bere Regis but the famous Tolpuddle (another :extraction of Pidele) is about 2- 3 miles NW.</ref> on 30 Aug 1621. John died on 7 Apr 1708 at Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts.<ref name=Pane> Pane-Joyce Genealogy. Family of John Howland (755) & Elizabeth Tilley : accessed 26 Jan 2018.</ref>He is buried at the Old Burial Ground in Sandwich.<ref name=grave />
Bert Lee Chipman writes of John in his Chipman Genealogy, "Always brotherless and early left fatherless, he sailed from Barnstable, Devon County, England, in May 1631, in the ship Friendship, arriving in Boston, July 14, 1631. John Chipman was the first and only one of the name to seek a home in America, and up to 1850 there was no Chipman in this country who was not descended from him.”<ref name=Chipman /> John was a selectman, then in Plymouth Colony he was given the authority of a magistrate and was often a "Deputy to Court." He and three assistants were assigned to frequent the early Quaker meetings and "endeavor to reduce them from the error of their wayes."<ref name=Chipman /> By 1637 John had moved to Barnstable.<ref name=Oatis /> He was apprenticed as a carpenter by trade and was also called yeoman in land records. John married twice. About 1645 or 1646 he married his first wife, Howland-22|Hope Howland. She was the daughter of Howland-21|John Howland and Tilley-73|Elizabeth Tilley, who met while passengers onthe Mayflower.<ref name=Shaw>Shaw. Families of the Pilgrims, pp. 6, 12-13.</ref> John and Hope Chipman were parents of twelve children.<ref name=Shaw /> Hope became a member of the church at Barnstable 7 Aug 1650, followed by John 30 Jun 1653. Henry Cobb and John Chipman were chosen to be ruling elders of the church 14 Apr 1670.<ref name=Chipman /> Hope Howland was born in Plymouth Colony 30 Aug 1629.<ref>Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes.</ref> She died, age 53, on 8 Jan 1683<ref>Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records. Mayflower Descendant, George Ernest Bowman.</ref> and was buried 9 Jan at Lothrop Hill Cemetery, Barnstable.<ref>Hope Howland Chipman 16878918.</ref> In a memoir Chipman-49|Handley Chipman wrote five and six years before his death in 1799, he stated that his grandfather was John Chipman who married a daughter of Mr. Howland, and settled at Barnstable. Hewrote that his grandfather was an Elder in Minister Russel's Congregational Church in Barnstable. He also said that his grandfather "removed and lived in said Sandwich the latter part of his day." He died at age 88, and had, or left 10 children.<ref>Acadia University : Chipman, Handley. Memoir. 1793-1794. Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Property of (?) Chipman 1854. Chipman, Handley.</ref>

Children of John Chipman and Hope Howland

The following are children of John and Hope (Howland) Chipman:<ref name=Chipman /><ref name=Pane /><ref name=Shaw />

1. Chipman-56|Elizabeth Chipman (24 Jun 1647-aft Feb 1711/2)<ref>Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., M.D. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth inNew England. William White. Boston. 1857. pg. 4. — "1647. Plymouth Register of Births." Elizabeth Chipman, the daughter of John Chipman, was born on the 24 of June.</ref>
2. Chipman-43|Unknown Chipman, daughter, b. 9 Sep 1650; d. 9 Sep 1650<ref>Waters, Henry F. (Henry Fritz-Gilbert). Genealogical gleanings in England. “The New England historical and genealogical register.” [Boston, etc., New England Historic Genealogical Society], 1847.</ref>
3. Chipman-58|Hope Chipman (31 Aug 1652-26 Jul 1728)<ref name=births>Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable Births p18 Chipman</ref>
4. Chipman-48|Lydia Chipman (25 Dec 1654-2 Mar 1730/1)<ref name=births />
5. Chipman-55|John Chipman (Died young) (2 Mar 1656/7-29 May 1657)<ref name=births /><ref name=deaths>Massachusetts Vital Records: Barnstable Deaths Chipman</ref>
6. Chipman-46|Hannah Chipman (14 Jan 1657/8-4 Nov 1696)<ref name=births />
7. Chipman-51|Samuel Chipman (15 Apr 1661-17 Jun 1723)<ref name=births />
8. Chipman-65|Ruth Chipman (31 Dec 1663-8 Apr 1698)<ref name=births/>
9. Chipman-68|Bethiah Chipman (1 Jul 1666-12 Nov 1702)<ref name=births />
10. Chipman-61|Mercy Chipman (6 Feb 1667/8-12 Jun 1724)<ref name=births />
11. Chipman-50|John Chipman (3 Mar 1670-4 Jan 1756)<ref name=births/>
12. Chipman-60|Desire Chipman (26 Feb 1672-28 Mar 1705)<ref name=births />

After John's first wife, Hope Howland, died in 1683, he married widow Sargent-53|Ruth Sargent Winslow in 1684. They had no children.<refname=Chipman /> They lived at Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.<ref name=Shaw /> John Chipman passed away 7 Apr 1708 <ref name=Chipman /><ref name=Shaw /> and is buried at Sandwich Cemetery.<ref name=grave /> John Chipman's will, dated 12 Nov 1702, proved 17 May 1708, mentions his wife Ruth; children Samuel, John, Elizabeth, Hope, Lydia, Hannah, Ruth, Bethiah, Mercy and Desire; grandchildren Mary Gale and Jabez Dimock; and his friend Mr. (Rev.) Jonathan Russell.<ref name=Chipman />

Research Notes

Alternate spelling for Chipman: Chyipsman. Not related to John Chaffin.

Biographical Note (by Gary McMath): Note: John CHIPMAN (son of Thomas CHIPMAN and Mrs. CHIPMAN) was born June 03, 1621 in Dorchester, England, and died April 07, 1708 in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. He married Hope HOWLAND on September 13, 1646 in Plymouth, MA. More on: Elder John CHIPMAN born about 1620-1; came toNE May 1637 in service of his cousin Mr. Richard Derby who settled inPlymouth; carpenter; freeman 1649; of Barnstable 1649 joined the church 1/30/1652-3 & chosen one of Ruling Elders; died in Sandwich 4/7/1708 age 88; for his public services the court in 1669 granted him 100 acres of land between Taunton and Titicut, which was afterwards confirmed to him."

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GEDCOM Note

He was the only son of Mr. Thomas Chipman. He came to Plymouth 1630-1, in service of his cousin Richard Darby, whose father was custodian of certain money due him from the estate of his father. He settled at Barnstable and was admitted to the church Jan 30, 1652; he was a ruling elder, town officer and deputy.

The “Chipman Family” says his birth was about 1614. Also in the “Sketch of the Chipman Family” in NEHGS Register.

At age 16 John Chipman arrived in New England in 1637 as a servant to his cousin Richard Derby. Chipman eventually became a ruling Elder of the West Barnstable church, a deputy for the town of Barnstable, and town clerk.
Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175876099824label=@S251@ Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175876099830label=@S657@ Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175876099831label=@S658@ Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175876065836label=@S1697@

GEDCOM Note

He moved eartly to Sandwich, from there to Chilmark on Martha’s Vinyard and finally to Newport, RI. While at Martah’s Vinyard he was one of the Justices of the Court and after moving to Newport he was an assistant to the governor.
Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175875665827label=@S259@

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Acknowledgements

• Mosher-475|Sara V Mosher