Abel Chapman

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 294

Will of Abel Chapman, Whitby, Gentleman sourced from from Copy Wills of the Court of the Archbishop of York dated 2.12.1774 proved Jan 1779 (f5)

wife Hannah (farm etc called Flatt's Farm lately purchased from Messrs Straubenzees in occupation of Thomas Frank) son John Chapman son Abel Chapman daughter Jane) (messuage or tenement etc in Ruswarpe in occupation of Ralph Dickinson) (warehouse, cottages etc. lately erected on N side of inlet called Spittlebridge Goat, Whitby) (boiling house & bleaching yard on S side of Spittlebridge Goat) son William chapman friend Wakefield Simpson (trustee) (messuage etc. in Church St., Whitby in William Jackson's occupation) (farm etc. called Gallows Close farm in occupation of Jonathan Lacy) (boiling house & bleaching yard on N side of Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of Jonathan Sanders) (messuage etc. in Haggersgate, Whitby in occupation of William Arley, peruke maker) (messuage, tenement etc. & ropery, rope walk and warehouse on S side of Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of Jonathan Lacy) (Goat or Creek called Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of William Linskill Esquire) daughter Mary, wife of John walker the younger daughter Hannah Chapman grandaughter Elizabeth Stockton grandaughter Esther wife of Thomas Holt the younger wit: Geo: Close, Hannah Mathews, John Mathews junr.