Benjamin Chapin, III

From Lineage Book of the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Vol. 6, 1916 MyHeritage

29 Lucie Chapin (Mrs. Thomas F. Hayward). Born in White Post, Clarke Co., Virginia. Descendant of Samuel Chapin, of Massachusetts, through the Revolutionary ancestor, Benjamin Chapin, of Connecticut and Virginia, as follows:

• 2. William Taylor Chapin (Feb. 23, 1846-June 21, 1878) and Martha Agnes Kerfoot (July 26, 1846-living 1907).
• 3. Charles Chapin (Nov. 14, 1795-Sept. 14, 1863) and Mary Ann Martha Wise (Nov. 26, 1809-1872).
• 4. Gurden Chapin (Nov. 5, 1765-June 26, 1811) and Margaret R. Reeder (Mch. 6, 1774-Nov. 22, 1843).
• 5. Benjamin Chapin (May 24, 1736-1778) and Margaret Colton (Oct. 24, 1738-m. Mch. 4, 1760).
• 6. Benjamin Chapin (July 17, 1708-Mch. 8, 1762) and Anna Howard (bef. 1720-aft. 1752).
• 7. Benjamin Chapin (Feb. 2, 1682-1756) and Hannah Colton (m. Nov. 9, 1704.-Mch. 5, 1739), his first wife.
• 8. Henry Chapin (....-Aug. 15, 1718) and Bethia Cooley (m. Dec. 5, 1664-Dec. 11, 1711).
• 9. Samuel Chapin (b. Wales-Nov. 11, 1675) and Cicely Chapin (....-Feb. 8, 1683).

Samuel Chapin (Wales-1675) came to New England, about 1635. He was probably first in Roxbury, but took the freemans oath in Boston, June 2, 1641. In 1642 he removed to Springfield, Mass., where in 1652 he was appointed magistrate, an office he held for many years. He was commissioner and selectman, was much employed in public business, a useful and highly esteemed man, and a deacon in the church. A statue, The Puritan, by St. Gaudens, has been erected to his memory in Springfield, Mass