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Deacon Benjamin Chapin

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Birthplace: Springfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Death: March 22, 1756 (74)
Springfield, Hampshire County, Province of Massachusetts
Place of Burial: Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
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Son of Capt. Henry Chapin and Bethia Chapin
Husband of Hannah Chapin; Hannah Chapin (Colton) and Joanna Chapin (Dickinson)
Father of Bethia Chapin; Hannah Sikes; Benjamin Chapin, III; Issac Chapin; Abner Chapin and 9 others
Brother of Sarah Chapin; Bethia Chapin; Mary Bethia Wright and Henry Chapin

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About Deacon Benjamin Chapin

Benjamin Chapin, son of Henry and Bethia, b. Feb. 2, 1682, was m. Nov. 9, 1704, to Hannah Colton, daughter of Isaac and Mary Colton of Longmeadow. Mrs. Hannah Chapin d. March 5, 1739. Mr. Benjamin Chapin m. (2) Widow Joanna Warriner who had been the wife of Ebenezer Warriner. Deacon Benjamin Chapin d. March 22, 1756. Joanna, (2) wife, d. Oct. 13, 1764.

Mr. Benjamin Chapin was one of the first Deacons of the church in Chicopee, he having been elected to that office in 1752. His place of residence was on Chicopee street, near the present residence of Dea. Giles S. Chapin.

  1. Hannah, b. Oct. 3, 1706 ; m. Benjamin Sikes.
  2. Benjamin, b. July 17, 1708; m. Anna Howard.
  3. Isaac, b. Aug. 18. 1710.
  4. Abner, b. Oct. 16, 1713 ; d. Dec. 16, 1713. .
  5. Jacob, b. April 18, 1716; d. 1717.
  6. Bethia, b. June 25, 1718 ; m. Feb. 1, 1739, No. 68, Phineas Chapin.
  7. Sarah, b. Oct. 13, 1720 ; m. Oct. 31, 1741, Ebenezer Warriner.
  8. George, b. Dec. 13, 1722; d. Dec. 10, 1782.
  9. Abigail, b. May 26, 1724.
  10. Ephraim, b. Oct. 29, 1729; d. Oct. 12, 1805.
  11. Mary, b. Aug. 18, 1727; m. May 28, 1748, Stephen Morgan of Brimfield.
  12. Eunice, b. Oct. 28, 1732 ; m. pub. Oct. 24, 1751, to Aaron Ferry of Springfield.

THE CHAPIN GENEALOGY, CONTAINING A VERY LARGE PROPORTION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF DEA. SAMUEL CHAPIN, WHO SETTLED IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. IN 1642, Collected and Compiled by ORANGE CHAPIN


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



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Deacon Benjamin Chapin's Timeline

1682
February 2, 1682
Springfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1706
October 3, 1706
Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
1708
July 17, 1708
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
1710
August 18, 1710
Chicopee, Hampden County, MA, United States
August 18, 1710
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
1713
October 16, 1713
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
1716
April 18, 1716
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
1718
June 25, 1718
Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
June 25, 1718
Springfield, Hampden County, Province of Massachusetts