Lt. William Chamberlain

Family

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III) William (2), son of Jacob Chamberlain, was born in 1697 at Cambridge; died at Rochester, N. H. in 1753. He married, in 1719, Mary Tibbetts. They lived at Rochester and Alton, N. H.

Children, all but 2 youngest, b. at Rochester, and they at Alton:

• 1. Mary, b. 1720.
• 2. Rebecca, b. 1722; died 1815.
• 3. William, b. 1725; died at Lebanon, Maine, 1815.
• 4. Experience, b. 1727.
• 5. Ebenezer, b. 1729; mentioned below.
• 6. Dorothy, died 1825.
• 7. Anna, born 1733.
• 8. Samuel, b. 1735; died 1809.
• 9. Jacob, b. 1738; died 1815.
• 10. Ephraim, b. 1741; died 1814.

Origins

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(II) Jacob, son of William Chamberlain, was born in Billerica, Mass., Jan. 18, 1657-58, He married Experience ____.

Children:

3. William, born 1697, at Camrbridge, Mass., mentioned below.

Biography

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William Chamberlain learned the carpenter's trade in Boston, Massachusetts and was admitted to the First Church of Boston, 29 April, 1716. He removed to Dover, New Hampshire as early as 1718 or 1719. He moved to Rochester, New Hampshire before 30 July, 1733. When the St. Francis Indians attacked Rochester on 27 June, 1746, they passed near his home, and on 1 July 1746, he joined with the entire settlement in a petition for a guard of solders. William Chamberlain was chosen constable of the town on 20 March, 1738/39; and selectman in 1743, 1745, 1750 and 1751. He was town clerk in 1745 and the records for that year were well written. He was admitted to communion in the First Church of Rochester on 12 February, 1741. In 1745 he " desired forgiveness for all offenses past that he had given and the Church, by a great majority, voted him forgiveness. " William Chamberlain also fought in the Indian Wars with the rank of Lieutenant.