When Willard Joslyn Chapin was born on 6 March 1788, in Granville, Washington, New York, United States, his father, Deacon Samuel Chapin, was 29 and his mother, Sybil Joslen, was 34. He married Nancy Cooley about 1813, in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1830. He died on 28 July 1852, in Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
French and Spanish: from Old French eschapin, Spanish chapín ‘type of overshoe made of cork’, applied as a nickname for someone who habitually wore this type of footwear or a metonymic occupational name for someone who made them.
English: variant of Chopin , more commonly surviving in England as Chopping and Chappin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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