When Enoch Chapman was born on 10 November 1810, in Champaign, Ohio, United States, his father, William Chapman, was 55 and his mother, Hannah Smith, was 55. He married Belinda Nowlin on 9 November 1837, in Green, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1870 and Lewis, Washington, United States in 1880. He died on 24 February 1896, in Chehalis, Lewis, Washington, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Chehalis, Lewis, Washington, United States.
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English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English chap(pe)man, chepman, Old English cēapmann, cēpemann, a compound of cēap ‘barter, bargain, price, property’ + mann ‘man’.
Jewish: adopted probably for a like-sounding or like-meaning name in some other European language; see for example Kaufman .
History: This name was brought independently to North America from England by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the ‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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