When Prudence Chapman was born on 26 September 1768, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Davis Chapman Jr, was 21 and her mother, Hannah Peacock, was 27. She married Timothy Baldwin on 4 December 1787, in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 3 September 1846, in Wilton, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 77.
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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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