Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Rev Benjamin Chapman was born on 29 August 1759, in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Capt. Benjamin Chapman, was 23 and his mother, Jemima Gates, was 24. He married Caroline Matilda Fuller on 10 July 1790. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 13 July 1804, in Lincoln, Maine, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Ancient Cemetery, Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine, United States.
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- Benjamin Chapman, "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Benjamin Chapman, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
- Benjamin Chapman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1760
Historical Boundaries: 1760: Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Lincoln, Maine, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Name Meaning
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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The Rev. Benjamin Chapman moved to the Plainfield area about 1767/8 when he was a young boy of 10. He studied at Dartmouth, becoming a minister and graduating in 1784.Benjamin Chapman A. M., the son o …
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