When Deliverance Chapman was born about 1745, in East Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Micael Chapman, was 39 and her mother, Mercy Doolittle, was 30. She married Stephen Stone in 1768. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 9 September 1823, at the age of 79.
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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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