Brief Life History of Phineas
When Phineas Chapman was born on 10 August 1704, in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, Nathaniel Chapman, was 51 and his mother, Hannah Bates, was 35. He died before 1726.
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- Phineas Chapman, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Phineas Chapman, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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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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