When Joel Chaffin was born on 13 January 1766, in Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Samuel Chaffin, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Hubbard, was 28. He married Olive Stickney about 1784, in Holden, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 2 April 1829, in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States.
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English (Dorset and Somerset, of Norman origin): nickname for a bald man, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French chauf ‘bald(-headed)’ (from Latin calvus).
History: All present-day English bearers of the name Chaffin are descended from John Chaffin (died 1658), a blacksmith of Bruton, Somerset.
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