Anna Hitchcock

Mother of Lt. Jonathan Chapin. She was the eldest of the fourteen children of Capt. Ebenezer Hitchcock of Springfield and his first wife Mary Sheldon: "Anna, b. July 9, 1717; m. Dec. 10, 1736, Jonathan Chapin of the Elbows" (source). She raised nine children at the Elbows (Palmer), the eldest, Anne, dying at nineteen in 1756, and died in 1770; she is buried in the Old Center Cemetery at Palmer (source). Temple's History of Palmer calls her "Mina" (source).

The Chapin Book made her "dau. Ebenezer & Mary (Morgan) Hitchcock." The Hitchcock genealogy corrects it: Mary Morgan, a widow of Brimfield, was her father's second wife. That correction matters, because her mother Mary Sheldon was the granddaughter of Joseph Whiting, Treasurer of Connecticut, and Mary Pynchon, and through them Anna's children descended from Col. John Pynchon, William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield, and Gov. George Wyllys of Connecticut. Her father's will left £10 "to his daughter Ann wife of Jonathan Chapin."

Research: Patricia Hatten's Browne–Chapin side: the pedigree, notable ancestors and famous kin.