Gilbert Warren Chapin, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data (1924)

Read in the archive.org full text for the Hatten research (research/hatten/Browne_Chapin_Cumins.md, October 2026); vol. 1 is https://archive.org/details/chapinbookofgene00chap. Entries are numbered from Deacon Samuel Chapin (1); each child adds a number (1-1, 1-1-2 …).

• Ella Persis Chapin (vol. 2, p. 2115, 1-4-6-1-1-1-1-3-1): “dau. Marvin & Marion Orinda (Cumins) Chapin, of Lake Bluff, Ill. b. Feb. 13, 1848, Parkman, Ohio … m. Dec. 22, 1875, Pentwater, Mich., Edward Browne. Children: BROWNE. No issue. Mrs. Brown was identified with the Woman’s Club and president of the School Children’s Aid Society.” Compiled while she was living.
• Dr. Marvin Chapin (vol. 2, p. 1677): “son Loring & Sarah (Brace) Chapin, of Winfield, Silver Creek, N. Y., Erie, Pa., Dixon & Chicago, Ill.”; b. 24 Feb 1821, d. 2 June 1907, Chicago; married Marion Orinda Cumins, “dau. Joseph & Hannah (Converse) Cumins, b. Sept. 8, 1818, Randall [Randolph], Vt.,” who died 9 Dec 1889 at Wausau, Wisconsin. “Dr. Chapin was a long time Sunday School worker.”
• Loring Chapin (vol. 1, p. 1121, 1-4-6-1-1-1-1): “son Jotham & Ann (Waite) Chapin, of Winfield, N. Y. b. Feb. 26, 1790, d. Feb. 2, 1864, Silver Creek, N. Y. m. 1815, Winfield, Sarah (Sally) Brace, dau. Charles & Persis (Brandegee) Brace, b. Nov. 3, 1795, Winfield, d. 1871, Silver Creek.” Children: Aurilla (d. young, Winfield); Woodruff (b. 24 May 1818, d. 30 July 1893); Marvin (b. 24 Feb 1821); Persis Brandegee (b. 15 Oct 1823, d. 3 Feb 1843, Silver Creek); Charles Brace (b. 8 Nov 1825, d. 3 Sept 1899). His sister Sally (b. 15 Aug 1791, d. 8 May 1868, West Winfield) married Vose Palmer.
• Jotham Chapin (vol. 1, pp. 602-603, 1-4-6-1-1-1): “son Jonathan & Abigail (Munn) Chapin, of Palmer & Monson, Mass. b. Dec. 7, 1764, Monson, d. Winfield, N. Y. m. Ann Waite.” Children: Loring (b. 26 Feb 1790), Sally (b. 15 Aug 1791) and Marvin (b. 1798, “d. Mch. 11, 1816, ae. 18, Monson Cemetery”). His sisters Persis (m. 1789 David Wood, d. 1801 at Winfield) and Anna (m. 1797 Charles Burt) also went to Winfield.
• Capt. Jonathan Chapin (vol. 1, pp. 271-272, 1-4-6-1-1): “son Jonathan & Anna (Hitchcock) Chapin, of Monson & Palmer, Mass. b. Oct. 22, 1738, Palmer, d. Feb. 8, 1819, Monson. m. Abigail Munn, 1-1-2-6-4, b. Sept. 14, 1739, d. Aug. 30, 1838, Monson, ae. 99.” “This Jonathan Chapin who married Abigail Munn was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted Apr. 6, 1759, discharged Dec. 3, 1759 [printed 1757]. Was in the Invasion of Canada. His grave is in the Monson Cemetery. His brothers Abner and Luke were also in the War. His father was called Jonathan Jr., of the Elbows.” Children, all born at Monson: Jotham (1764), Ann (1767), Persis (1769), Augustin (1772), Gideon (1775), Jonathan (1777), Amasa (1780).
• Jonathan Chapin (vol. 1, pp. 91-92, 1-4-6-1): “son Jonathan & Elizabeth (Burt) Chapin, of Kingsfield or Kingston. Brimfield, Palmer (Elbows) Before June 21, 1733. b. July 8, 1711, d. July 3, 1780, ae. 69, Monson, Mass. 1st m. Dec. 10, 1736, Anna Hitchcock, dau. Ebenezer & Mary (Morgan) Hitchcock, of Brimfield, b. July 9, 1717, d. May 27, 1770, Old Center Cemetery, Palmer”; “2nd. m. May 2, 1771, Bertha Parsons, widow.” (Anna’s mother is corrected by The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family to Mary Sheldon.)
• Jonathan Chapin (vol. 1, p. 22, 1-4-6): “son David & Lydia (Crump) Chapin. b. Feb. 12, 1665, d. 1710, Monson, Mass. m. Apr. 20, 1710, Elizabeth Burt. Children: CHAPIN. 1 Jonathan b. July 8, 1711. d. July 3, 1780.” “There has been great difficulty in identifying Jonathan Chapin who married Elizabeth Burt. He was concerned in the Land Bank Scheme of 1740, though already living in King’s Field, as Palmer was then called … by a process of elimination we arrive at the theory that Jonathan, son of David and Lydia (Crump) Chapin is our best guess, but absolute proof is impossible.”
• The same marriage and birth in another family. Entry 1-1-10: “JONATHAN CHAPIN, son Japhet & Abilenah (Cooley) Chapin, b. Sept. 23, 1688, d. Feb. 23, 1761. b. and d. Springfield, m. Apr. 20, 1710, Elizabeth Burt, dau Jonathan & Lydia (Dumbleton) Burt, of Longmeadow, b. Feb. 23, 1689, d. Jan. 31, 1769,” with a son Jonathan “b. July 8, 1711.” Entry 1-1-10-1 (p. 52): “JONATHAN CHAPIN, son Jonathan & Elizabeth (Burt) Chapin, of Hampshire Co., Mass. b. July 8, 1711. d. Nov. 12, 1768, age 58, Old Chicopee Cem.,” who married in 1745 Sarah Elizabeth Morse. The book thus gives the marriage of 20 Apr 1710 and the birth of 8 July 1711 to two families.
• Benjamin Munn (vol. 1, pp. 34-35, 1-1-2-6): “son Nathaniel & Sarah (Chapin) Munn, of Brimfield and Monson, Mass. b. Aug. 12, 1700, Springfield, Mass. d. 1775, Monson. m. Dec. 30, 1731, Rebecca Russell, of Brimfield, Mass.” Children: Benjamin Jr. (1732), Joseph (1734), Abner (1736), “Abigail m. 1-4-6-1-1 b. Sept. 14, 1739 … d. Aug. 30, 1838, age 99,” Reuben (1742), Rebekah (1745), Mary (1749) and Jeremy (1754). The entry ends: “Benjamin Munn was in Pequot and Indian War and was given land in Soldiers field,” which belongs to his grandfather Benjamin Munn (Savage).
• Sarah Chapin (vol. 1, p. 10, 1-1-2): “dau. Japhet & Abilenah (Cooley) Chapin, b. Mch. 15, 1668, Springfield, Mass., d. Nov. 23, 1747. m. Mch. 24, 1689/90, Nathaniel Munn, son Benjamin & Abigail Burt (Ball) Munn, b. July 25, 1661, Springfield, d. Dec. 31, 1743.”
• Japhet Chapin (vol. 1, p. 3, 1-1): “son Dea. Samuel & Cicely (Penny) Chapin. bapt. Oct. 15, 1642, Roxbury, Mass., d. Feb. 20, 1712, Springfield, Mass. 1st m. July 22, 1664, Abilenah Cooley, dau. Samuel Cooley, of Milford, Conn., b. 1642, d. Nov. 17, 1710, ae. 68, Springfield”; ten children, Sarah (b. 15 Mar 1668) second; “2nd m. May 31, 1711, Dorothy Root, of Enfield.” “Japhet Chapin probably for time resided in Milford, Conn. John Pynchon deeded land in Springfield to him 1669. He was engaged in the battle with the Indians at Turners Falls in 1676, and was a deacon in the church in Springfield.”
• Deacon Samuel Chapin (vol. 1, pp. vii-xvi, 1-2): the Paignton, Devon, register as certified by the vicar in 1910: “1590. John Chapin & Phillipe Easton 14 Septemb”; “1598. Samuel s of John Chapin 8 Octob”; “1601. Cicely d of Henry Penney 21 ffebruary”; “1623. Samuell Chapin and Cicely Peny 9 ffebru”; “1624. David s of Samuell Chapin 4 January”; and the will of Henry Penny of Paignton, baker, 6 April 1630: “To Cicelly Chapin my daughter, my second great pan … To David Chapin my nephew [grandson], 20/ yearly for 7 years … towards his bringing up in learning … To Katherine Chapin and Sarah Chapin 12d each … Residue to Jane my wife.” The account of his life (pp. xi-xii): at Roxbury he had 24 acres and “eight persons in his family, himself, wife, father and five children”; he moved to Springfield in the winter of 1642-3; “Goodwife Chapin is to sitt in the Seate alonge with Mrs. Glover, and Mrs. Hollyock”; selectman 1644-1652, 1661 and 1664; “first called deacon in the records on Feb. 21, 1650”; he “conducted the Sabbath services, including preaching, for several years when the church lacked a pastor”; in 1652 he, John Pynchon and Elizur Holyoke were commissioned magistrates, and he laid out “the plantations that became Northampton and Hadley.” His son Japhet wrote: “My father was taken out of this troubelsom world the 11 day of November about eleven of the clock in the eve, 1675.” The genealogy proper (p. 1): “bapt. Oct 8, 1598, Paignton, Eng., d. Nov. 11, 1675, Springfield, Mass. m. Feb. 9, 1623, Paignton, Cicely Penny, dau. Henry and Jane Penny, bapt. Feb. 21, 1601, Paignton, d. Feb. 8, 1682/3, Springfield.” Of the Saint-Gaudens statue (p. xvi): “St. Gaudens’ statue, in figure and costume is intended as an ideal of Dea. Samuel Chapin as given by tradition current among his descendants for there is of his face and features no oral or written record in existence.”