Person:Thomas Chaffee (2)

Thomas Chaffee
b.Est 1618 England
  • HThomas ChaffeeEst 1618 - Bef 1683
  • WDorothy UnknownEst 1623 - Bef 1670
m. Bef 1643
  1. Nathaniel ChaffeeEst 1643 - 1721
  2. Joseph ChaffeeAbt 1645 - 1694
Facts and Events
Name[1] Thomas Chaffee
Gender Male
Birth[2] Est 1618 EnglandEstimate based on approximate date of marriage
Residence? 1635 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1643 before birth date of two known children
to Dorothy Unknown
Residence? 1660 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Will? 25 Jul 1680 Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Death? Bef 15 May 1683 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
Probate? 15 May 1683 Inventory presented

Chaffey, a surname of England, from the English place name Chaffhay Farm (Devon), containing the Old English elements cealf-calf and (ge)haeg-worker at the calves enclosure.

Listed as a Landowner in Hingham Massachusetts in 1635, may have arrived as early as 1633 when the town was called "Bare Cove".

Will of Thomas Chaffee

[1]

"In the name of God Amen, " I Thomas Chaffee of Swansie in ye Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, being of great age, yet in my perfect memory and good understanding, make this my last Will and Testament. First I commit my soul to God in Jesus Christ my Redeemer and my body unto ye grave. " Item, I give unto my Eldest son Nathaniel my homelott, being twenty-five acres the which I purchased of Capt. Thomas Willett and James Brown sen'r. gentt. as also my right in ye comimonlott, it being ye twelfth lot, - ten acres of meadow lying and being at a place commonly called the long beach, and four acres of meadow lying and being at ye mouth of ye River on ye great Neck commonly called Mount Hope Neck. " Item, I give unto my son Joseph all ye rest of my lands, meadows, orchards, gardens, dwelling house, barn, out houses as also my living stock, neat cattle, sheep, horse kine, Swine, poltery and thirty five acres of land lately purchased upon. ye neck commonly called Phebes Neck, with all other my privileges that I now have or hereafter may have in ye aforesaid Town of Swansy, with my debts, now due, or hereafter may be due unto me or my Estate, whom I make my sole executor to pay my debts to see this my will performed and my body buried.

" In witness my hand and seal, this twenty five of July in ye yeer of oe Lord One thousand six hundred and Eighty.

"Signed and Sealed in ye presence of The mark of "John Peck T [seal] "John Ormsby THOMAS CHAFFE."

[Plymouth Colony Record of Wills, Vol. IV, p. 36.]

References
  1. CHAFFEE, CHAFFY or CHAFFIN, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:352.

    THOMAS, Hingham 1637, rem. to Swanzey bef. 1660.

  2. Chaffee, in Smith, Ethel Farrington. Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts and Her People. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1988-1989)
    142:351.