Person:Adams Chapin (1)

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Adams Chapin
b.12 Apr 1750 Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
d.23 Oct 1832 Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Bef 1745
  1. Stephen Chapin1745 - 1816
  2. Abigail Chapin1747 - 1810
  3. Adams Chapin1750 - 1832
  4. Rhoda Chapin1752 - 1839
  5. Lydia Chapin1755 - 1759
  6. Deborah Chapin1757 - 1811
  7. Josiah Chapin1759 - 1778
  8. Simeon Chapin1761 - 1784
  9. Rachel Chapin1764 - 1823
  10. Levi Chapin1766 - 1833
  11. Marvel Chapin1768 - 1838
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Name Adams Chapin
Gender Male
Birth[1] 12 Apr 1750 Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Death? 23 Oct 1832 Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

He was one of the earliest schoolmasters in Mendon, and let us hope, the youngest for he beg an teaching at fifteen. He was pround of the distinction of having taught in his rude schoo lh ouse the alphebet to a future college president -- his own nephew, Stephen Chapin, afterwards President of Columbus College, Washington, D. C. In the Lexington Alarm of 1775 Adams shoulde red a musket. He was thirty years Justice of the Peace and died at 82 in partiel mental eclipse brought on by the death of his wife.

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  1. ↑ Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Mendon, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: Wright & Potter, 1920)
    43.

    CHAPIN, Adams, s. of Josiah and Rachel, [born] Apr. 12, 1750.

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