Person:Timothy Chipman (1)

"General Timothy F. Chipman, from Sheffield, Mass., aided in the town surveys in 1783 and then settled on the farm now owned by Clement Fuller. He was born in Barnstable, Mass., on February 1, 1761, and died in Shoreham May 17, 1830. He was descended directly from John Chipman, who came to this country from Dorchester, England, in 1631. Timothy F. Chipman entered the American army in the Revolution in 1777, as a substitute for his father, who was obliged to support a large family. He served in the retreat of the American forces before Burgoyne. He married Polly, daughter of Captain Stephen Smith, on the 24th of May, 1786, and became the father of two sons and nine daughters. He kept a public house in Shoreham for years. He commanded a company of Vermont volunteers on the way to Plattsburgh, but was a day too late to take part in the battle."

1. ↑ MacIntire & Witherell. A Genealogical Register of the Early Families of Shoreham, Vermont. (contributed by Jean Marston).
2. ↑ edited by H.P. Smith. History of Addison County, Vermont. (D. Mason & Company Publishing, 1886).