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- John Chipman, Barnstable, had been at Plymouth or Yarmouth a few years before 1650, and may have resided at other towns, since he said, 8 Feb. 1652, it was 21 years ago that he came from England and was now about 37 years old. So that it seems probably he came with Allerton in the White Angel, or in the Friendship, that had sailed at the same time, from Barnstable, in Devon. but had put back, and so reached here a few days later. He married Hope, second daughter of John Howland, had Elizabeth, born 24 June 1647, at Plymouth, baptized at Barnstable 18 August 1650, besides one or two more, for he speaks of more than one before Hope, 13 Aug., baptized 5 Sept. 1652. His father Thomas had a good estate near Dorchester in Co. Dorset.
John Chipman was long a ruling Elder, and representative from 1663 to 1669 except 1667. He died 8 January 1684.
Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, 1976.
Elder John Chipman, the son of Thomas Chipman, was born in Dorchester, England, about 1621. He came to this country with his cousin, Richard Derby, in May 1637, and landed in Plymouth. In 1646 he married Hope, a daughter of John Howland; in 1649 he was a freeman of Barnstable, and was the last ruling elder of that church. He was one of the committee appointed by the court in Plymouth, June, 1659, to attend the meetings of the Quakers, "to endeavor to reduce them from the error of their wayes." They recommended the repeal of the laws of the colony against Quakers, but their report did not meet with the approval of the court. While living in Barnstable, he filled many of the offices of the town, but in 1684, after his second marriage, he moved to Sandwich, where he died April 7, 1708.
History of the Town of Middleboro Massachusetts, Thomas Weston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1906.
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