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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 159
Dimmock, both grand children of Elder Chipman. Family of Elder
John Chipman
The births of twelve children of Elder Chipman are recorded ;
one at Plymouth and eleven in Barnstable, Elizabeth is the only
child named, older than Hope. In his will dated at Sandwich,
Nov. 12, 1702, and proved May 17, 1708, he names sons Samuel
and John, and daughters Elizabeth, Hope, Lydia, Hannah, Ruth,
Mercy, Bethia and Desire.
To his daughters, he gave half his moveable estate in
Sandwich and Barnstable, excepting the articles given to Samuel,
and he adds the following proviso : "And in case any of my said
daughters be dead before their receiving this my bequest, my will
is that their part be given and distributed equally to their surviving
children." Two of the daughters, Hannah and Ruth, were
then dead, and it is probable that Bethia had also deceased.
His first wife was Hope, second daughter of John Howland
and EKzabeth Tiley. Until the discovery of Bradford's History
in 1855, in the Library of the Bishop of London, it had been supposed
that his first wife was a daughter of Gov. Carver.—She died in
Barnstable and was buried in the ancient burying ground on Lothrop's
Hill. Her monument is in good preservation, and the following
is a copy of the inscription :
Here lyeth
Inteered ye Body of
Mrs. Hope Chipman
WIFE OF Elder John Chipman
AGED 54 YEARS
WHO CHANGED THIS LIFE
FOR A BETTER
YE 8th of January
16 83.
He married for his second wife the Wid. Ruth Bourne. She
was a daughter of Mr. William Sargeant, born in Charlestown 25
Oct. 1642, married first, Jonathan, son of Josiah Win slow of
Marshfield, second, Mr. Richard Bourne of Sandwich. She died
in Sandwich in 1713, aged 71, leaving no issue. Elder John Chipman
died in Sandwich 7 April, 1708, aged 87 years. Children of
Elder John Chipman
I. Elizabeth, born 24 June, 1 647 at Plymouth, baptized in Barnstable,
Aug. 18, 1650. Mrs. Hope Chipman was admitted
to the church on the 7th of Aug. 1650, and Elder John
Chipman Jan'y 30, 1652-3. Hope was baptized, according
to Puritan usage, on the Sabbath next succeeding her birth,
namely on the 5th of Sept. 1652, having been born on the
31st of the preceeding August.—Elizabeth was the second