Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

164 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
afterwards to Newport, R. I. During his residence at Martha's
Vineyard he was one of the Justices of the Court, and after his
removal to Newport, he was an assistant to the governor. Eespecting
him I have little information ; but it is just to infer that
if a poor mechanic rises to places of honor and trust, he must be
a man of some talent and of sound judgement. He was thrice
married. First, in 1691, to Mary Skeffe, a daughter of Capt.
Stephen. She died in 1711, aged 40. Second, in 1716, to Widow
Elizabeth Russell, her third marriage. She was a daughter
of Capt. Thomas Handley,, and married first, Pope. Third
in 1725, to (Hannah ?) Hookey of R. I. His thirteen childi'en
were probably all born in Sandwich.
I. John, died young.
II. James, born 18th Dec, 1694.
III. John, born 18th Sept. 1697, married Hannah Fessenden of
Cambridge, Sept. 26, 1726.
IV. Mary, born Dec. 11, 1699.
V. Bethia, twin sister of Mary, married Samuel Smith, Oct.
6, 1717.
VI. Perez, 28th Sept., 1702, is the ancestor of the Delaware,
Carolina and Mississippi families of the name.
VII. Deborah, 6th Dec, 1704.
VIII. Stephen, 9th June, 1708.
IX. Lydia, twin sister of Stephen.
X. Ebenezer, 13th Nov., 1709. He married Mary ,
resided at Falmouth where his son John was born April 10,
1733, afterwards of Barnstable, where he had Ebenezer.
XI. Handley, 31st Aug., 1717. He removed with his father to
Chilmark, thence to Providence, R. I., and in 1761 to
Cornwallis, N. S. He was a distinguished man, and his
descendants are numerous and respectable.
XII. Rebecca, 10th Nov. 1719.
XIII. Benjamin.
Few families are more widely disseminate than this. Elder
Chipman had eleven children and eighty-two grand-children, nearly
aU of whom married and had families. The Rev. K. M.
Chipman has for several years been employed in compiling a genealogy
of the family, extending to the ninth generation.—Want
of funds has prevented him from publishing. No harm will result
from the delay. It will give him an opportunity to correct some
important mistakes into which he has fallen, and from which no
genealogist can claim exemption.
The manuscript of the "Declaration" of John Chipman, from
which we copy is not, as has been supposed, an original document
in the handwriting of the Elder. It is in the hand writing of John
Otis, Esq., an elder brother of Col. James, born thirty years after