Download or read book The Chipman Family, a Genealogy of the Chipmans in America, 1631-1920 written by Alberto Lee Chipman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Chipman was born, probably at Bryans-Piddle, near Dorchester, England about 1614; died April 7, 1708. Always brotherless and early left fatherless, he sailed from Barnstable, Devon County, England in May 1631, in the ship Friendship, arriving in Boston July 14 1631. John Chipman was the first and only one of the name to seek a home in America, and up to 1850 there was no Chipman in this country who was not descended from him...In 1646...[he] married Hope, second daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tillie) Howland, born in Plymouth, Mass., 1629; died 1683...In 1864 he married Ruth , youngest daughter of William Sargent, born in Charlestown, Mass Oct. 25, 1642 [who had been married and widowed twice]...The will of John Chipman, [was] dated Nov. 12, 1702, [and] proved May 17, 1708..."--P. 13-14. Descendants lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Rhode Islalnd, Indiana, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States and Canada.