John Chipman, Jr. was born 3 March 1670 in Barnstable County, Massachusetts to John Chipman (1621-1708) and Hope Howland (1629-1684) and died 4 January 1756 Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island of unspecified causes. He married Mary Mercey Skiff (1671-1711) 1691 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Handley (1672-1725) 1718 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: John’s son, Handley, by second wife, Elizabeth describes his father, saying, “My dear Father was a tall Person…my dear fathers hair reddish and he of Light complection..”{D4} [See below Handley's brief biography of his family includinhg elder John Chipman.
MARRIAGE: 1. John 1st married, Mary Skiff, about 1691: to their union were born nine children including, James, John, Mary, Bethia, Perez, Deborah, Stephen, Lydia, and Ebenezer. Mary and Bethia, also Stephen and Lydia were twins. Mary died on 12 March 1711.{D2} The family lived in Sandwich, Barnstable, MA.
2. In 1716, John married the widowed Elizabeth Handley Pope Russell: their union produced two children, Handley and Rebecca. After continuing to live several more years at Sandwich, John moved the family to Martha's Vineyard, where they lived for seven years before Elizabeth Handley died. Elizabeth became very ill while visiting her ex father-in-law Captain Pope in Dartmouth and died 4-5 months later, at his residence, after a long bout with Consumption. John and Elizabeth's son, Handley, writes, "My Dear Father used to go back and forward to Visit her until about the 30 day of Jany A.D. 1725 when she departed this Life..."{D4}
3. On his last trip to visit Elizabeth before she died, John met the widow Hannah Case. Mrs. Case had just buried her husband on Martha's Vineyard and returning to the mainland. The two took the ferry and traveled together on one horse, both going in the same direction to Dartsmouth.{D4}
About a year later, in 1725, at 55 of years of age, John married the widow Hannah Huxley Griffin Case.{D2} Soon after remarrying, John sold his property on Martha's Vineyard and moved to Rhode Island "and Let his money to interest, but it depreciating fast, he called it in and went to shopkeeping." {D4}
LIVELIHOOD: While living in Sandwich John had been a coroner, Lieutenant, Captain, and a Representative to the General Assembly at Boston.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| John Chipman (1692-1692) | |||
| James Chipman (1694-1749) | |||
| John Chipman (1697-1757) | |||
| Bethiah Chipman (1699-1741) | |||
| Mary Chipman (1699-1784) | |||
| Perez Chipman (1702-1749) | |||
| Deborah Chipman (1704-1756) | 6 December 1704 Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States | 4 January 1756 Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States | Nicholas Nickerson (1694-1722) Seth Bangs (1705-1747) |
| Lydia Chipman (1708-1790) | |||
| Stephen Chipman (1708-1735) | |||
| Ebenezer Chipman (1709-1749) | |||
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Handley Chipman (1717-1799) | |||
| Benjamin Chipman (1719-1720) | |||
| Rebecca Chipman (1719-1750) | |||
| Benjamin Chipman (1721-) | |||
Siblings
Residences
Vital Records
Newport Gravestone
- Location: Common Burying Ground (Newport RI), Newport County, Rhode Island
- John Chipman at Find A Grave
- Inscription: "ESQUIRE JOHN CHIPMAN He died in his 85th year"
See Also
- John Chipman
- Chipman in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Howland in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Skiff in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Handley in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Hon. John Chipman - Geni.com
Sources:
- The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. III, article Elder John Chipman's Will and Inventory, p. 181. Recorded in the Barnstable County Probate Records, Vol. III, pages 228-231.
- "Mayflower Families In Progress - Richard Warren...", published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1987, p. 84.
- The Chipman Family: A Genealogy of the Chipmans In America 1631-1920 by Bert Lee Chipman, 1920, Winston -Salem, NC.
- A Chipman Family History by Handley Chipman (1717-1799) of Newport, RI and Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Reproduced and printed by "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register", 1937 Vol. XCI, Publ by the Society at the Robert Henry Eddy Memorial Rooms,Boston.
- Individual source: The Chipman Family: A Genealogy of the Chipmans In America 1631-1920 by Bert Lee Chipman, 1920, Winston -Salem, NC.