church in North Woodstock. She was executrix and sole legatee of his estate. Her estate was administered by her daughter Chloe, she being appointed by the Court, July 27, 1819, in Woodstock. The estate was divided there September 8, 1820, among eight living children.

Children, born in Woodstock:

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i Jonathan Cady 5 Chaffee, born October 19, 1759; married Ruth Wells. ii Chloe Chaffee, born April 17, 1761; died in Woodstock, January 31, 1830, unmarried; July 7, 1797, she bought of her uncle, Stephen Chaffee (96), two acres of land in Woodstock where she lived; he gave her in 1798, a Testament, now in the possession of the writer, containing a family record; by his will she received £10 and the exclusive rights to his "pair trees "; she administered her mother's estate.

iii Cyrus Chaffee, born July 18, 1762; died at sea, June 10, 1780, of a
wound received during a sea fight; he was baptized in the First
Congregational Church, Woodstock, August 22, 1762; while a
resident of Rhode Island he enlisted there, April 21, 1777, for
fifteen months in the Continental Service, as a Private in Colonel
Stanton's regiment, Captain Hammitt's company; he also appears
as a Private in Captain Daniel Tilden's company of Lebanon,
New London County, Conn., formed March 7, 1778, and arrived
in camp July 1, 1778.

iv Anna Chaffee, born February 3, 1764; married Perley Sanger.
v Candace Chaffee, born August 27, 1766; died after 1820; married
Barber; she was baptized in the First Congregational
Church, Woodstock, August 27, 1775; died suddenly.
vi Sarah Cady Chaffee, born April 20, 1768; died January 19, 1856;
married in Woodstock, July 22, 1804, by Reverend Eliphalet L.
Clerk, to John Sanger, a widower; he was eighty-two years old
and father of Perley Sanger, husband of Anna Chaffee and of
Azubah Sanger, the wife of Samuel Chaffee (265); they had no
children; she was baptized in the First Congregational Church,
Woodstock, August 27, 1775.

vii Josiah Willard Chaffee, born May 22, 1770; married Ruth Robbins.
viii Molly Chaffee, born December 14, 1771; married Samuel Lyon.
ix Betsey Chaffee, born July 14, 1773; died; married Samuel Howlett
(649) (Rebecca 5 Chaffee, Ebenezer, John, Joseph,2 Thomas1),
born in Woodstock, February 29, 1764 (?); they had no children;
she was baptized in the First Congregational Church, Woodstock,
August 27, 1775.

x David Chaffee, born September 16, 1776; married (1) Abigail Paul;
(2) Almira Freeman.

xi Rhoda Chaffee, born January 24, 1779; died in Woodstock, June 30, 1780; baptized in the First Congregational Church of Woodstock, October 31, 1779.

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111 Freelove Chaffe (Amos, Thomas,3 Nathaniel, Thomas 1) was born in Rehoboth, Mass., and died. She married there, November 27, 1746, Eliphalet, son of Ephraim and Martha (Ide) Carpenter. He was born in Rehoboth, May 26, 1721, and died June 22, 1801. He served in the Revolution. Freelove Chaffe was baptized in the First Congregational Church in Rehoboth, July 2, 1732. She and her husband lived there for many years after their marriage, about 1790 moving to Randolph, Vt., and from there in 1799 to Barre, Vt.

Children, born in Rehoboth:

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341 i Amos Carpenter, born February 7, 1747; married Sarah Ide. ii Hannah Carpenter, born June 1, 1751; died August 19, 1854. iii Ephraim Carpenter, born December 7, 1753; married Sarah Titus. iv Eliphalet Carpenter, Jr., born April 13, 1757; married Judith Robinson. v Remember Carpenter, born January 13, 1762; married Phebe Smith. 346 vi Hannah Carpenter, born May 20, 1765; died November 11, 1777. 347 vii Comfort Carpenter, born April 13, 1771.

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For further descendants see Carpenter Genealogy, by Amos B. Carpenter.

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125 Charles Chaffee (Thomas,4 Thomas,3 Nathaniel, Thomas 1) was born in Rehoboth, Mass., June 5, 1744, and died. He married, April 17, 1771, Mrs. Mary (Peck) Jacob, daughter of Nathaniel and Alice (Fish) Peck, and widow of Allen Jacob. She was born December 11, 1782. Charles Chaffee was baptized in the First Congregational Church of Rehoboth, June 17, 1744. He served in the Revolution as follows:

"Chafee, Charles, Rehoboth. Private, Capt. Phanuel Bishop's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service 8 days.

"Chaffee, Charles. Sergeant, Capt. Joseph Franklin's co., Col. Thomas Carpenter's regt.; marched from Rehoboth to Bristol on the alarm at Rhode Island of December 8, 1776; service, 16 days." [Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution.]

Children, born in Rehoboth:

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348 i Lucy Chaffee.

349 ii Jacob Chaffee, born September 3, 1773.

350 iii Russell Chaffee, born January 15, 1776; "Russell Chaffee, yeoman," sold land in Rehoboth and Seekonk, Mass., from 1810 to 1817.

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129 Amos Chaffe (Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel, Thomas 1) was born in Rehoboth, Mass., December 11, 1750, and died at sea, March 9, 1793. He married in Rehoboth, February 22, 1775, Sarah, daughter of Major Nathan Munroe of that place. She was born May 15, 1754, and died in Providence, R. I., July 12, 1800.

Amos Chaffe was baptized in the First Congregational Church of Rehoboth, March 17, 1750. He was a stone-mason and lived in Providence, having moved there soon after his marriage. The Providence Town Records contain the following entries in regard to him:

"The Town of Providence debt to carting a load of the Records of Imps Court, and the Records of this town, from the Town to Colonel John Wartemans in Johnstone about six or seven miles £1 sh16 do.

"Providence R. I. Dec. ye 9th Ad 1776.

"AMOS CHAFFE

"At a Town meeting of the Town of Providence R. I. held on the 16th day of May Ad 1777. It was voted and asked that twelve shillings lawful money be paid to Amos Chaffee of Providence, R. I. out of the Town Treasury for removing the Town Records to Johnston by warrant from the Governor upon the Alarm in December last.

Witness Theodore Foster Town Clerk

"To Mr. James Arnold Town Treasurer."

May 4, 1789, Amos Chaffe and several others addressed a petition to the Town Council, asking them to allow inoculation for smallpox, and to open a hospital for the treatment of that disease. That year also he was appointed administrator of the estate of his brother Thomas.

Children, born in Providence:

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i Amos Chaffe (Chafee), Jr., born November 24, 1775; died in Prov-
idence, November 21, 1803; lived in Baltimore, Md., unmarried;
he died intestate and his sister Sarah was made administratrix
of his estate, and the inventory taken February 13, 1804; he had
a pew in the Beneficent Congregational Society Meeting House,
in 1803.

ii Otis Chaffe, born November 13, 1777; married Amy Underwood.
iii Sarah Chaffe, born September 7, 1779; died; married, July 5, 1801,
Pardon Bosworth.

iv Nathan M. Chaffe, married Matilda Griffith.

v Zechariah Chaffe, born December 21, 1785; married Mary Eddy.
vi Hannah Chaffe, born May 10, 1788; died June 7, 1857; married William

Crapon.

vii Sophia Munroe Chaffe, born November 25, 1792; married Nathaniel

Barstow.

358 viii Nancy Chaffe, died; lived with her brother Nathan, unmarried.

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130 Joseph 5 Chaffee (Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1) was born in Rehoboth, Mass., September 17, 1752, and died in Seekonk, Mass. (formerly Rehoboth), February 5, 1842. He was married (1) in Rehoboth, October 26, 1775, by Elder Samuel Peck, to Lois Barney of that place, their intention of marriage being entered there, September 5, 1775. She died in 1790, and was buried in Rehoboth. He was married (2) there June 12, 1791, by Reverend John Ellis, to Huldah, daughter of Colonel Timothy Walker of that place. She was born April 29 (May 22), 1755. April 26, 1797, she sold her share of her father's estate, being the south half of nineteen acres in Rehoboth.

Joseph Chaffee served as a Private and Corporal in the Revolution, as follows: "Chaffe, Joseph, Rehoboth. Corporal, Capt. Isaac Hodges's co.; receipt dated Dorchester, for wages for service from Aug. 12, 1776, to Oct. 1, 1776; also, Capt. Hodges's co., Col. Ebenezer Francis's regt.; receipts for wages for Oct. and Nov., 1776, dated Dorchester; also, same co. and regt.; credited with 2 days travel allowance; roll dated Nov. 29, 1776; company drafted from various towns in Bristol Co.

"Chaffe, Joseph. Private, Capt. Sylvanus Martin's co., Col. Williams's regt.; service from Sept. 29, 1777, to Oct. 30, 1777, at Tiverton, R. I. Roll dated Rehoboth, Jan. 13, 1778.

"Chaffe, Joseph, Swanzey. Private, Capt. Peleg Peck's co., Col. Thomas Carpenter's regt.; enlisted Aug. 4, 1780; discharged Aug. 9, 1780; service, 6 days, on

an alarm at Tiverton, R. I.; by order of Col. Slead all the men in Swanzey were joined in one company under Capt. Peck, the other officers refusing to serve. Roll sworn to at Rehoboth." [Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution.]

March 9, 1796, Joseph Chaffee bought for £18 of Noah Chaffe (148) land in Rehoboth.

Children, by first wife, born in Rehoboth:

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i Lucy Chaffee, born December 5, 1776; married Joseph Smith.

ii Barney Chaffee, born October 7, 1778; died at sea; probably married who died in Bristol, R. I., June 14, 1812, aged

Nancy
twenty-one.

iii Joseph Chaffee, Jr., born June 28, 1780; left home and was never
of again.

iv Martha Chaffee, born July 10, 1784; married Joseph Mason.
v William Chaffee, born February 4, 1786; married Martha Bowen.
Children, by second wife, born in Rehoboth:

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vi Charlotte Chaffee, born October 10, 1791; married in Seekonk, September 13, 1812, John Arnold.

vii Walker Chaffee, born September 10, 1793; married Patience Bowen. +366 viii Wilder Chaffee, born March 31, 1796; married Sabrina Bowen. +367 ix Huldah Chaffee, born May 19, 1798; married Benjamin Peck.

131 Thomas 5 Chaffe, Jr. (Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,' Thomas 1), was born in Rehoboth, Mass., March 9, 1755, and died in Providence, R. I., November 26, 1788. He married in Rehoboth, December 7, 1780, Hannah, daughter of Nathan Munroe of that place. She died in Providence, March 9, 1785, aged thirty-two. Thomas Chaffe, Jr., was baptized in the First Congregational Church, Rehoboth, May 11, 1755. He served in the Revolution with the Rhode Island troops as follows:

"Chafee Thomas. Private, Col. John Topsham's Reg't. raised for 3 yrs. Dec. 26, 1776, as per list of balances reported due by the committee, Oct. 17, 1785.” [Manuscript, Rhode Island Historical Society.]

"Chaffee, Thomas. Paid his money by town council for one month military service from Oct. 1, 1777, in place of a person who refused to serve." [Providence Town Papers.]

"Thomas Chaaffee," probably this man, a gunner, was one of the American prisoners on the Island of Rhode Island, April 29, 1778. He was taken prisoner on board the ship Reprisal when she was captured by the British ship Unicorn. [Rhode Island Archives, State House, Providence, R. I.]

"Chafey, Thomas. In Carlile's Co., Artillery, under Lt-Col. Josiah Flagg. Did service on Rhode Island 11 days from July 29-Aug. 7, 1780."

He was a blacksmith in Providence, December 14, 1784, when he bought of Nathan Munroe, ninety-six and three-quarters acres and twenty rods of. land in Swansea, Mass., for £261, 7s. 13d. His brother Amos was appointed administrator of his estate in 1789.

Children:

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i Thomas Chaffe (Chaffee), Jr., born about 1781; died; sold land in Swansea in 1806, when he owned land in Rehoboth, where he lived; "yeoman."

369 i David Chaffe (Chaffee), born August 15, 1783; died August 24, 1784, aged eleven months and nine days; buried in North Burying-Ground, Providence.

132 Stephen 5 Chaffe (Thomas, Thomas,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1) was born probably in Rehoboth, Mass., about 1757, and died in Springville, N. Y., January 23, 1819, in his sixty-third year. He was married in Swansea, Mass., December 14, 1783, by Elder Russell Mason of that place, to Patience Mason, who died April 15, 1838, in her seventy-fourth year, and was buried with her husband in Springville.

Stephen Chaffe served in the Revolution as follows:

"Chaffee Stephen, Rehoboth. Private, Capt. James Hill's co., Col. Williams's regt.; service from Sept. 29, 1777, to Oct. 30, 1777, at Tiverton, R. I.; also, Capt. Peleg Peck's co., Col. John Daggett's regt.; enlisted Jan. 16, 1778; discharged April 1, 1778; service 2 mos. 15 days; company stationed at Warwick, R. I.; enlistment, 3 months; roll sworn to at Swanzey; also, descriptive list of men mustered by James Leonard, Muster Master, dated Taunton, June 1, 1778; Capt. Joseph Franklin's (10th) co., Col. Thomas Carpenter's (1st Bristol Co.) regt.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, dark; hair, brown; eyes, blue; residence, Rehoboth; enlistment, 9 months from time of arrival at Fishkill.

'Chaffey, Stephen, Rehoboth Descriptive list of men enlisted from Bristol Co. for the term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, June 16, 1778; 10th co., 1st regt.; age, 20 yrs.; stature, 5 ft. 10 in.; complexion, dark; residence Rehoboth; also, list of men returned as received of Jonathan Warner, Commissioner, by Col. R. Putnam, July 20, 1778." [Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution.]

Stephen Chaffe was a carpenter and farmer. In 1796 he lived in Pittsford, Vt., and in 1800 in Chittenden, Vt., between 1796 and 1801 buying and selling land in those towns. He is also said to have lived in New Hampshire. About 1817 or 1818 he moved from Wallingford, Vt., to Springville.

Children:

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i Charles Chaffe, married Polly Miles.

ii Jonathan Chaffe, born in November, 1785; married Nancy Aldrich. iii Stephen Harrison (?) Chaffe, married Salome Starkey.

iv Phoebe Chaffe.

v Rhoda Sophronia Chaffe, born July 11, 1792; married Timothy S.

Nichols.

vi Amy Chaffe.

vii Patience Chaffe, married Alanson Lovelace, and lived in Rochester, N. Y.

377 viii Rebecca Chaffe.

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ix Mary Chaffe, lived with her sister Mrs. Nichols in Vermont; later
moved to New York state.
x Sally Chaffe.

134 Josiah Chaffe (Jonathan, Jonathan,3 Nathaniel,2 Thomas 1) was born in Ashford, Conn., February 10, 1728-9, and died there, April 24, 1800. He married in Ashford, April 10, 1760, Elizabeth Dimmock, who died April 26, 1814, aged seventy-seven, and was buried in Ashford.

Josiah Chaffe was baptized in the First Congregational Church of Ashford, February 23, 1728-9. He bought land in Ashford as early as 1753, and later made several other purchases there. He was admitted to the new freeman's oath in Ashford, April 13, 1778. Under the date of May 5, 1787, we find that his earmark for cattle was "a half penny cut out of each side of the left ear." April 4, 1815, in Ashford, Carpenter Chaffe, one of the heirs of Josiah Chaffe, moved for a division of the property that belonged to the widow, Elizabeth, "now deceased,"