Throope Chapman
Personal details
BornMarch 25, 1739
Ashford, Connecticut, USA
Died1794
Readsboro, Vermont, USA
SpouseDeborah Wilson[1]

Throope Chapman (1738–1794) was one of the founders of Readsboro, Vermont, USA.[2][3] He was also an early settler of Dwight, Massachusetts.[4][5] He served with Thomas Knowlton[6] as a member of Captain John Slapp's 8th Co, First Connecticut Regiment, during the Campaign of 1757 in the French and Indian War[7] and also served in the Revolutionary War. He was a selectman in Readsboro through his death in 1794.[8]

Notable descendants include Welcome Chapman.

References

  1. "Branch 101". www.oldwillow.com.. Accessed 1 July 2007.
  2. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (1929). History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association. Vermont: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association. p. 53.
  3. State Papers of Vermont. Vermont Office of Secretary of State. The Tuttle Company, 1958, p. 3.
  4. "Belchertown Soldiers Memorial, a War Memorial". www.hmdb.org. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
  5. Doolittle, Mark. Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, Mass. United States, Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.
  6. "Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton, Connecticut's Forgotten Hero". The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Historical Series, Number Three, September 1997. http://www.connecticutsar.org/articles/scarlet_no3.htm. Accessed 13 July 2007.
  7. "Eighth Company - Capt. Slapp". Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Connecticut Historical Society. Volume IX. Hartford, Connecticut, 1903. Page 184. Google Books:
  8. Coolidge, Austin Jacobs; Mansfield, John Brainard (1859). A History and Description of New England, General and Local. Boston: A.J. Coolidge. pp. 883. OCLC 12762947.


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