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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