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Surnames: CHAFFEE UNDERWOOD BURLINGAME
Classification: Query
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I am Cherie Lynn and my husband is David and our friend is Kevin Chaffee. Kevin and I have
documented BMD's back to his 2nd great grandfather James Orson Chaffee b:1821-1828 New
York and he moved with his parents to "near Warren Ohio" (Warren is the county
seat of Trumbull County). James is on the 1850 census with his parents Daniel K(ingsley)
Chaffee and Julianna (nee Burlingame), in Gustavus, Trumbull, Ohio. I know that on page
127 of William Henry Chaffee's book he names the son of Stephen and Ruth (Underwood)
Chaffee as David Kingsley Chaffee, but I am certain that the name David should actually be
Daniel. I do not have a birth record for James and so I have census records from there
back. Daniel is in the 1840 Ohio, and in 1830 he is in Genesee County, New York. Today
Attica is in Wyoming County, New York and Wyoming County was created in 1841 from Genesee
County. I also find Daniel's father Stephen in the right places at the right times. I
found another record of Steph!
en Chaffee and his wife Ruth nee Underwood Chaffee in the book The Underwood families of
America, by Lucien Underwood, 1913, Pa. in the databases of The New England Historical and
Genealogical Society and in their access to Heritage Quest and then to family of
Underwood. Beginning Page 167 The Underwood Families of America -- Watertown Mass family
group, and the Woodstock branch beginning with Nehemiah Underwood (notes father of
Nehemiah is undocumented but writer Lucien Underwood "supposes Nehemiah's father
could be Jonathan Underwood) I begin on pages 177-179 of the Underwood book and I have
shortened the entry...
"Daniel Undewood of Woodstock, Conn son of Nehemiah was born 14 Aug 1744 at
Sturbridge, Mass. and bapt 7 Oct 1744 married 15 Mar 1769 Experience Kingsley (daughter of
Jonathan) of Woodstock and had
(children)
Jonathan Underwood
Lucy Underwood
Marvel Underwood
Ruth Underwood b 17 Nov 1774 (d 8 Aug 1840 inserted at end of list of children in book) m
5 Feb 1795 Stephen Chaffe "of" Brimfield Mass and later of New Woodstock, New
York, a soldier in the War of 1812 and had children
Lucy Chaffe b 17 Feb 1796 m ____ Buck, d jan 1859
Amasa Ladd Chaffe b 28 Nov 1797 d 5 dec 1869
DANIEL KINGSLEY CHAFFE b Jan 1801 d ____
James Chaffe b 6 Dec 1801 d 4 July 1804
James C Chaffe b 24 Feb 1804 d ____
Oliver Bugbee Chaffe b 20 Apr 1806 d ____
Ruby Underwood Chaffe b 23 Apr 1808 d ____
Alvina Chaffe b 18 Dec 1810 d 21 Jul 1820
Ambrose W Chaffe b 23 July 1813 d ___
and
Elizabeth Underwood
Abishai Sabinen Underwood
and the chapter has ..... more
I also know that William Henry Chaffee in his, really truly wonderful book, says that Ruth
Underwood was the daughter of Kingsley Underwood, but Wm H also says on page 127 that
Stephen and Ruth Chaffee sold "...all their right and title in the real estate of
Daniel Underwood, deceased..." Wm H Chaffee also notes that at the time of
Stephen's and Ruth's marriage that Stephen was living in Brimfield, Mass.
I have researched family history a long time and agreed as a friend to search for info and
records for Kevin's family. I hope all you Chaffee researchers know how disappointing
it will be if Kevin's line is not accepted and it is because I have done this a long
time that I know how important it is that the current Chaffee researchers believe in this
research. I am certainly not trying to cast any doubts on the work of Wm H Chaffee and he
himself notes in his introduction the issue of any errors. There is even a typographical
error in Wm H's own line where his grandfather is Elam and on page 479 Elam is printed
as Elem. I sat and wrote the names Daniel and David several times and I can see how easy
it would be to confuse the name in the written hand. I hope for feedback on this and hope
that all the Chaffee's will want to add Daniel Kingsley Chaffee and his descendants to
their trees and family files...
Regards, Cherie Lynn Jones
Daniel Kingsley Chaffee married before 1821 Julianna Burlingame and they had children...
Stephen Kingsley Chaffee b:c: 1821 New York married Eleanor "Ellen" Ward.
Daniel Vern Chaffee b:c 1822-1823 NY married Sarah Ray then Martha.
Cyrena (?Serena?) Chaffee b:c: 1823-1824 NY married William Highland.
James Orson Chaffee b:c: 1823-1828 NY married Melinda Harriet Merry then Mary Moon/Moore
then Rose C nee unknown.
Julia S Chaffee b:c: 1830 NY cannot find Julia after 1850.
The birth dates are from the census records and vary and all of the children of Daniel had
many children and there are several generations of descendants, (with the exception of
Julia not yet found). In the Ancestry databases the name is mis-indexed many times. I will
provide all my research to any one who wishes...
CLJ