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This is what I have on the statue.This is from 31 English
emigrants who came to New England by 1662,by Dorothy
C. and Gerald E. Knoff.The statue has been copied and is
sometimes known as the "The Puritan".A copy is in
Pennslvania,another in the Luxembourage Gallery in Paris.
The original was unveiled on Thanksgiving Day in 1887 in
Stearns Park,Springfield,Mass.It stands today in front of
Springfield's Public Library.In another book I'm not sure where
I read it (Might be the Chapin book By Gilbert Warren Chapin?)It said in figure and
costume is intended as an ideal
of Samuel Chapin as given by tradition current among his
descendants for there is of his face and features no oral or
written record in existence.So it's my understanding that it
is something the family commissioned in remberence of him.
Although it is refered to as the puritan statue,I remember
reading something when I was in Springfield that the family
when it was unveiled called it "Samuel Chapin" and they were
not happy that it was called "The Puritan".Hope this answers
your question,if not let me know. Colleen