I thought the list might be interested in the message I just sent to Gil
Alford. I'm new to this list so hope it hasn't been discussed previously.
JEANNE
MR. ALFORD: I am a descendant of Mary Chapman b Aug. 30, 1700 Saybrook,
CT, d Dec. 27, 1743 Saybrook, CT. m John Parker, Ensign b March 11, 1695
Saybrook, CT. JEANNE
I previously asked another Chapman researcher about the following (next to
last sentence re ROBERT CHAPMAN ) but nothing was known about it. Can you
shed any light on this?
Book: "BUCKINGHAM FAMILY DESC. OF THOMAS" F. W. CHAPMAN 1872
Appendix Note "D"
A Will of Attawanhood, third son of Uncas, is signed March 10th, 1676, in
Lyme, near Eight Mile Island, in Connecticut River. He gave to his sons a
large tract of land, apparently north-west of Saybrook, with the condition
that if one died it go to the survivor, and if both died, to their sister.
He also left them forty acres at Podunk, and about half a mile square within
a tract which had a little previously been added to Hartford. These lands,
if his three sons died, were to revert to his wives. The rest of his
property was given away in enormous tracts, to various white persons of
Hartford, Saybrook, and other places. Whole townships, as, for instance,
those of Windham, Mansfield, and Canterbury, were included. A single grant
covered 100,000 acres, and the whole line of lands reached eighteen miles
north and south, and in some places east and west. The Indians who then
resided on his territories, he directed to leave them and attach themselves
to his father, Uncas. His sons he directed to live near Saybrook, to be
taught English by their mother, and, at the end of four years to be placed
at an English school. Thirty-five pounds which were owing to him by certain
whites, as well as the rents of all the lands which he had left the boys
were to be expended in their support and education. He recommended his
children earnestly to all his legatees, but more particularly to three whom
he mentioned by name ---Robert Chapman, William Pratt, and Thomas
Buckingham. For himself he directed that he should be buried at Saybrook,
in a coffin, after the manner of the English.*
*Vide Indian Papers, vol. 1, doc. 80