Simeon CHAFFE

Family/Spouse: Love DAVIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Chaffe probably moved with his parents from Swansea to Woodstock, about 1729 or 1730, and was living there at the time of his marriage. He was baptized and owned the covenant in the First congregational Church there, July 29, 1733, the same day his wife being admitted to full communion with the same church. His name is found on the membership list February 24, 1740, and in march, 1753. July 15, 1745, he bought of John Bartholomew for L25, twenty acres and twenty perches of land in the sough half of Woodstock. April 1, 1747, Joseph Chaffe, administrator of the estate of Joel Chaffe, sold to John Chaffe all the real estate of the said Joel, being seventy-five acres; January 14th following John Chaffe sold to Samuel Mascraft for L250, 75 acres of land there, probably that formerly belonging to joel. John was a voter in Woodstock, when made a Freeman, September 12, 1749. September 25, 1752, "John Chaffe, husbandman" sold to James Franklin of Attleboro, Mass., sixty acres of land in Woodstock for L450. August 29, 1754, he received from his father fifty acres of land valued at L70. Decdember 24, 1754, he bought back from James Franklin the land he sold him in 1752, paying an advance price of L40. The land received from his father in 1754, "John Chaffe, yeoman" he sold April 6, 1764, to Benjamin Skinner of Wilbraham, one of thirteen acres with buildings thereon for L296, one of thirty-five for L30, and one of sixty-one acres for L18. June 30, 1765, he ad his wife were dismissed from the church in Woodstock to the Second Congregational Church in Stafford, Conn. In 1768 they were members of the South Wilbraham Congregational Church. October 20th of that year, "John Chaffe and Mehitable his wife of South Wilbraham" sold to William Martin, Jr., of Woodstock, twenty eight acres of land and a mansion house there for L70. Septembe 3, 1769, he gave to his son-in-law, Phineas Stebbins, "in consideration of that love and goodwill which I do bear to son-in-law Phineas Stebbins, husbandman of Wilbraham" certain lots of land in that place. Three days later he sold to his son Simeon for L6, land there. may 30, 1770, a list of sittings in the Wilbraham Congregational Church states that "John Chaffee and wife, " with six others, occupied pew number twenty-six. March 14, 1772, he sold to his son Amos, land in Wilbraham for L20. An agreement made in Wilbraham in 1774, not to purchase English-made goods, was signed by John Chaffee and one hundred and twenty-four other men. The farm on which John Chaffe lived in Wilbraham was inherited by his son Simeon, and from him, by his son Emery.

In the old burying-ground in Hampden (formerly South Wilbraham) lie the remains of John Chaffe and his wife, their gravestones bearing the following inscriptions:

"In memory of
Mr. John Chaffe
who departed this life
Janry 2nd 1796
aged 89 years 11 mos
and 12 days
My flesh shall slumb er in the ground
Til the last trumpets joful sound
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise
And in my Saviours image rise."

In memory of
Mrs. Mehitabel wife of
Mr. John Chaffe
who departed this life
Jun (or Jan) 29th 1803
aged 96 years & 26 days
I shall behold the face
Of my forgiving God
And stand complete in righteousness
Washed in my Saviours blood."

John married Mehitable MASCRAFT on 17 Dec 1730 in Woodstock, Massachusetts. Mehitable was born in abt. 1707; died on 29 Jun(Jan) 1803 in South Wilbraham, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]