Joel CHAFFE

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...May 26, 1742, Joel Chaffe and others petitioned the General Court in Boston (Woodstock at this time being part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony) to be made a separate town with religious privileges, the petitioners living very distant from the First congregational Church in Woodstock and that church being so small that it could not accommodate all those in the parish. Joel Chaffe lived four and a quarter miles from this church. December 11, 1742, Joel sold to Samuel Barnes of Barrington, for L75,seven acres and twenty rods of land in Woodstock. February 9, 1744-5, he sold to his father, for L287, fifty acres of land in the south half of Woodstock, with a dwelling house on it. February 16, 1744-5, he sold to Thomas Allen for L366, another piece of land there. This was his last land transaction, as he died the following summer. His brother Joseph, being appointed October 21, 1745, as administrator of his estate, sold the entire real estate, consisting of seventy-five acres of land, to their brother, John, April 1, 1747. The children received their father's share in their grandfather's estate, August 29, 1754. The estate of their mother was divided among the children in Woodstock, February 2, 1757. Joel Chaffe is thought to have been buried in Woodstock.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth BICKNELL. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas BICKNELL and Ann TURNER) was born in 1715; died before 2 Feb 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth CHAFFE was born on 2 Jan 1729/30 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; died before 29 Aug 1754.
2. Joshua B. CHAFFEE was born on 26 May 1731 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts; died on 09 Oct 1789 in Ellsworth, Connecticut; was buried in Ellsworth Buying Ground, Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.
3. Joel CHAFFE, Jr. was born about 1732 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; died on 25 Aug 1802 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts.
4. Abigail CHAFFE was born on 16 Jan 1734/5 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; was christened in Jan 1734/5 in First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jun 1737.
5. Abigail CHAFFE was born on 2 Jul 1737 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; was christened on 7 Aug 1737 in First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts.
6. Daniel CHAFFE was born on 4 Aug 1739 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; was christened on 30 Sep 1739 in First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts; died on 23 Dec 1740 in Woodstock, Connecticut.
7. Lucy CHAFFE was born on 8 May 1742 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; was christened on 20 Jun 1742 in First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts.
8. Ruth CHAFFE was born on March 20 1743/4 in Woodstock, Massachusetts, now Connecticut; was christened on 13 May 1744 in First Congregational Church, Woodstock, Massachusetts.

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October 28, 1694, just before John Chaffe's twenty-first birthday, his father died and he, together with his mother and younger brother, was made an executor of the estate. According to the terms of his father's will he received a "heifor," one-half of his father's "tooles" and gun, and, on attaining the age of twenty-one, one-fourth part of his "Upland and Meadow ground in Swanzey." He and his mother drew lot number one hundred and twenty in a division of land in Rehoboth, June 16, 1697. (Rehoboth Records.).....

John married Sarah HILLS on 17 Jul 1700 in Swansea, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Gershom HILLS and Elizabeth CHADWICK) was born in Malden, Massachusetts; died on 7 Apr 1735 in Woodstock, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]