Joshua B. CHAFFEE

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He was a farmer, and moved to Sharon from Mansfield, in 1755, shortly after his marriage. April 20, 1757, Matthew St. John of Sharon sold "for love, good will and affection" to his daughter, Mary, and son-in-law, Joshua, twelve acres of land in that town, and April 18, 1758, he sold to Joshua for L75, thirteen acres more there. Joshua sold to Ebenezer Smith, Jr., of Woodstock, Conn., for L12, 10s., two acres of orchard land in the latter town, January 7, 1763. He also bought and sold other pieces of land there. His name appears as one of the company of householders from Sharon, on a roll of Captain Eliphalet Holmes' company of minute men of East Haddam, raised in may, 1776, by order of the "Capt. General." (Connecticut Men in the Revolution). He was made a Freeman in Sharon, October 16, 1777. He made his will February 14, 1787, and in it names as his heirs, his wife Mary, sons oel, Matthew and Joshua Bignall, his daughters Betty, Mary Lucy, Vinie, Olive, Lettice and Julia, his son Joel being made executor. He and his wife are buried in Ellsworth, where their tombstones bear the following epitaph:

"For me to live is Christ and to die is gain."

Joshua married Mary ST. JOHN on 02 Jul 1755 in Sharon, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Matthew ST. JOHN and Mary ELMER) was born on 25 Sep 1739 in Wilton, Connecticut; died on 28 Aug 1824 in Ellsworth, Connecticut; was buried in Ellsworth Buying Ground, Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Bicknell of Middleboro, Mass.

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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]

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Thomas removed from Weymouth to Middleboro, Mass., where he carried on the trade of blacksmith. He died at Middleboro, Feb. 17, 1717/8, and on July 17, 1718, his widow, Ann, was appointed administratrix of his estate.

Thomas married Ann TURNER on 16 Feb 1696/7. Ann was born on 18 Aug 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Japhet Turner of Scituate, Massachusetts