John CHAFFE

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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]

John married Elizabeth HAYWARD on 4 Nov 1735 in Ashford, Connecticut. Elizabeth was born in abt. 1673; died on 5 Feb 1760 in Woodstock, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph Chaffe was Constable and town Sealer of weights and measures in Barrington in 1729.
January 21, 1729/30, "Joseph Chaffe Junr. of Barrington, boatman," bought of Benjamin Marcy of Woodstock, husbandman, a "Mansion house" and seventy-five acres of land in Woodstock, bounded by the land of Isaiah Tiffany and John Chaffe, for L300.
February 23, 1729/30, "Joseph Chaffee Junr. of Barrington in the County of Bristol in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Boatman, for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred pounds to me paid by my Honoured Father, John Chaffee of Woodstock, in the County of Suffolk and Province aforesaid, yeoman, being part of my Portion or Patrimony of my said Father's Estate do by these presents Remit, Release and forever Quit Claim . . . unto my Father John Chaffee . . . all my right title interest Claim & Demand unto all of Housing & Lands of my said Father being & Lying in Woodstock Aforesaid, belonging . . . to me as a son or heir." This document was witnessed by his uncle Joseph Chaffe and Samuel Luther. (Woodstock Land Records.) In those days a man was called "Junior" if there was another man in his family of the same Christian name, whether he was his father or not. Between the date of the above release and July 5, 1730, Joseph and his family removed to Woodstock, Mass. (now Conn.) as on the latter date his wife was admitted to the First Congregational Church of Woodstock by a letter of dismission and recommendation from the Church of Christ in Barrington. He settled in what is now West Woodstock, and which was set off from Woodstock as the Second Precinct of Woodstock, or New Roxbury......

Joseph Chaffe died of smallpox, and one of the items in the account of the administrators against the estate is 5s. "for brimstone & rum to cleanse the infection out of the house." He lies buried in the cemetery in Hampden, Mass. (formerly South Wilbraham)...

Family/Spouse: Hannah MAY. Hannah was born on 1 Oct 1704 in Swansea, Massachusetts; was christened on 12 Feb 1706/7 in Swansea, Massachusetts. [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.

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]

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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]

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Ebenezer Chaffe was baptized in the First Congregational Church of Woodstock, October 3, 1731, and owned the covenant, October 10th following. He was still a communicant in that church July 3, 1737/8. December 21, 1733, "Ebenezer Chafee husbandman of Woodstock" bought land there for L96 of Nathaniel and Smith Johnson. may 19, 1755, he sold to Thomas Chapman, probably his son-in-law, for L200, ten acres there. April 3, 170, he bought of Benjamin Skinner of Springfield, land in that township for L15. November 17, 1764, he sold to his son Ezra for L60, twenty-five acres of land in the south half of Woodstock. February 11, 1765, "Ebenezer Chaffee yeoman" sold to his brother, "John Chaffee of Wilbraham" (which town had just been set off from Springfield as a separate town), thirty-eight and three-fourths acres of land there, the price being L6, 16s.

Ebenezer married Mary SCARBOROUGH on 22 Apr 1730 in Woodstock, Massachusetts. Mary was born on 25 Jul 1708; died on 21 Jan 1746/7 in Woodstock, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Mary BACON on 2 Feb 1747/8. Mary was born on 24 Nov 1696; died on 29 Dec 1753. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Sarah ADAMS about 1755. Sarah was born about 1719; died on 5 Aug 1782 in Woodstock, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hezekiah Chaffe was a physician.

Family/Spouse: Mary TOOGOOD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]