Display Patriot - P-345579 - Samuel CHIPMAN

Samuel CHIPMAN

SAR Patriot #: P-345579

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State of Service: MA      Qualifying Service: Sergeant

Birth: O8 May 1754 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA
Death: 28 Feb 1776 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA

Qualifying Service Description:

Sergeant, Capt Micah Hamlin's co, Col Joseph Otis regiment, service, 2 days on the alarm at Marshfield, April 19, 1775


Additional References:
  1. MA Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol 3, pg 421
  2. Muster/Payrolls of the Rev War (MA&RI) Vol 12, pg 117 (image 188)

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Burial:
West Barnstable Cemetery (C-0372602)
Location:
West Barnstable / Barnstable / MA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
245129
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
41.708362 / -70.373026
Find A Grave Memorial #:
5761707
Marker Type:

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Comments:
  • The gravestone for Samuel Chipman is made of slate, and measures 22" wide, 20" tall, and 2" thick.
  • Image taken and provided by compatriot David C Shafer member 159259 (MA)


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
  • Cemetery is located southwest side of the intersection of Route 6A (Main Street) and Rt 149 (Meetinghouse Way) in West Barnstable MA
  • The grave site of Samuel Chipman is located beside the stone wall facing Rt. 6A, and 277 ft. from the Rt. 6A cemetery entrance; adjacent to the grave site of the notable Capt. John "Mad Jack" Percival


Author: David Crandall Schafer

Samuel Chipman, eldest son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Bassett) Chipman, was born on 8 May 1754 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. His siblings were Abigail, Mary, William, John, Timothy, and Elizabeth.1

Following the Boston Tea Party, which occurred on 16 December 1773, the town of Marshfield publicly and collectively acknowledged their allegiance to the Crown and the supremacy of the British legislature with a Resolve voted on 31 January 1774. 

Opposing Patriot citizens of Marshfield published their protest to the “Marshfield Resolve” in the Massachusetts Spy, 23 February 1774. For several months the towns Patriots and Tories maintained an apprehensive truce. 

By September, increasing tensions prompted Tory Nathaniel Thomas to request British General Thomas Gage detach troops to Marshfield for the protection of its Loyal citizens. 23 January 1775, one hundred British troops with four officers were dispatched from Boston. Marshfield’s Patriot citizenry plotted to attack but feared the rumored British artillery until 19 April 1775, when militia companies from surrounding towns as far as Barnstable County was called “on the alarm at Marshfield.” 

Coinciding with the alarms at Lexington and Concord, British General Gage ordered the 100 British troops stationed at Marshfield to be withdrawn immediately to Boston on the schooner “Hope” with two additional sloops before the Patriots could attack.2

A Payroll of the Men who went from Barnstable under the command of Colonel Joseph Otis, “on the alarm at Marshfield, 19 April 1775,” lists Captain Micah Hamilton (Hamblin) with 64 men, including Sergeant Samuel Chipman, with two days service. One of five company sergeants, Samuel Chipman, was credited 16 miles travel, earning total wages of 6 shillings and 1 pence. 

At Middlesex, 20 December 1775, Joseph Otis made a “solemn oath” that the submitted Muster Roll was to his knowledge true “in all its parts” before Moses Gill, Justice peace for the province, “compared with the original and therewith agrees”.3

Aged 21 years, Samuel Chipman died 28 February 1776 of Small-Pox. He was buried in a remote segment of the earliest portion of the West Barnstable cemetery.

His epitaph reads: “Ah Death thou hast Conquered me, I by thy Dart am Slain. But Christ hath Conquered thee & I shall Rise again.”

Sources:

  1. Barnstable Town Record transcript, 1713-1781, Vol. 2, page 298
  2. Krusell, Of Tea and Tories, The Story of Revolutionary Marshfield, pages 8-15.
  3. Muster/Payrolls of the Revolutionary War (MA & RI) Vol. 12, page 117 (image 188)

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Additional Information:
  • No DAR GRS records were found November 2022.
  • Cemetery Stone states he died at age of 22 from Small Pox.
  • It is believed he died before being married and had no children.


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