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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 04 Feb 1760 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA Death: 11 May 1786 Barnstable / Barnstable / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private, Captain Micah Hamlen, Col Nathaniel Freeman;
10 days on an alarm at Dartmouth, Bedford, and Falmouth in Sept. 1778.
2 days guarding prisoners from the "Somerset" from Barnstable to Plymouth.
service, on alarms at Falmouth in March, April, May and September 1779 at Falmouth.
service, August 6, 1780 to October 30, 1780 at Rhode Island, to reinforce the Continental Army for 3 months.
Additional References:
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 3, pg 421 & 422.
Muster/Payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Rev War (MA&RI)
Vol 146, pg 469
Vol 36, pg 31, 32, 32a, 34
Vol 2, pg 77
Spouse: Hannah Howland Children: Betsy; Hannah;
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Image taken and submitted with permission from compatriot David Schafer (MA) member 159259.
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
From the Rt. 149 cemetery entrance, travel 12 yards. Then, parallel to Rt. 149, 83 yards to arrive at the grave site of William Chipman.
Photo: 1 of 1
Author: David Crandall Schafer
William Chipman was born on 4 February 1760 at Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, son of Timothy and Elizabeth (Bassett) Chipman. His siblings were Abigail, Samuel, Mary, John, Timothy, and Elizabeth.1
Directed to attack American privateering at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a British fleet of two frigates, an 18 gun brig, and a 36 transports, with 4,000 troops, anchored on 5 September 1778, at Clark’s Cove. Disembarking at Clark’s Point, the British troops, with orders to destroy all vessels, storehouses, and wharves associated with the rebel privateers, marched through Dartmouth, Bedford, and Acushnet. In response, militia companies from Plymouth and Barnstable Counties were called to alarm at Dartmouth, Bedford, and Falmouth. “A Pay Role of wages and mileage due to Captain Micah Hamlen’s company of Matrosses in Colonel Freeman’s Regiment of the Militia at Bedford, Dartmouth, and Falmouth, in the service of the state in September 1778” lists 33 men, including Private William Chipman, ten days service, wages due £2, 13 shillings, four pence.2
On 2 November 1778, the British Man of War “Somerset” ran aground at Truro, Mass., with the Captain surrendering his crew to local officials. Under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Enoch Hallet, local militia companies guarded over 400 prisoners as they marched through each town until they arrived at Boston. “A payroll of a number of Militia for a number of days Being Detached from Captain Micah Hamlen’s company, Colonel Nathaniel Freeman’s Regiment in the Town of Barnstable to Guard Prisoners that belonged to the Somerset from Barnstable to Sandwich and Plymouth in November 1778” lists 28 men including Private William Chipman, service two days, total wages 4 shillings, eight pence.3
Attacks by British vessels to capture supplies and livestock from the seacoast communities of Buzzard’s Bay and Vineyard Sound necessitated calling out of the militia in the spring of 1779 and again in September 1779. The Payrolls of Captain Micah Hamlen’s company, in Colonel Nathaniel Freeman’s regiment for alarms called in March, April, May, and September 1779, all list 40 men, including Private William Chipman, 15 days service, wages £1, 5 shillings.4 The continuing need to provide men for the Continental Army necessitated an Order of the Counsel of Massachusetts State on 27 July 1780 to supply men to reinforce the Continental Army. The payroll of Captain Micah Hamlen’s company of militia in Lieutenant Colonel Hallet’s Regiment for three months in 1780 “to Reinforce the Continental Army” lists 57 men, including Private William Chipman, service two months, 29 days, wages £29, 5 shillings.5
William married Hannah Howland, daughter of Job and Hannah (Jenkins) Howland, on 11 December 1783 at Barnstable. Together they had two known children:6
Betsy was born on 11 October 1784 and died on 11 June 1786.
Hannah was born on 10 February 1786 and married Samuel Fuller.
The Patriot died on 11 May 1786 and was buried at the West Barnstable Cemetery. Mrs. Hannah (Howland) Chipman married Lemuel Nye, Jr., on 12 May 1792 and later died at Sandwich, aged 76, on 10 April 1838.
Sources:
Barnstable Town Records, 1713-1781, Volume 2, page 228.
Muster/Payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Rev. War (MA&RI) Vol. 36, pg. 216 (image 277)
Muster/Payrolls, and various papers (1763-1808) of the Rev. War (MA&RI) Vol. 36, pg. 34 (image 52)
Ibid, Volume 2, page 77 (image 243)
Barnstable Town Records, 1765-1783, Vol. 3, pg. 214
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