Ancestry of
Noah Webster

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Catherine Chapin

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Noah Webster — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Chapin 
  • Mother:
  • Cicely Penney   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1626 
  • Christening Location:
  • Berry Pomeroy, Devonshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 4 Feb 1712/1713 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Marshfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Dec 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Marshfield (Ahnentafel No:14 )

  Margaret Marshfield

  • Notes: 

  • Catherine Chapin's given name is also seen as Katherine.

• Additional marriages for Catherine Chapin

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  • Spouse:
  • Nathaniel Bliss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Nov 1646
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Thomas Gilbert
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 JUN 1655 [sic]
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts

• Sources for Catherine Chapin

  • ¹ Fairfield, CT: Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, p. 220.
  • ² Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887, Birth record for daughter Margaret Bliss.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 20, Marriage record for Nathaniell Bliss and Katheryne Chapin.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1888, Vol. 42, p. 280.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 23.
  • ⁶ The American Genealogist, 1992, Vol. 67, p. 165.
  • ⁷ The American Genealogist, 2019, Vol. 91, p. 45.
  • ⁸ The American Genealogist, 1988, Vol. 63, p. 163.
  • ⁹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. V, M-P, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 51.
  • ¹⁰ Bliss, John Homer, Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America, From About the Year 1550-1880, Boston, Massachusetts: Printed by the Author (1881), 36.
  • ¹¹ Brainard, Homer Worthington, et. al., The Gilbert Family: Descendants of Thomas Gilbert, 1582(?)-1659 of Mt. Wollaston (Braintree), Windsor, and Wethersfield, Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press (1953), 48.
  • ¹² Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), ix, xi, 2, 4.
  • ¹³ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1994, Vol. 27, pp. 16, 20.
  • ¹⁴ Frost, Josephine C., Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and His Wife Eunice White Bullard, Unknown: Unknown (1927), 20-21, 24-25, 66.
  • ¹⁵ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1978, reprinted from 1952), 479.
  • ¹⁶ Leach, Josiah Granville, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts: unknown (1894), 145-146.
  • ¹⁷ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in America . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: Hammond Press (1901), 116.
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 175.