Ancestry of
Bill Belichick

NFL Head Coach

Japhet Chapin

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Belichick — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1538 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Chapin 
  • Mother:
  • Cicely Penney   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 15 Oct 1642 
  • Christening Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 20 Feb 1711/1712 
  • Death Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abilenah Cooley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Jul 1664 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Chapin

  Sarah Chapin (Ahnentafel No:769 )

  Thomas Chapin

  John Chapin

  Ebenezer Chapin

• Sources for Japhet Chapin

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Milford, p. 50, Birth record for son Thomas Chapin.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 1668, Birth record for son Thomas Chapin (born at Milford).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 32, Birth record for son John Chapin.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 29, Birth record for daughter Sarah Chapin.
  • ⁵ 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), 3, 9-13.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1994, Vol. 27, p. 17.
  • ⁷ Swift, Katharine Whitin, The Swift Family: Historical Notes, Worcester, Massachusetts: The Commonwealth Press (1955), 124.