Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Caleb Humeston

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • James Humeston 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Bishop   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 May 1762 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 5 Sep 1762 
  • Christening Location:
  • North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • from 5 Jan 1842 to 7 Jan 1842 
  • Death Location:
  • West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Elmwood Cemetery, Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Bishop
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Feb 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Congregational Church, North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lovina Humeston (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  • Notes: 

  • Caleb Humeston's surname is also seen as Hummiston.

    Sources disagree on the exact date of Caleb Humeston's death. Probate records give the date as the 5th of January. His obituary gives it as the 6th and his gravestone gives the date as the 7th.

• Sources for Caleb Humeston

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Probate records for Caleb Humeston.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 116, Birth record for daughter Lovina Humeston.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Springfield, Vol. 2, p. 243, Death record for Caleb Humeston.
  • ⁴ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 4, pp. 896, 902.
  • ⁵ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 206.
  • ⁶ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, CT, Christian Secretary, 18 FEB 1842, Obituary for Caleb Humeston.
  • ⁷ 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), 396.
  • ⁸ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1986, Vol. 19, p. 322, Marriage record for Caleb Humaston and Sarah Bishop.
  • ⁹ Ely, Heman, Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely, The Emigrant, Who Settled First in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass., Cleveland, Ohio: Short and Forman, Printers and Stationers (1885), 116.

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