Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Sarah Bishop

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Harry Chapin — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 67 
  • Father:
  • James Bishop 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Todd   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Mar 1764 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jan 1854 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Caleb Humeston
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Feb 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Congregational Church, North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Lovina Humeston (Ahnentafel No:33 )

• Sources for Sarah Bishop

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Springfield, Vol. 1, p. 116, Birth record for daughter Lovina Humeston.
  • ² New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 4, pp. 896, 902.
  • ³ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, p. 206.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1986, Vol. 19, p. 322, Marriage record for Caleb Humaston and Sarah Bishop.
  • ⁶ 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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