Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

James Ayrault Chapin

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• • Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Humeston Chapin 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Hunt Wing   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Aug 1848 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Feb 1921 
  • Death Location:
  • Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
  • 19 Feb 1921 
  • Burial Location:
  • Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Delia Stout Ryder
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Nov 1883 
  • Marriage Location:
  • West Orange, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  James Ormsbee Chapin (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for James Ayrault Chapin

  • ¹ Federal Census, NJ, Essex County, 1900, West Orange, E.D. 185, Sheet 15B, Image 31 of 49.
  • ² New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, Marriage record for son James Ormsbee Chapin and Abby Beal Forbes.
  • ³ 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), 838.
  • ⁴ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 2, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 1445.
  • ⁵ Rider, Fremont, Preliminary Materials for a Genealogy of the Rider (Ryder) Families in the United States, Middletown, Connecticut: The Godfrey Memorial Library (1959), Vol. 2, Image 451 of 514.
  • ⁶ The Green-Wood Historic Fund, Green-Wood Cemetery: Burial Search, Cemetery record for James A. Chapin, (accessed 08/14/2016).
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "James Ormsbee Chapin", (accessed 08/10/2016).

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