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Harry Chapin

Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter


    Rebecca -----

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    • 4th Great-grandmother of Harry Chapin — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 83 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1743 
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    • Death Date:
    • 3 Apr 1786 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Center Cemetery, New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts 
    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 30 Jul 1769 
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    • Children:

    • John Duncan

      Rebecca Duncan

      Elizabeth Duncan

      Lucretia Duncan (Ahnentafel No:41 )

      Molly Duncan

      William Duncan

    • Notes: 
    • Many online genealogies claim that Rebecca, wife of John Duncan, is the daughter of Jeremiah Meacham and Rebecca Hawkins. This appears to be false as Rebecca's son John Duncan was baptized 3 months prior to the marriage of Rebecca Meacham to John Larkin in 1769. Other children by Rebecca and her husband John Duncan were baptized after the marriage of Rebecca Meacham to John Larkin. So the parentage of this Rebecca remains unknown.

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  • Sources for Rebecca -----

    • 4 Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 303.
    • 5 Hemenway, Abby Maria, ed., Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Local History of All the Towns in the State . . ., Vol. 5, Brandon, Vermont: Mrs. Carrie E. H. Page (1891), 93.

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