Ancestry of
Viggo Mortensen

Movie Actor

Elisha Chapman

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Viggo Mortensen — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 120 
  • Father:
  • Simon Chapman 
  • Mother:
  • Rebeccah DeWolfe   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Sep 1750 
  • Birth Location:
  • Norwich, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Nov 1819 
  • Death Location:
  • Marcellus, Onondaga, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Marcellus Village Cemetery, Marcellus, Onondaga, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Phebe Gates
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Jun 1799 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Lincoln Chapman (Ahnentafel No:60 )

  • Notes: 

  • Elisha Chapman's gravestone gives his birth date as 13 SEP 1750. However, the Norwich, Connecticut vital records give it as 02 SEP 1750.

• Additional marriages for Elisha Chapman

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Bellamy

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Bristol

• Sources for Elisha Chapman

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A020875 and #A043490.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/19/2018).
  • ³ Norwich CT: Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848, Vol. 1, p. 239, Birth record for Elisha Chapman.
  • ⁴ Chapman, Rev. Frederick William, The Chapman Family: Or the Descendants of Robert Chapman, One of the First Settlers of Say-Brook, Conn. . . ., Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company (1854), 272, 279.
  • ⁵ Cody, Lydia S., The Cody Family in America 1698: Descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts: Biographical and Genealogical, Kissimmee, Florida: Cody Publications, Inc. (1954), 25.

Viggo Mortensen photo by Nicolas Genin (CC BY-SA 2.0)