GENEALOGY OF CHAPIN FAMILY IN MONT VERNON NH

Information from a web site "History & Genealogy of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire"
located at http://www.nh.searchroots.com/HillsboroughCo/Montvernon/

Source: HISTORY of the TOWN of MONT VERNON, New Hampshire;
Blanchard Printing Co., Boston, Mass. 1907

Disclaimer: We are not responsible for typographical errors, nor do we claim 
that these genealogies are accurate.

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CHAPIN

Rev. Stephen Chapin, b. Milford, Mass., in 1778, a graduate of Harvard in 1804,
a pupil in divinity with the famous Dr. Nathaniel Emmons of Franklin, Mass.,
his first settlement was in Hillsborough [town in NH] from 1805 to 1809.
He was Pastor of the Mont Vernon church from 1809 to Oct 1818. Having embraced
Calvinistic Baptist views he resigned his pastorate. After a three years'
pastorate as a Baptist clergyman at North Yarmouth, ME, he was in 1822, called
to a professorship in Waterville College, ME, and thence to the presidency of
Columbia College at Washington, D.C., which he occupied many years.
  Mr. Chapin was a man of positive convictions, and bold, unadorned and
uncompromising in his style of preaching. His earnest, able preaching and
stringent discipline made a deep impression upon his people.
  He m. Sally Mosher, adopted dau of Rev. Daniel Emerson of Hollis [NH]
Dec. 21, 1809. They had children.

George S. Chapin of Auburndale, Mass., graduate of Bowdoin College in 1893,
was the principal of McCollom Institute from 1898 to 1900.


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