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• Hij is geboren op 7 april 1715 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusettes Bay Colony.Bronnen 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10
• (Military Service ) op 1770 - 1778 in Westminster, Windham County, Massachusettes: Private in Capt. Azariah Wright Militia - Minuteman Company.Bron 10
• Hij is overleden op 4 april 1778 in Westminster, Massachusettes Bay Colony, now Westminster, Vermont, hij was toen 62 jaar oud.Bronnen 4, 7, 10
• Hij is begraven april 1778 in Old Cemetery, Westminster, Vermont.Bronnen 4, 10
• Een kind van David Chaffee en Patience Atherton

Gezin van Atherton Chaffee

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Abigail Squire.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1737 te Ashford, Connecticut, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.Bronnen 8, 10

Kind(eren):

1. Mary Chaffee  1738-1755
2. Experience Chaffee  1745-????
3. Squire Chaffee  1747-????
4. Atherton Chaffee  1752-1812
5. Margaret Chaffee  1754-1755

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Rachel Fuller.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 maart 1756 te Ashford, Connecticut, hij was toen 40 jaar oud.Bronnen 8, 10

Kind(eren):

1. Clifford Chaffee  1757-1802 
2. Chloe Chaffee  1758-1760
3. Calvin Chaffee  ± 1760-1784
4. Constant Chaffee  1761-1806 
5. Alpha Chaffee  1763-1813 
6. Otis Chaffee  ± 1768-1813 
7. Rachel Chaffee  1772-???? 
8. Nancy Chaffee  ± 1776-1845 
9. Crean Bush Chaffee  ± 1778-1847

Notities over Atherton Chaffee

Build a blockhouse in Vermont and lived in it with twenty other families for four years during the French & Indian War. Servred as a Private in a volunteer company from Westminister (then Massachuesttes) during the Revolutionary War.
Re. Abstracts of graves of Revoluntionary Patriots

Atherton4 Chaffee (David, Nathaniel, Thomas) with his wife and two children were in Westminster, then called No. 1 and under a Massachusetts charter, in the Spring of 1751. There were only two houses in town at the time --- one which was built by Richard Ellis and then unoccupied, and another, the one they shared with William Goold, John Goold and Amos Carpenter. John Averill and his family arrived in the Spring of 1751 and moved in with them. See also "John Averill." During the following summer, Goold and Carpenter brought their families up from Northfield. The house, whose builder is unknown, was "at the lower end of the street; at the top of Willard's Hill." This house afterwards became known as the Averill place. He was chosen for the committee appointed to lay out the roads and build them after the Westminster renewed charter of 1760. Atherton Chaffee was listed on the 1771 Census for Westminster. He was a private in the military company of Capt. Azariah Wright during the 1770's in Westminster. Atherton surveyed Westminster

Present residents in this section of the Connecticut River Valley, and especially the younger generation, are not appreciative of how comparatively young this entire section of New England is, barely 175 years since it was an almost unbroken wilderness with no white people living here. Nor is there record of any permanent habitations of Indians for many miles north or south. The beginnings of things are always interesting, and particularly early settlements. Previous to the coming into these immediately contiguous river towns of actual and permanent settlers, this had been debatable ground between the French on the north, and English on the south. The last war between these two countries was declared by France against Great Britain on March 15, 1744, and the earliest beginnings of settlements in these towns were as follows: In Westminster, which had been chartered by Massachusetts Bay province a few years earlier, Richard Ellis and his son, Reuben, 1739, built a log hut and cleared and cultivated five or six acres of land in the new township, on the river meadows. In 1751, John Averill, wife and son; Asa, William Gould, wife and son, John, Amos Carpenter and wife, and Atherton Chaffee removed from Northfield, Mass., to Westminster, which was then known as " Township No. 1."

752 HISTORY OF EASTERN VERMONT.
APPENDIX I.
THE "WESTMINSTER MASSACRE."
March 13, 1775
In the east parish of Westminster, "the Liberty men" were few and far between. In the west parish, the majority of the inhabitants were "pure Whigs." The men who served under Capt. Azariah Wright on the 13th of March, were mostly from the latter parish. Captain Wright's company was organized between the years 1768 and 1770. It is not known whence he obtained his captaincy, but it is evident that
APPENDIX I. 753
his force at the time of the outbreak, was of the people and supported the people's cause. For several years he had been accustomed to call his company together for drill, at his own house, and if the policy of the Whigs had not interdicted the use of fire arms, his men would have evinced their skill as marksmen in such a manner as would have caused no discredit to their leader. As far as can now be ascertained, the organization of the company was as follows:- Captain, Azariah Wright; Lieu­tenant, Jabez Perry; First Sergeant, Simeon Burke; Second Sergeant, Jesse Burke.
PRIVATES.
Jacob Albee, Francis Holden,
John Albee, John Holt,
Lemuel Ames, Ichabod Ide,
Asa Averill, Israel Ide,
John Averill, Joseph Ide,
Thomas Averill, Robert Miller,
Jabez Bates, John Petty,
Silas Burke, Atwater Phippen,
Atherton Chaffee, Joseph Phippen.
Andrew Crook, Samuel Phippen,
Robert Crook, Robert Rand,
William Crook, James Richardson,
David Daley, Nathaniel Robertson,
Jonathan Fuller, Reuben Robertson,
Seth Goold, Edmund Shipman,
William Goold, Jehiel Webb,
John Wells.

The officers of the Rockingham company were, as far as remembered, Captain, Stephen Sargeant; Lieutenant, Philip Safford; Surgeon, Reuben Jones. Nothing is known of the organization of the companies from Guilford or Walpole. It had long been the custom of Judge Thomas Chandler, to procure commissions of one kind and another from New York, and bestow them on such as he favored. In this way several military officers had been appointed in different parts of the county. Those persons in Westminster who had obtained the titles which they bore in this manner, were Major John Norton, Captain Benjamin Burt, Lieutenant Medad Wright, and Ensign William Willard, but it is believed that no company was ever organized under these officers.
The manner in which the Court party treated the "rioters" on the night of the affray, was to the former an especial topic of congratulation among themselves. One of them, William Willard, a justice of the peace, even while a prisoner in the Court­house, "made a brag that he struck French" and knocked him down. After his enlargement, he went to New York, and on his return, appeared in a new suit of clothes, which, it was said, had been given him by the Lieutenant Governor, in acknowledgment of his valiant conduct. He died at Brattleborough. In his last days he was insane, and his final sickness, being hemorrhagic in its character, was regarded by the old people as a judgment upon him from God, for the part he had taken in shedding the blood of French.
A door of the old Court-house, which was perforated by a bullet on the memor­able night of the rencontre, was for many years preserved by a citizen of Westminster and did him good service as a door in his own dwelling.
Concerning Dr. Reuben Jones who acted so prominent a part among the Whigs,
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754 HISTORY OF EASTERN VERMONT.
but little is known. That he was a man of intelligence, is proved by his "Relation of the proceedings of the people of the County of Cumberland, and Province of New York," which has been already referred to. At the meeting held at Westminster on the 11th of April, 1775, for the purpose of devising means to resist the progress of oppression, Dr. Jones served as clerk. On account of his facility in composition and his general accuracy, he was often chosen to similar positions on more important occasions. He was the delegate from Rockingham in the convention held at Dorset on the 25th of September, 1776, and represented the former town in the General Assembly of Vermont during the sessions of 1778, 1779, and 1780. He then removed to Chester, and in 1781 was the representative from that town in the Gene­ral Assembly. Like many of the early settlers of Vermont, he became involved in debt. Having been seized in New Hampshire, at the instance of an inhabitant of that state, he was confined in the jail of Cheshire county, during a part of the sum­mer of 1785. On the 16th of August, in that year, he effected his escape from pri­son. On the 22d, a warrant was issued by Simeon Olcott, a justice of the peace for Cheshire county, directing his arrest if found within the bailiwick of the sheriff of that county. To evade the officers of the law, Dr. Jones repaired to Vermont. Simon Stevens, a justice of the peace for Windsor county, issued an order for his arrest on the 27th, and on the 29th the unfortunate physician was taken at Chester by John Griswold of Springfield. But even now his friends did not desert him. As Griswold was taking him off, John Caryl and Amos Fisher, citizens of Ches­ter, made an attack upon the officer, and delivered Dr. Jones from his hands. At the session of the Supreme court held at Windsor, "on the second Tuesday, next following the fourth Tuesday of August," 1785, the grand jurors found a true bill against the Doctor and his two friends for resisting an officer, but the result of the trial which followed does not appear.

CTGenweb Project
WINDHAM COUNTY RECORDS

Donated By Joann Sherwood
David Chaffee to Joseph Amidown 1779 Know all men by these presents that I David Chaffee junior of Ashford in ye county of Windham & State of Connecticut for ye consideration of fifty pounds received to my satisfaction of Joseph Amidown of ye town county and state aforesaid do by these presents for myself my heirs &c remise release and forever quit claim to him ye said Joseph Anmidown his heirs and assigns all my right to the claim and demand that I now have or ever had to one certain peice of land in Ashford aforesaid containing thirty eight acres bounded as follows (viz) beginning at a white oak staddle with stones about thence north 26 rods to a white oak stump with stones about it thence W 94 N 93 rods to a stake & thence N 8 E 39 rods to a stake and stones thence E 3 N 89 rods to a heep of stones by Union Road thence bounding southly on said road to a walnut staddle with stones about it thence W 5 30 minutes S 32 rods to ye first mentioned bounds it being part of that lot of land which I said David Chaffee junior & said Amidown purchased of Atherton Chaffe of Westminster in the State of Vermont to have and to hold the above granted and quit claimed premises with all the appurtenances to ye same belonging to him ye said Joseph Amidown his heirs and assigns forever to his and their own proper use benefit & behoof without any let hindrance molestation or denial of from or by me ye said David Chaffee junior or my heirs and I also bind myself my heirs &c to warrant secure and defend ye above demised and quit claimed premises to him ye said Joseph Amidown his heirs and assigns against all claims & demand of all persons whatsoever claiming by or under me my heirs &c or any of them In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seals this 14th day of January A.D. 1779 Signed sealed & delivered in Presence of David Chaffe Junior Joseph Whiton Elijah Whiton Source: Ashford Connecticut Deeds, Book 11, page 324

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