General Notes

Mayflower Society Descendants # 48632, state #7776, Oct. 11, 1983

A John Chipman was added to the list of freeman in Sandwich,
Massachusetts in 1679. Listed as a freeman in Sandwich in 1702.
Invested as a ruling elder in the church, 4/14/1670.
John Chipman, Barnstable, had been at Plymouth or Yarmouth a few years before 1650, and may have redided at other towns, since he said, 8 Feb. 1652, it was 21 years ago that he came from England and was now at 37 years old. So that it seems probable he came with Allerton in the White Angel or in the Friendship, that had sail, at the same time, from Barnstaple in Devon, but had put back and so reached here a few days later. He married Hope, second daughter of John Howland, and had Elizabeth, born 24 June 1647, at Plymouth b aptised at Barnstable 18 Aug. 1650, beside one or two more, for he speaks of more than one before Hope; Lydia; John; Hannah; Samuel;
Ruth; Bethia; Mercy; John; Desire. His father Thomas had good estate
near Dorchester in County Dorset. He was long ruling Elder and representative 1663 to 1669 every year except 1667. Rev. John Smith came from the country around Dorchester as well, and the two were close associates.