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Abel Chapman

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Whitby, Yorkshire, England, not yet the U.K.
Death: October 13, 1777 (82)
Forest Gate, Wansted, Essex, England, United Kingdom
Place of Burial: Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of William Chapman and Mary Chapman
Husband of Susannah Chapman; Elizabeth Chapman and Hannah Chapman
Father of Mary Chapman; Elizabeth Chapman; Esther Stockton; John Chapman; Mary Chapman and 5 others
Brother of Ingram Chapman; Solomon Chapman; Isaiah Chapman; Emma Chapman; Aaron Chapman and 1 other
Half brother of Unknown Chapman and Unknown Chapman

Occupation: Master Mariner and Ship owner
Managed by: Private User
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About Abel Chapman

Will of Abel Chapman, Whitby, Gentleman sourced from from Copy Wills of the Court of the Archbishop of York dated 2.12.1774 proved Jan 1779 (f5)

wife Hannah (farm etc called Flatt's Farm lately purchased from Messrs Straubenzees in occupation of Thomas Frank) son John Chapman son Abel Chapman daughter Jane) (messuage or tenement etc in Ruswarpe in occupation of Ralph Dickinson) (warehouse, cottages etc. lately erected on N side of inlet called Spittlebridge Goat, Whitby) (boiling house & bleaching yard on S side of Spittlebridge Goat) son William chapman friend Wakefield Simpson (trustee) (messuage etc. in Church St., Whitby in William Jackson's occupation) (farm etc. called Gallows Close farm in occupation of Jonathan Lacy) (boiling house & bleaching yard on N side of Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of Jonathan Sanders) (messuage etc. in Haggersgate, Whitby in occupation of William Arley, peruke maker) (messuage, tenement etc. & ropery, rope walk and warehouse on S side of Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of Jonathan Lacy) (Goat or Creek called Spittlebridge Goat in occupation of William Linskill Esquire) daughter Mary, wife of John walker the younger daughter Hannah Chapman grandaughter Elizabeth Stockton grandaughter Esther wife of Thomas Holt the younger wit: Geo: Close, Hannah Mathews, John Mathews junr.

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Abel Chapman's Timeline

1694
October 22, 1694
Whitby, Yorkshire, England, not yet the U.K.
1728
November 8, 1728
1732
May 27, 1732
1747
December 16, 1747
Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
1750
August 15, 1750
Whitby, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1752
May 2, 1752
Woodford, Essex, England
1757
December 19, 1757
Whitby