Throope Chapman

Infobox_Politician
name =Throope Chapman


birth_date =March 25, 1739
birth_place =Ashford, Connecticut, USA
death_date =1794
death_place =Readsboro, Vermont, USA|
spouse = Deborah Wilson ["Branch 101". www.oldwillow.com. [http://www.oldwillow.com/Genealogy/johnna/f_64.htm] . Accessed 1 July 2007.]

Throope Chapman (1738 - 1794) was one of the founders of Readsboro, Vermont, USA. [cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |editor= |others= |title=History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year=1929 |month= |publisher=Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |location=Vermont |language=English |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=53 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ] ["State Papers of Vermont". Vermont Office ofSecretary of State. The Tuttle Company, 1958, p. 3.] He served with Thomas Knowlton ["Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton, Connecticut's Forgotten Hero". The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Historical Series, Number Three, September 1997. http://www.connecticutsar.org/articles/scarlet_no3.htm. Accessed 13 July 2007.] as a member of Captain John Slapp’s 8th Co, First Connecticut Regiment, during the Campaign of 1757 in the French and Indian War ["Eighth Company - Capt. Slapp". "Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society". Connecticut Historical Society. Volume IX. Hartford, Connecticut, 1903. Page 184. Google Books: [http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Collections_of_the_Connecticut_Historica.pdf?id=BubSxkZTytoC&output=pdf&sig=8TWHQZr6IRPQdpdrGCvM9dE3eA8] ] and also served in the Revolutionary War. He was a selectman in Readsboro through his death 1794. [cite book |last=Coolidge |first=Austin Jacobs |authorlink= |coauthors=Mansfield, John Brainard |editor= |others= |title=A History and Description of New England, General and Local |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |volume= |date= |year=1859 |month= |publisher=A.J. Coolidge |location=Boston |language= |isbn= |oclc=12762947 |doi= |id= |pages=883 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]

Notable descendants include Welcome Chapman.

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