Jane (Allen) Chipman was born on 28 August 1722 in Chilmark, Dukes Co., Mass., the daughter of Colonel John and Margaret (Homes) Allen.
She married Handley Chipman, the son of the John and Elizabeth (Handley) Chipman, on 24 April 1740 in Chilmark.
Jane and Handley lived in Newport, R.I. from 1740 to 1761. In 1761, they and part of their family settled in Cornwallis Township, Kings Co., N.S., part of a wave of settlers to Nova Scotia known as the New England Planters. Handley was a prominent man. In Rhode Island, he was a Justice of the Peace, Magistrate as well as a Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. In Nova Scotia, he was a Justice of the Peace and later a Judge of Probate.
Altogether, Jane and Handley Chipman had 11 children, some of whom remained in Rhode Island while others accompanied them to Nova Scotia.
Jane (Allen) Chipman died of a fever, caused by a fall from a horse, on 5 April 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings Co., N.S. Her unfortunate demise was recounted in the following beautiful obituary, published in the 11 April 1775 edition of ‘The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle’:
On Wednesday the Evening of the fifth Instant, departed this Life, much lamented by all who knew her, Mrs. Jane Chipman, the amiable Consort of Handley Chipman, Esq., of Cornwallis.---
The particular relations which she sustained of a Wife, a Mother, a Mistress, a Neighbour, and a Friend, she discharged with a propriety equall’d only by few.---She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness.---Her death was occasioned by a fall from a Horse on the 20th of Dec. last, which broke both bones of her left ankle in a most terrible manner, under which and a fever which ensued she lingered 106 days.---She bore the whole of her long distressing confinement with remarkable christian patience, and resignation, and as “the life which she lived in the flesh, appeared to be by the faith of the Son of God,” so her latter end was peace, having finished her course with joy, in the confident hope of a glorious immortality.---She was Daughter of Col. John Allen of Martha Vineyard, and Grand Daughter to the Rev. William Holmes, deceas’d, formerly Minister on said Island.---She has left behind a disconsolate Husband, three Sons, and two Daughters. On the Sabbath Evening after, she was decently interr'd; previous to which, the Corps being carried to the Meeting House, the Rev. B. Phelps preached a Sermon suitable to the Occasion, from St. John 20th and 28th. My Lord and my God, and the Rev. M. Bennett in his own Church preached also a Sermon suitable to the melancholy occasion.
-----The Memory of the Just are Blessed.-----
Daughters of Eve----
Feel with what force the bright Example shines. She was what you should be.-----
Sources:
Acadia's Digital Collections – Handley Chipman Fonds [Finding Aid]
(http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/Chipman_family.pdf, accessed August 2014)
The Chipman Lineage, Particularly as in Essex County, Mass. (1872)
History of the County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia (1897)
The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle, 11 April 1775, p. 3
Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1904)∼
Mrs. Mary Chipman
There is no stone for Jane,
however,
She is buried in this cemetery
She married Handley Chipman, the son of the John and Elizabeth (Handley) Chipman, on 24 April 1740 in Chilmark.
Jane and Handley lived in Newport, R.I. from 1740 to 1761. In 1761, they and part of their family settled in Cornwallis Township, Kings Co., N.S., part of a wave of settlers to Nova Scotia known as the New England Planters. Handley was a prominent man. In Rhode Island, he was a Justice of the Peace, Magistrate as well as a Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. In Nova Scotia, he was a Justice of the Peace and later a Judge of Probate.
Altogether, Jane and Handley Chipman had 11 children, some of whom remained in Rhode Island while others accompanied them to Nova Scotia.
Jane (Allen) Chipman died of a fever, caused by a fall from a horse, on 5 April 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings Co., N.S. Her unfortunate demise was recounted in the following beautiful obituary, published in the 11 April 1775 edition of ‘The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle’:
On Wednesday the Evening of the fifth Instant, departed this Life, much lamented by all who knew her, Mrs. Jane Chipman, the amiable Consort of Handley Chipman, Esq., of Cornwallis.---
The particular relations which she sustained of a Wife, a Mother, a Mistress, a Neighbour, and a Friend, she discharged with a propriety equall’d only by few.---She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness.---Her death was occasioned by a fall from a Horse on the 20th of Dec. last, which broke both bones of her left ankle in a most terrible manner, under which and a fever which ensued she lingered 106 days.---She bore the whole of her long distressing confinement with remarkable christian patience, and resignation, and as “the life which she lived in the flesh, appeared to be by the faith of the Son of God,” so her latter end was peace, having finished her course with joy, in the confident hope of a glorious immortality.---She was Daughter of Col. John Allen of Martha Vineyard, and Grand Daughter to the Rev. William Holmes, deceas’d, formerly Minister on said Island.---She has left behind a disconsolate Husband, three Sons, and two Daughters. On the Sabbath Evening after, she was decently interr'd; previous to which, the Corps being carried to the Meeting House, the Rev. B. Phelps preached a Sermon suitable to the Occasion, from St. John 20th and 28th. My Lord and my God, and the Rev. M. Bennett in his own Church preached also a Sermon suitable to the melancholy occasion.
-----The Memory of the Just are Blessed.-----
Daughters of Eve----
Feel with what force the bright Example shines. She was what you should be.-----
Sources:
Acadia's Digital Collections – Handley Chipman Fonds [Finding Aid]
(http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/Chipman_family.pdf, accessed August 2014)
The Chipman Lineage, Particularly as in Essex County, Mass. (1872)
History of the County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia (1897)
The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle, 11 April 1775, p. 3
Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1904)∼
Mrs. Mary Chipman
There is no stone for Jane,
however,
She is buried in this cemetery
Jane (Allen) Chipman was born on 28 August 1722 in Chilmark, Dukes Co., Mass., the daughter of Colonel John and Margaret (Homes) Allen.
She married Handley Chipman, the son of the John and Elizabeth (Handley) Chipman, on 24 April 1740 in Chilmark.
Jane and Handley lived in Newport, R.I. from 1740 to 1761. In 1761, they and part of their family settled in Cornwallis Township, Kings Co., N.S., part of a wave of settlers to Nova Scotia known as the New England Planters. Handley was a prominent man. In Rhode Island, he was a Justice of the Peace, Magistrate as well as a Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. In Nova Scotia, he was a Justice of the Peace and later a Judge of Probate.
Altogether, Jane and Handley Chipman had 11 children, some of whom remained in Rhode Island while others accompanied them to Nova Scotia.
Jane (Allen) Chipman died of a fever, caused by a fall from a horse, on 5 April 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings Co., N.S. Her unfortunate demise was recounted in the following beautiful obituary, published in the 11 April 1775 edition of ‘The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle’:
On Wednesday the Evening of the fifth Instant, departed this Life, much lamented by all who knew her, Mrs. Jane Chipman, the amiable Consort of Handley Chipman, Esq., of Cornwallis.---
The particular relations which she sustained of a Wife, a Mother, a Mistress, a Neighbour, and a Friend, she discharged with a propriety equall’d only by few.---She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness.---Her death was occasioned by a fall from a Horse on the 20th of Dec. last, which broke both bones of her left ankle in a most terrible manner, under which and a fever which ensued she lingered 106 days.---She bore the whole of her long distressing confinement with remarkable christian patience, and resignation, and as “the life which she lived in the flesh, appeared to be by the faith of the Son of God,” so her latter end was peace, having finished her course with joy, in the confident hope of a glorious immortality.---She was Daughter of Col. John Allen of Martha Vineyard, and Grand Daughter to the Rev. William Holmes, deceas’d, formerly Minister on said Island.---She has left behind a disconsolate Husband, three Sons, and two Daughters. On the Sabbath Evening after, she was decently interr'd; previous to which, the Corps being carried to the Meeting House, the Rev. B. Phelps preached a Sermon suitable to the Occasion, from St. John 20th and 28th. My Lord and my God, and the Rev. M. Bennett in his own Church preached also a Sermon suitable to the melancholy occasion.
-----The Memory of the Just are Blessed.-----
Daughters of Eve----
Feel with what force the bright Example shines. She was what you should be.-----
Sources:
Acadia's Digital Collections – Handley Chipman Fonds [Finding Aid]
(http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/Chipman_family.pdf, accessed August 2014)
The Chipman Lineage, Particularly as in Essex County, Mass. (1872)
History of the County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia (1897)
The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle, 11 April 1775, p. 3
Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1904)∼
Mrs. Mary Chipman
There is no stone for Jane,
however,
She is buried in this cemetery
She married Handley Chipman, the son of the John and Elizabeth (Handley) Chipman, on 24 April 1740 in Chilmark.
Jane and Handley lived in Newport, R.I. from 1740 to 1761. In 1761, they and part of their family settled in Cornwallis Township, Kings Co., N.S., part of a wave of settlers to Nova Scotia known as the New England Planters. Handley was a prominent man. In Rhode Island, he was a Justice of the Peace, Magistrate as well as a Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly. In Nova Scotia, he was a Justice of the Peace and later a Judge of Probate.
Altogether, Jane and Handley Chipman had 11 children, some of whom remained in Rhode Island while others accompanied them to Nova Scotia.
Jane (Allen) Chipman died of a fever, caused by a fall from a horse, on 5 April 1775 in Cornwallis, Kings Co., N.S. Her unfortunate demise was recounted in the following beautiful obituary, published in the 11 April 1775 edition of ‘The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle’:
On Wednesday the Evening of the fifth Instant, departed this Life, much lamented by all who knew her, Mrs. Jane Chipman, the amiable Consort of Handley Chipman, Esq., of Cornwallis.---
The particular relations which she sustained of a Wife, a Mother, a Mistress, a Neighbour, and a Friend, she discharged with a propriety equall’d only by few.---She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue was the law of kindness.---Her death was occasioned by a fall from a Horse on the 20th of Dec. last, which broke both bones of her left ankle in a most terrible manner, under which and a fever which ensued she lingered 106 days.---She bore the whole of her long distressing confinement with remarkable christian patience, and resignation, and as “the life which she lived in the flesh, appeared to be by the faith of the Son of God,” so her latter end was peace, having finished her course with joy, in the confident hope of a glorious immortality.---She was Daughter of Col. John Allen of Martha Vineyard, and Grand Daughter to the Rev. William Holmes, deceas’d, formerly Minister on said Island.---She has left behind a disconsolate Husband, three Sons, and two Daughters. On the Sabbath Evening after, she was decently interr'd; previous to which, the Corps being carried to the Meeting House, the Rev. B. Phelps preached a Sermon suitable to the Occasion, from St. John 20th and 28th. My Lord and my God, and the Rev. M. Bennett in his own Church preached also a Sermon suitable to the melancholy occasion.
-----The Memory of the Just are Blessed.-----
Daughters of Eve----
Feel with what force the bright Example shines. She was what you should be.-----
Sources:
Acadia's Digital Collections – Handley Chipman Fonds [Finding Aid]
(http://library.acadiau.ca/archives/research/acadia_archives/Chipman_family.pdf, accessed August 2014)
The Chipman Lineage, Particularly as in Essex County, Mass. (1872)
History of the County of Annapolis, Nova Scotia (1897)
The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle, 11 April 1775, p. 3
Vital Records of Chilmark, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1904)∼
Mrs. Mary Chipman
There is no stone for Jane,
however,
She is buried in this cemetery
Inscription
HERE LIES THE
Body of Jane Chipman: Consort
of Handley Chipman Esqr, who De=
parted this life April 5th 1775 in the 53rd
Year of her Age, after apain full and lin=
gering illness with a broken leg, wich she
bore with great patience and resigna=
tion to the will of God. She lived
Beloved & died Lamented
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