Seth Chapin was born 31 March 1746 in Mendon, Massachusetts, the son of Ebenezer and Abigal Chapin. He married twice before the war. Chapin was a corporal in Captain John Albee's 1st Company, which answered the Lexington alarm and marched from Mendon to Lexington on 19 April 1775. On 22 June 1776 Chapin was appointed a Second Lieutenant of Marines by the Rhode Island Frigate Committee. He was ordered to Plymouth and elsewhere to recruit and supplied with funds for that purpose. He was assigned to Continental Navy Ship Providence (Captain ABRAHAM WHIPPLE). On 14 September 1776 he was sent recruiting again, for the Providence. About December 1776 or January 1777 Chapin was reported to have been "broke," and replaced by STEPHEN EARL. However, another source states Chapin with being a member of the court-martial of Navy Lieutenant Richard Marvin, held aboard the Providence, off Field's Point in the Providence River, on 3 April 1777. Chapin was definitely gone by 19 July 1777, when he was appointed a first lieutenant in Sherburne's Rhode Island battalion. Chapin's second wife died in 1778. In July 1780 he was appointed a captain in a three-month Rhode Island regiment. Chapin died in Mendon, 15 November 1833. Seth Chapin served as an American spy during Revolutionary war under General Gates and Cornell.
Seth Chapin was born 31 March 1746 in Mendon, Massachusetts, the son of Ebenezer and Abigal Chapin. He married twice before the war. Chapin was a corporal in Captain John Albee's 1st Company, which answered the Lexington alarm and marched from Mendon to Lexington on 19 April 1775. On 22 June 1776 Chapin was appointed a Second Lieutenant of Marines by the Rhode Island Frigate Committee. He was ordered to Plymouth and elsewhere to recruit and supplied with funds for that purpose. He was assigned to Continental Navy Ship Providence (Captain ABRAHAM WHIPPLE). On 14 September 1776 he was sent recruiting again, for the Providence. About December 1776 or January 1777 Chapin was reported to have been "broke," and replaced by STEPHEN EARL. However, another source states Chapin with being a member of the court-martial of Navy Lieutenant Richard Marvin, held aboard the Providence, off Field's Point in the Providence River, on 3 April 1777. Chapin was definitely gone by 19 July 1777, when he was appointed a first lieutenant in Sherburne's Rhode Island battalion. Chapin's second wife died in 1778. In July 1780 he was appointed a captain in a three-month Rhode Island regiment. Chapin died in Mendon, 15 November 1833. Seth Chapin served as an American spy during Revolutionary war under General Gates and Cornell.
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