This genealogy traces the family of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, the legendary American pioneer and folk hero. Compiled by Lizzie Roebuck, a descendant of the Chapman family, the book provides a wealth of information on Chapman's relatives, including biographical details, marriages, deaths, and more. A fascinating look at the family behind one of America's most beloved icons. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This record gives Mass. & N.Y. descendants of Ralph Chapman b. 1615, Southwark, Eng.

"John Chipman was born, probably at Bryans-Piddle, near Dorchester, England about 1614; died April 7, 1708. Always brotherless and early left fatherless, he sailed from Barnstable, Devon County, England in May 1631, in the ship Friendship, arriving in Boston July 14 1631. John Chipman was the first and only one of the name to seek a home in America, and up to 1850 there was no Chipman in this country who was not descended from him...In 1646...[he] married Hope, second daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tillie) Howland, born in Plymouth, Mass., 1629; died 1683...In 1864 he married Ruth , youngest daughter of William Sargent, born in Charlestown, Mass Oct. 25, 1642 [who had been married and widowed twice]...The will of John Chipman, [was] dated Nov. 12, 1702, [and] proved May 17, 1708..."--P. 13-14. Descendants lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Rhode Islalnd, Indiana, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States and Canada.

"The Chapman family was the first of New Zealand's legal dynasties. Henry Samuel Chapman was the first puisine judge of the Supreme Court; his son Frederick Revans Chapman was teh first New Zealand born Supreme Court judge; and another son, Martin founded one of the country's leading legal firms, which still bears his name ... This book provides a record of the lives and careers of three significant figures in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial history. It casts light on important aspects of society and law at that time; notoably, the characteristics and values of the educated, aspirant classes, and the development of essentially English institutions and laws in the colonial environment." -- Back cover.