Litchfield enquirer., 1847-12-30
LTTCHFIELD COUNT TYPOGRAPHY.
Daniel ChiIman.

WIS JOHu OntpmdnS OUu bu Da IHSLaDtS England, A. D. 1914. He emigrated to 4. merica in l530. at the ag. of l6 years, and , married danghi e oGsJnLn flow wland, one of the pilgrims who landed from the Mays flower upon the Rock Of Plymouth. He settled on farm in Barnslable, Mass, on which his descl Edanls have ever since resi- ded. He was made fre' man: by vote of the town, iu December 1862. His son. Samuel, was born at Rarnstatle, august IS I66l-marri,d d Sarah obh, and had ten children, one of whom was John Chlpman, born in 1891, graduated at Harvard College in l7l |. ordained minister If Beverly, Mass in l7l5, and died io l775. aged GA. He had ffeen children. Their descendants are very numerous in Nova Scotia and New
 Brunswick, among whom is Hon. Ward Chipman, one of the Com missioners under the Treaty of Ghent for settling the North Eastern Boundary.
 The eldest of The ten children of Samuel Chipman, was Thomas. bo,n Nov. l7, 1887. He settled in Groton, Come cticut. and had five sons, Thomas; John. Amos, Samuel, and Jonathan. In 1740, he removed with his five sons to Salisbury. In the year fol. lowing. the town was organized and he was chosen the frs, Representative to the LegiS- lature or General Court. When the county of Litch6eld was organized in l75O, he was appointed Judge of the County Court, hut died before the first term. His son Samuel married Hannah Anstin, Of Sufie,d, Conn, and had six sons, Nathaniel, Lemuel, Da> rius, Cyrus, Samuel. and Dan,cl-the last named being the snbjec, of this sketch.
 DANIEL CHAPMAN was born in Salis- bury. October %, l765. lu the year l775, his father removed, with his f,m,ly. to Tin mouth. in what was then called the New Hampshire Grants, in the present county of Rutland, Vermont Daniel lahored on the farm until November l783, when he con- mrnced his studies prepara 'ory 10 entering college. He entered Dartmt u,h College in l784, and graduated in 1788, ami immedi- alely commenced the study of law with his bIothcr, the late Chief Justice Chipman. He was admitted 10 the bar in l79O, opened an office in Rutland, and soon had an ex> tensive practice. In l793 he represented the town of Rutland in the Convention held at Windsor fo. amending the Consultation. During the year following, Mir. Chipman re- moved to M'ddlebury, in the County of Ad- dison In l796, he married a daughter of the Rev. Lemuel Hedge, formerly minister at Warwick, Mass. He represented the towE of Middlebury in the Legislature of Vermont 'n l7SS, and frequently afterwards until 1905, when he was ele. ted member of the Council usder the fImer Consti,u- tion-in place of which tie Senate has since been substituted. In lSl2, he was elec,e' Fellow of the American Academy of ArIs and Scie nces Most If the time be. tween 1908 and 1915, he represented Mii> dlebury in the Lesisla' ure, a,d in lSl3 and 1874 he was chosen Speaker ofthe House In 1915. he was elected Rel rssen,a,ive to the Congress of the United $ ates. He at> t.nded the first session, but was confined at home by Aick' ess during the second session. The following year his health was so far restored that he again resumed the practice of law and in the years 1878 and 1891. he was elected to the Legislature.
 In the year 1922 he published an Essay on the Law of Contracts for the Payment of Specific Article>-which was well Ieceiv- ed by the legal profession generally, aud highly commended by Judge Story, Chan> cellor Kent, and other eminent jurists. lu the preface to thus work. Mir. Chipman ur- ged the importance of having the decisions of the Supreme Court reported and a, the next session of the Legislature, an act was passed providing for the appointment of Reporter, and he was appointed to that of flee He published one volume of Reports. when ill health compelled him to relinquish the station.
 ;n the preface 10 his Reports, he sugges- ted and urged the idea of elevating the le. gisla,ure. by constituting Senate; and 'n 1896 an amendment of the Constitution to that end was proposed, and Convention called. |" the mean time. the subject of this sketch had retiied from public life, ha> wing taken up his residence 'n Kipton but such was his anxiety to have the proposed amendment adopted. that he yielded to the solicitations of his friends, and represented Kipton in the Convention. He was justly regarded as the champion ofthe Amendment in ,ha, body-which Amendment was, after three or four days debate, adopted by ma irity of three. It was universally admitted ,ha, the project would have failed had !, no. been for the vigorous efforts made in its behalf by Mir. Chipman. A speech which hs Aal;v~rsA on ths 0rra sson wsS nuhliS shed