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     John Chipman was the son of Hon. John Chipman and Hope Howland.

     Hon. John Chipman was born in 1613/14 in England. He was the son of Thomas Chipman. Hon. John Chipman emigrated in 1631 to Boston, Massachusetts. He married Hope Howland, daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, on 13 September 1646 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, twelve children.² Hon. John Chipman died on 7 April 1708 in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

     Rev. John Chipman was born on 16 February 1691 in Barnstable.¹ He was the son of Samuel Chipman and Sarah Cob.¹ Rev. John Chipman died on 23 March 1775 in Beverly at the age of 84.¹

     Lydia Chipman was the daughter of Hon. John Chipman and Hope Howland.¹ Lydia Chipman married John Sargent, son of William Sargent and Sarah (Unknown), on 19 March 1662.¹ Lydia Chipman died on 9 September 1716.¹

     Samuel Chipman was born on 15 April 1661. He was the son of Hon. John Chipman and Hope Howland. Samuel Chipman married Sarah Cob, daughter of Henry Cob, on 27 December 1686. Samuel Chipman died on 5 August 1752 at the age of 91.

     Seth Chipman married Priscilla Bradford.¹

     Thomas Chipman died in Bryan's-Piddle (Bryans Puddle), Dorset.

     John Chisam was born circa 1754 (calculated from his age at death.)³ He married Esther Sewall, daughter of John Sewall and Mary Sayward, on 11 August 1787 in Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, Maine.² John Chisam died on 9 February 1831 in Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine.³

     Samuel Chisam was born on 21 May 1791 in Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine.¹ He was the son of John Chisam and Esther Sewall.¹

     The marriage intention of Sarah Chisam and William Sewall, son of Nicholas Sewall and Mehitable Storer, was published on 19 February 1756 in Georgetown, Maine. Sarah Chisam died on 27 July 1818 in Georgetown, Maine.³

     Stephen Chisam was born on 8 November 1788 in Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine.¹ He was the son of John Chisam and Esther Sewall.¹

     Theadore Chisam was born on 4 March 1794 in Whitefield, Lincoln County, Maine.¹ He was the son of John Chisam and Esther Sewall.¹

     Barbara Chisholm was the daughter of Mark Chisholm and Barbara Bennet.^2,3 Barbara Chisholm married George Minto on 17 April 1752 in the Parish Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.⁴

     Dorothea Chisholm was the daughter of Mark Chisholm and Barbara Bennet.¹ Dorothea Chisholm married Walter Turnbull they had three daughters all of whom married.^1,2 Dorothea Chisholm died circa 1804.³

     Helen Chisholm was the daughter of Mark Chisholm and Barbara Bennet.¹

     Helen Chisholm was born on 7 March 1684 in Hawick, Roxburgh.¹ She was the daughter of Walter Chisholm and Helen Turnbull.¹ Helen Chisholm died before 1686.¹

     Helen Chisholm was born on 29 March 1686 in Hawick, Roxburgh.¹ She was the daughter of Walter Chisholm and Helen Turnbull.¹

     Lilias Chisholm married Colonel Alexander Fraser of Culduthel.¹

     Margaret Willing Chisholm was born circa 1863 in College Point, Long Island.¹ She married James Hooker Hamersley, son of John William Hamersley and Catherine Livingston Reade Hooker, on 30 April 1888 in Manhattan, New York.¹

     Mark Chisholm was the son of Walter Chisholm and Helen Turnbull.² Mark Chisholm married Barbara Bennet, daughter of Archibald Bennet, on 26 September 1714 in Ancrum, Roxburghshire.^2,3 He was probably the Mark Chisholm whose death was recorded on 19 March 1727 in the parish of Wilton, Hawick.⁴

     Walter Chisholm. Of Parkhill in Borthwick.¹ He married Helen Turnbull.¹ An agreement by Helen Turnbull and Helen Turnbull which was signed on 21 October 1714 "with ane consent" disponed the lands of Fotherlie and Ruletownhead to their son, Mark Chisolm.²

     Mary Chittenden was born in 1647.² She married John Leete, son of Governor William Leete and Anne Payne, on 4 October 1670 in Guilford, Connecticut.^1,2 Mary Chittenden died in 1712.²

     (?) Choate was the son of Rufus Choate.¹

     David Choate was born on 29 November 1796 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ He was employed as a school teacher from 1815 to 1842. He inaugurated and developed the local high school and was one of the founders of the Essex County Teachers' Association, and was for many years its president; was one of the trustees of the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from its incorporation in 1836; was a trustee of Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., 1840-50; a member of the State Legislature, 1839-41, and a member of the State Senate and chairman of the Committee on Education, 1841-42. He was for many years justice of the peace. He wrote An Agricultural and Geological survey of Essex County, which was published by the Essex County Agricultural Society, of which he was an officer and member.¹ David Choate married Elizabeth Wade on 14 January 1828.² David Choate died on 17 December 1872 in Ipswich, Massachusetts, at the age of 76.³

     Capt. David Choate was born on 29 November 1757 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts.² He married firstly Mary Cogswell on 24 June 1784.² Capt. David Choate married secondly Miriam Foster on 15 October 1791.² Capt. David Choate died on 28 March 1808 at the age of 50.²

     Hannah Choate was born on 12 August 1794 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts.^1,2 She was the daughter of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ Hannah Choate married Rev. Robert Crowell on 2 September 1822.¹ Hannah Choate died on 9 February 1837 at the age of 42.¹

     Job Choate was born on 25 December 1806.¹ He was the son of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ Job Choate died on 10 March 1808 at the age of 1.¹

     Mary Choate was born on 3 October 1792 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ Mary Choate married Dr. Thomas Sewall, son of Thomas Sewall and Priscilla Coney, on 28 November 1813 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.³ Mary Choate died on 28 March 1855 in Rockville, Maryland, at the residence of her son and was buried in the Wesley Chapel burying ground near Columbia College. Apparently she is commemorated on her husband's gravestone in Oakhill Cemetery, Washington, D.C. where the date of her death is given as 8 April 1855 at the age of 62.^4,5,6

     Rufus Choate was born on 1 October 1799 in Ipswich, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ His father's sterling integrity and unusual intellectual endowment marked him as a superior man, and his mother's keen perceptions, ready wit, and native dignity of bearing were remarkable. Rufus was early noted for his insatiable thirst for knowledge, for his tenacious memory, and his extraordinary precocity. He could recite whole pages of Pilgrim's Progress when he was but six years old, and he had perused the greater part of the village library before he was ten.
He entered Dartmouth College at the age of sixteen, after attending the academy at New Hampton, N.H., for a term, and was graduated with the valedictory in 1819. The famous Dartmouth College case was on trial during his undergraduate days, and it was Webster's great speech in connection therewith that so inspired Choate as to lead to his final choice of the law as his profession. After tutoring at Dartmouth for a year, he spent three years in Washington, D. C., studying law under William Wirt, attorney-general of the United States in 1823 was admitted to the bar, and for five years practised at Danvers, Mass. In 1825 he was sent to the state legislature as a representative, and in 1827 as a senator. He was chosen as a representative in Congress in 1830, and distinguished himself by a brilliant speech in the 22nd Congress on the tariff.
He was re-elected in 1832 to the 23rd Congress, but resigned his seat at the close of the first session and removed to Boston, where he devoted himself to his profession, and acquired a reputation as an eloquent, powerful and successful advocate. When in 1841 Daniel Webster accepted the portfolio of state in President Harrison's cabinet, Mr. Choate was elected to fill the seat he had vacated in the senate, and he made several brilliant speeches, notably those on the tariff, the Oregon boundary, the fiscal bank-bill, the Smithsonian institution, and the annexation of Texas. At the close of the term Mr. Webster was returned to the senate, and Mr. Choate once more resumed the practice of his profession. He went to Europe in 1850, and during his brief tour in England and on the continent a most forcible impression was made upon his mind by his observation of the characteristics of the older civilizations of the world, and, in his comparison of these with those of the newer, he saw the perils that were likely to follow a disruption of the union existing between the states. In his earnest desire to avoid such disruption will be found the key to his whole later life, and his last public utterance was an oration in behalf of an undivided nation. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig national convention at Baltimore, and there urged the nomination of Daniel Webster for the presidency. He was a delegate to the state convention of 1853, and took an important part in revising the constitution of Massachusetts. In 1856 he supported the Democratic national ticket, and made some speeches in the interest of Buchanan and Breckinridge. Busy as was his life he yet devoted a portion of each day to the study of literature, history, and philosophy, and it was this habit, together with his tenacious memory, which made him one of the most scholarly of public men. He was especially fond of Greek literature, and was only restrained from writing a history of Greece by seeing the early volume of Grote's great work. He contemplated a visit to Europe in 1859, and had proceeded as far as Halifax when his health failed so utterly that his son, who accompanied him, decided to return home, and while resting at the lodgings he had temporarily taken he died suddenly. Among his most famous speeches will always be named: the eulogy on President Harrison (1841); an address upon the anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims (1843); a eulogy on Daniel Webster (1853); an address at the dedication of the Peabody institution in Danvers (1854); an oration before the young men's Democratic club of Boston (1858); two addresses before the law-school at Cambridge, Mass., and two lectures before the Mercantile library association of Boston; but no adequate idea of his wonderful oratory can be obtained from reading his speeches. His works, with a memoir, published in two volumes, was prepared by Samuel Gilman Brown (1862.)² Rufus Choate married Helen Olcott on 29 March 1825.³ Rufus Choate died on 13 July 1859 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the age of 59.²

     Washington Choate was born on 17 January 1803.¹ He was the son of Capt. David Choate and Miriam Foster.¹ Washington Choate died on 27 February 1822 at the age of 19.¹