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Henry Chamberlin, blacksmith, first appeared in New England in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, at Hingham, where he was received as a townsman
on 17 Feb 1638/39 (Hingham Town Records, Vol. I, P. 81), and granted
property by the Proprietors (Town's Great Book of Records, p. 72). On
13 Mar 1639, he was made a Freeman by the General Court (NEHGS Register,
Vol. 3, p. 96).
All of Henry Chamberlin's sons were Quakers and he himself was probably
sympathetic to the Quaker religion.
Henry was granted a number of parcels of land by the Hingham Proprietors.
Most of it he held until his death but the records show he was engaged in
additional buying, selling, and trading. Table 1 provides a summary of
his land transactions.
On 16 Jan 1649, "Anthony Eames, Joseph Andrews, Joshua Hubbard and Edmond
Pitts being chosen by the select men and Henery Chamberlyne to end a
difference between them aboute the townes watch house, doe agree that the
said watch house shall be recorded in the towne booke to the townes
property; and that Henry Chamberlyne shall sett up the sayd house in the
place where it now lyeth before the next Court of Assistance at Boston
and he hath libbertye to make use of it for his trade and other necessary
ocations that may not unfitt it for a watch house for the towne" (Hingham
Town Records, Vol. I, P. 110).
As a skilled tradesman, Henry's services were undoubtedly of the highest
importance in the simple community of his day.
"For since the birth of time, throughout the ages and nations,
Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people."
On 1 Jan 1660, Henry Chamberlin and other freemen dissented "from having
Captain Hubbard freed from paying his rates to the public charge of the
town, and for the mayntenance of the ministrye" (Hingham Town Records,
Vol. 1, p. 151).
Henry and Jane probably lived at Hingham until at least 10 Mar 1670/71,
when he was granted Lot No. 35, of the Third Division of Conahassett
(Cohassett) uplands (Hingham Town Records, Vol. III, p. 182). Probably
within a year or so, he and Jane removed to Hull and lived with their
son William until his death. Henry's sons Henry and William were both
early settlers of the town of Hull about 1654. Hull was a distance of
some two or three miles across "Broad Bay" from Hingham.
Henry Chamberlin, made his will on December 8, 1673; proved 29 July 1674.
[Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Volume 6, Page 54.]
In it he names all the children listed except John, who was dead. Named
in John's place was Henry's grandson, John Chamberlin.
Though the descendants of Henry Chamberlin have long since removed themselves
from Hingham, the name of their progenitor in the New World is perpetuated
in the region by "Chamberlin's Run," a small brook flowing into the Wier
River, near Rocky Hill and "Chamberlin's Swamp," beyond Rocky Hill, both in
Hingham.
He was probably buried in the old burying ground on the hill in Hull, "but
no man knoweth his sepulchre."
_John KNOX _______
_John KNOX __|
| |_Rachel FREELAND _
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|--Elijah KNOX
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|_Jane HENRY _|
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_J. Milton LONG ____|
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|--Arthur LONG
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| _Lloyd WILCOXON _
|_Sarah E. WILCOXEN _|
|_Rhoda MOORE ____
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_Robert PATTERSON ____
_Robert PATTERSON _|
| |_Elizabeth PATTERSON _
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|--Jane PATTERSON
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|_Nancy FREEBORN ___|
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|--James TULLY
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_John Jackson TULLY _
_John Jackson TULLY _|
| |_Sarah Irena HARLAN _
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|--Myrtle TULLY
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|_Ethyl MEYERS _______|
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