Cecily Penny
F, b. circa 21 February 1602, d. 8 February 1682/83
Cecily was born circa 21 February 1602 in the parish of Paignton, Devonshire, England. On 21 February 1602, she was christened in the parish of Paignton, Devonshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Henry Penny and Jane (?) Cecily married Deacon Samuel Chapin, son of John Chapin and Phillipe Easton, on 10 February 1624 in Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire, England, at St. John the Baptist Churchyard.2 Circa 1638, Cecily and her husband Samuel immigrated on the ship About 1638, the family, with Henry's step father, left their home in England & immigrated to the colonies.3 Cecily's husband, Samuel, died on 11 November 1675 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, leaving her a widow.4 Cecily departed this life on Monday, 8 February 1682/83 in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts.5
Children of Cecily Penny and Deacon Samuel Chapin
- David Chapin b. c 4 Jan 1625, d. Aug 1672
- Katherine Chapin+ b. c 1626, d. 4 Feb 1712
- Sarah Chapin b. c Oct 1628, d. 5 Aug 1684
- Samuel Chapin b. c Jan 1631, d. c 10 Jul 1631
- Henry Chapin b. c Jan 1631, d. 15 Aug 1718
- John Chapin b. c 16 Jan 1632/33
- Honor Chapin b. c 8 May 1636
- Josiah Chapin b. c 29 Oct 1637, d. 10 Sep 1726
- Japhet Chapin b. c 15 Oct 1642, d. 20 Feb 1712
- Hannah Chapin b. c 2 Dec 1644, d. 21 May 1719
Citations
- [S1713] Howard Millar Chapin, The English Ancestry of Dea, Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass., page 355 - Paignton Parish Baptismal Register - Cicely, daughter of Henry Penny, 21 February 1601. - http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/…
- [S1713] Howard Millar Chapin, The English Ancestry of Dea, Samuel Chapin of Springfield, Mass., page 352 - Paignton Parish Marriage Register - Samuell Chapin and Cecily Peny 10 Feb. 1623 [1623/24]. - http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/…
- [S1703] Gilbert Warren Chapin, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data, With Brief Biological Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, page XII - "A record at Roxbury, of early but unknown date shows that he [Samuel] possessed 24 acres of land there, and had eight persons in his family, himself, wife, father & five children." He had immigrated atleast by 1635 or earlier.
- [S1703] Gilbert Warren Chapin, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data, With Brief Biological Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, page XIII - In October 1675, Springfield was attacked by Indians & burned. Deacon Chapin did not see the town rebuilt, for in about a month as wrote his son, Japhet, "my father was taken out of this troubelsom world the 11th day of November about eleven of the clock in the eve, 1675."
- [S1719] George E. McCracken, John Brown's Body, page 25 - Cicely Penny , bapt. Paignton, Devon, 21 Feb. 1601/2, d. Springfield, Mass., 8 Feb. 1682/3.