(1) Genealogical Notes of Barnstable [Mass.] Families Volume I, Amos
Otis, 1888. Chipman chapter (pages 153-165).
- Came to America in 1637.
"Few families are more widely disseminate than this. Elder Chipman had
eleven children and eighty-two grand-children, nearly all of whom married
and had families." "Chipman is an ancient name and occurs as early as
A.D. 1070, on the Doomsday Survey Book. Originally the name was written
De Chippenham, or by the armorial bearings Chippenham." "Probably the
ancestor of all of the name Chipman in the United States."