A Chaplin Family Tree

Israel Chapin was one of the founders of Canandaigua, the principle town in the vast Phelps-Gorham purchase of western New York. He was the long-term US agent to the Six Nations, replaced upon his death by his son. His son-in-law Nathaniel Howell became a prominent Canandaigua attorney and state politician. Chapin’s granddaughter married John Greig, who managed millions of acres purchased from Robert Morris.