Free Black.
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Connecticut Deaths and Burials
Name Yarmouth Chatfield
Gender Male
Death Date 15 Sep 1815
Death Place Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
Age 77
Birth Date 1738
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United States Census, 1790
Name Yarmouth Chatfield
Event Place Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
Page 284
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United States Census, 1800
Name Yarmouth Chatfield
Event Place Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
Page 850
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United States Census, 1810
Name Yarmouth Chatfield
Event Place Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
Page 127
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(This record states died 1846.)
Yarmouth is listed in the book "History of Ancient Woodbury Connecticut", page #780 in a list of Revolutionary War Soldiers called up by General Washington. Yarmouth is listed in the same book on page #829 in a listing of persons being baptised at the First Congregational Church, he is referred to as "(colored)" The year of this list was 1821 October 28.
There are three other Chatfield's, all are referred to as colored;
Clarissa Chatfield (July 7 1822), Sybil Chatfield (1833), Sylvia Chatfield (1833 September 6)
The Hotchkissville Historic District, located in the Weekeepeemee River Valley in the northern part of the Town of Woodbury, Litchfield County Connecticut, USA.
Among the few older houses in the Hotchkissville Historic District that predate the establishment of the village is a colonial saltbox located at the foot of Westwood Road, known as the Yarmouth Chatfield House for an early nineteenth-century owner (72 Westwood Road). Except for the added leanto, it is relatively unchanged since it was erected about 1750. One of the few houses in Woodbury that originally had a one-room deep main block, and the only one of this type in the Hotchkissville Historic District, this colonial farmhouse has a rubblestone foundation and a large center brick chimney. Its three-bay facade displays relatively narrow nine-over-six windows.
Several working farms remained on the periphery of the district, including the one owned by Yarmouth CHATFIELD, a free black, at the foot of Westwood Road (72 Westwood Road).[3]
Chatfield was one of several former slaves living in Woodbury in the early nineteenth century, but the only one to own property at that time, according to the architectural survey of 1992. He bought the house in 1808 and remained here until his death in 1846.