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Name Oliver Stoddard Chatfield
Gender Male
Death Date 16 Mar 1877
Death Place Connecticut
Age 83
Birth Date 1794
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Find A Grave Memorial# 23093743
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OCCUPATION: farmer, shipping trade, managed father's saw mill

Captain military company in Bethany

Resided: 296 Seymour Rd, Woodbridge, CT,USA

EVENT: Fact 1 New England Journal of Education

EVENT: Fact 2 Morning Star Lodge, F. & A.M., Royal Arch Mason
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NOTE
The last historic property on the south side of Seymour Road before the border with the Town of Seymour, this house faces generally north. Bladen's Brook runs along the other side of the road.

296 Seymour Road is a late example of a center-chimney Colonial with a saltbox form. The rear leanto is not original construction but may have been added during the building's early history. Hewn overhangs found on the side elevations are elaborated with a dentil course, as are the rakes of, the eaves, a trim applied during the renovation of the building in, the 1940s. The central doorway in the five-bay facade has a six-panel door, framed by six-paned sidelights and surmounted by a blind fan with an Islamic arch, the latter also dating from the 1940s. There are 6-over-six sash in the gable peaks and generally 12-over-12 in the rest of the windows.

Historically important for its association with the Chatfield family. this house was built about 1815 on land Joel Chatfield (1756-1836) had received from his mother, Hannah CHATFIELD, in 1789 (part of his father Elnathan's estate). Elnathan Chatfield (1733-c. 1785) was a descendant of the George Chatfield who came to Guilford in 1639 with the Reverend Henry Whitfield. The title search reveals that both Joel Chatfield and his eldest son, Isaac, removed to Derby and disposed of all, their holdings on this side of the border. Among them was this lot that Isaac had received from his father in 1812. When he sold it 1817 to his brother, Oliver Stoddard Chatfield (1793-1877), the deed contained the first mention of a dwelling. Like many wealthy farmers' sons in this period, Oliver Stoddard had opted for an academic career. After graduating from Yale, he was the publisher of the New England Journal of Education in Boston. Returning to Woodbridge to take up the rural life, he married Abigail Tuttle, had seven children, and became quite wealthy running the family lumber mill on Bladen's Brook. It supplied timber for the old statehouse, buildings at Yale, and the First Methodist Church, all in New Haven. Although a member of the Episcopal church in Seymour for 67 years, Oliver lived out his life on this Woodbridge farm, which the 1870 census indicates he ran with the help of his wife, several laborers and servants. Only Ruth (30), his youngest child, was still at home.

Oliver and Abigail lived in a house which stands on the south side of the road from Seymour to New Haven and is crossed by the boundary line between Seymour and Woodbridge. "The Chatfield Family" 1896

Oliver thought when young he would like to follow the sea, but after one voyage to the West Indies he was content to remain at home. He was Captain of a military company in Bethany. He ran his father's mill, furnishing timber for the older Yale College Buildings, for the first M. E. Church, that used to stand on the corner of the New Haven Green, and for other prominent buildings of the period. He was a member of the Morning Star Lodge, F. and A.M. of Seymour, CT. and a Royal Arch Mason, and at his death was one of the oldest Mason's in Connecticut. He purchased on April 6, 1826, from Stiles Johnson and others, several tracts of land bordering on land of Joel Chatfield and others, and on the 5th of April, 1832, he purchased from Agur and Polly Tomlinson a smaller tract of land on the north side of the highway "about one mile eastwardly of Humphreysville," the land being bounded westerly, northerly and easterly on land of said O. S. Chatfield. A memorandum on the deed designates the dwelling house as the "Dick House". He owned five farms and worked them for a number of years. He was a hospitable and genial host, a lover of his family and always glad to have his children and his grand children about him. His father was one of the wealthy men of his time. He had a set of china made for his wife with the initials of her name, R. C. on each piece, and some of the pieces are still perserved by the grandchildren.
The Chatfield Family, by William C. Sharpe, 1896, Seymour, CT.

He married in 1822, Abigail Tuttle, daughter of Amasa and Sybil (Wooster) Tuttle, who lived near Qaassapaug Lake, in Middlebury. She was born March 28, 1802 died April 11, 1887 ; and was the oldest member of the Seymour BL E. church. They lived in a house which stands on the south side of the road from Seymour to New Haven and is crossed by the boundary line between Seymour and Woodbridge.
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USA Census, 1840
Name Oliver S Chatfield
Event Place Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut
Page Number 358
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USA Census, 1850
Name: Oliver S Chatfield
Event Place: Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Birthplace: Connecticut
Birth Year (Estimated): 1794
House Number: 64
Family Number: 72
Line Number: 38
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 45
GS Film number: 3073
Digital Folder Number: 004181027
Image Number: 00504
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Oliver S Chatfield M 56 Connecticut
Abigail Chatfield F 46 Connecticut
George Chatfield M 20 Connecticut
Howard Chatfield M 16 Connecticut
Patrick Murphy M 33 Ireland
Henry Chatfield M 14 Connecticut
Ruth Chatfield F 10 Connecticut
Charles Chatfield M 9 Connecticut
Bridget Shanley F 21 Ireland
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USA Census, 1860
Name Stoddard Chatfield
Event Place Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut
Gender Male
Age 66
Race White
Birth Year (Estimated) 1794
Birthplace Conn
Page 25
Household
Stoddard Chatfield M 66 Conn
Abigail Chatfield F 56 Conn
Henry W Chatfield M 24 Conn
Ruth A Chatfield F 20 Conn
Charles Chatfield M 19 Conn
Sarah Rogers F 29 Ireland
Valentine Laugdon M 20 Conn
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USA Census, 1870
Name: Oliver L Chatfield
Birth Year (Estimated): 1794
Gender: Male
Age (Original): 76y
Race: White
Birthplace: Connecticut
Event Place: Connecticut
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Oliver L Chatfield M 76y Connecticut
Abigail Chatfield F 66y Connecticut
Ruth A Chatfield F 30y Connecticut
Richard Miller M 19y New York
Rose Farley F 11y Connecticut
George Mckennan M 11y Connecticut

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