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Nathan had met Margaret Prudentia Herrick in nearby Twinsburg, her family having arrived from Worthington, Massachusetts. Smitten by her charm—a mixture of intellect, compassion, resilience, and beauty—Nathan asked David Herrick, Margaret’s father, for her hand in matrimony. The couple exchanged vows in Middlefield’s Episcopal Church on August 19, 1841, and began their wedded life together on farmland gifted by Isaac. Nathan was 25 and Margaret, 23. A year would pass before the young couple would welcome their first baby.

The Chatfields moved from Middlefield to Kankakee in 1858. The land was affordable and the growing season was nearly 30 days longer: more sunshine, less snow, and ample rain. They would construct their new home and tend their new farm in a place called Kankakee--Potawatomi for "Beautiful River." Nathan and Margaret may have learned about Kankakee from their cousin, William A. CHATFIELD, who had settled in Momence Township in 1844.

Nathan Stoddard CHATFIELD, uncle of Isaac, moved to Colorado in 1879 and eventually settled in the Littleton area. Nathan died in August 1885 and was buried in the Littleton cemetery. He and his wife, Margaret Herrick had seven children. All accompanied their parents to Colorado, except for David, who died in the Civil War.

Long before the appearance of white settlers, the Potawatomi had made the Kankakee region their home, a rolling, largely treeless prairie landscape with a beautiful river thickly bordered with groves of oak, hickory, maple, cedar and black walnut. Fertile soil sloped gently to the water's edge in some areas, giving way to sheer limestone bluffs in others, abundant wildlife nearly everywhere. By 1858, Kankakee--60 miles south of downtown Chicago--had blossomed into an exceptionally large county of 16 townships, a population exceeding 13,000, and the site of a depot on the Illinois Central Railroad. Nathan had found what he had been looking for.

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United States Census, 1860
Name Nathan Chatfield
Event Place Pilot, Kankakee, Illinois
Gender Male
Age 43
Race White
Birth Year (Estimated) 1817
Birthplace Conn
Page 93
Nathan Chatfield M 43 Conn
Margaret P Chatfield F 41 Mass
Edward L Chatfield M 17 Ohio
David A Chatfield M 14 Ohio
William Chatfield M 12 Ohio
Isaac N Chatfield M 10 Ohio
James H Chatfield M 8 Ohio
Charles H Chatfield M 4 Ohio
Mary M Chatfield F 1 Ohio
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USA Census, 1870
Name Mathew Chatfield [Should be Nathan]
Event Place Illinois
Gender Male
Age 57
Race White
Birth Year (Estimated) 1812-1813
Birthplace Connecticut
Page Number 1
Household
Mathew Chatfield M 57 Connecticut
Margaret Chatfield F 53 Massachusetts
Edward Chatfield M 27 Ohio
Newton Chatfield M 20 Ohio
James H Chatfield M 18 Ohio
Charles Chatfield M 14 Ohio
Mary Chatfield F 11 Ohio
Mary M Dabie F 15 Canada
Fred Bourt M 16 Canada
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USA Census, 1880
Name Nathan S Chatfield
Event Place Precinct 5, Jefferson, Colorado
Gender Male
Age 63
Marital Status Married
Race White
Occupation Farmer
Relationship to Head of Household Self
Birth Year (Estimated) 1817
Birthplace Massachusetts, USA
Father's Birthplace Massachusetts, USA
Mother's Birthplace Connecticut, USA
Sheet Letter C
Sheet Number 292
Person Number 0
Volume 1
Nathan S Chatfield Self M 63 Massachusetts, USA
Margret P Chatfield Wife F 61 Ohio, USA
Charles H Chatfield Other M 24 Ohio, USA
Mary M Chatfield Other F 21 Ohio, USA
Jos Gentry Other M 31 Indiana

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