Twelfth Generation

1146. Isaac Chatfield was born on 15 January 1787 in Derby, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. He died on 1 August 1861 at the age of 74 in North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA. He was buried in Ridgeville Cmtry., North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA. Isaac appeared in the census 1850/1860 in Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA. Connecticut Births and Christenings
Name Isaac Chatfield
Gender Male
Birth Date 15 Jan 1787
Birthplace DERBY TWP,NEW HAVEN,CONNETICUT
Father's Name Joel Chatfield
Mother's Name Ruth
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Find A Grave Memorial# 10925414
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In 1806, at the age of 19, while still in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, Isaac married Lucy Tomlinson, of Woodbridge, Connecticut. Born on March 20, 1787, Lucy Tomlinson was the fifth of twelve children of Levi Tomlinson and Amelia Beard. The couple settled in Seymour, Connecticut, barely six miles away from Lucy's birthplace, where Isaac farmed while taking college coursework.

Occupation: Teacher, town officer and politician in Middlefield, Ohio.
Religion: Episcopalian
Affiliation: Mason

Pioneer and General History of Geauga County, Ohio:
Isaac Chatfield moved into town and settled on lot forty, coming from Connecticut, with his wife and children, Lucius, Albert, Almira, Levi, Nathan, Ruthann, Charles, Charlotte, Maryette, LaFayette, and Georgianna. When he settled in town he was considered quite wealthy, for those times, by the people. He paid down, or nearly so for about three hundred acres of land. Mr. Chatfield erected a large two-story house, took an active part in town politics, and having attended college, and being one of the best readers, he read sermons, and, after the organization of the Episcopalian church, he conducted services, in the absence of the minister; also, he taught school several winters. After the children were all married off, the parents resided in that township until 1860 when they sold to Ozro and Orlow Newcomb. They removed to Ridgeville, Ohio, and have since died.
What is the present township of Huntsburg, and the township of Middlefield, elected their officers together under the name of Batavia, until, and including, the spring election of 1821. The officers chosen at that election…
Isaac Chatfield, …Lister (recorder; included 9th on the roster of town officers)

Source: History of Geauga County, Ohio, by Historical Society of Geauga County, pub 1880 (pg 731 & 732)
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United States Census, 1850
Name Isaac Chatfield
Event Place Middlefield, Geauga, Ohio
Gender Male
Age 62
Race White
Birth Year (Estimated) 1788
Birthplace Connecticut
House Number 155
Isaac Chatfield M 62 Connecticut
Lucy Chatfield F 62 Connecticut
Georgiana Chatfield F 21 Ohio
Solomon Leach M 35
Mary Leach F 20 Ohio
Leach M 0 Ohio
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United States Census, 1860
Name Isaac Chatfield
Event Place Middlefield, Geauga, Ohio
Gender Male
Age 73
Race White
Birth Year (Estimated) 1787
Birthplace Connecticut
Page 203
Isaac Chatfield M 73 Connecticut
Lucy Chatfield F 73 Connecticut

Isaac Chatfield and Lucy Tomlinson were married in 1806 in Derby, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. Lucy Tomlinson, daughter of Levi Tomlinson and Amelia Beard, was born on 20 March 1787 in Woodbridge, New Haven Co., Connecticut, USA. She died on 20 August 1872 at the age of 85 in North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA. She was buried in Ridgeville Cmtry., North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., Ohio, USA. Lucy appeared in the census 1850/1860 in Middlefield, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA. Find A Grave Memorial# 10925416
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The grandmother and matriarch.Lucy was a wise and sturdy frontier woman. Everyone called her “Grandma Lucy.” She was born in 1787 and was raised in the strict New England culture of Woodbridge, Connecticut. At the age of 19, she married Isaac Chatfield of Derby, Connecticut and settled in Seymour, both localities within six miles of her birthplace. She gave birth to her first five children in Seymour: Lucius Napoleon (1807), Lucy Almira (1809), Albert Alonzo (1811), Levi Tomlinson (1813), and Nathan Stoddard—her fifth—in 1815. The following year (1816) Lucy, Isaac, and the five children moved west to the rugged, remote, undeveloped land of Middlefield, Geauga County, Ohio—then called Batavia—one of the Connecticut Land Company’s fledgling townships. In Middlefield, Lucy would bear six more children, Georgiana, her last-born in 1829. Sadly, she would lose five of her 11 children before the war started, a bitter lesson she could not ignore. After removing to North Ridgeville and then losing her husband, her letters from 1862 forward read like sermons—firm, God-fearing instruction from an experienced pioneer woman. She was dearly loved. Even Margaret, her son’s wife, called her “Mother.” Lucy was 75 years old when Edward enlisted.

Isaac Chatfield and Lucy Tomlinson had the following children:

+1935	i.	Lucious Nepoleon Chatfield.
+1936	ii.	Lucy Almira Chatfield.
+1937	iii.	Albert Alonzo Chatfield.
+1938	iv.	Levi Tomlinson Chatfield.
+1939	v.	Nathan Stoddard Chatfield.
+1940	vi.	Ruth Ann Chatfield.
+1941	vii.	Charles Henry Chatfield.
1942	viii.	Charlotte Ann Chatfield was born on 3 April 1822 in Middlefield, Burton, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA. She died on 8 October 1844 at the age of 22 in Middlefield, Burton, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA. She was buried in Middlefield, Burton, Geauga Co., Ohio, USA.
+1943	ix.	Maria Antoinette "Maryetta" Chatfield.
+1944	x.	Gilbert Layfayette Chatfield.
+1945	xi.	Georganna A Chatfield.