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Robert H. (Robert Hett) Chapman

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The Chapman family, or, The descendants of Robert Chapman : one of the first settlers of Say-Brook, Conn. : with genealogical notes of William Chapman, who settled in New London, Conn., Edward Chapman, who settled at Windsor, Conn., John Chapman, of Stonington, Conn., and Rev. Benjamin Chapman, of Southington, Conn. : [extracts relating to Robert Hett Chapman]

Chapman, F. W. (Frederick William), 1806-1876 · 1854 · Case, Tiffany and Co.

A genealogy of the Chapman family, tracing the descendants of Robert Chapman of Saybrook, Connecticut, printed at Hartford by Case, Tiffany and Company in 1854. The Chapel Hill link is Robert Hett Chapman, a president of the University of North Carolina, and the extracts gathered here are the biographical and genealogical passages about him.

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December 12, 1812 Robert H. Chapman is elected president as Caldwell returns to teaching mathematics Caldwell asked to give up the presidency to finish his geometry and study astronomy. The board accepted his resignation, elected the Presbyterian minister Chapman president at $1,200 a year and kept Caldwell as professor of mathematics at $1,000. People: William Hawkins, Robert H. (Robert Hett) ChapmanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 231
January 1814 Caldwell takes students before a justice of the peace over attacks on President Chapman's property After night raids on Chapman's stable, cart and gate, and tar and feathers on his gatepost, Caldwell asked justice Pleasant Henderson for a general warrant. Refused, he named five students, and a hearing questioned the student body under oath. People: Pleasant Henderson, Robert H. (Robert Hett) ChapmanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 233
about 1815 Robert H. Chapman serves New Hope as stated supply After James H. Bowman left, Chapman supplied the New Hope pulpit about 1815.Search the index · NC Digital Collections: D. I. Craig, Historical Sketch of New Hope Church in Orange County, N.C. (1891), p. 27
September 18, 1816 Senior William B. Shepard speaks forbidden political passages and sets off a student revolt Chapman had struck Republican passages from Shepard's oration and ordered him to sit when he spoke them anyway, but students cheered him on and the next day met in the chapel to back him. The trustees expelled Shepard and George C. Dromgoole, others were suspended, and most of the rest signed apologies. People: Robert H. (Robert Hett) ChapmanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 235
November 23, 1816 Robert H. Chapman resigns the university presidency At the first board meeting after the Shepard affair Chapman resigned, saying he wished to give himself to the ministry. The trustees made it effective at once, paid him half a year's salary and let him keep the president's house to the end of the session. People: Duncan Cameron, Robert H. (Robert Hett) ChapmanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. I (1907), p. 239

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Background context: Chapman, Robert Hett NCpedia
Read contemporary evidence: State Archives catalog: 3 collections naming Robert Chapman State Archives of North Carolina Collection descriptions for manuscripts, county records, and state records held by the State Archives of North Carolina
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