3. Ebenezer Chatfield & Abigail Prindle

by Catherine Sevenau on May 11, 2011

Ebenezer Chatfield

  • 9th child of John Chatfield & Anna Harger
  • Born: Jul 4, 1703, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: abt 1789 (abt age 86), Derby, New Haven, Connecticut (will was proved in Derby)
  • Buried: unkn
  • Married: Nov 20, 1728, Abigail Prindle, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Six children: Ebenezer Chatfield, Jr., Abigail Chatfield, ELNATHAN CHATFIELD, Mindwell Chatfield, Lemuel Chatfield (twin), Levi Chatfield (twin)

Abigail Prindle

  • Daughter of John Prindle & Hannah Botsford
  • Born: Oct 17, 1704, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: 1789 (age 85), Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Buried: unkn
  • Married: Nov 20, 1728, Ebenezer Chatfield, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Six children: Ebenezer Chatfield, Jr., Abigail Chatfield, ELNATHAN CHATFIELD, Mindwell Chatfield, Lemuel Chatfield (twin), Levi Chatfield (twin)

1. Ebenezer Chatfield, II

  • Born: Sep 8, 1729, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: abt 1789 (age 60), Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Buried: unkn
  • Married (1): abt 1752, Rachel Humphreville, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Seven children: Caleb Chatfield, Abigail Chatfield, Caleb Chatfield, Armenia/Arma/Anna Chatfield, Lemuel Chatfield, Ebenezer Chatfield, III, Elizabeth Chatfield
  • Married (2): Mar 23, 1768, Susanna Mary (Clark) Watrous, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • One child: Eunice Chatfield

2. Abigail Chatfield

  • Born: Jan 1731/32, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: unkn, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Buried: unkn
  • Married: Sep 16, 1755, Samuel Hazelton, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Three children: Lydia Hazelton, David Hazelton, Sarah or Rebecca Hazelton

3. ELNATHAN CHATFIELD

  • Born: abt 1733, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: bef Aug 1778 (age 45), Derby or Milford, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Buried: Trinity Cemetery in Seymour, New Haven Connecticut
  • Married: Sep 12, 1754, HANNAH NORTHRUP, Milford or Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Four children: Rebecca, JOEL CHATFIELD, Isaac, Sarah

4. Mindwell Chatfield

  • Born: Sep 9, 1735, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: 1801 (age 65), prob Connecticut
  • Buried: unkn
  • Military: French & Indian War, campaigns of 1755, 1757, 1558 and 1761
  • Married: Jun 20, 1759, Moses Wooster, II, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Seven children: Lemuel Wooster, Anna/Annie/Anne Wooster, Ebenezer Wooster, Moses Wooster III, Mindwell Wooster, Charity Wooster, Levi Wooster

5. Lemuel Chatfield (twin)

  • Born: Jan 6, 1737/38, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Died: Sep 30, 1758 (age 20), in military camp at Lake George, New York; battle injuries
  • Buried: unkn
  • Military: Connecticut Militia—French & Indian War (1754 – 1763: North American nine-year chapter of Seven Years War)

6. Levi Chatfield (twin)

    • Born: Jan 6, 1737/38, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Died: Oct 15, 1758 (age 20), Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; war injuries
    • Buried: unkn
    • Military: Connecticut Militia—French & Indian War;  Sep 30, 1758, severely wounded at Lake George, New York; returned home, dying two weeks later
    • Married: Jan 30, 1755, Abigail Harger, Derby, New Haven, Connecticut
    • One child: Levi Chatfield, Jr.

Levi & Lemuel Chatfield
Levi and Lemuel, twin brothers, enlisted in the French and Indian War to fight the French on the northern border. Lemuel was killed at Lake George and Levi died at his home in Derby from injuries received in service. 
Levi lived in Skokorat, south of the Joel Chatfield home, in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut. Administration on the estate of Levi Chatfield, the Widow Abigail refusing, was granted in December 1758 to his brother Elnathan Chatfield of Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, and James Beard of Derby was appointed guardian to the minor child Levi, II.
Source: The Chatfield Family by William C. Sharpe, Seymour, New Haven, Connecticut, pub 1896