Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
CHIPMAN, Dr. LEMUEL, from Connecticut, 1780, m. Sina, da. of Col. William Fitch, and settled near
the present residence of James Leach. He was one of a distinguished family who have shed an
enduring lustre on the early history of the state. He was the first president of the State Medical Society,
organized in 1796. He was in the legislature eight years. He removed to Richmond, N.Y., in 1798,
where he became distinguished as a judge as well as physician. He lived to an advanced age.
CHIPMAN, Dr. GYRUS, brother of Lemuel, married Anna, da. of Col. William Fitch.
He left for the west with his brother and settled in Rochester, Mich., about 1820.
He died in 1840, aged about 80.
