Joel Chaffin Family from Walpole As It Was and As It Is (1880)

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Surname: CHAFFIN
Source: Walpole As It Was and As It Is by George Aldrich, 
        The Claremont Manufacturing Co., Claremont, N.H., 1880, pages 228-229

CHAFFIN, JOEL, was a resident of this town as early as 1795. He was born in Holden, Mass. He 
was a carpenter by trade, and was the principal workman at that business in town for more than a
quarter of a century. He used to frame his buildings by what was then called the scribe rule, 
where every part was fitted and scribed, or marked, for a certain place, before raising. In those
days a gouge was used for starting the place of boring holes, after which the old pod auger was
used, a tool without a screw, and was forced into the wood by much physical exertion. Many of 
the old buildings in town are silent witnesses of his toil and handiwork. He married Olive 
Stickney, of Holden, Mass., and lived in a house that once stood on the east side of the road,
opposite the residence of George Watkins. He died April 2, 1829, aged 65; she died Nov. 21, 
1833, aged 78. Ch.
I. Royal, b. Aug. 2,1793; m. Betsey Rice, and is now living in Holden, Mass.
II. Phebe Smith, b. June 3, 1796; m. Albert Locke, and went to Saratoga after living in town a 
few years.
III. Polly, b. Oct. 30, 1797, m. Thomas Wilder, and had several children. She died in Worcester, 
Mass., where the Wilders moved about 1843.
IV. Willard Stickney, was a physician, b. Mar. 24, 1799; m. Sophia Doolittle and practiced his 
profession in Winchester, N.H. He died in this town April 12, 1831, of lumbar abscess.
V. Charles Chandler, b. Jan. 12,1807; m. first, Charlotte Bailey; second, Harriet, a triplet 
daughter of Caleb Farnham, of this town. He was a resident of this town for several years, and 
lived in the Hooper neighborhood and carried on the shoemaking business. He left town about 1842
or ‘3 and went to London, Ohio, and is still living.