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{{Infobox officeholder
| name =Throope Chapman
| image =
| birth_date =March 25, 1739
| birth_place =[[Ashford, Connecticut]], [[British American]]
| death_date =1794
| death_place =[[Readsboro, Vermont]], [[United States|USA]]
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| spouse = Deborah Wilson<ref>"Branch 101". www.oldwillow.com.[http://www.oldwillow.com/Genealogy/johnna/f_64.htm]. Accessed 1 July 2007.</ref>
}}

'''Throope Chapman''' (1738–1794) was one of the founders of [[Readsboro, Vermont]], USA.<ref>{{cite book |author=Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |title=History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |year=1929 |publisher=Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association |location=Vermont |pages=53 }}</ref><ref>''State Papers of Vermont''. Vermont Office of
Secretary of State. The Tuttle Company, 1958, p. 3.</ref> He was an early settler of [[Dwight, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Belchertown Soldiers Memorial, a War Memorial |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=198096 |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>Doolittle, Mark. Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, Mass. United States, Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.</ref> Throope (also spelled Throop) served with [[Thomas Knowlton]]<ref>"Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton, Connecticut's Forgotten Hero". The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Historical Series, Number Three, September 1997. http://www.connecticutsar.org/articles/scarlet_no3.htm. Accessed 13 July 2007.</ref> as a member of Captain John Slapp's 8th Co, First Connecticut Regiment, during the Campaign of 1757 in the [[French and Indian War]].<ref>"Eighth Company - Capt. Slapp". ''Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society''. Connecticut Historical Society. Volume IX. Hartford, Connecticut, 1903. Page 184. Google Books: [https://archive.org/details/collectionsconn00socigoog]</ref>

In about 1770, he purchased acreage southwest of the intersection of North Street and Gulf Road, near the Scarborough Brook, where it crosses Gulf Road. Here, three generations of his descendants farmed, had an apiary, and operated a gristmill, wheelwright and carpentry shop.<ref>Jenks, Gladys. History of Dwight. Unpublished. Stone House Museum, Belchertown Historical Association, Belchertown, Massachusetts.</ref>

In 1777, Throope enlisted at Belchertown as a private in Capt. Jonathan Bardwell's company, Col. Elisha Porter's regiment. His sons William and Ebenezer served as well. They founded the village of Belcher, [[Hebron, New York|Hebron]], [[Washington County, New York]], in 1781.

In 1785, Throope founded [[Readsboro, Vermont]], where he was a [[board of selectmen|selectman]] until his death in 1794.<ref>{{cite book |last=Coolidge |first=Austin Jacobs |author2=Mansfield, John Brainard |title=A History and Description of New England, General and Local |url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryanddesc00mansgoog|year=1859 |publisher=A.J. Coolidge |location=Boston |oclc=12762947 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryanddesc00mansgoog/page/n963 883] }}</ref>

Notable descendants include [[Welcome Chapman]] and Oliver Smith Chapman.

== References ==
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[[Category:People from Ashford, Connecticut]]
[[Category:People from Readsboro, Vermont]]
[[Category:People from colonial Connecticut]]
[[Category:American city founders]]
[[Category:People of the French and Indian War]]
[[Category:People of Vermont in the American Revolution]]

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