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About Samuel Chapin
- Samuel Chapin (bp October 8, 1598 – November 11, 1675) was a prominent early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts.
- He served the town as selectman, magistrate and deacon (in the Massachusetts Bay Colony there was little separation between the church and government).
- Chapin is best known today as the subject of the Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture entitled Deacon Samuel Chapin (also known as The Puritan).
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