Deacon Samuel Chapin had probably been in America about ten years when he and his family settled at Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1642. He and his wife, Cisily, had seven children. He died in 1675.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.

Biographies supplemented by selections of poetry of over seventy American women poets, including Sarah Josepha Hale, Lydia Sigourney, and Mary E. Hewitt.