Author: Whitcomb, Chapman
Biography:
WHITCOMB, Chapman (1765-1833: ancestry.com)
The son of Asa and Joanna (Raymond) Whitcomb, he was born in Hardwick MA--at the time a village in a farming community that included several Whitcomb families. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1785, married Rhoda Willard of the town of Harvard MA, and became a publisher and itinerant bookseller in the region, working often with a printer in nearby Leominster but also having titles printed ad hoc on the road. The couple had two children. The works under Whitcomb's imprint, apart from his own, tend to travel and captivity narratives; the last of them dates from 1817. At some point he turned to schoolteaching. In 1800 the Census records him as a resident of Lancaster but by 1820 it was again Harvard, which is where he died having been a teacher "for many years" according to the death notice. (ancestry.com 30 Jan. 2021; WorldCat; George Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College [1867]; Columbian Centinel [Boston] 27 Mar. 1833) HJ