(pedigree chart for Krayton M Davis on his Great Grandmother's line)

The Chipman line goes back to Thomas Chipman (1567-1623). The Great Fire of 1666 in London, two World Wars, and the ravages of time and mildew have destroyed possibly all records of the first Chipman.

John Chipman (1620-1708, son of Thomas Chipman) came to America May 1637, at the age of 17. In the Rocky Nook home of John and Elizabeth Howland, John Chipman met and married Hope Howland. For the first three years, they rented quarters while he plied his carpentry trade in Plymonth. The records show that the family moved moved to Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1649.

John Chipman is the great-grandfather of Barnabas Chipman. His great-great grandson Stephen Chipman joined the Church in Canada and left there with his wife, Amanda, and their four young children to join the main body of Saints in Missouri. By the winter of 1846, they moved with the exodus of the Saints from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters, leaving there June 21, 1847 for their westward trek to the Salt Lake Valley. There the legacy begins.