Israel Chapin

Israel Chapin (4 Dec 1740, Hatfield, Massachusetts – 7 Mar 1795, Canandaigua, New York) was a general in the American Revolution and later Deputy Agent to the Five Nations of Indians.

Revolutionary War Chapin served as captain of the Hatfield Militia at Boston and Lexington. He fought at the Battles of Saratoga as a major, as colonel of the Second Regiment of Hampshire County Militia, and as a brigadier general following the Invasion of Quebec.

Post-war Chapin was involved in negotiating the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in Western New York in 1788. The following year he settled in Canandaigua. In 1792 Secretary of War Henry Knox appointed Chapin "General Agent for Indian Affairs of the United States." Chapin's granddaughter Clarissa was the wife of US Representative John Greig.