Chapin, Pynchon's son John and another Pynchon son-in-law, Elizur Holyoke, were appointed town Commissioners (essentially a board of magistrates).
Samuel Beckett | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Pepys | Samuel L. Jackson | Samuel R. Delany | Samuel Barber | Mary Chapin Carpenter | Samuel Goldwyn | Samuel | Harry Chapin | Samuel Alito | Samuel Butler | Samuel Ramey | Samuel Morse | Samuel Gompers | Samuel de Champlain | Samuel Sewall | Samuel Richardson | Samuel Hill | Samuel Fuller | Samuel Purchas | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | Samuel Foote | Samuel Butler (novelist) | Tom Chapin | Samuel Sánchez | Samuel Rogers | Samuel Rivera | Samuel Pierpont Langley |
His paternal side descends in the ninth generation from early English Puritan Deacon Samuel Chapin who arrived in America, from Devonshire, between 1633–1635, and was later one of the founders of Springfield, Massachusetts.