Individual Details

Occupation

Asahel CHAPIN, the son of John CHAPIN, was apprenticed to Josia CHAPIN of Springfield, Hampden, MA as a blacksmith.

Death

Ashel CHAPIN fought with the Massachusetts troops at the Siege of Louisbourg in1745. Both he and his cousin, Nathaniel CHAPIN, are killed.

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The Siege of Louisbourg (1745) took place when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Ile-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

Louisbourg was an important bargaining chip in the peace negotiations to end the war, since it represented a major British success. Factions within the British government were opposed to returning it to the French as part of any peace agreement, but these were eventually overruled, and Louisbourg was returned, over the objections of the victorious colonists, to French control after the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.