Last name origins & meanings:
- English: occupational name for a merchant or trader, Middle English
chapman, Old English cēapmann, a compound of
cēap ‘barter’, ‘bargain’, ‘price’, ‘property’ + mann
‘man’.
- This name was brought independently to North America from England
by numerous different bearers from the 17th century onward. John
Chapmen (sic) was one of the free planters who assented to the
‘Fundamental Agreement’ of the New Haven Colony on June 4, 1639.
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