Henry Grafton Chapman (1804-1842)

Merchant & Abolitionist, of Boston, Massachusetts

He and his father were, "almost the only, if not the only, mercantile houses in the country which sacrificed a profitable Southern business to their deep conviction of the sin of slavery" (The Liberator, 1846). 

Parents

Henry Chapman

Merchant, of Boston & a Leader of the Anti-Slavery Movement

1771-1846

Sarah (Greene) Chapman

Mrs Sarah (Greene) Chapman

1773-1847

Spouse

Maria Weston Chapman

Mrs Maria (Weston) Chapman; Executive of the American Anti-Slavery Society

1806-1885

Children

Henry Grafton Chapman, Jr.

President of the New York Exchange

1833-1883