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Jeremiah Chaplin (January 2, 1776 – May 7, 1841) was a
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theologian who served as the first president of
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(then called the Waterville College) in Maine. Chaplin was born in
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(now
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) in 1776 to a Baptist family. He attended Brown University, a school with an historical Baptist affiliation, graduating in 1799 with a Bachelor of Arts. Chaplin spent a year at Brown as a tutor and pursued additional theological study to become a minister. To this end, he studied under Thomas Baldwin of the Second Baptist Church in
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. In 1802 he became minister of the Baptist church in
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. Chaplin remained in Danvers through 1817 with the exception of a 1804 stint at the
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. College left his pastorate in Danvers in 1817 to become president of the new Waterville College (later
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) at which he served until 1833. Chaplin first met Gardner Colby during this period while Colby was still a child, and Chaplin assisted Colby's family after Colby's father died. During the remainder of his life, Chaplin preached in
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and
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, and then moved to
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where he died in 1841. Chaplin held to a
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theology throughout his life. A
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constructed in 1943, the , was named in his honor.Liberty: The Ships That Won the War, Peter Elphick, Naval Institute Press, 2006, p 131.


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