Reports and Dissertations, Vol. 1 of 2: With an Appendix Containing Forms of Special Pleadings in Several Cases, Forms of Recognizances, of Justices ... of Warrants of Commitment (Classic Reprint)
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In the following cases, there is but one instance of a difference of opinion with the Judges. It was not practiced for the Judges to give their opinions seriatim on those points, in which they were agreed. I conceived it necessary to mention this, lest I should be thought to have omitted the arguments of my brethren on the bench.
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Sketches of the principles of government; by Nathaniel Chipman, judge of the Court of the United States for the District of Vermont.
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Half-title: Chipman's principles of government. Two states of the title page noted. In one (Evans 25297), the imprint begins "Vermont, Rutland: From the press .." In the other (Evans 25298), the imprint begins "Rutland: From the press .." - Error in pagi
Rutland Vt. : From the press of J. Lyon: printed for the author, June, M,DCC,XCIII. 1793 xii, 1, 14-292 p. ; 12°
Principles of government: a treatise on free institutions, including the Constitution of the United States.
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Burlington Vt. : E. Smith, 1833. viii, 330 p. ; 25 cm.
Nathaniel Chipman was an American jurist and politician. He served as a Judge of the United States Court for the District of Vermont from 1791 to 1793 and as United States Senator from Vermont from 1797 to 1803.
Background
Nathaniel Chipman, the son of Samuel and Hannah (Austin) Chipman, was born on November 15, 1752 at Salisbury, Connecticut, United States. He was fourth in descent from John and Hope (Howland) Chipman, who settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1631.
Education
Nathaniel was privately tutored. In 1773 he entered Yale College, where he received his degree (in absentia) in 1777.
Career
In 1777 Chipman received an ensign’s commission in Colonel Charles Webb’s Second Connecticut Continental Line. After some eighteen months of service, including the winter at Valley Forge where he was promoted to a first lieutenancy, he resigned. In March 1779 he was admitted to the bar in Litchfield County, Connecticut, but went immediately to Vermont, where his father had settled at Tinmouth. In June, he was admitted to the bar of Rutland County, Vermont, and began the practise of law.
Two years later, when the Vermont leaders—Thomas Chittenden and others— were involved in secret negotiations with General Ilaldimand, and rumor was current regarding their treason, Chipman was called into conference with them, regarding certain letters, which the legislature demanded be read in session. It is said that Chipman expurgated the letters in such a manner that the legislators were satisfied that the negotiations were not treasonable. In 1784, he was a member of the legislature, and was appointed to a committee to revise certain acts.
Three years later, his legal capacity won him an appointment as assistant justice of the supreme court of Vermont—the first lawyer to sit on that bench. When the ratification of the Federal Constitution was being considered by the various states in 1788, Chipman, who was anxious to see Vermont admitted to the Union, took up the matter with Alexander Hamilton and exchanged several letters with him. In 1789 he was appointed to the Boundary Commission, whose agreement brought about a settlement of the dispute between New York and Vermont in 1790. At this same time he became chief justice of the supreme court of Vermont. On February 9, 1791, Chipman met with President George Washington to notify him officially of Vermont's decision to apply for admission to the Union as the 14th state. When Vermont was admitted to the Union, he was appointed judge of the United States court in the district of Vermont, an office he held only two years.
In 1793 he resigned and took up his private practise, publishing in that year his Sketches of the Principles of Government (revised edition, 1833), and his Reports and Dissertations, consisting mainly of reports of cases before the supreme court of Vermont. In 1796, he again became chief justice of the supreme court.
In 1798 he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served six years. His work there was not of a spectacular nature, but his judicial mind, with its legal background, proved a valuable asset in Senate affairs. Upon the expiration of his term, he returned to private practise in Tinmouth, but was soon sent to the legislature, representing the town in 1806-1809, and in 1811. In March 1813 he became one of the Council of Censors, a committee of thirteen, having power to examine the constitution of the state and institute revision of it. In this same year he was again appointed chief justice. In 1816, he succeeded his brother, Daniel, as professor of law in Middlebury College, where he delivered a series of lectures during the ensuing collegiate year. Owing to serious deafness he never returned to public life, but spent the remainder of his days in Tinmouth, where he died February 15, 1843. A large monument, erected there in 1873, commemorates his service to the state.
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Politics
In politics he was a Federalist, of the school of Hamilton.
Personality
Chipman was a thorough student of the law. His heritage of a good mind, his careful training in the classics, and his keen interest in the political affairs of his time made him one of the ablest men of his day in Vermont.
Connections
Chipman was married, in 1781, to Sarah Hill, of Tinmouth, who bore him nine children.