Background
Robert Hett Chapman was born second of three children of Reverend Jedediah Chapman and his wife, Blanche Smith and was born on March 15, 1771 in Orangedale (now Orange), New Jersey.
Missionary pastor Presbyterian minister
Robert Hett Chapman was born second of three children of Reverend Jedediah Chapman and his wife, Blanche Smith and was born on March 15, 1771 in Orangedale (now Orange), New Jersey.
Robert graduated from Nassau Hall, now known as Princeton University, in 1789 with his Bachelor"s degree in Theology.
His next step would be to get his licenses with the Presbytery in New Jersey. Robert remained in Rahway from 1796–1799. On December 12, 1812 was elected president by the Board of Trustees at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
He gave in his letter of resignation on November 23, 1816 and his session ended immediately but was still given half of a years severance pay and was still allowed to stay in the house he lived in on the campus.
After resigning from University of North Carolina, he traveled as a minister and missionary throughout Virginia where he was a pastor in Leesburg, Loudon and Winchester. He also traveled some in North Carolina and Tennessee.
He “died unexpectedly of an intestinal ailment” in Winchester, Virginia on the June 18, 1833. In memory of Robert Hett Chapman there is a “framed silhouette” of him “in the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill”.
