Chapman (Maria Weston) is born in Weymouth.

The daughter of Capt. Warren and Ann (Bates) Weston, Maria Weston Chapman grows up in Weymouth, is brought by her uncle Joshua Bates to London, and returns to Boston in 1828 to serve as principal of Ebenezer Bailey’s Young Ladies’ High School. She marries shipping merchant Henry Chapman in 1830 and moves to 11 West Street. Chapman becomes a leader of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society and a member of the staff of The Liberator. After her husband’s death, she moves to Paris in 1848, returns to the U.S. to live in New York in 1855, and dies in Weymouth on July 12, 1885.