Chops, John II, 1756 - 1818

John Chops II was the son of John Chops (Paugussett) and Sarah Shoran (Pequannock) of the Golden Hill Community.  He had at least one child, a son named Adonijah.  Like his father John, Sr., Chops served in the military: 1778 First Battalion, Bradley's Connecticut Regiment (1778), 5th Battalion (1778-1780), Connecticut 2nd Brigade (1783), Swift and Dobbin's Regiment of New York Volunteers (1814).  At the end of his life, at least, Chops lived upon a rising that later was known as "Chopsey Hill."  He died in North Bridgeport in the winter of 1818.  Summary under the Criteria (Golden Hill Paugussett, 2003), 135, 138.  U.S. Military Rolls, Ancestry.  Connecticut State Library, Connecticut Church Records, Bridgeport, United Congregational Church, 1687-1889 (Hartford, CT: Connecticut State Library, 1951), 67.