These constituted the Chapman family.
Dogtown, of which I made mention, was a creation of Chapman's.

With it he was to demonstrate how the world could be reformed, and how the prejudices were to be driven from other people's minds.

Strong-minded people from various towns in Massachusetts came and settled in Dogtown, invested their money, were to do an equal share of work, and receive an equal share of profits, and live together as happily as lambs.

But Dogtown did not long continue a paradise.

Indeed, it soon became famous for two things: for the name of Bigelow Chapman, and for having more crazy and quarrelsome people in it than could be found in any other town in Massachusetts, which was saying a good deal.