ubject:
Re: Chaplin & Calvert
Date:
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 03:10:00 -0500
From:
"matteso" <matteso(a)IDT.NET>
To:
<txcalvert(a)erath.net>
Vicki, Thanks for forwarding my message! I should join the Calvert
list
myself..so what the formula for so doing? Years ago, a Mrs. Maria J.
Liggett Dare wrote the only book on the Chapline family that presently
exists. She does not name Isaac Chapline's wife other than to call her
Mary Chapline
in her accounts of Chapline's choice. Family members suggested that she
was Mary Calvert, Sister of George Calvert - Lord Baltimore. Newman in
his
account of the Calverts says that these reports exist and that there is
no
extant proof of the contentions. However, The marriage of Isaac
Chapline
to Mary Calvert has been found in records of both Yorkshire and London.
One
source is in the IGI and another is in several printed marriage accounts
-
one from Yorkshire and the other from Middlesex. I don't have either in
front of me as I type but can get them if needed! Also , Joseph
Chapline
(great great grandson of Isaac Chapline)was ceeded nearly 6,000 acres in
Frederick Co. (Now Washington Co. MD). later, his sons petitioned the
record office for a renued grant on the land - following Joseph
Chapline's
death. This was done by the Calvert in office (forget which one now -
but
it is on the document) whoo started the land re-granting with the
statement, " I am pleased to offer this new grant to my beloved
KINSMEN...etc.
Joseph when a young man had returned to Maryland from England after
getting
Military training
in the military arts at the appropriate academy in England. Governor
Sharp
of Maryland (also a Kinsman) selected Chapline for the job of securing
this
land along the Potomac for the English in the face of Indian and French
claims. This he accomplished handily. He also drew up the original
plans
for Fort Cumberland which (with Cresap's modifications) was built and
served to secure the Potomac in far Western MD. It was used by Braddock
before he set out on his disasterous journey to Fort Pitt. The Governor
and
Lord Calvert apparently picked their kinsman well as he fortified
Frederick
successfully and his design for other forts along the Potomac helped
impede
the marauding French and Indians considerably and Maryland never really
lost a post for any length of time. Just a mile away from Josephs home
across the potomac was the land of his younger brother - William
Chapline,
who also was a distinguished Indian fighter (along with Cresaps and
Prathers) and was even scalped tho he survived due to a chance
appearance
of some troops who had lost their way!
The document written by the Governor and signed by Cecil Lord Baltimore
is
evidence enough, but the additional records(appearing in the 1988 IGI)
of
the Chapline-Calvert marriage in 1605 appear to pretty much settle the
claim by early Chapline family members (Calvert, Dorchester and Talbot
Co.
land owners). Thanks again! Dick Matteson College Park MD
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