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My original comments were not as clear as I had intended on these items - hope these
updates clarify these theories :
1. Caperton's where almost certainly of French stock originally. Believe they left
France for Scotland during persecution of the Huguenot's in the 1600's. Have
found documentation of some other Huguenot families who had settled in the Inverness area
of Scotland as well. Also, maybe more than a coincidence, is the fact that the Capertons
married early on into another Huguenot family in Virginia - the Shumates. Item of
possible interest –did find record of a French name that spelled close to Caperton
recorded several times in the town of Pinsot in S.E. France (near Grenoble). Had heard
the Cape Britain area (unable to locate this on a map) of France also offered as another
location for the Caperton homeland.
2. Believe a family of Caperton's spent a few generations (maybe mid-1600’s to the
late 1740’s) near Inverness, Scotland - a district thick with other French expatriates,
namely Frasers (been a few hundred years since they left France, but they held that memory
close, i.e. in their motto etc. - also many of whom were Protestant in this region of
Scotland). Suggest then that a Caperton or two made for Ireland around 1750 and within a
couple years or so ended up in Virginia in the early 1750's.