Do any of you Connecticut Chapmans know of an ISAAC Chapman of Connecticut
who died in Orange Co., VA in 1747, married to a Sarah Cole with children
Isaac, John, Richard, and Jemimah?
Rees Chapman
Dahlonega GA
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. . . more about a Connecticut Isaac Chapman in Virginia:
Flawed genealogical work by George Roberts - Genealogy of Joseph Peck (1955)
- traces Isaac Chapman of Orange VA back to Thomas Chapman of 1610 Colonial
Virginia. For reasons I've detailled before (and will restate if anyone
wants), this is almost certainly wrong.
David E. Johnston's 1906 History of Middle New River Settlements states The
Chapmans were English people, and some of those who emigrated to this
country came from Connecticut to Charles County, Maryland, long prior to the
American Revolution. After the settlement in Maryland, and before the
beginning of the Revolution, some of them came to Culpeper County, Virginia,
and settled. Among those who came was Isaac Chapman, who married, in
Culpeper County, Miss Sara Cole, by whom he had three sons and one
daughter.
The Pearisburg Virginian in March 15, 1928 quotes Mrs. W. P. Miller at the
unveiling of the D.A.R. marker for the grave of his son John Chapman: The
Chapmans who were of English origin, immigrated to America and settled in
Connecticut long prior to the Revolutionary War. From there they moved to
Charles County, Maryland. Leaving Maryland before the beginning of the
revolution, a part of them came to Culpeper county, Virginia. Isaac Chapman
was among this number. . .
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