The following is a brief outlne of my branch, who as Anglicans, were loyal
to England, and fled the USA around 1800.
Gerard B Chapman, who migrated from Vermont about 1798 to a St. Lawrence
River farm near Montreal, and then Ottawa/Hull in 1801, had 2 sons, ORLANDO
[who had 3 daughters and 1 unmarried son, Orlando Jr, 1837 -1869, who died
in the Kondike Gold Rush)], and CHESTER. He also had four daughters,
including _?__, Olive, Susanah, and Ann. [In 1814, he gave up pilotting logs
down the Ottawa and St.Lawrence Rivers and started to farm, moving his
family to "Fallowfield" on the Ontario side of the Ottawa River].
I do not know who Gerard B. Chapman (c. 1770 - 1830?) married but his son
CHESTER (1806 - ? ) married Sarah Moore (a lumber baron's daughter from
Bytown / Ottawa). They lived in "Fallowfield", a small hamlet about 10
miles south of Ottawa, and about 5 miles north of Richmond, [close to where
the Duke of Richmond died in his father's (ie. Gerard B.) barn in 1819. The
duke of Richmond was an early "Governor General" appointed to oversee the
Canadian Colonies in 1818.]
CHESTER and SARAH MOORE had several children: Laurie (1831 - ), Chester Jr.
(1831 - ), Maria (1832 -), MILO (1836 -1904),David Benjamin (1838 -),
Elizabeth (1840 -), John (1841 - ), Isaac (1843 -), James (1845 -), Gerard
Jr. ( 1847 -), Orlando (1849 -), and Thomas (1851 -).
Of this family, I know that Chester Jr. (1631 -?) married a Charlotte Moore
(1838 - ?) and had only one child that I am aware of, Napoleon Charles
Henry. MILO (1839 -1904) married a Catherine Parks (1844-1930, thru whom I
am descended). His brother, DAVID BENJAMIN, married a Jerusha Dixon (1847 -
?), and I have no record of their off-spring. Similarily, I have no record
of who any of the other brothers from that family married or who their
children were.
However, one of Milo and Catherine Parks' children, Isaiah "Ike" Chapman
moved to N. Dakota , and married "Minnie" Krantz,(1877 - 1959), and had 2
daughters, Blanche (1907 - c.1975, of Ottawa) and Thelma (1909 - ?). Thelma
married a Ray Johnson and stayed in N. Dakota. It is quite conceivable
that Isaiah (Ike) may have been attracted to N. Dakota because one of his
uncles (mentioned above) may have moved there first. Another of Milo and
Catherine Parks' sons, Milo Jr. moved to California.
I doubt this is any help to you, but we were close (geograpgically).
art
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