More geneological heresy on my part?
The generic wisdom holds that many Chapman lineages through Shenandoah VA in
the 1700s originate through Thomas Chapman who arrived in Jordan's Journey
VA in 1610. There is good evidence that Isaac Chapman who married Sarah
Cole was, indeed, an ancestor. But most genees site George Roberts
(Geneology of Joseph Peck 1955) who "adds" Isaac to the progeny of a later
Thomas from Stafford Co VA.
Roberts lists the children of Thomas Chapman as Nathaniel, John, Isaac,
George, and an unnamed girl. Nathaniel, he notes, married Constantia Pearson
in 1732. BUT: Sigismunda Mary Frances Chapman says in her "History of
Chapman and Alexander Familes - 1946" that the father of the Nathaniel
Chapman who married Constantia was JONATHAN Chapman - not Thomas - and that
both Nathaniel and Jonathan immigrated from England.
REMEMBER: Henley Chapman said in memoirs that his grandfather Isaac was a
direct immigrant from England.
So, was Isaac really a son of Thomas, but not a brother of Nathaniel (whose
father was Jonathan)? Was Isaac an unknown second son of Jonathan (not
Thomas), brother of Nathaniel, all direct immigrants from England as said
his grandson Henley? Or was, Isaac from Connecticuit, as other geneologists
have told?
I'm at a loss to know which, if any, of these sources has real
documentation, but I'm very skeptical about Roberts' version.
Any other descendants of Isaac and John Chapman curious about all this?
e-mail me. . .