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Stuart, I have been away to a music Conference in Morgantown WV. I guessed that you might answer my post!
Yes ther is a lot to communicate so I will post just a few things initially and see what your responses are and post some more!
The Conference was my wife's and I attended some but actually went over to the Regional Library on WV Univ.s campus and copied some 35 pages of her work (1902) on the Chapline Family of Md and VA! This w/o knowing that you would be using it to point out things to me! I made an awful copy some 15 years ago in the lib. of Congress's fam. hist. room but their equiptment then was BAD! I also check in journals and got some other things - not really much , but new to me.
So. yes, Isaac came in 1610 with Lord Deleware
and spotted hgis site - along the south side of the James and east of Hopewell! However, the inhabitance by settlers occured in 1622 - at least for the Chapline family! It is assumed that Isaac returned to England off and on - and yet there is really NO data between 1610 and 1622 that would show that Isaac permanently lived there before 1622. And, when they settled in he planted at least two small cannons inside his fort to defend. Several of his men were shot OUTSIDE the fort but none died from the indians inside the fort. We have visited the site several times but the land is being developed and the place where there was reported old evidence of a Manor it was too overgrown to even see! Shame! Right across the river the entire Manor was over come and all were killed by the Indians! Isaac's canons prevailed.
I have a citation that says that Chapline's grant was directly from the King - not from a company and that when the house burned (when Anthony Wyatt had charge of it) this priceless sheepskin was lost! It was said to be THE earliest individual grant by the king...wow.
Now, I don't believe I have anything on the howcomes of the Chaplains presence in Currituck Co. but I will double check for sure!
You know that William's brother John was supposed to have come to Maryland also and established the Talbot Co. Chaplains(note the spelling). Dare says so, but I know that William's brother John, opted to receive the Eastern shore property available from his departed father William (d. in Calvert Co. MD) and apparently lived there-married there-sired his family there and died there! There was little evidence that these brothers shared much in common after they left each other! By the way the Hopper name never was! William married Mary HOOPER dau. of Henry HOOPER of Calvert Co and who left to settle on Hoopers Island in Dorchester Co. - right across the bay from Calvert CO. In those days, a sailing boat could go over to the Eastern Shore and back - with work inbetween - in a day!
Many early settlers planted land over there and tended land from the Western shore!! settlements.
Enough for one sit!
Dick Matteson
5204 Paducah Rd. College Park MD 20740
301 441-2995
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