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From: "Rees Chapman" <>
Subject: Re: [VACULPEP] Sarah Cole Chapman
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 05:37:19 -0800
In-Reply-To: <29.69d526e3.2f0c3795@aol.com>


Thanks!

>Deeds can sometimes help. Do some research on how to read deeds. William
>Dollarhide may have published some articles on the use of deeds--especially
>when
>the heirs sell the land, if there was land involved. And generally there
>was
>before the days of censuses. Ancestry has published one or two books on
>the
>use of land records, which I use extensively. I have found some wonderful
>material in deeds.

Actually, I did much of this work in the late 1990s, shadowing other
historians and geneaologists over the last century. Nearly all of their
work, however, seems to have assumed that Isaac Chapman and Sarah Cole moved
from Charles Co. MD to Orange county VA, and that they remained there, their
children departing Orange Co. in the 1770s. Few seem to have investigated
the possibility that the Chapmans of Orange county were in the part that, by
1750, was Culpeper county. And I'm just now finding evidence that they may
have actually been in a part of Culpeper that became Rappahannock county.
In fact, it is my tracing of deeds of Moredoch McKenzie (Isaac's son in law)
that has led me to speculate this.

I appreciate the suggestions; it encourages me to dig further..

Rees


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