| |
|
|
|
|
 Abt 1714 - Yes, date unknown
-
| Name |
CHAPPELL Thomas [1] |
| Birth |
Abt 1714 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- The earliest civil record we have of the presence of Friends in Surry County, Virginia, is from a Militia list of 1687, which names the following as being Quakers and available as "horse soldiers" and "foot soldiers". The first group is: William Seward, Thomas Partridge, William Bartlett and John Barnes. The second group is: Thomas Wolves, George Morrell and Robert Lacy. We can thus prove there were Quakers in Surry before 1687 and had organized a Monthly meeting by 1702. Little Surry was the center of Quaker activity during most the time they were in Surry.
From 1752 until the Meeting closed in the 1807 we have the minutes of the Blackwater [Surry] Meeting. Many names are very familiar as their descendants are still in Surry today.
During the Revolutionary War period, houses and property of Quakers were plundered, "chiefly for military requisitions". Twenty Quakers recorded as having "suffered for refusing the test or to contribute for the support of the war". The Blackwater Monthly meeting was more persistent on the tax and test issue than others and consequently suffered more. The monthly meeting books describe this as a " time of calamity and close trial". Examples are:
April 4,1806, Exum Bailey reported taken from him by William Harrison, one hat and a gun under the militia law.
April 4, 1780, Chappell and Peter Binford reported taken from them, 1 mare, 3 barrels of corn, 1 bed and some furniture for refusal to take "the test" and contribute to the support of the war.
|
| Person ID |
I2438 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2013 |
| Father |
CHAPPELL Thomas, b. 1678, Charles City County, VA  d. Bef 1726, Prince George County, VA (Age 48 years) |
| Mother |
HUNNICUTT Hannah d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
1710 [2] |
- About 1710, Thomas Chappell married Hannah Hunnicutt, the daughter of a Quaker, and renounced the Established Church, in which he had been brought up, and to which his relatives belonged, and, as has been often the case, connect el himself with the church of his wife's folks, a society of Quak-ers, who, a few years before, had established a "meeting," as their churches were called, in Prince George, known as "White
|
| Family ID |
F744 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
-
| Sources |
- [S315] John Bennett Boddie, Southside Virginia Families, Pg. 67 (Reliability: 3).
- [S315] John Bennett Boddie, Southside Virginia Families, 1710 (Reliability: 3).
|
|
|
|
|
|
