 - Abt 1700
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| Name |
CHAPPELL Thomas [1, 2] |
| Suffix |
II |
| Birth |
Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA  [2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Land |
20 Oct 1665 |
Charles City County, VA [4, 5] |
| Granted 80 acres |
| Reference Number |
603 |
| Residence |
Settled in the Merchant Hope/Westover area [1, 2] |
| Death |
Abt 1700 |
Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA [1, 2, 6] |
| Burial |
Abt 1700 |
Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA [2] |
| Notes |
- Settled in the Merchant Hope/Westover area which was part of Charles City County until 1702 when Prince George County was cut off and organized with Merchant Hope as County Seat
My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them.I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury-about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her.
We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.
A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE CHAPPELL FAMILIES
CHAPTER III.
THOMAS CHAPPELL THE IMMIGRANT (1635).-CHARLES CITY COUNTY.-WESTOVER.-MERCHANT'S HOPE.-LOST RECORDS. -THOMAS CHAPPELL THE SECOND.-JAMES JONES.-JONES* WILL.-THE SONS OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH CHAPPELL.- THE NEGRO SLAVE.
Thomas Chappell, the youth who sailed from Gravesend, England, June 23, 1635, on the ship America, William Barker, master, for the colony in Virginia, became the progenitor of the family of Chappells whose history and genealogy will appear on these pages. He was 23 years old when he sailed from England, as appears from the clearance papers of the ship, and hence was born in 1612. That he was the son of Captain John Chappell, master of the Speedwell, there are good reasons to assume, although there is no positive proof to establish the. correctness of this conclusion. The name "John" has been from the beginning the favorite Christian name in the Virginia branch through every succeeding generation, and when we remember that it has been an invariable custom among the Chappells always to perpetuate their family names, we must conclude that the evidence is at least persuasive that voung Thomas was a son of the old mariner.
The conditions "which prevailed, both in England and in Virginia, in 1635, were such as to invite the enterprising young man who desired to better his condition to embark for the New World. England was overcrowded with a dense population. In the colony there was plenty of room. The "starving time" was only remembered as a horrible dream of the past; the terrible massacre of 1622 had driven the Bedman far into the interior, and had left an open space on the frontier ready for the plow of the English immigrant. All along the James, from the mouth to Dutch Gap, might be seen the thrifty little settlements, called "hundreds," in which the tobacco-fields shone beautiful and green in all their primeval luxuriant growth. All was peace and prosperity, and there was not, perhaps, on the face of the globe a more inviting field for. an energetic, enterprising young man than Virginia was at that time.
The population of the colony had increased in the last two decades, until it now numbered, according to a census taken that year, 4,914 souls. In the previous year (1634) it had been divided into eight shires or counties, viz.: James City, Henrico, Charles City, Warwick, Warrasquoake, Charles Eiver, Elizabeth City, and Accornac. All of these counties were located along the James of the sea coast, although the territory of some of them extended far into the interior without limit, as England claimed at that time all the country as far west as the Mississippi Kiver.
The America probably reached the mouth of the James about the 1st of August, 1635, and as the law then forbade the breaking of bulk before arriving at Jamestown, she doubtless came directly up the river and first cast anchor at that place. Thomas Chappell could have remained at Jamestown but a few days, for, as will appear, he proceeded shortly about thirty miles up the river and located on the south side, in Charles City County, opposite Westover, at the mouth of a creek named for him- "Chappell's Creek."
The first record found which throws any light on Thomas Chappell after his advent into Virginia is a land patent granted to William Barker, the captain of the ship America, on which he came over. This patent was issued November 26, 1635-four months after the landing of the America-and was for eight head-rights imported by Captain Barker on a previous voyage, made in July, 1634. The following is a verbatim copy of The Land Patent to William Barker.
"To all to whom these presents shall come. I Capt. John West (note: kin to the West side of the Horne Family), Esqr. Governor &c. Send Greeting in Our Lord God Everlasting. Whereas by letters bearing date thee two and twentieth day of July 1634, A. D. Now Know ye that I the said Capt. John West, Esq. Governor, doe wth ye consent of ye Council of State give and grant unto William Barker, Mariner, four Hundred acres of Land scituated, lying and being in Charles Cittie County and bounded upon a creek called Chappell's Creek, south into the woods. East along the River (James) adjoining upon Merchant's Hope. The said fower Hundred acres of land being due unto him the said William Barker, Mariner, as followeth. Viz: fiftie acres of the said fower hundred acres for his own personell adventure into the Colony and three hundred and fiftie acres by and for the transportation into this Colony at his own proper charges and Costs of seven persons whose names are in the records mentioned under this Patent. To have and to hold the said fower hundred acres of Land with his due share of all Mines and Minerals therein contaigned &c. To be held of our Sovereign Lord the King his heirs and Successors as of his Man- now &c, yielding and paying unto our said Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors for ever unto his or their Eent gatherers.
"Provided alwaise that if the said William Barker, his heirs or assigns shall not seate or plant, or cause to be planted &c. Given at James Cittie under my hand and sealed wth ye seale of je. Colony ye 26th. day of November 1635 and in ye XI yeare of ye Reigne of ye Sovereign the King &c.
"John West, Govn.
"Head-rirflits:-William Barker, Richard Hitchcox, Wil-liam Low, William Wall, Tho. Bridges, Jon. Field, Tho. Hooper and Auther Browne." (See Gen. Land Books, Vol. I., p. 321.)
This description fixes definitely the location of the spot where Thomas Chappell settled on his arrival in the colony, for the land-marks designated in the patent can still be found. James River is still there and flows on just as it did 265 year; ago. Old Merchant's Hope Church is there and Chappell's Creek is there, although, of course, all else is changed.
What relationship existed between Captain Barker and "Thomas Chappell can never be known. It is certainly a strange coincidence that within four months from the time of their landing we find the young man located at one of the most favored spots in Virginia; the stream on the banks of which he had settled named for him, and the older man patenting large tracts of land in the same locality. As will be seen, Capt. Barker had made previous voyages, one at least in 1634, and the most plausible theory is that he then owned land in that locality, which he sold to Thomas Chappell. That Thomas acquired land in the vicinity by purchase from the patentee will hereafter be shown.
On the same day-November 20, 1035 - that Capt. Barker received the foregoing patent, there was also issued to him and his associates, Richard Quiney and John Saddler (merchants), another patent for 1,200 acres of land, being twenty-five head-rights, in the same locality. This was not unusual,, for many of the masters of ships, instead of selling the head-rights of persons whom they .had brought into the colony, located them themselves, and very often settled j>ermanently in Virginia and became wealthy planters.
In an old record book of Charles City County, the only one preserved containing any record previous to 1790, have-been found two records referring to Thomas Chappell. The first is an order of the county court, made at Westover, then the county-seat, April 9, 1601, in which he is ordered to give a bond as guardian for his daughter for some cattle1 be queathed to her by Lieut. John Banister. This order is as follows (verbatim):
"Att a Cor't liolden at Westover April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell acknowledged in Cor't to have received of Jaims Wallis who married ye relict of Lt. John Banister, dec'd, one Legacy given by ye said Banister to ye said Chappell's child by will and discharged by ye said Wallis fully from ye bond, Being three cows and one heyfor. It is ordered by ye Cor't, that Thomas Chappell give bond to ye Cor't for ye Cattle bequeathed to his child by ye last Will and Testament of Lt. John Banister and by him received for her use; being three Cows and one Heyfor." (Charles City Co. Order Book, p. 271.)<
Lieut. John Banister was no doubt related to Thomas Chappell's wife - probably her father. Such bequests of cattle were* common in Virginia during this period. They required no feeding or attention, and generally by the time the child arrived at maturity the number had increased, especially if the little herd at the beginning were females, as was the case in this legacy, until the bequest was not an insignificant one. The old wills in Virginia are full of such bequests, for they had little else to give.
There are no means of determining who this Lieutenant Banister was. The family was a prominent one in Charles City and Prince George counties for several generations, and there was a John Banister in each generation.* John Banister of Charles City County bought African slaves from a Spanish ship which came up the James in 1638. He was probably the father-in-law of Thomas Chappell and the testator of the will in which this bequest was made. (Brace's "History of Virginia.") Another John Banister, of a later generation, owned land adjoining Robert Chappell in Prince George County. (Deed from Abram Cocke to Robert Chappell, December 13, 1725, Chap. VIII.) Banister River, which flows through the northern part of Halifax County, Virginia, was named for a member of the same family.
The only other record found of Thomas Chappell is in a list of the names composing a "Jury of Enquest," what would now be called a grand jury, which served at Westover on May 8, 1665. Thomas Chappell was a member of this Jury. (Charles City Order Book.)
While no patent has been found in the land books issued to Thomas Chappell previous to 1665, the fact that he was a land-owner, and owned a plantation near Merchant's Hope, which he bought from the patentee, is fully established by the following patent granted to him October 20, 1665, in which it is stated that the tract of land patented at that time adjoined a tract which he then owned. The following is a verbatim copy of this
Patent Issued to Thomas Cliappcll.
"To all &c. Whereas &c, now Know ye that I the said Sir William Berkeley, Knight, Governor &c., give and grant unto Thomas Chappell Eighty acres of Land scituated in the county of Charles Citty on the South side of James River and on the north side of Kittawan creek. Beginning at a line that parts John Tate and the said Thomas Chappell's present land, and extending into the Woods. North half West four hundred Poles, West half South thirty two poles, South Tialf East four hundred Poles and East half North thirty two Poles to the place aforementioned. The said Land being due and confirmed unto the said Chappell by order of ye General Court dated ye Sixteenth of September one thousand six hundred and sixty three.
*Bristol Parish Register and Bishop Meade. CHAPPELL, DICKIE AND OTHER KINDRED FAMILIES. 55
"To have and to hold &c. To be held &c. Yielding and paying &c. Provided &c. Dated ye 20 day of October 1665.
"Sir William Berkeley
(Land Book, V., p. 520.) "Governor."
The description of the land conveyed in this patent is peculiar, and the shape of the tract is also.unusual. It will be observed, by those familiar with surveying, that the courses, instead of being described by degrees, are described J)j the points of the compass, indicating that the surveyor had been a sailor, and was more familiar with boxing a compass than with his table of logarithms, perhaps. The tract was in the shape of a parallelogram, the courses running at an angle of forty-five degrees from a meridian line-a very peculiar - shape in a country where land was as abundant and cheap as it was in Virginia at that time.
Thomas Chappell made no mistake in selecting the location for his future home, for the country around Westover and Merchant's Hope was the garden of the lower James. Besides, there are but few localities in the United States around which cluster so many events of historic interest. Charles City County, which embraced this locality, extended to both sides of the river and included the territory far to the southward and westward, out of which were subsequently carved the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, Amelia, Nottaway, Prince Edward, Brunswick, and others. Westover was the county seat. In 1702, that part of the county lying south of the river was cut off and organized into Prince George, and Merchant's Hope became the county seat of the county of Charles Citty on the South side of James River and on the north side of Kittawan creek. Beginning at a line that parts John Tate and the said Thomas Chappells present land, and extending into the Woods. North half West four hundred Poles, West half South thirty two poles, South half East four hundred Poles and East half North thirty two Poles to the place aforementioned. The said Land being due and confirmed unto the said Chappell by order of ye General Court dated ye Sixteenth of September one thousand six hundred and sixty three.
"To have and to hold &c. To be held &c. Yielding and paying &c. Provided &c. Dated ye 20 day of October 1665.
"Sir William Berkeley
(Land Book, V., p. 520.) "Governor."
So that it will be understood that while Thomas Chappell lived on the south bank of the river-which is here two miles wide-his counly town was Westover, he having died before the new county was formed. Hence all records of him would have been left in Charles City County. Neither Westover nor Merchant's Hope were towns, as might be inferred, but were simply landings on the river. In fact, there was no town in Virginia in the seventeenth cen-tury, excepting Old Jamestown, and even that place was never more than a small village, although for a century it was the capital of the colony.
I have twice visited this famous locality, so rich in historic associations. It is not only a grand old country today, but is doubly interesting to me from the fact that it was the home of my first American ancestor. Westover is simply an* old Virginia mansion on what was once a magnificent plantation. It is built in the colonial style of architecture, of brick imported from England, and stands on the north bank of the James, about a hundred yards from the water's edge. It is still in a fair state of preservation, although a relic of a bygone age. It was probably settled by Theodorick Bland, of London; at least, he is buried there, and a great slab, in-scribed with his name and coat-of-arms, rests over his grave. Westover was afterward owned by the Byrd family-father and son - the elder of whom was always supposed to have been a son of George I. of England. It was one of these same Byrds who, when on a visit to Edenton, North Carolina, wrote the very uncomplimentary description of the people of that town which will be found in Chapter XIII.
The present house was built by Col. Wm. Byrd in 1737. It is rich in historic reminiscence, for here in days gone by have occurred some of the most important events in the annals of this country. In the Indian massacre of 1622,. thirty-three persons perished on this plantation. During the American Revolution the traitor Arnold had his headquar-ters in this house on his route to Richmond with his British troops. Cornwallis crossed here-swimming his horses - on his march to Yorktown, and stabled his cavalry in the parlors of the mansion. During the War of 1812 it was frequently the scene of contests between the contending armies. Coming down to the Civil War, General Pope and other Federal generals occupied the mansion, and their soldiers almost destroyed the magnificent oak carved wainscoting which adorned the parlors.
The story of the beautiful Evelyn Byrd, whose tomb is near the house, is one of the most pathetic in the history of colonial Virginia. The fair lady died of a broken heart, because she was not permitted to marry the lover, of her choice. One of the most interesting features about the old place is a subterranean tunnel which extends from the house to the river, and which was built, it is supposed, to enable the inmates to escape in case of a sudden attack by the Indians. '
The land patented to William Barker and his associates, Kichard Quiney and John Saddler, November 26, 1635, under patent No. 2£5, embraced the identical spot on which Mer-chant's Hope now stands. Quiney and Saddler were merchants in London, and were doubtless part owners of the ship America with Capt. Barker. Besides the tracts mentioned, they patented, in 1638, 600 acres adjoining the 1,200 acre tract near Merchant's Hope, and as early as 1684 were lessees of a tract of 500 acres in the same vicinity. Richard Quiney was a brother of Thomas Quiney, of London, who, on February 10, 1616, married Judith, the youngest daughter of William Shakespeare.
In 1656, the London and Virginia Company built the church on this tract of land that stands there today. It is still called "Merchant's Hope Church," and has been faithfully kept in repair. During the Civil War the Northern troops were quartered in the building and removed the stone paving from the aisles, with which they constructed a stable. The church silver-communion service - which was given to it by Queen Anne shortly after her accession to the throne, in 1702, bears on it an inscription stating that "Her Majesty the Head of the Church gives this service to Merchant's Hope Church." During the Civil War this silver was buried and it escaped the grasping fingers of the vandal.
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The old church is located about a mile from the James and near the bank of Chappell's Creek. It stands there solitary and alone, surrounded by the old pines whose branches have sheltered it for two and a half centuries. The old building is of brick with an arched roof and unusually thick, heavy walls. No other building now remains, but Major F. P. Leavenworth, of Petersburg, who for many years has been the county surveyor of Prince George County, recently, at the request of the compiler, made an examination of the old locality, and discovered the spot on which the old court-house (built in 1702) once stood, from the ruins of the brick walls and foundation. No gravestone or monument now remains in the little churchyard, except a few broken fragments, even these having been sacrilegiously appropriated in the construction of the stable, when the old church was used as a picket station in 1864, by "our friends, the enemy."
Chappell's Creek flows dnto the James between the old church and the ruins of the former court-house, and nearly opposite Berkeley's. It is an insignificant stream, but it marks a spot sacred to the memory of an ancestor whose descendants, now numbered by the thousands, are scattered over every State in the South and West.* Just across the river and almost in sight is Malvern Hill, where in July, 1862, was fought one of the most desperate engagements of the Civil War. Among the brave Confederates who fell there were many descendants of Thomas Chappell, who had come from their distant Southern homes to meet death at the very spot where their first ancestor settled 227 years before.
The genealogist who attempts to trace the history of an old Virginia family during the early colonial period is continually confronted with almost insurmountable obstacles. There are no traditions extending back to so early a period, and the few remaining records have become so mutilated and effaced, through the ravages of time, that but little information can be gleaned from them. Tidewater Virginia has been three times devastated by war, and invading- armies have overrun every part of the country along the James. First in 1776, again in 1812, and the last time in the Civil War, have the waters of this noble stream been lighted up by the lurid gleam of burning mansions along its banks. Many of the old courthouses, also, have been burned, and with them every record. In other cases, while the buildings themselves have escaped the red torch of the invader, the records, now valuable for their antiquity, if for nothing else, have been pur-loined and taken away by the human hienas who always accompany an invading army.
These fragments of court records, a few old vestry books and parish registers, and the land books in the General Land Office in Richmond-which fortunately have escaped and are preserved intact for the entire colonial period-furnish the only sources of information from which the antiquarian can trace the footsteps of these early settlers or glean any knowledge of their history.
In Charles City County all records, prior to 1790, were destroyed or stolen during the Civil War. Only one - the order book to which I have referred, and from which were copied the two records referring to Thomas Chappell - has been recovered. Doubtless had these records been preserved, there would have been found there the wills of Thomas Chappell the immigrant, and/also that of Thomas his son, who will be referred to hereafter; the latter of whom, at least, having died testate, as is shown by other records. These two wills are the only missing links in the entire genealogical chain from 1635 to the present time, and could they be found, the genealogy of the many branches descended from Thomas Chappell the immigrant could be established by indisputable recorded evidence down through eleven generations, a most remarkable instance of the successful prosecution of genealogical research, when it is remembered that no authentic written history of the family has ever been preserved.
Thomas Chappell had only two children of whom any trace can now be found - the little daughter to whom the legacy was bequeathed by Lieut. Banister, and a son named Thomas. Thomas, Sr., was 53 years old in 1665, and probably lived but a few years longer. His ashes, no doubt, rest in the little cemetery at the old despoiled church of Merchant's Hope, and there fill an unmarked grave.
*In Vol. II., p. 217, "Surveys of Prince George County," are the field-notes of a survey made February 19, 1813, of a tract of land on Burchee's Swamp and Seven Spring Branch, called Chappell's. It is still known by that name to-day. (Major Leavenworth.)
Thomas Chappell II, in his own words If he could speak to us today, Thomas Chappell II might describe his life as follows.
My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them. I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury-about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her.
We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.
John Chappell of Petherton and Capt. John Chappell Also arriving in America within a month of Thomas was John Chappell, of Petherton, Somersetshire, England. At age 38 he set sail on the Assurance 24 July 1635. If John and Thomas were closely related, we doubt they would have traveled separately to America. Although some have suggested Thomas was the son of John Chappell, the captain of the Speedwell that made one trip to America in 1635, there is no proof.
Another Thomas Chappell? Thomas Chappell was a headright for Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow for 2,500 acres in Charles City County 12 Aug. 1659. Further, Anthony Wyatt paid passage for a Thomas Chappell for which he received a certificate 6 June 1664. This suggests another Thomas Chappell in the community. Indeed one Thomas Chappell had been a servant to John Richards. When Richards died, the court of 4 Feb. 1665/6 ordered that corn and clothing customarily paid to indentured servants be given Chappell. We have yet to identify Samuel Chappell who left a now-lost will in Prince George County that Ann Bolling, executrix, presented 9 Feb. 1713/14. &
Lt. John Banister (-1661) Lt. John Banister left 3 cows and one heifer to a daughter of Thomas Chappell in April 1661. Although many have presumed that Thomas Chappell married a daughter of John Banister, later patent records show Banister died without heirs. Banister's wife, Jane, was a midwife who, with Jane Thomas and Dr. John Jacob, testified in 1658 that Fortune Bayley had not been raped. Jane married 2nd James Wallace. For more on James Wallace, see John Butler. Some have incorrectly reported that Lt. John Banister was the ancestor of Rev. John Banister, the naturalist, who married Martha Batte .
Chappell Creek Chappell Creek, named in a patent for William Barker, the captain of the America, in Nov. 1635, is said to have been named for Thomas Chappell, who was in the Colony no earlier than Aug. 1635. Considering the lengthy process for securing a patent, the creek is likely named for Merchant's Hope chapel located nearby.
Thomas Chappell II, in his own words If he could speak to us today, Thomas Chappell II might describe his life as follows.
My father was just 23 when he left Gravesend, England, 23 June 1635 on America. I do not know much about him because most records of Charles City County where we lived are lost. I do remember my father dying in 1658. Having written no will, he invited Mr. Edward Fitzgerald and Mr. Ferdinando Austin to our home to tell them that he wanted each of my brothers and sisters to have two breeding cattle, and that I, the eldest son, should receive his land. Of course the remainder of what my father owned went to Mother who was married to Walter Darnham by 13 September 1658, the day the Charles City County court at Merchant's Hope ordered Darnham to give me my inheritance and for Mr. Aston to see that my brothers and sisters were educated. I never heard what happened to any of them. I obtained a patent for 80 acres next to lands of John Tate in Charles City County 20 October 1665. My plantation was in Weyanoke Parish, near Kittewan Creek, north of where the town of Weyanoke is today. I once served on a coroner's jury- about a dozen upright citizens whom our county coroner would summon when someone died of unusual causes. We concluded on 7 May 1665 that when infant Katherine Lanier fell from her bed, the rail caught her head and she smothered in the bed clothes. I was dead by October 1689 when my widow, Huldah, sold 100 acres that I had given her. &
We have been unable to identify more about Huldah whose 1689 deed was acknowledged by Thomas Chappell and his wife, Elizabeth.
John Chappell of Petherton and Capt. John Chappell Also arriving in America within a month of Thomas was John Chappell, of Petherton, Somersetshire, England. At age 38 he set sail on the Assurance 24 July 1635. If John and Thomas were closely related, we doubt they would have traveled separately to America. Although some have suggested Thomas was the son of John Chappell, the captain of the Speedwell that made one trip to America in 1635, there is no proof.
Another Thomas Chappell? Thomas Chappell was a headright for Richard Tye and Charles Sparrow for 2,500 acres in Charles City County 12 Aug. 1659. Further, Anthony Wyatt paid passage for a Thomas Chappell for which he received a certificate 6 June 1664. This suggests another Thomas Chappell in the community. Indeed one Thomas Chappell had been a servant to John Richards. When Richards died, the court of 4 Feb. 1665/6 ordered that corn and clothing customarily paid to indentured servants be given Chappell. We have yet to identify Samuel Chappell who left a now-lost will in Prince George County that Ann Bolling, executrix, presented 9 Feb. 1713/14. &
Lt. John Banister (-1661) Lt. John Banister left 3 cows and one heifer to a daughter of Thomas Chappell in April 1661. Although many have presumed that Thomas Chappell married a daughter of John Banister, later patent records show Banister died without heirs. Banister's wife, Jane, was a midwife who, with Jane Thomas and Dr. John Jacob, testified in 1658 that Fortune Bayley had not been raped. Jane married 2nd James Wallace. For more on James Wallace, see John Butler . Some have incorrectly reported that Lt. John Banister was the ancestor of Rev. John Banister, the naturalist, who married Martha Batte .
Chappell Creek Chappell Creek, named in a patent for William Barker, the captain of the America, in Nov. 1635, is said to have been named for Thomas Chappell, who was in the Colony no earlier than Aug. 1635. Considering the lengthy process for securing a patent, the creek is likely named for Merchant's Hope chapel located nearby.
Descendants of Thomas Chappell II Information about the children of Thomas Chappell II, their descendants, and allied families previously found at Virginians.com is now available as Southside Virginia Genealogies. Learn more Names found in this topic include the following. Thomas Chappell III (c.1660-c.1703), Sarah (Chappell) Binford, James Binford, William Randolph , Robert Bolling , Huldah Binford, William Ladd, Elizabeth Hamlin, Thomas Murrell Sr., Thomas Murrell Jr., John Pleasants, William Grice, John Crew, Pugh Price , Amos Ladd, John Leed, James Ladd, Judith Ellyson, Gerard Robert Ellyson, William Torborn, Mary Ladd, Aquilla Binford , Agnes Ladd, Shadrach Stanley, Lydia Ladd, Thomas Charles, Elizabeth Charles, Samuel Hargrave, Thomas Hargrave, Sarah H. Hubbard , Elizabeth Ann Hargrave, Anna Hargrave, Lemuel Crew , Margaret E. Crew, Samuel H. Crew, Walter Crew, Tarleton Crew, Deborah D. Crew, Henrietta Crew, Anna Crew, Micajah Crew, Charles Hargrave, Lucy Ladd , Joseph Hargrave, Deborah Bates , Margaret J. Lewis, Lemuel Hargrave, Mary Ann Hubbard , Elizabeth O. Johnson, Thomas Exum Hargrave, Sarah Elizabeth Hargrave, Deborah Ann Hargrave, Mary Hargrave, Micajah Bates , Martha Hargrave, Jane Hargrave, Henry Charles, Mary Charles, Martha Charles, Jeremiah Hubbard, Joseph Hubbard, Ann - , Margaret Ladd, Micajah Crew , Tace Crew, Benjamin Bates Jr., Benjamin Bates, Hannah - , Henrietta Maria Pleasants, Thomas Pleasants , Elizabeth Brooke, Lucy Bates, Micajah Bates, Mary Hargrave , Martha Ann Balderson, Hugh Balderston, Charles Frederick Bates, Elisha Henry Bates, Tace Bates, Edward S. Pleasants, Tarleton Woodson Pleasants, Margaret - , Elizabeth Bates, Martha Ann Bates, Catherine Bates, William Savoy Bates, Benjamin Bates, Samuel Bates, Mary Bates, Micajah Bates, Hugh B. Bates, Martha J. Bates, Joseph Jordan Pleasants, William Henry Pleasants, Mary Ladd, Tace Crew Bates, William Savoy Bates, Fleming Bates, Lemuel Crew, Anna Hargrave , Unity Crew, Fleming Bates, Benjamin Bates, Hannah - , Benjamin Spence Bates, Margaret Bates, Deborah Bates, Joseph Hargrave , Lemuel Bates, Unity Bates, Hannah Bates, Fleming Bates, Edward Bates, Mary F. Bates, Sally I. Bates, Dugan Clark Jr., Dugan Clark Sr., Asenath - , Susan F. Bates, John R. Hubbard, Joseph Hubbard, Walter Crew, Sarah B. - , Talitha Crew, Tarleton Woodson Pleasants , Margaret Crew, Susanna Crew, Barlow, Deborah Crew, Elizabeth Ladd, John Butler , Lydia Butler, John Stanton, Elizabeth Stanton, Elizabeth Butler, Jonathon Butler, Henrietta Maria Bates , Catherine J. Lewis, William Ladd, Mary Hunnicutt , Robert Ladd, Mary (Terrell) Terrell, Pleasants Terrell, Timothy Terrell, Catherine Terrell, Lucy Ladd, Charles Hargrave , Edna Ladd, Micajah Terrell Johnson, Jonathon Johnson, Judith Douglas, Anna Ladd, William Ladd, Robert Pleasants Ladd, Mary Ladd, Armelia Ladd, Ann Ladd, Martha Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, George Hubbard , William Hubbard, James Hubbard, Unity Ladd , Joseph Hubbard, Maria Hubbard, Martha Ann Hubbard, Mary Ladd, James Ladd Binford , Sarah Ladd, Benjamin B. Hockaday, John Hockaday, Susanna - , John Ladd Hockaday, James Ladd, Sarah Binford , Samuel Fuqua, Peter Ladd, Sarah - , Henry Ladd, Delila Ladd, Levi Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Deborah Ladd, Daniel Crew , Peter Ladd, Catherine Crew, Robert Crew, Nancy Terrell, Ledbetter Ladd, Mary Ladd, Benjamin Crew , Rebecca Ladd, James Binford Ladd, Margaret Ladd, Rebecca Ladd, Waddy Stanley, Samuel Stanley, Priscilla Stanley, Lucy Stanley, Anne Stanley, Joel Stanley, Nancy Stanley, Thomas Crew Stanley, Deborah Stanley, Waddy Stanley, Rebecca Stanley, Ann Ladd, James Bates, James Bates, Joseph Denson Bates, James Bates, Henrietta Maria Bates, Jonathon Butler , Joshua Bates, Elizabeth Bates, Jesse Ladd, Margaret Whitfield, Mourning Ladd, Abidan Bailey, Benjamin Bailey, Elizabeth Briggs , Margaret Whitfield Bailey, Elizabeth Bailey, Sarah Ladd, John Crew, James Crew, Ann Crew , Judith Crew, John Crew , Jacob Crew, Elizabeth Leadbetter, Sally Leadbetter Crew, Henry Crew, James Crew, Elizabeth Maule, Thomas Maule, Margaret - , Micajah Crew, Susannah Crew, Jacob Crew, Cornelius Crew, Mary Ann - , Joel Crew, Elizabeth Ann Crew, John Crew, Judith - , Charles Crew, Martha Crew, Caleb Crew, Joshua Crew, Sarah Ladd Crew, Anna Crew, Joshua Crew, John Ellison Crew, Joseph Crew, John Ladd, Unity Harris, Benjamin Harris, Gulielma Ladd, James L. New, Rachel Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Charles Anthony, Christopher Anthony, Benjamin Harris Ladd, Sarah Binford , Margaret Ladd, Benjamin Vaughan, William Shields Vaughan, Unity Smith Ladd, Thomas Harris Sr., Benjamin Harris, Mary T. Harris, William S. Figg, Benjamin Figg, Sarah - , Thomas Harris, Lucy Ann Harris, Mary Ladd, James Vaughan, William Shields Vaughan, John Bell, Nathan Bell, Sarah Ladd, Warner, John Ladd, Anna Ladd, Judith Ladd, Thomas Binford , William Ladd, Ursula Ellyson, Gerard Robert Ellyson, Joseph Ladd , Agatha Ladd , Thomas Ladd, Ann Ellyson, Thomas Ellyson, Elizabeth Crew, David Holt , Gerard Ladd, William Taylor, Sarah (- ) Ladd, Agatha Ladd, William Ellzey, Keziah Ellzey, Easter Ellzey, Elizabeth Ladd, William Patterson, Priscilla Ladd, Huldah Ladd, Anderson Simmons, Tabitha Butler, Huldah Hunnicutt , Paul Sears , Deborah Simmons, Mordecai Peebles , Jacob Ladd, Miriam Marimoon, Elizabeth Reames, Tabitha Ladd, Jeremiah Ladd, Sarah Ladd, Joseph Patterson, Ursula Ladd, Samuel Butler, Mourning Butler, Nathan Butler, Lucy Butler, Lydia Butler, Tabitha Butler, Gerard Ladd, Priscilla Ladd, Lydia Ladd, Esther Ladd, Ursula Ladd, William Ladd, Howell Collier , Jacob Ladd, Sylvia - , John Lloyd, Elizabeth (- ) Ladd, Huldah Ladd, Starling Moore, James Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Millicent Ladd, Mary Ladd, Samuel McGehee, David Crew, John Crew, Mary Stanley, Huldah McGehee, Maddox Stanley, Thomas Stanley, John Stanley, Milley Stanley, John Stanley, Huldah Stanley, Littleberry Crew, James Crew, Sarah Harris, James Crew, Benjamin Crew, John Crew, Milley Crew, Elizabeth Stanley, William Stanley, Obediah Stanley, Mary Stanley, Rachel Stanley, Huldah Stanley, Maddox Stanley, Elizabeth McGehee, Gatley Crew, John Crew, Elizabeth Crew, John Crew, Gatley Crew, Andrew Crew, Sarah McGehee, Pleasants Stanley, Thomas Stanley, Elizabeth - , Pleasants Stanley, Delphia Hunter, Susanna Stanley, Jesse Bradley, Priscilla Stanley, John Goff, Samuel Stanley, Sarah Stanley, William Holloway, Betsy Stanley, Abner Holloway, George Stanley, Mary Crew, Martha McGehee, Thomas Hogg, John Hogg, Samuel Hogg, Lydia McGehee, Ann McGehee, Samuel McGehee, John McGehee, Rebecca McGehee, John Ladd, Mary Crew, John Crew, Sarah - , Elizabeth Ladd, Archelaus Stanley, Joseph Stanley, Mary - , Amos Ladd, Sarah Binford , Mary Ladd, Jesse Terrell, Pleasants Terrell, Catherine - , Mary Bailey Johnson, John Kinsey Ladd, Thomas Ladd, Ann Bell, Nathan Bell, Priscilla Ladd, George Hubbard , John K. Hubbard, Exum S. Hubbard, Amos Ladd Hubbard, Sarah H. Hubbard, Thomas Hargrave , Robert Hubbard, Elizabeth D. Hubbard, Matthew P. Terrell, Mary Ann Hubbard, Lemuel Hargrave , George Hubbard, Sarah Ladd, Ebenezer Maule, Amos Ladd, Mary Bell, Nathan Bell, Elizabeth Ladd, Samuel Pleasants Parsons, Samuel Parsons, Sarah Pleasants, Elizabeth M. Crew, Thomas Crew, Margaret - , Susanna Ladd, Deborah Ladd, Joseph Ladd, Mary Binford , William Ladd , Sarah Ladd, Betty Kinsey Ladd, William Ladd, Creed Haskins, John Ladd, Hannah (- ) Ladd, Thomas Ladd, Mary Crowder, Judith Ladd, John Ladd, Jane Cleaton, Amos Ladd, Elizabeth Crowder, Joseph Ladd, Noble Ladd, Mary Rottenberry, Sarah Ladd, Nicholas Hutchins , Huldah Ladd, Peter Peebles, William Peebles, Susanna Butler , Huldah Peebles, Butler Peebles, Huldah Ladd Peebles, Anna Peebles, Susanna Peebles, William Hollowell, Peter Peebles, Mourning Hargrave, William Hargrave, Sarah - , Mordecai Peebles, Abigail Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, Deborah Simmons , Josiah Peebles, Mary Hargrave , Elizabeth Hunnicutt , William Ladd Peebles, Sarah Peebles, Burwell Rawles, Peter Peebles, Sarah Peebles, John Sears, James Hunnicutt, Barnaby Nixon , Paul Sears, Huldah (Ladd) Simmons , Miriam Sears, Crafton, Elizabeth Sears, John Maddox, Huldah Sears, John Sears, Sarah Sears, Francis Walthall , Martha Sears, James Brock, Samuel Sears, Peter Sears, Anna Doudna, Ann Sears, Exum Bailey, Sarah Ladd, Robert Hunnicutt Jr. , Miriam Hunnicutt, Joseph Butler , Sarah Butler, John Andrews, Jane Hunnicutt, Joseph Wilson, Joseph Andrews, Mary Hunnicutt, Ann Maria Binford , Robert Andrews, Martha Andrews, Robert Binford , Elizabeth Andrews, Robert Hunnicutt , John Andrews, Edna Crew , Daniel Andrews, Sarah Crew , William Butler, Margaret Butler, Jeremiah Hubbard, Robert Hunnicutt Butler, Micajah Butler, Ann Chappell, Samuel Butler, Edward Butler, Martha Butler, Joseph Butler, Charlotte Ann Binford, James Binford , John Hunnicutt, Margaret Hunnicutt, Benjamin Crew, Andrew Crew, Robert Hunnicutt Crew, Sarah Crew, Margaret Crew, Isaac Ratcliff, William Ratcliff, Martha Ratcliff, Elwood Ratcliff, Mary Ratcliff, Miriam Crew, John Crew, Eleazer Crew, Edna Crew, John Andrews Jr. , John Hunnicutt Crew, Miriam H. Crew, Aquilla Binford , Sarah Crew, Daniel Andrews , Elizabeth Crew, Samuel Ladd, Jesse Ladd, Samuel Whitfield Ladd, Margaret Ladd, Joseph Binford , Michal Ladd, Snelling, Jesse Ladd, Elizabeth Ladd, Joshua Ladd, Joseph Ladd, Benjamin Crew, Hannah Crew, Hunnicutt, Joshua Crew, Benjamin Crew, Sarah Wright, Thomas Wright, Sarah - , Narcissa Crew, Sarah Crew, Hannah Crew, Eliza Jane Crew, Sarah Hunnicutt, Barnaby Nixon, Mary Copeland, Aquilla Binford , Samuel Nixon, David Nixon, Huldah Hunnicutt, William Simmons, Edmund Bailey, William Hunnicutt, Mary Binford, Jesse Hunnicutt, Susanna Hunnicutt, Benjamin Hunnicutt, Robert Wyke Hunnicutt, Priscilla Binford , Elizabeth Ladd, Matthew Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Andrew Crew Jr., Andrew Crew, Joseph Crew, Mary McMannus, Clary Crew, Andrew Crew, Mary Crew, Raney Crew, Elizabeth Crew, Nance, Joseph Crew, Ezra Crew, Benjamin Crew, Mary Ladd , Chappell Crew, Rebecca Crew, Ladd, Exum Crew, Daniel Crew, Deborah Ladd , Isaac Crew, Andrew Crew, Mary Binford , Hannah Crew, James Binford , Elizabeth Crew, John Binford , Lydia Ladd, Ellyson Crew, John Crew, Agatha Ellyson, Ruth Crew, Thomas Binford , Ann Crew, James Crew , Elisha Crew, Jacob Crew, Isaac Crew, Henry Crew, John Crew, Judith Crew , Charles Crew, Martha Crew, Caleb Crew, Joshua Crew, Ellyson Crew, Mary Crew, Joseph Patterson, William Ladd, Ursula Ellyson, Thomas Binford, Benjamin Foster, Elizabeth (- ) Binford, John Binford, Susanna Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Robert Binford, Thomas Binford, Margaret - , Mary Binford, Andrew Crew , John Binford, Martha Binford, Sarah Binford, Amos Ladd , Mary Binford, Joseph Ladd , Thomas Binford, Judith Ladd , Thomas Binford, Jesse Binford, Sarah Harrison, Robert Harrison, James Binford, Hannah Crew , Joshua Binford, Micajah Binford, Angelina Binford, James Ladd Binford, Mary Ladd , Benajah Binford, John Binford, Elizabeth Crew , Martha (- ) Binford, Elizabeth Binford, Keziah Binford, Judah Binford, James Binford, Priscilla Binford, Benjamin Watkins, Benjamin Watkins, Jane Watkins, Robert Watkins, Mary Osborne, Edward Osborne, Edward Osborne Watkins, Harriet Tabb Trevillian , Benjamin Watkins, Anna Riddle, Thomas Riddle, Thomas Binford Watkins, Nancy Ragland, Elizabeth Watkins, Elijah Johnson, Ashley Johnson, Martha Woodey, Sarah Watkins, Mary Watkins, William Johnson, Jesse Johnson, Elizabeth Watkins, Elizabeth Kinsey Binford, William Binford, Martha (- ) Binford, William Binford, William Hulme, John Binford, Agnes Mosby, Edward Mosby, Joseph Mosby, Mary Binford, Joseph Ellyson, Robert Ellyson, Mary Ellyson, Robert Jordan, Benjamin Jordan , Lydia Pleasants , Agnes Ellyson, Moore Bell, George Bell, Rebecca - , Martha Bell, Rebecca Bell, Clark, Susanna Ellyson, Thomas Jordan, Agnes Binford, Benjamin Chappell , James Binford, Martha Chappell , John Binford, Sarah - , William Gunn, Ambrose Day, James Binford, Agnes Binford, Mary Binford, Peter Binford, Rebecca Chappell , John Hamlin, Charles Irby, William Binford, Mary (Barker) Peebles, Joseph Peebles, Robert Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Sarah Binford, James Ladd , Priscilla Binford, Robert Wyke Hunnicutt , Robert Hunnicutt , Samuel Hunnicutt, Pharaby Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, James Hunnicutt, Rachel Wright, Thomas Wright, Sarah - , James Binford, Elizabeth Simmons, Anderson Simmons, Ann Pretlow, Samuel Pretlow, Gulielma Binford, Mary Binford, Daniel Hunnicutt, Jane Walthall , Sarah Binford, Benjamin Harris Ladd , James Harris Ladd, Samuel Ladd, Elizabeth Binford Ladd, Nancy H. Ladd, Matthew Jones Hargrave , Unity Ladd, James Hubbard , Benjamin Franklin Ladd, John Milton Ladd, Thomas Elwood Ladd, Isaac Newton Ladd, Rebecca Binford, Gulielma Maria Binford, Staunton Butler , Jonathon Binford, Chappell Binford, Martha Hunnicutt , John Chappell, Samuel Binford, Mary Hunnicutt, Lemuel Binford, Robert Binford, Martha Andrews , Elizabeth Cook, Josiah Cook, Peter Binford, Chappell Binford, Jane Binford, Martha Binford, Ann Maria Binford, Joseph Andrews , Elizabeth Binford, Staunton Butler , Gulielma Maria Binford , Peter Binford, Martha Fowler, Simmons Fowler, Elizabeth Sears, Martha Brock, James Brock, Sarah Bailey, Aquilla Binford, Penelope Hare, Penelope Watkins, John Hare, Miriam H. Crew , Mary Binford, Micajah Peebles, John Peebles, Mary - , Peter Binford, Martha Binford, Robert Hunnicutt , Mary Hunnicutt, James Binford, Peninah Peebles, John Binford, Michal Binford, Timothy D. Johnson, Samuel Binford, David Binford, Joseph Binford, Margaret Ladd , Samuel Alfred Binford, Aquilla Binford, Mary Ladd , Thomas Binford, Ruth Crew , Robert Hunnicutt (c.1675-), John Hunnicutt, Margaret Wyke, Peter Wyke, John Lanier, William Peebles, Thomas Chappell , James Jones , Elizabeth Duke, Cornelius Cargill, John Holloway, Robert Bolling , Peter Peebles , Thomas Chappell , Thomas Chappell IV , Thomas Chappell V , Margaret Hunnicutt , Huldah Ladd, Huldah Hunnicutt, Francis Newby, William Hunnicutt, Miriam Murdaugh, John Pleasants, Margaret Jordan , Mary Woodson, Jesse Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Miriam - , Elizabeth Peebles, John Peebles, Mary - , Sarah Hunnicutt, Mary Hunnicutt, Micajah Bailey, Edmund Bailey, Elizabeth Womble, Deborah Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Mary Linn Hunnicutt, Miriam Hunnicutt, Margaret Hunnicutt, Jonathon Terrell, Elizabeth Terrell, Chiles Terrell, Nanny Terrell, John Terrell, Miriam Terrell, Matilda Terrell, Caleb Terrell, Thomas Terrell, Ann Hunnicutt, Joseph Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Peter Hunnicutt, Sarah Haig, Robert Hunnicutt, Ann Simmons, William Simmons, Huldah Hunnicutt , Mary Hunnicutt, William Ladd , Martha Hunnicutt, Chappell Binford , Jane Hunnicutt, Jane Hunnicutt, Hatch, Peter Hunnicutt, Elizabeth Hunnicutt, Sarah Hunnicutt, Thomas Hunnicutt, Mary - , James Hunnicutt, William Hunnicutt, Mary Butler , Wyke Hunnicutt, Sarah Glaister, James Gee , Sarah Hunnicutt, Samuel Bailey, Anselm Bailey, Glaister Hunnicutt, Jane Pleasants , Mary Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Ruth Hunnicutt, Anselm Bailey Jr., Robert Hunnicutt, Priscilla Binford , Wyke Hunnicutt, Ann Bailey, Anselm Bailey, Margaret Hunnicutt, Thomas Chappell , Robert Hunnicutt, Sarah Ladd , John Hunnicutt, Elizabeth (- ) Hunnicutt, John Hunnicutt, Mary Butler, Elizabeth Hunnicutt, Edward Hunnicutt, Ephraim Hunnicutt, Ruth Hunnicutt, Daniel Hunnicutt, Mark Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Sarah Hunnicutt, Robert Hunnicutt, Martha Hunnicutt, Mary Hunnicutt, James Hunnicutt, Rebecca Pretlow , Elizabeth Hunnicutt, James Bates, Mary Hunnicutt, Jesse Newby,
Selected sources Boddie, John Bennett. "Chappell of Surry" Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(2):66-72. Family of Thomas Chappell . Cabell, James Branch. "The Hunnicutts of Prince George." Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1982(3):92-112. Includes the family of Robert Hunnicutt . Chappell, Joseph M. A Genealogical Outline of the Chappell and Kindred Families. Salem, Or.: The Joseph M. Chappell Family, 1995. Corrects and extends the work of Phil Chappell, beginning with Thomas Chappell . Chappell, Phil E. A Genealogical History of the Chappell, Dickie, and Other Kindred Families of Virginia, 1635-1900. Kansas City, Missouri: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, 1900. A very early work on the family of Thomas Chappell including his son, Thomas Chappell , and grandson Robert Chappell . Although it errs in the early generations, it contains some very useful information on subsequent generations of the Chappell family. Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives (Ryves). Lynchburg, Va.: J.P. Bell Company, Inc., 1929:454-455. Excursus devoted to family of Thomas Chappell .
Notes This topic, which represents .82% of all the family history material at Virginians.com, includes 664 citations and the names of 1,004 individuals.
Pg. 418 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE: (From Phil E. Chappell)
Robert Chappell patented 100 acres of land January 26th. 1663, book 5, page 24·
Samuel Chappell patented 78 acres July 4th, 1664. book 5, page 24-
Thomas Chappell patented 80 acres October 20th, 1665, book 5, page 120.
Zachariah Chappell patented 175 acres April 6th, 1684.
Thomas Chappell, probably of the next generation, patented 423 acres April 20th, 1694. Thomas Chappell patented 994 acres (20 headrights) April 25th, 1701.
Samuel Chappell patented 218 acres October 29th. 1696.
There were found in the eighteenth century, between 1720 and 1750, many additional entries, some of large tracts. Many of these were issued to John Chappell and James Chappell, who seem to have become large land owners. The latter was called in his patento; .. gentleman ...
There may be other records of land patents of which I have no account.
Among the partially preserved records of Charles City county, the following fragment was found: "Att a Cor'tt holden in Westover April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell acknowledgeth in Cor'tt to have received of
James Wallis, who married ye relict of Lieut. John Banister dec'd, one legacy given by 'ye said Banister to ye said Chappell's child by will and discharged by ye said Wallis fully from ye bond, being three cows and one heyfer. It is ordered by ye Cor'tt that Thomas Chappell give bond to ye Cor'tt for ye cattle bequeathed to his child by ye said last will and testament of John Banister and by him received for her use." Order book, page 271.
This is the only record found among the partially preserved records of Charles City county, I am informed, referring to anyone named Chappell. The records have been almost entirely lost in that county.
Besides the above, the parish registers furnish some light as to the Chappell family in the Colony during' that period.
The original register of Albemarle parish, Surry and Sussex counties, which I believe is on file in the Virginia Historical Society, at Richmond, refer to a family of Chappells, doubtless descendant.; of
one of the immigrants of 1635, who lived in that parish between 1739, 1772. Among the names mentioned are James, Howell, Henry, John. Robert, Thomas, and Samuel. In the register of Bristol parish, Prince George and Dinwiddie counties, are found the following entries: "Ann, d. of Rohert and Mary Chappell, b. Feb. 18, 1721; Absalom, son of Robert and Elizabeth (probably his second wife), b. May 6, 1729; Robert, son of Robert and Elizabeth, b. April 2, 1732." This Robert was probably
hrother of my great-great-grandfather, who certainly lived in the same parish at the time these children were bom. My branch of the family, while evidently closely related to the Surry and Sussex branch. cannot from the dates have sprung from them. The above is the only record I have been able to find in Virginia previous to 1746, referring to my ancestors, and they, while furnishing almost positive proof of our descent from John or Thomas Chappell, the immigrants of 1635, do not determine from which one we sprang nor the connection of the subsequent generations, previous to 1746.
The Chappells were numerously represented in England between 1500 and 1600. The name is often found in Northamptonshire, Rutland and Nottinghamshire, and several members of the family attained great eminence, among whom was one William Chappell, who was at one time Bishop of Cork and a professor of Cambridge. He was born in 1582, and died May 13, 1649. He had a younger brother named John who died before him. was buried at Mansfield, and left a family. He may have been the same John Chappell who was captain of the ship Speedwell in 1635. The father of these sons was named Robert. You will observe these family names John. Robert, Samuel and Thomas. Names which have come down in the different branches of the family for three centuries and a half. and which are yet connected with the name .. Chappell," as the favorite names, wherever it is found.
My theory is that the Chappells of the colony of Virginia. now a numerous family in the Southern States. all sprung from Thos. Chappell, the young immigrant of 1635. who came over in the America. and that
he settled in Charles City county, which was organized the year previous. I also think he was the same individual referred to in the records of that county in connection with the legacy given his child by John
Banister. It was probably his sons. Robert. Thos. and Samuel. who patented land from 1663 to 1665. and his grandsons. of the next generation, who patented lands at the close of the century (1694-1701) whose names also were Thomas and Samuel. I believe that among their sons was the Robert referred to in the register of Bristol parish, and the old merchant of Petersburg, who was my great-great-grandfather. the first husband of Sarah Crawley, whose will I found in Amelia county, I think, including Thomas. the immigrant, and the merchant of Petersburg, there must have been five generations from 1635 to 1744, a period of a century or more, There is no entry of land by anyone named .. John Chappell" in the seventeenth century, and for this reason it is prohable that John Chappell. who came O'er in the Assurance,' in 1635, died without issue. It is not probable that the mariner. John Chappell,
ever settled in the colony. He prohably returned to England on his ship and died there; nor is there any evidence, so far as I can learn, that he ever made any other voyage to the colony than the one made in
1635.
This theory. as to the descent from Thomas Chappell. and that he <420 VIRGINIA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.> settled in Charles City county, are more than ever impressed on me from two statements I find in Bruce's /:Economic History 0f Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. On page 75, Vol. II, there is a reference to John Banister, who obtained head rights about 1643. This was probably
the same Lieutenant John Banister, perhaps a kinsman, who left the legacy to Thomas Chappell's child.
Again, on page 521, Vol. II, it is stated that Wm. Barker, a mariner. obtained a patent in 1635 for 400 acres of land (eight head-rights) in Charles City county. It will be observed that Thos. Chappell came
over in the same year on the same vessel, the America, of which Wm. Barker was captain, and it would seem located in the same county in which he (Barker) patented land. While Captain John Chappell, Thos. Chappell, and John, who came in the Assurance, were doubtless all of the same family in England, they may not have been closely related, or else they would not have come over, so near at the same time, in different vessels. I have given as briefly as possible all I know of the history of my people in the colony from 1635 to 1746. It is incomplete and not satisfactory, from the fact that owing to the absence of their wills and settlements of their estates no connection or descent from one generation
to another can be traced, as it can be subsequent to 1746.
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John Banister, Thomas Foote and John Boarham had a patent, dated November 25, 1653, for 350 acres on Horn Harbor creek (Gloucester county), adjoining the lands of Mrs. Morrison, Mr. Armistead, Mr. Hall, Henry Singleton, John Trage, and Edward Morgan. Mrs. Elizabeth Banister had a grant of land in Gloucester in 1679. In the grant reference is made to her son John Banister and her deceased husband John Banister. It might have been supposed that the son was John Banister the naturalist, who lived in Charles City county, were it not for the fact that a fragment of the records of that county has an entry showing that on April 9, 1661, Thomas Chappell appeared in the court of Charles City and acknowledged that he had received from James Wallis, who had married the relict of Lieutenant John Banister, deceased, a legacy which had been bequeathed in Banister's will to a child of Chappell's.]
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BANNISTER Mary, b. 1615, South Hampton, England d. 1700 (Age 85 years) |
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Merchants Hope, Prince George, Virginia, USA [3] |
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- [S282] Fletcher Trice, Fletcher Trice, (Ancestry.com
fletcht2001@yahoo.com) (Reliability: 1).
- [S283] Phill E. Chappell, Chappell History - Phil E. Chappell, (Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Company, Kansas City, Mo. (1900)).
- [S282] Fletcher Trice, Fletcher Trice, (Ancestry.com
fletcht2001@yahoo.com).
- [S315] John Bennett Boddie, Southside Virginia Families, Pg. 66 (Reliability: 2).
- [S316] Nugent, Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, pg. 335 (Reliability: 3).
- [S273] Ancestry.Com.
- [S41] LDS IGI Data.
- [S3] Phil E Chappell's Book & Hazard's 'Historical Collections'.
- [S902] Holloway Family Genealogy, Holloway Family Genealogy (Reliability: 3).
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