CHAPPELL Thomas

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker
• Will: 1690, Charles City County, VA; Will
• Land: 25 Apr 1701; Land Patented
• Religion: 1710, Prince George County, VA; Converted to Quaker when he married
• Land: 19 Jun 1722, Prince George County, VA; Land Sold from will
• Land: 24 Mar 1725, Dendron, Surry, Virginia, United States; Land Patented

Notes:

His children's records are from Quaker records.
If he could speak to us today, Robert Chappell I might describe his life as follows.
I was born about 1680 to Thomas Chappell and Elizabeth Jones. Most records of Prince George County where we lived are missing so I can say little about myself. At least the will I made 3 February 1723/4 still remains. It reveals that I was hands-on planter, married to Sarah, and that I was then the father of 6 minor children. "Sick in body, but of good and perfect memory, thanks to Almighty God," I was dead within a year. After my widow, Sarah, married William Crawley, she and the children settled in Amelia County. Chappell women liked horses. I left Sarah a sidesaddle in my will, and 37 years later she left a sidesaddle to her daughter Ann Neal. Billy Crawley was wealthy so I am sure it was not the same one. Our son James Chappell directed the executors of his will to buy new sidesaddles for his wife and all his daughters. Among my descendants was James Chamberlayne Jones, congressman and governor of Tennessee.
We have yet to identify Robert's wife, Sarah Chappell . Nor do we do not know anything about her family. Robert help inventory the estate of William Epes 7 April 1711.

Will:
The Thomas Chappell³, now referred to, was of the fourth generation, reckoning Captain John Chappell as the first, and was the third in succession in America to bear the name Thomas. He was the son of Thomas the second and his wife, Elizabeth (who was the daughter of James Jones), and a "grandson of the immigrant, Thomas¹. I have been thus particular in designating him, as there were many Thomas Chappells in the family, especially in the first five or six generations. Without this precaution, the continued repetition of the same name would become so confusing that it would be impossible for the reader to distinguish one from another. The truth is, the entire vocabulary of Christian names among the early Chappells for several generations seems to have been confined to Thomas, Samuel, Robert, James, and John, all of which have been perpetuated even down to the present generation. This custom of perpetuating family names, which has prevailed among the Chappells for centuries, is a praiseworthy one. May it be continued in generations yet unborn.*
Thomas Chappell³ was born in Charles City County, Virginia, between 1680-1690, and the first account we find of him is in his grandfather Jones' will, in which, it will be remem-bered, the following bequest was made:
*For the purpose of distinguishing different individuals of the same name, but of different generations, I have adopted the plan in vogue in most genealogical works, of placing a numeral over the Christian name, thus indicating the order of the individual in line of descent.

"Item. I give to my grandson, Thomas Chappell one hundred acres of land lying in Surry County from the Swamp south; joining upon William Cocke, above the outline; to him and his heirs forever."
On June 19,1722, as shown by the following deed, recorded in Surry County, Thomas sold this tract of land to William Cocke, whose land it adjoined:
"This indenture made the 19th. day of June, in the year of our Lord 1722, between Thomas Chappell, of the county of Prince George, Planter, of one part, and William Cocke, Planter, of the other part. Witiiesseth. That the said Thomas Chappell for and in consideration of the sum of Fifteen Pounds, current money, to him in hand paid, the receipt of the said sum whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, hath given, granted, bargained, sold and enfeofed a certain tract of land, containing one hundred acres, on the south side of Maine Blackwater Swamp in the Parish of Southwark in the county of Surry. The same being a part of Six hundred and forty acres patented by and granted to James Jones of the county of Prince George, now deceased, and by the last will of the said Jones devised unto the said Thomas Chappell.*
(Signed) '"Thomas Chappell"

Land:
994 Acres

Land:
On June 19,1722, as shown by the following deed, recorded in Surry County, Thomas sold this tract of land to William Cocke, whose land it adjoined:
"This indenture made the 19th. day of June, in the year of our Lord 1722, between Thomas Chappell, of the county of Prince George, Planter, of one part, and William Cocke, Plant-er, of the other part. Witiiesseth. That the said Thomas Chappell for and in consideration of the sum of Fifteen Pounds, current money, to him in hand paid, the receipt of the said sum whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, hath given, granted, bargained, sold and enfeofed a certain tract of land, containing one hundred acres, on the south side of Maine Black-water Swamp in the Parish of Southwark in the county of Snrry. The same being a part of Six hundred and forty acres patented by and granted to James Jones of the county cf Prince George, now deceased, and by the last will of the said Jones devised unto the said Thomas Chappell.*
(Signed) '"Thomas Chappell"

Land:
On March 24, 1725, Thomas Chappell patented three hundred and forty-five acres of land on the south side of Notto way River, in Surry County, in the same neighborhood in which his brothers, Samuel and James, located, about that time. (Land Book, Vol. XII., p. 150.)
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, connected himself with the church of his wife's folks, a society of Quakers, who, a few years before, had established a "meeting," as their churches were called, in Prince George, known as "White

'*This tract of land, containing six hundred and forty acres, was patented by Jones, August 17, 1715. It was located on the north side of, Maine Blackwater Swamp, in Surry County, and adjoined the lands of'Thos. Griffin. (Land Book, Vol. XII., p. 416.) He patented several other tracts.

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.

Thomas married HUNNICUTT Margaret on 10 May 1731. Margaret (daughter of HUNNICUTT Robert) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
SUPPLEMENT TO BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
6. Peter Binford, d. Jan. 24, 1782, age 81 yrs. Rebecca d. same yr., age 70 yrs.

Rebecca married BINFORD Peter on 3 Jul 1731. Peter (son of BINFORD James and BINFORD Elizabeth --LNU--) was born in 1701 in Charles City County, VA; died on 24 Jan 1782. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Abt 1619

Samuel married SIMONS Ann in 1741. Ann and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Between 1725 and 1726

Margaret married HILL Aaron on 12 Jan 1736. Aaron was born in 1710; died on 30 Oct 1761 in Pasquotank Co., NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Prince George County Deed Book 1787-1792 LVA Reel# 3 (Contains Wills)
p. 691 \endash 17 March 92\endash Thomas Chappell, John Chappell, Benjamin Chappell, and Agness Chappell of Prince George County and Aquila Binford of Dinwiddie County \endash being fully persuaded that freedom is the natural right…do unto others…under our care one Negro of the following name Charles Rivers aged 22 yrs, we do therefore emancipate and set free the said Negro \endash rec 10 July 92

Birth:
birth info from Quaker records per Boddie's Book

Died:
SUPPLEMENT TO BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
8. Agnes Binford Chappell d. July 6, 1793. Benjamin d. Mar. 11,1769

Benjamin married BINFORD Agnes on 7 Jun 1754. Agnes was born about 1726 in Prince George County, VA; died on 6 Jul 1793. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married BINFORD James on 2 Jun 1751. James was born about 1722; died about 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SIMONS Ann. Ann and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pricella married WATKINS Benjamin in 1754. Benjamin and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

SUPPLEMENT TO BINFORD FAMILY GENEALOGY
7. James, John, Thomas and Peter in 1781 gave cattle, corn, oats, furniture, bedding, etc., for supplying
the army in the Revolutionary War. This gives most Binfords a right to the order of D.A.K

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Death: Bef Feb 1804, Randolph, IN