Chapman Family Collection (MS274)

Access and use

Location of collection:
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912
Preferred citation:

[Item identification], Chapman Family Collection, MS274, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
.16 Linear Feet 1 box
Creator:
Chapman Family
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item identification], Chapman Family Collection, MS274, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.

This folder contains one notebook that has hand-written genealogy notes on the Chapman family. The notes are attributed to John Seabury Chapman, however, he died in 1880 and many of the notes speak of the 1890s. Later in the notebook, someone has written excerpts from "Potomac River Landings" by Paul Wilstach, written February, 1929.

This folder contains an old hand-written and drawn family tree of the Chapman family, folded. There is also a photocopy of the document.

This folder contains several blueprints of one of the Chapman family farms called Normandy in Charles County, Maryland.

This folder contain letters written to and from various members of the Chapman family including John W. Mitchell and John Grant Chapman, former Whig member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate.

This folder contains various documents regarding ownership of land and in one instance, the adoption papers for Raymond Kenneth Bowen, adopted by Edgar Preston Alexander.

This folder contains various notes on Chapman family genealogy.

This folder contains several wills from members of the Chapman family, including the handwritten will of Susan Pearson Alexander Chapman.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Wes Pippenger, May 1991
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Letters.
Deeds.
Places:
Virginia -- Genealogy.