Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
717 Queen StreetAlexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Item identification], Chapman Family Collection, MS274, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria Virginia.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Wes Pippenger, May 1991
Content Description
Family papers, letters, wills, and deeds of the Chapman Family of Maryland and Virginia.
Related Material
Chapman-Southerland Collection (MS409) Thomas Swann Correspondence (MS410) A History of the Chapman and Alexander Families, 1946
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Deeds.
- Letters.
- Pippenger, Wesley E. (Wesley Eugene), 1956-
- Virginia -- Genealogy.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Chapman, Andrew Grant, 1839-1892
- Chapman, Cecilia W., 1878-1899
- Chapman, Susan Pearson (Alexander), 1801-1872
- Conlyn, Helen P. (Helen Pearson Chapman), 1876-1951
- Conlyn, William J. (William James), 1869-1950
- Pippenger, Wesley E. (Wesley Eugene), 1956-
- Swann, Helen Mary (Chapman), 1817-1895
- Swann, Thomas William, 1818-1895
Container List
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.