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ISAACK CHAPLINE from "Adventurers of Purse and Person", 3rd ed. 1987.
Ensign Isaack Chapline(1) came to Virginia, 1610, in the Star and in the census, 1623/4, he, Mrs. Chapline and John Chapline are listed at "Chapline's Choice". And in the muster, 1624/5, Mrs. Chapline's name is given as Mary with the statement that she came in the James, 1622, and that John Chapline ,aged 15 , " kinsman " of Isaack, accompanied her along with four servants, including a maid servant. By the time they arrived, Isaack Chapline appears to have been well established at one of the choice locations on the south side of the James River.
In 1623, Mr. Greville Pooley, the minister, was organized to " take the levy " at " Chapline's choice ". The list of land titles sent to England, May 1626, credits Isaack
Chapline with 50 acres in Charles City and 200 acres in the " territory of Great Weyanoke". Apparently, these were the initial records of the Chapline land holdings, to which other acreage was added, for a read patent of " Chapline's choice " by Nicholas Wyatt, 30 October 1686 , lists 361 acres in the track.
Isaack Chapline served as a member of the House of Burgesses from " Chapline's choice " and " Jordon's journey ", 1624 and 1625, along with Nathaniel Cawsey. He signed the " laws in orders by the council and Assembly " sent to England for approval. He appeared as a witness, 1624, for Governor Yeardley in a suit brought against the governor by Captain John Martin and the following year before the suit was heard, Martin, one of the Council of State, sought to discredit him as a witness, stating " that Isaack Chapline is a perjured man. . . a condemned man, and as yet never had is pardon for to acquit him, so that the said Ensign Chapline is not capable capable in law to pursue him ". Not withstanding charge , Isaack Chapline continued in the confidence of his contemporaries and in 1626 was appointed a member of the commission to hold court for the " upper part " of the colony. These commissioners were part authorized to hear and decide petty controversies not exceeding key value of to 200 pounds of tobacco and also to consider petty offenses.
Apparently, Isaack Chapline was lost at sea sometime before 8 December 1628, for on that day the General Court ordered " that John Chapline of Chapline's choice shall have a Commission granted unto him of the good of Ensign Isaack Chapline, who is supposed to be cast away upon the sea ". This is the last known reference to him.
John Chapline, listed in the muster as " kinsmen" to Isaack Chapline, continued to live in the area of Chapline's Choice, for reference in patents is frequently to Chapline land and to John Chapline's land.
******His degree of kinship to Isaack Chapline is undetermined; probably he was a nephew.*****
******The issue of Isaack and Mary Kaplan has not been established; indeed there is no evidence that they had issue(12).*****
FOOTNOTES:
(1.) Hotten,p.173,Alliterative names such as "Jordan's Journey", "Pace's Pains","Begar's Bush" and "Newport News" were not uncommon at this time. "Chapline's Choice" was on Bicker's (later Bicar's) Creek near "Jordan's Journey", on the south side of James River, opposite "Berkley" and "Westover" (The Cradle of the Republic by Lyon Gardiner Tyler; p. 213)
(12.) A daughter and a son have been claimed: Mary Chapline who married Anthony Wyatt, principally because Wyatt was an early owner of Chapline's choice, but there is no evidence Chapline had a daughter of any name and none that Wyatt's wife was named Mary; William Chapline of Calvert County, Maryland who left will, 9 December 1669-5 January 1669/70( Maryland proprietary Wills books 1, page 363), naming wife Mary, daughters Elizabeth Chapline (left land in Dorchester County) and Mary Chapline ( left personalty) and son William (left the home plantation " at 16 years of age"), but to date no documentary evidence in support of this claimed descent has been presented. Also unproved is the claim that the wife of Isaack Chapline was born Mary Calvert.
Reference: Adventures of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd edition, published by the Order of First families of Virginia, 1987, John Frederick Dorman, F.A.S.G. ; page 167-168, 20.[donmaxwell2.ged]
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