Person:Elizabeth Chapman (81)

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Biography

Elizabeth was born on 13 June 1733.[3] She died in 1783.[4] In 1751-52, Elizabeth became the bride of Dr. John Hunter probably at "Summer Hill," which was built by her father on the N. side of the mouth of Four Mile Run at the Potomac River, "and opposite the City of Washington on the Virginia side of the Potomac River."[4] Elizabeth and John made their home on Water St. (now Lee) between Wolfe & Wilkes in Alexandria. Their house overlooked both the creek & the river. John was a Trustee of the town. His carriage always had on it the "Stags Head Crest."[3] "Unlike most women, Elizabeth had documented service for the patriot cause. The Fairfax County Court Booklet for the February Term of 1782 records adjusted claims for property impressed or taken into public service. On page 2 of that booklet Elizabeth Hunter is credited with having supplied a driver and horses for 40 days. Had her husband still been living, or had she remarried, the record would have been in her husband’s name and we would not be honoring a lady. Unfortunately, the booklet does not record the dates the driver and horses were in use and the certificate has not survived in the records of the state archives. There is a strong possibility that the horses and driver served for transport when the army moved from New York to Yorktown. The Yorktown Campaign was undertaken shortly after Thomas Nelson became governor in June of 1781 and the public was called upon to support the army to a much greater extent than before. We have no way of telling whether Elizabeth volunteered her horses and driver or whether they were impressed. Whichever, this kind of service was critical to winning the Revolution, for without supplies, our army would have dissolved long before 1781, and the Siege of Yorktown could never have been sustained."[2] When she passed away, Elizabeth's body was originally buried at her family's plantation, "Summer Hill," next to her husband. On 28 March 1940 the graves at Summer Hill were removed and interred April 6 at Pohick Episcopal Church Cemetery, Lorton, Fairfax Co., Virginia.[2] (The above data in her biography was entered on 22 Jan. 2024 by Judith Drew Brittingham, WT-Drew-2083)

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• Buried at Pohick Cemetery^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Personal visit to Pohick Cemetery by DK Clews in Nov 2014.

3. "Hunter Family of Virginia and connections, embracing portions of families of Alexander, Pearson, Chapman . . ." by Culbertson, Sidney Methiot, Denver, 1934, Pp. 178, 187. 4. "John Alexander: A Northern Neck Proprietor : His Family, Friends, and Kin," Pippenger, Wesley E., Gateway Press, 1990.

• Will of Constantia Chapman:::Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Hunter the sum of One hundred pounds, current money of Virginia in trust to be laid out in the education of her children in such manner as she thinks proper. I also give and bequeath unto my said daughter Elizabeth Hunter my two riding chairs or chaises, with all the harness and everything else thereunto belonging, and my two chair horses, the one being a Roan and the other a Dun horse; also four calves or yearlings and four cows and three heads of cattle, also one killable beef and 10 fatted Hogs to be delivered to her by my Executors next Fall or Winter after my decease.

URL: https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Chapman-6592

Place: Lorton, Virginia

Date: 11 Nov 2014

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Date: 4 May 2022

AUTH: Jeanne Drewrey

Daughter of Constantia Pearson and Nathaniel ChapmanMarried Dr John Hunter source: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties Dr John Hunter 1721-1764 grave stone source: Find a GraveDr John Hunter was born about 1721 in Hunterton, County Ayr, Scotland, settled in Virginia about 1746 These are my direct ancestors.