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Note: BIRTH: 1800 Mad River Community.,Greene,OH PARENTS' FAMILY MRIN: #MRIN22 William CHAPMAN-145/Hannah SMITH-32 MARRIAGE: MRIN561 to Mahala HARDESTY-294 3 Aug 1823 Champaign County Ohio by Moses HINKLE according to Champaign County Probate Court marriage records (1819-1829) Volume B, #1193. DEATH: Pacific Coast(?) CENSUS: 1830 Mad River Township - Jesse Chapman RIN 2 males under 5 1825-1830 1 male 5-10 1820-1825 1 male 15-20 1810-1815 1 male 20-30 1800-1810 Jesse b. abt 1800 145 1 female under 5 1825-1830 1 female 10-15 1815-1820 1 female 20-30 1800-1810 Mahala HARDESTY 294 SOURCE(1): Jesse migrated to the Pacific Coast in 1840. He was first white child born in the Mad River Community of Champaign/Clark counties of Ohio. (See Histories of both Champaign and Clark Counties) SOURCE(2): See letter from Don DuBois 1700 SE 146th Court, Vancover WA 98684 dated 13 JAN 1987 filed in this compiler's CHAPMAN file folder. (this address is no longer valid; letters have been return.) From the letter: "My project is to trace ALL the descendants of William CHAPMAN, born 1752 in New Jersey, served in the Revolutionary War and came to Chmpaign County in 1798 as one of the first settlers. One of his sons, Jesse Smith CHAPMAN born in the county in 1800 and my great great grandfather. William had 12 children so you can see it is quite a job I have undertaken.". REFERENCE(1): Charles RECTOR-598 and Catherine-712 sold 15 acres in Sec- tion 5, Township 4, Range 10 (bounded on one side by the Mad River), Clark County, Ohio, to Jesse Chapman, 28 Oct. 1831. The deed is recorded on pages 51 & 52 of Deed Book "I" at the Clark County Courthouse, Springfield, Ohio. (This refer- ence will be found in the note file F598, page 8, Line 18). REFERENCE(2): 20th CENTURY HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY OHIO AND REPRESENTAAIVE CITIZENS - Biographical Publishing Compa- my - 1908, Chicago IL Page 232: "In 1798 William Chapman and William Ross, with their families, came, the former from Virginia and Ross from Mason County, Kentucky. Chapman, his wife, and two or three children reared their cabin on the farm now owned by E. E. GARD in Section 10, having entered that and several other section in the vicinity. To this couple, in the year 1800, was born a son, Jesse Chapman, the first white child born in the territory now comprising this township." ANOMALY: 6 children up to the 1830 census which lists 1 male, age 15-20 who would have been born in the period of 1810-1815 and 1 female, age 10-15 in the period of 1815-1820. Possi- ble - yes; probable - no; Jesse would have been a father at a maximum age of 15!
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