13 December 2018

Abraham Chapman, Who Was At Guilford Court House




Petition of Mary Chapman, widow of Abraham Chapman, late cornet in the British Legion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton

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C11
Abraham Chapman enlisted in Philadelphia under the command of General Sir William Howe...
Lord Cathcart was Colonel
1781 Abraham Chapman was promoted to a Lieutenant; he served in Virginia and Carolina with his regiment...under Earl Cornwallis...was at Guilford Court House...
To Nova Scotia
Petition Postmarked and Dated: New York, December 27, 1819


An affidavit in the C-11, Archives file W.O. 42 [Image 884] referred to the marriage at Trinity Church between Abraham Chapman and Mary Willis, of December 17, 1782.

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