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Charles County (Md.) -- Social life and customs -- Sources

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Chapman Family papers

 Collection 0020-MDHC
Abstract John Grant Chapman, an affluent citizen and plantation owner in Charles County, was active in state and national politics for over twenty-five years. A member of the Whig party, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates and then advanced to the Maryland Senate. From 1845 to 1848, Chapman served in the U.S. House of Representatives. Marshall Chapman, the second of John Grant Chapman's sons, inherited the Chapman estate upon his father's death in 1856. Records show that the family enslaved...