| 1658/00/00 |
Capt Luke Gardiner |
Owner |
Luke Gardiner receives a warrant to resurvey a tract of land called Grymes Ditch that lays outside the north-northwest boundary of Charles County. |
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| 1673/00/00 |
Capt Luke Gardiner |
Owner |
Luke Gardiner patents 580 acres which includes a small island about one-quarter mile from shore, later known variously as "Crane Island" or "Craney Island". |
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| 1674/08/12 |
Capt Luke Gardiner |
In Memoriam |
I give and bequeath unto my son LUKE GARDNER all that Tract of Land of mine Lying near the head of Chaptico Bay Called Hillilee and the landing by Chaptico Bay Called Gardners Landing Containing about 2 acres of Ground. - Luke Gardiner |
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| 1700/00/00 |
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Sometime before 1701, the younger Luke Gardiner agrees to the sale of Gryme's Ditch to Robert Mason. Although Robert Mason dies before the deed of sale is ratified, his will devises the same land to his son John. |
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| 1705/00/00 |
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John Mason's right of ownership and inheritance of Grimditch is confirmed by the will of Luke Gardiner Jr. |
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| 1732/00/00 |
Edward Neale |
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John Mason conveys Gryme's Ditch to Edward Neale. Neale, like the Gardiners and Masons, did not occupy the land, but he may have been the first owner to cultivate the land, perhaps using his own slaves or under a lease arrangement with a tenant. |
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| 1750/00/00 |
William Eilbeck |
Life |
A dispute involving overlapping boundaries with a contiguous plantation held by William Eilbeck (whose daughter Ann is the wife of George Mason of Gunston Hall) will not be settled until 1812. |
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| 1751/00/00 |
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Edward Neale sells the 580 acres of Gryme's Ditch and the island to Nathaniel Chapman of Stafford County, Virginia, for 200 pounds sterling and 500 pistoles. Chapman owns several plantations in Virginia opposite the Potomac River from Gryme's Ditch. |
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| 1760/00/00 |
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Nathaniel Chapman erects a house at Mount Aventine (lost). Occupied in 1827, the house was probably abandoned by the Chapmans following construction of the existing house, although an 1844 document suggests that it continued to be occupied. |
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| 1761/00/00 |
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Nathaniel Chapman's Household Furniture is inventory under the headings: In the Parlour and Beaufett, In the Passage, In the Green Room, In the Back Room, In the Bedd Room, In the Bleu Room, In the Yellow Room, In the Parlour Chamber, In the Garret. |
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| 1766/00/00 |
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After Nathaniel Chapman Jr drowns attempting to ford a river in New York, his eldest brother, Pearson Chapman, inherits their father's house. |
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| 1781/05/31 |
George Mason |
Life |
George Mason writes Pearson Chapman: The rapid march of the enemy obliges me to ... beg the favour of you to permit all the things I send to be put in your dwelling house for safety until I can carry them up to my son William's house at (Araby). |
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| 1784/00/00 |
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Pearson Chapman dies in 1784. His will, written in 1771, devised " .. the tract of land and plantation whereon I now live at Pamonkey in Maryland .. " to his son Nathaniel after the decease of Nathaniel's mother, Susanna Chapman. |
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| 1785/00/00 |
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Inventory of Pearson Chapman lists a "Yawl boat" and a "Ferry boat" at Chapman's Landing Hallowing Point ferry. |
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| 1786/10/31 |
George Washington |
Life |
Mercury at 41 in the Morning - 42 at Noon and 42 at Night. After breakfast I left Govr. Smallwoods and got home to dinner. Attempted to cross at the Widow Chapmans in order to pay Colo. Mason a visit but could not get over. - GW's diary entry |
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| 1798/00/00 |
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In the county's federal direct tax list, Susanna Chapman appears as the owner of the Gryme's Ditch plantation consisting of 704 acres. Improvements include a dwelling house, five ancillary structures worth $960 and 38 slaves. |
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| 1825/00/00 |
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The Main House, built in the 2nd quarter of C19 and enlarged c 1860, is sited on the brow of a hill and built on an east-west axis. Mt Aventine is a two-story, common bond brick structure with lower flanking wings. |
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| 1844/12/00 |
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(If) I go to Washington ... on Friday I shall probably go in the steam boat and be landed at Chapmans early on Saturday morning, if I go on Saturday to Washington then I shall not reach Chapmans till Sunday morning - William Briscoe Stone |
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| 1938/00/00 |
Gorham Hubbard |
Home |
Philemon Dickenson deeds Mt Aventine, "also called Chapman's Landing or Chapman's Fishing Landing," to Gorham Hubbard. Hubbard owns Oak Grove, which he extensively rehabilitated, and will use Mt Aventine as a part-time residence, hunting and farm. |
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| 1954/00/00 |
Gorham Hubbard |
Home |
Gorham Hubbard advertises for sale a 500 acre Potomac River Estate with 7000 ft of riverfront: Early American brick and stone, 3-story and basement asbestos shingle roof dwelling on a high knoll with magnificent view over Potomac River and Virginia shore |
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