from The News, December 2, 1892, Page 3
An Old and Honored Family
Recently, Robert MoCoy and his agent, M. Kadler erected in memory of Moses Chapline, who died 180 years ago on the Shifter farm near Sharpsburg, Washington county, now known as the "burnt barn" farm, a monument or marker ordered by Mrs J. L. Dare, of Washington, great-grand niece of Mr. Chapline.
Mrs. Dare's mother, who is now 84 years old, put a wreath on the monument. Moses Chapline's will was probated in 1762 and Moses Chapline, Jr, the settled up the estate. The land old surreys is called Bounded White Oak and Mount Pleasant.
Moses Chapline, Jr., of Sharpsuorg, who served in the Revolutionary war, In a deed for 473 acres of land to Michael Fackler and Josiab Bitt for 4,600 pounds of common circalating money of Maryland, stipulate that one-fourth acre shall stand and remain forever the property of Moses Chapline end his heirs, and also to allow all every one of the heirs of Moses Chapline, Sr., the right to this burying ground, and to have free access to and from as often as cases of mortality shall require.
Mr. John P. Smith, of Sharpsburg, Md., furnishes the Valley Record with the following brief history of the Chaplines: Moses Chapline's father, William Chapline, came over from England in the Mayflower in 1620. Moses came from Boston, Mass., to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and married Miss Jeanette Caton, a cousin of the celebrated Richard Caton, who married the daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Moses Chapline, the one who lies in the old grave on farm of Misses Betsy and Kate Shifter, and who built the old log house in which Miss Betsy now lives, sometime in the year 1740, was a first cousin of Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore.
Moses Chapline died in 1763, his wife and son dying several years after. All of these lie buried in an ancient spot which is now being cared for after 130 years by the great great grand daughter of Moses Chapline, Mrs. J. L. Dare, of Washington, D, C. Mrs. Schley Chapline, of Frederick, member of this family and has many interesting records of it.
