The first connection of a CHAPMAN to this area was the 1772 Savage Land Grant where 28,628 acres were given to Captain John Savage and sixty of his men for their service in the French and Indian War.  George Washington or his assistant surveyed these lands in 1770, and Nathan was assigned Lot 1 that totaled 400 acres which were located at the forks of the Big Sandy River in what is now Wayne Co., WV.

 

Nathan may have never come here, or he may have come to take possession of his tract then gone home.  I find him in only one record, and that is a delinquent tax record for 1816.  His land may have been sold along with most others to pay the direct tax of 2 cents pre acre placed on landowners to pay for the War of 1812.

 

On the other hand, maybe Nathan accounts for some of the early CHAPMANS that I have not been able to place in any group.