MAUPIN.
Two brothers, Daniel and Gabriel Maupin, came to the
county just before the middle of the last century. From the
name it may be inferred they were of French extraction. The
idea has been entertained that they were French soldiers,
who crossed the ocean with Lafayette at the time of the Revolution;
but Daniel obtained a patent for land on Moorman's
River in 1748, twenty-seven years before that event. The
name however was represented in the Revolutionary army,
Daniel, William and Cornelius appearing on the pension list;
these in all probability were brothers, sons of John Maupin,
and grandsons of Daniel. Daniel entered more than fifteen
hundred acres in the Whitehall neighborhood. He died in
1788. He and his wife Margaret had seven sons and three
daughters, Thomas, Gabriel, Daniel, John, Margaret, the
wife of Robert Miller, William, Zachariah, Jesse, Jane, the
wife of Samuel Rea and Mary, the wife of Matthew Mullins.
Gabriel died in 1794. He seems to have lived in the vicinity
of Free Union. His wife's name was Marah, and Thomas,
Bland, Daniel and Gabriel were names of his sons. The
truth is, the families of this stock were generally so numerous,
containing hardly ever less than ten, and sometimes
thirteen children, and the same names were so often repeated
in the different households, that it would be well nigh impossible
at this date to make out an accurate statement of their
lines of descent. They frequently intermarried among themselves,
and with the Harrises, Jarmans and Vias, and their
descendants are widely scattered over the West, particularly
in Kentucky and Missouri. They seem to have been in their
generations an industrious, quiet, unambitious people. They
have usually been attached to the Methodist Church, a Daniel
Maupin being an original trustee of Austin's, or Bingham's,
Meeting House, and another Daniel and his wife Hannah in
1834 giving the ground for Mount Moriah near Whitehall,
which indeed for many years commonly went by the name of
Maupin's Meeting House.
Dr. Socrates Maupin, who was Professor of Chemistry first
in Hampden-Sidney College, and afterwards in the University
of Virginia, was one of this family. He died from injuries
in consequence of a runaway accident in Lynchburg,
in 1871. He was the son of Chapman W. Maupin, who was
third in descent from the first Daniel, was appointed a magistrate
of the county in 1835, and died in 1861. Addison, another
son of Chapman W., had his residence before the war on
Carr's Hill, adjoining the University. J. Addison Maupin,
of Richmond, author of the Maupin bill of recent notoriety,
was Addison's son.
