descendants of both sons, Daniel and Gabriel II. On the written history and the chart made by the two doctors NO surname is given for Marie (Mary). So how did these differences occur in the later publications? That was the puzzle I set out to solve. From the time of the death of Dr. Socrates in 1871 and the death of Dr. George Washington Opie Maupin in 1887, nothing had been published on the Maupin history. In June, 1901 there appeared in the VIRGINIA MAGAZINE published by the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, VA, in Volume VIII, beginning on page 216 an article entitled "The MAUPIN FAMILY" listing as the author only "Communicated". This information I had used on my lineage papers. It reads as follows: "Some years ago the writer commenced to trace his Maupin ancestry back to the French Huguenot who fled from France and settled in Virginia. For over two years he wrote to every Maupin that he could learn anything about or whose post office address he could obtain. All that he could find was that the family was of French origin and they were descendants of a Daniel Maupin. Finally after almost giving up in despair a copy of the Maupin family tree was obtained from Dr. Maupin of Portsmouth, VA, a member of the elder branch of the family. This tree gave a complete list of the great-grandchildren of Gabriel Maupin, and including whom they married, as well as the family tree of the elder branch of the family down to within the last generation. Gabriel Maupin, the French Exile, was a French Officer who incurred the displeasure of the King on account of his religion and fled the Kingdom in 1699, with his wife, and son Gabriel. Gabriel Maupin remained in England with his father-in-law, Earl Spencer, an English Nobleman, for several months during which time a second son, Daniel, was born in 1700. He emigrated to Virginia in the year 1700 and settled in Williamsburg. The will of Gabriel Maupin (1st) dated September 2, 1719, with a codicil dated December 1, 1719 was proven in General Court at the Capitol, April 20, 1720, his wife Mary being executrix. How long the latter survived her husband is not known, nor is it known when his daughter Mary was born or what became of her. It is not the intention of the writer to give the tree as was obtained but that as it relates to the younger branch, the descendants of Daniel Maupin and the following is an exact copy, except that part in brackets." END OF QUOTE. The Virginia Magazine is a highly respected publication but here now in 1901 appears facts about the Maupin family that were evidently unknown to the first researchers, Dr. Socrates and Dr. George Washington Opie Maupin who were years closer to the immigrant than the author "Communicated." The new facts in the article were: 1. That Gabriel was a French officer. 2. That he had left France with a wife and a son, Gabriel. 3. That his father-in-law was Earl Spencer, an English Nobleman, which meant that Mary's surname was Spencer. I wrote to the
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Virginia Historical Society in Richmond to see if they could give me the name of the person who was writing as "Communicated". They answered that due to the length of time lapsed there was no way they could tell me who was "Communicated." In 1907, another publication appeared that I had used in my lineage papers along with the Virginia Magazine article. It was "History and Genealogies: by William Harris Miller. Part V of the book is Maupin history beginning on page 388. He repeats some of the same information as given in the Virginia Magazine with this difference, Gabriel Maupin is called a "General" in the French Army. He repeats that Gabriel's wife was Marie Spencer, daughter of Earl Spencer, an English Nobleman. Mr. Miller's work had been done without the knowledge of Dr. Socrates' papers and concerned itself mostly with those families who had migrated to Kentucky. Another puzzle to solve - Gabriel was In 1920, Miss Nannie now a "General" in the F"rench Army! Maupin of Portsmouth, VA, a Gabriel II descendant, saw one of Mr. Miller's books and wrote to him. This was Mr. Miller's first contact with the Portsmouth descendants of Gabriel II, brother of Daniel. In 1976, I was privileged to be included in the Bi-Centennial Genealogical Seminar at the National Archives In Washington, D.C. We had the tops in each field as our instructors. Frank Smith, an English genealogist, was there and I asked him about the possibility of Gabriel's wife being of the Earl of Althrop (Spencer) family. He was very doubtful because he said that line had been so thoroughly researched. After that I started my search in earnest to find the answers to these differences. Noting that Mrs. Sherman and Ruby Maupin had published very similar stories in 1962 and 1969, I called Mrs. Sherman to ask if they had a common source. She was very ill but told me her information had come from a very early researcher, a EUGENE MAUPIN, of Clarence, MO, and that he had two daughters and gave me the name of one of them. She lived in north Missouri. I made a trip there and that opened up a whole new area of research. Both Mrs. Sherman and Ruby Maupin had used Eugene Maupin's unpublished material. This early researcher, EUGENE MAUPIN, was born in 1888 in Clarence, MO, the son of Samuel Rice Maupin. In 1911, he married Frankie Woods Maupin, daughter of Nathaniel Maupin. He began his study about 1919 - he died suddenly in 1944 before he could publish his history. In 1920, he and William Harris Miller got together and they kept up a lively correspondence, exchanging information and trying to get their records correct. Mr. Miller was so pleased to at last have access to the information given by Dr. Socrates Maupin and with Miss Nannie Maupin about the Gabriel II descendants. Another person joined these two researchers, Margaret Lewis Maupin, granddaughter of Dr. Socrates Maupin. She supplied them with many original writings and letters of her grandfather.
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