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Antietam Bed and Breakfast, Jacob Rohrbach Inn, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Since 1804
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I have traced the history of our old house through deeds and probate court records of Washington County back to an 1804 deed from Joseph Chapline II to Jane Ferguson. The information given below on the Chapline family is taken from "The History of Sharpsburg" by Lee Barron. The author can be found each weekend at Barron's C&O Canal Museum and Country Store, Snyder's Landing, Sharpsburg.
Isaac Chapline was born in England in 1585, he became a Captain in the Royal Navy. In 1606 he married Mary Calvert, daughter of Leonard Calvert. (the founding family of Maryland) In 1622 Isaac and Mary immigrated to America settling in what is now Southern Maryland on the Patuxent River near Cedar Branch.
By the early 1700's the population was already shifting to the west and there was great interest in settling the land of the great valley beyond the Blue Ridge. So in 1730, William Chapline, then living along the Potomac just south of present day Washington, D.C., moved westward settling on 465 acres just 4 miles upstream from Shepherdstown, Virginia.
