I know little of the Maupins per se except to know that some of my Harris family of colonial Louisa Co., VA, Albemarle Co., VA and later of Madison Co., KY [early days] intermarried with some of the Maupins. As I understand it, Maupin is a Huguenot name. There are references in the early volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers [a collection of abstracts of land grants/patents] of *the French refugees*. That refers to the group of Huguenots who migrated to the area known loosely as Manakin Town. (Ask your librarian whether any library near you has at least some of the eight volumes of Cavaliers and Pioneers--a very useful set of books for those of us studying colonial Virginians.) Suggestion: Do some google.com searches I tried this one--there are a good many links--but forget the one which wants to sell you *a family crest*--this is a sales pitch and may have no connection at all to your family. maupin family + genealaogy You might also try this: manakin town virginia Also, go to the Library of Virginia website for information about land patents and grants. Type in the surname you are seeking in the URL given below. The patents are arranged chronologically, the latest ones first. The colonial ones [and the Huguenots were EARLY in Virginia] are toward the last of the list. Dabney is also a Huguenot name; Jouett is another, and so. (My Harrises intermarried with persons with all three of those names--Maupin, Dabney, Jouett, and I suspect Chenault is among the Huguenot names.) Here is the Library of Virginia website for the land patents and grants. Rootsweb will *wrap* the URL in punctuation marks, so remove those dashes or parens before pasting into the search blank. _http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/_ (http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/) There is also a Maupin rootsweb--go to rootsweb.com and check the surname message boards. The name is sometimes spelled Mappin--tax collectors sometimes misspelled names!!! The Library of Virginia has not only the land patents/grants but also some chancery suits, which generally came later and dealt with cases involving deceased persons [as I understand it], and some tax records. Search those also. If you have not done a good deal of research of Virginia, order from the LDS Distribution Center at Salt Lake City the Research Outline for Virginia. Look for the word guides on _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) Then a drop-down menu will appear. Chose V for Virginia--and see what happens. I cannot tell you all the steps, but the website is quite friendly. (Just don't fill in the blanks which first confront you, or you will be there all night, and may be led astray--as submitters just put down any old thing--without documentation, most of the time. Example: I was looking for a person named Nathaniel Williams--an elusive brother of one of my Williams males. For his spouse, the submitter gave this info: Mrs. Nathaniel Williams!!! [Third grade performance, I must say.]) E.W.Wallace **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)