This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Chapman, Van Loon(Lieu),Gillett, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/1750.1 Message Board Post: William Henry Chapman, Sparta Twp., Michigan, was a half brother of my great-grandfather Tracy Chapman. After William's mother Betsy Blake died, the father Harlow remarried to Catherine Van Loon (Lieu). When Harlow died of TB, the widow Catherine took her step children William H, and Ann Eliza, as well as her own three children, Lois, Tracy and Rhoda into the Shakers. Catherine died of TB while at the Shaker group at Groveland, NY, when Tracy was five years old. Eventually, I believe that all of the children left the Shakers. Harlow was the son of Thomas Chapman and Sarah Gillette, married at Roxbury, CT. in l800. Sons Harlow, Curtis and Sheldon were baptised there in 1807. Believe there was at least one more child-female. The family are believed to have moved to NY before 1813.Do not know Thomas's parents, and have looked for years.