Everhart CHAPPELLE b. 1732 Germany. Landed at Port of Philadelphia the year on  9 Sept 1751. Everhart's brother Jeremias Chappelle b. 1725 and Jean Pierre Chappelle b. ? a possibe relative arrived on 17 Sept 1753. All three on same ship 'Patience' under Capt. Huge Steel from Rotterdam and last from Cowes in England.

The Chappelle surname is found among surnames of Waldenians. A religious group founded by a wealthy merchant in Lyons, France by the name of Valdes in 1170.

Re: Friedrich Wollmershauser, member of the genealogical and Heraldic Society of Wurttemberg and Baden, Inc. of Southwest Germany. Dated Nov. 27, 1977. Reply to: Mrs. Phyllis Schappell, Hamburg,PA.

The name was originally Chapelle, and the families belonged to the group of the Waldenser, which was a religious sect founded in 1176 by a rich merchant of Lyon with the name of Walds (sic). The members of this sect were oppressed by the catholic church since 1184 and lived in the underground. In 1699, many members of this group have been driven out of France and came to Wurttemberg, where they had their own church until 1820. Some of them emigrated to America in the 1700s and 1800s. I have found the churchbook-entries for the Chapelle family as follows:

Charles Solomon CHAPELLE and Madeleine SIMON had the following children:

• Jeremie b. 25 Nov 1725 Arrived America on Ship 'Patience' 17 Sep 1753. Berks Co. PA

• Eberhard b.10 Mar 1727 Died in Infancy in Durrmenz,Wurttemburg, Germany

• Eberhart b. 22 Aug 1732 Arrived America on Ship 'Patience' 9 Sep 1751. Berks Co. PA