Gabriel and Marie Maupin along with one son, Gabriel, left from France to come to the USA in about 1699. Gabriel the father, was a French Hugenot (French Prodestant). They spent a short time in Amsterdamm and then sailed from England on a ship named the "Nasseau," December, 1699. (There was a difference in the calendar at that time.) The "Nasseau" was a ship of five hundred tons commanded by Captain Tragian. The voyage took from December until March, 1700, when several French Protestant refugees arrived in the York River aboard the "Nasseau". A second son, Daniel Maupin, was born March 25, 1700, in Williamsburg. Gabriel, the first, was naturalized in Williamsburg, Virginia, with four other Frenchmen, April 18, 1705. (This beginning paragraph was revised by Frank Gilbert Maupin in 2019)
    BUT Daniel obtained a land patent for land on Moorman's River in 1748, twenty three years BEFORE that event. The name however was represented in the Revolutionary army Daniel, William and Cornelius appearing on the pension list; these in all probablillity were brothers, sons of John Maupin, and grandsons of Daniel. Daniel entered more than fifteen hundred acres in the Whitehall neighborhood. He died in 1788. He and his wife Margaret had seven sons and three daughters, Thomas, Gabriel, Daniel, John, Margaret (the wife of Robert Miller), William, Zachariah, Jesse, Jane (the wife of Samuel Rea) and Mary (the wife of Matthew Mullins). Gabriel died in 1794. He seems to have lived in the vicinity of Free Union. His wifes name was Marah, and Thomas Bland, Daniel and Gabriel were the names of his sons. The truth is , the families of this stock were generally so numerous, containing hardly ever less than ten, and sometimes thirteen children, and the same names were so often repeated in the different households, that it would be well nigh impossible at this date to make out an accurate statement of their lines of descent. They frequently intermarried among themselves, and with the Harrises, Jarmans and Vias, and their descendants are widely scattered over the West, particularly in Kentucky and Missouri. They seem to have been in their generations an industerious, quiet, unambitious people. They have usually been attached to the Methodist Church, a Daniel Maupin being an original trustee of Austin's, or Bingham's, Meeting House, and another Daniel and his wife Hannah in 1834 giving the ground for Mount Moriah near Whitehall, which indeed for many years commonly went by the name of Maupin's Meeting House. Dr. Socrates Maupin, who was Professor of Cemistry first in Hampden-Sidney College, and afterwards in the University of Virginia, was one of this family. He died from injuries in consequence of a runaway accident in Lynchburg, in 1871. He was the son of Chapman W. Maupin, who was third in descent from the first Daniel, was appointed a magistrate of the County in 1835, and died in 1861. Addison, another son of Chapman W. , had his residence before the war on Carr's Hill, adjoining the University. J. Addison Maupin, of Richmond, author of the Maupin bill of recent notoriety, was Addison's son.

   Socrates Maupin:born in Albemarle county, Virginia, November 12, 1808, a descendant of Gabriel Maupin, who came to Virginia in the French Huguenot emigration in 1700; after preparatory studies, he matriculated at Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, from which institution he was graduated in 1828, and then entered the medical department of the University of Virginia, from which he was graduated in the class of 1830, after which he pursued a general literary and scientific course in the same university, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in 1833; his first position was as professor of ancient languages and mathematics at Hampden-Sidney College,which he filled for two years, from 1833 to 1835, and then became principal of Richmond Academy, serving as such until 1838; then established a private school which he conducted until 1853, a period of fifteen years, and he was also one of the founders of the Richmond Medical School, in 1838, serving therein in the capacity of professor of chemistry and later as dean; was appointed professor of chemistry and pharmacy in the University of Virginia, in 1853, and became chairman of the faculty the following year, continuing as such until his death, which occurred in Lynchburg, Virginia, October 19, 1871; he was an active member and promoter of the Virginia Historical Society.

   Rev. William Maupin was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, October 11, 1819, and died in Union County, Indiana in the fifty-fifth year of his age, June 27th , 1873, at five oclock P.M. He was converted to God in September, 1836; and was licensed to preach September 1st, 1849. He did usful work as a local preacher for two years, and was then admitted into the Indiana Conference, October 13, 1851, and appointed to the Azalia Circuit. After the organization of the South-eastern Conference, in 1852, he received the following apointments: In 1852-1853, Lexington Circuit; in 1854, New Washington; in 1855, Vienna; in 1856-1857 Paris; in 1858, Moorefield; in 1859-60
Vernon; in 1861; Milford; in 1864, Sardinia; in 1865-66, Hope; in 1867-68m Edinberg; in 1869, Milton; in 1870, Mt. Carmel; in 1871-72, Whitewater Mission, where he ended his arduous labors as minister and laborer in the Master's vineyard. He married to Miss Maletha Parish, in Fleming County, Kentucky, in the Fall of 1839. She died in the Spring of 1858, and was buried at Paris, Jennings County, in the Cave/Dixon Cemetery. In the Fall of the same year, he was married to Miss Rhoda J. Hall, the now surviving widow. As a man, brother Maupin possessed a sterling integrity. He was of the sanguine temperament, and whatever his decisions were, they were firm; whatever principle he defended with a sterling will. He was a true man. No man ever suffered loss or betraal by his infidelity. He was a strong advocate of every moral vitue, and especially of temperance. As a preacher, he had many excellences. In early life he had no advantage in regard to education; but after he had grown he acquired a taste for books and soon mastered many of the elements of a liberal education, which he used to a good in his ministry. The Bible was his principal study. This precious fountain of truth was his daily companion and from it he drew most largely in his sermons. He was emphatically a "Gospel preacher:" apt and precise in his Scripture quotations, doctrinal in stype, logical in his deductions, his sermons were forcible and convincing. He rather delighted polemics, and defended his views of Bible doctrins with a great deal of tenacity.

   He possessed many natural elements of true oratory, and he was eminently gifted in prayer, He loved the office and work of the ministry. He was an indefatigable laborer
in the vineyard of his Master, as the result of his labors will show, from the hard fields in which he tolied. We do not know the number he received into the Church in
twenty-two years, but we presume very nearly, or quite, two thousand souls. We would probably be safe in saying that brother Maupin has held more protracted meetings, and preached more revival sermons in the same time, than any other preacber in our Conference. Truly, he was "in labors abundant," as the sudden crash with which his physical nature gave way will attest. Returning to his home froma protracted effort, he is suddenly prostrated, while medical skill, united with the kind hand of family affection, brings no relief. Nature struggles, then falters, and finally yeilds: the servant of God lays down his armor, and takes up his crown. His disease was bronchitis, which began to develop itself after his nervous prostration from overwork, in January last. During the first part of his illness he was restive, and anxious
to be out and at work. But when informed that his end was nigh, he soon adjusted his mind and heart to the situation, calmly and deliberately arranged his temporal and domestic affairs, and, with unusual calmness met his fate. A wife and ten children remain to mourn.