Anne STOCKTON

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Family/Spouse: Daniel LATTIMORE. Daniel was born in Unknown; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Info. from "Davis Stockton of Virginia", by Johnson & Smith. Davis married his first cousin.

Will of Samuel Stockton
Rutherford County, North Carolina
Will Book B, pp. 211-212

In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Stockton of the County of Rutherford
& State of North Carolina Being now Old & infirm but of perfect mind &
memory thanks be given unto God Calling to mind the mortality of my
Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men to die Do make & ordain this my
last will & testament That is to say principally & first I give & recomend my soul into
the hand of almighty God that gave it & my Body I recommend to the Earth to be
Buried in a decent Christian burial at the descretion of my Executors Hoping at the
Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God & as touching
such worldy Estate where with it hath pleasd God to bless me in this life. I Give Devise & Dispose of the same in the following manner & form First I give & bequeath to my
Beloved Wife Prudence Stockton the Plantation on which I now live & two Cows & Calves & all my household furniture, by her peacibly & quietly to be Possessed & enjoyed during her natural life To Davis Stockton my eldist Son I give & bequeath all my Lands & tenaments at the death of his Mother by him to be Enjoyed quietly & peacibly To my Only Daughter Ann Lattimore I give & bequeath twenty Dollars which must be made by the Sale of my moveable property, & the balance of the Moneys arising from the Sale of all the moveable property wherewith I am possessed to be Divided as follows Viz One third to my son Davis Stockton & One third to my Daughter Ann Lattimoore & the other third to be Equally divided between my two
Grand Sons Samuel Stockton & Thomas Jefferson Sockton & likewise the moveable
Property which I have given & bequeathed to my Bleoved Wife Prudence Stockton
during her natural life to be at her death sold & the moneys thence arising to be
Divided betwen said Davis Stockton, Ann Lattimore, Saml. Stockton and
Thomas Jefferson Stockton, in the same manner as the balance of the moneys
above mentiond I likewise constitute make and ordain my Trusty Friends
Davis Sockton, Danl. Lattimore & my beloved wife Prudence Stockton, Executors to
this my last will & I do hereby utterly Disallow Revoke & Disanull all & every
other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests & Executors by me in any
wise before made willed & Bequeathed Rattifying & Confirming this & no other
to be my last will & Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal the Twentyhth day of September In the Year of our Lord one
thousand Eight hundred & Seven

Samuel Stockton (seal)

Signed Sealed published pronounced
& declard by Said Samuel Stockton
as his last will & Testament I his presence
& in the presence of each other have
hereunto subscribed oun ames [our names]
S A Ross ( Jurat.
James Whitesides
Anna Stockton

Samuel married Prudence TORBET. Prudence and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1737; Ivy Creek, Goochland County, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Residence: 1748; Albemarle, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America

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The first documented information on the Stockons is a land deed of 1739 in Goochland County, VA which later became Albemarle County. Davis Stockton's will was probated in 1762. Date of death from "Albemarle County in Virginia", by Rev. Edgar Woods. It is known that, on 12 March 1739, Davis was in Goochland (Albemarle) County, Virginia, where he obtained a grant of 400 acres adjoining land of Adam Godylouch. (This surname is spelled in numerous ways, including Goudylock.)

Since we now know through DNA testing that Davis and Robert Stockton cannot be related to Richard's line, it also means the Judges Thomas and John in Ireland c1660 can't be the parent either. Both of them are from London. Irish records were burned in the 1921 uprising, so we don't have much to go on.

Between the Robert Stockton descendants combing PA records, and Richard
Stockton descendants doing the same in New England, the only "proof"
we've found is that there is NO record for Davis Stockton before the 1739
Goochland Co., VA land patent. His brother Robert is on the 1732 Lancaster PA Tax list, but no Davis. That's the brick wall.

Per "Echos of Their Voices" by Carl R. Baldwin - British rule had become too burdensome for them (Davis & Sarah) as they reached maturity. By 1710 they were living in Chester County, PA. Stockton began to prosper as a farmer, although sites in eastern Pennsylvania for an expanding family were becoming difficult to find. He sold out in Chester County and by 1732 was a resident of Pennsylvania's lancaster County. There he met Michael Woods, like himself an immigrant from North Ireland. They became fast friends. During their stay in William Penn's colony, Davis and Sarah had seven children - Richard, Ann, Thomas, Hannah, William, Elizabeth and Samuel. Woods heard of virgin land being opened for settlement in Virginia's newly created county of Goochland. he went there to investigate in 1737m, entering Goochland County from the west, through a gentle defile in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Both the pass and the creek that traversed it became known as Woods's Gap. Before returning to Pennsylvania to fetch his family, Woods obtained title to acreage at the confluence of Woods's Gap and the Mechum Riber, and at the headwaters of Ivy Creek. The Stocktons, and probably other families, joined Woods when he journed back to Goochland County to work his property in 1739. After crossing through Woods's Gap, the Woods family and the Stockton's separated, Woods continuing straight ahead to the land he had staked out. Stockton bore to the left and found his virgin soil along the lower stretches of Ivy Creek, new the modern town of Batesville. For many years residents of the area wondered about the large initials - "D.S." - carved in a tree near Woods's Gap. They apparently were made by the sentimental Stockton to mark the point of parting. In 1739, Stockton obtained title to 400 acres on Ivy Creek and two years later, obviously with his older children in mind, he acquired 800 more at the north and south forks of Mechum Riber. Goochland County was broken up in 1744. The Woods and Stockton families found themselves living in the newly formed Albemarle County. No Stocktons remain in Albemarle, but they left their name on the land. The north fork of Mechum's River is still called Stockton's Creek. In early times the south fork, on which the Stockton's operated the first mill in that part of Virginia, was called Stockton's Mill Creek. Once a defile in the mountains now know as Israel's Gap was called Stockton's Thoroughfare.

Davis Stockton's estate was inventoried on January 2, 1762 Albermarle Co., Virgina as follows:
To 9 hogs, a horse and 4 cattle,
to a bed and furniture and a tea chest,
to a riding coat and a waist coat, to pewter, 2 iron potts,
to knives and forks,
to a parcell of wooden ware,
to two books, to a cow sold, to a churn, to one pound weight of pearls, to a bell and a barrel, to iron ware, to a mare and a colt.
Total 36 pounds 0 shillings 9 pence
William Grayson, James Coffey, Charles Lambert

Davis married Sarah (Anthony) GUDYLOUCH about 1706 in Ablemarle Co, . Virginia. Sarah (daughter of William GUDYLOUCH and Ann DUNCAN) was born in 1690 in North Ireland; died in 1736 in Albermarle, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sarah's surname is presently unconfirmed. On 10 Mar., 1756, Sarah patented 397a. of land on both sides of the Virgin Spring Branch of Mechum River, Albemarle Co., VA. Patent Book #34, 1756-1762, Pg. 19.

J. Kathleen Moore ([email protected]) lists firm birth years for the children born of this marriage. These are the dates listed here, though other sources show dates at variance with these. Ms. Moore also says that all children were born prior to Davis and Sarah's arrival in America, the first three in Ireland, and the last four in England. If these dates and places are factual, and if Sarah's maiden name was Gudylouch (or some variant thereof), it suggests that Davis Stockton and the Gudylouch family came to America together. This is because Adam Gudylouch become Davis's son-in-law by marrying his daughter Hannah.

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William married Ann DUNCAN in 1681 in Albemarle County, Virginia. Ann was born in 1660 in Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1713 in Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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