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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1686 - 1761 (75 years)
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| Name |
Davis STOCKTON |
| Born |
1686 |
Meath, Ireland  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
LRR5-WLK |
| Residence |
1737 [2] |
| Ivy Creek, Goochland County, Virginia, British Colonial America |
| Residence |
1748 [2] |
| Albemarle, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America |
| _UID |
412CD5C3B05B4344870155252DBD38B77264 |
| Died |
1761 |
Amherst, Albermarle County, Virginia [1] |
| Buried |
1761 |
Albemarle, Virginia, British Colonial America [2] |
| Person ID |
I29022 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Family 1 |
Sarah (Anthony) GUDYLOUCH, b. 1690, North Ireland , d. 1736, Albermarle, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 46 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1706 |
Ablemarle Co, . Virginia |
| Children |
| | 1. Richard STOCKTON, b. 1710, Burlington County, New Jersey , d. 21 Jul 1775, Albemarle County, Virginia (Age 65 years) |
| | 2. Martha Anne STOCKTON, b. 1712, d. 1816, Near Gaffney, South Carolina (Age 104 years) |
| | 3. Thomas STOCKTON, b. 1714, d. Bef 11 Apr 1783, Albemarle County, Virginia (Age 69 years) |
| | 4. Elizabeth Betsy STOCKTON, b. 1715, England Or Goochland, Albemarle, VIR , d. 30 Oct 1797, Whiteside Station, Rutherford County, North Carolina (Age 82 years) |
| | 5. William STOCKTON, b. 1718, d. Abt 1796, Washington County, Tennessee (Age 78 years) |
| | 6. Samuel STOCKTON, b. 1720, d. Bef Oct 1807, Rutherford County, North Carolina (Age 87 years) |
| | 7. Hannah STOCKTON, b. Aft 1726, England , d. Bef 24 Dec 1793, Union, South Carolina (Age ~ 66 years) |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F9840 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- 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
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| Sources |
- [S323] Broderbund WFT Vol. 1 Ed. 1 Tree #1337; Date of import 22 March 1997.
- [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Davis STOCKTON, person ID LRR5-WLK. (Reliability: 3).
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