Person:Daniel Stodgill (2)

Early Land Acquisition in Orange County, VA

Disposition of Land from Orange County, Virginia Records:

• Pg. 181-184. Indenture 25 July 1744 between Daniell Stodghill, Essex County, and Jane, his wife, and William Riddle of King and Queen County... sum of £16.16.0 .. deeds of lease and release by pattent 8 Sept. 1741.. and sold to David Williams.. and by William sold to Thomas Callaway.. land in County of Orange near great Mountains adj. the land of Revd. Hancock Dunbarr, Honorias Powell and James Stodghill. (signed) Daniell Stodghill (Seal), Jane (X) Stodghill (Seal). Witnesses: Robert Green, Gabl. Jones, Honorias Powell, James Porteus. Recorded Orange County 26 July 1744. [Orange County Virginia Deed Book 9, Dorman, pg. 21].

Informaton on Daniel Stodgill

From Sturgill's in America website:

Daniel Stodgill and his wife Jean Madison lived out their lives in Essex County VA but their descendants later migrated into Kentucky and further west where this branch of the Sturgill family continues to spell the name Stodghill or a similar variation. James Stodgill and his wife Ann Blackstone moved from Essex Co. to Orange Co. (area now Greene Co.) in 1732 after he inherited the land from Ambrose Madison. In the same year James bought 200 acres of adjoining land from Zacharia Taylor. At the time of his death in 1753 James owned an estate of 1200 acres in several adjoining tracts on the waters of Swift Run creek about seven miles west of the present town of Standardsville, VA. Ann Blackstone Stodgill, wife of James, died there in 1763 and within a few years of her passing all of the children of James and Ann had migrated elsewhere. Several attempts to locate the graves of James and Ann have been made but none of these were successful.

Source: http://www.thomjoy.us/Sturgill_Book/Sturgill_roots.html