Taliaferro Stribling, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Taliaferro Stribling, was born in Stafford County about 1723. In early manhood he moved with his father to Frederick County, and at the latter's death inherited the 600 acre plantation referred to above. This he "and Elizabeth his wife" sold Nov. 7, 1771, the deed stating that the property had been willed to him by his father Thomas Stribling. On Oct. 16, 1771 he purchased the estate called "Hopewell", which descended to his son Francis. His will, made Oct. 4, 1774, was recorded in the Frederick court Dec. 7, 1774. His personal estate, including 30 negroes, was appraised April 24, 1775 at ??1569. I have not been able to determine accurately the maiden name of his wife Elizabeth. The uniform tradition in the family has been that this Stribling, name unknown, married a Mary Taliaferro of Gloucester County, sister of the Elizabeth Taliaferro who married Edward Snickers of Frederick. . . . This could not have been the case. The fact that his own name was Taliaferro and that his mother was Elizabeth Taliaferro is sufficient ground for the tradition. And his wife was certainly named Elizabeth, as shown by the deed referred to above. I conjecture that her name was Elizabeth Wright, for the following reasons. Two of their grand-children, Elizabeth Stribling Wright Milton and Dr. Matthew Wright Stribling, bore that name, and I know of no other source from which it could have come. Then there is on record in Prince William County, dated March 29, 1742, the will of one Francis Wright, son of John Wright of that County, mentioning his wife Anne, and three young daughters, names not given. Sigismund Massey of Stafford County, probably a relative of the Striblings, was executor of the will. A short while after the death of Francis Wright, Thomas Stribling, Sr., was appointed guardian of these children. If Taliaferro Stribling had, about 1755, married one of these daughters, named Elizabeth, with whom he must have been well acquainted, all the facts in the case would be explained, as well as the origin of the name of his only daughter Anne Milton.
Taliaferro and Elizabeth Stribling had at least six children. In his will he leaves to his son Francis Stribling "the land whereon I live on condition he pay my son Taliaferro 100?? as soon as he become 21 years of age". After the payment of his just debts, the rest of his estate was to be divided equally among "my six children-Francis, Taliaferro, Ann, Thomas, William and John". From the wording of this will I conclude that Francis, at that time only eighteen years of age, was the oldest child; that Taliaferro was the second; that the other children are named in the order of their ages, this fact being supported by the dates of their marriages and other points to be mentioned later; that they were all, therefore, under age at the time; that those six were all of his children; and that his wife had died between the years 1771 and 1774, as she is not mentioned in the will. . . . He died Oct. 5, 1774, and was buried at "Hopewell".
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