THOMAS STRIBLING probably came to America about the year 1710, and settled in Stafford County, Virginia. On July 11, 1727 there was granted to "Thomas Striblin of Stafford County" 1050 acres "on the middle grounds twixt Broad Run of Occaquan and Bull Run", which property was in that part of Stafford which shortly afterwards became Prince William County. Here he resided, in Dettinger Parish, about twenty years, when he removed to Frederick County. In 1752 "Thomas Stribling of Prince William, Gent." purchased 600 acres of land near Winchester. He died in 1755, his will being recorded March 25, 1755 in Prince William County, his sons Francis and Taliaferro qualifying as executors; but the will book was lost or destroyed during the Civil War. His estate in Frederick County was appraised May 3, 1755, and that in Prince William May 26, 1755. Shortly after 1715 he married Elizabeth Taliaferro, daughter of John Taliaferro of Essex, who represented that County in the House of Burgesses in 1699. . . . On account of the loss of his will, the names of all his children cannot be given with certainty. The three oldest are named in the will of Robert Taliaferro of Essex (dated Dec. 3, 1725; approved June 21, 1726), who mentions his sister Elizabeth, the wife of "Thomas Stripling", and her sons Francis, William, and Taliaterro "Stripling". Francis Stribling and Dorothy his wife were living in Prince William County in 1775. He inherited part of his father's estate in that County, but nothing further is known of him. William Stribling moved to Frederick County, and died there unmarried(?) in 1748, his father qualifying as his executor Feb. 7, 1748-9. Taliaferro Stribling also settled in Frederick County, as shown below.
That there were other children of Thomas and Elizabeth Stribling besides these three cannot be doubted. Thomas Stribling, the progenitor of the South Carolina branch of the family, was surely one of them. . . . On July 23, 1754 one Colclough Stribling was paid for traveling 45 miles to and from the Prince William Court as a witness. On Feb. 7, 1744 a tract of 119 acres was granted to Benjamin Stribling of Prince William County. A Samuel Stripling, aged thirty-three, enlisted in Caroline County in Capt. Mercer's Company on Dec 4, 1754, to fight the Indians. These must have been sons either of Thomas Stribling or of a brother who came to this country with him. That there was such a brother is indicated by the inventory of a William Stribling, deceased, recorded in Stafford County in 1765, the said William being either a brother or nephew of the first Thomas. I am convinced that Capt. Sigismund Stribling of the Revolutionary Army was a son of this Thomas. He is called "Uncle Sigismund" in several letters of the grand-children of Taliaferro Stribling, but could hardly have been the latter's son, as will be shown below. He was very old at the time of his death at "Hopewell" in 1816, having been born hardly later than 1740. He was a bachelor, and left his property to his name-sake, Sigismund Stribling, son of Francis Stribling. . . . Heitman's "Historical Register" of the Officers of the Continental Army gives the following record of his service: "2nd lieut 12th Va, Dec. 1776; 1st lieut, 10th May, 1777; regiment designated 8th Va., 14th Sep, 1778; Capt. ? 1781, and served to ?". The Revolutionary Records in the State Land Office show that on June 21, 1783, 4666-2/3 acres of land were granted to Capt. Sigismund Stribling for seven years service. On Oct. 23, 1807, 833 acres additional were granted to "Capt Segismond Stribling as Captain of the Continental line for one year and three months service more than seven years". There is also a warrant for 400 acres, Oct 22, 1784, to William Stribling as Sergeant of the Continental Line, who enlisted for the war and served through. This was doubtless the same William Stribling who was pensioned in Fauquier County in 1818 for Revolutionary Service. There was a Benjamin Stribling, who, with his wife, Ann Vawters, and several children (Thomas T., George, Willis, and others), moved from Fauquier County, Va., to Scott County, Kentucky, about 1795, and who has left numerous descendants in Tennessee, Indiana and other western states. This Benjamin and the last mentioned William were evidently brothers, and perhaps sons of Francis or Benjamin Stribling, sons of the original Thomas Stribling.
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