Bartholomew Stovall, born ca 1738 may in fact have been born ealier as he brought a petition against James Stafford in Halifax county court on 16 May 1755, only to have it dismissed upon the grounds that the defendant was not an inhabitant of the county. On 16 July, 1767 he was to be compensated for five days attendance as a witness. On 7 February 1771 he gave a bond of 20 pounds that he would appear as a witness on 6 April 1771 to testify in a criminal case against Andrew Wade. Later that year, on 15 May 1771, he bought 40 acres for 40 pounds from Richard Brown (Sr) only to sell it on 19 March 1772 to Joseph Morehead for 20 pounds, his wife Susannah, whose antecedents are not known, renouncing dower. On 17 March 1774 he had judgment for 5s against Paul Carrington. On 5 February 1778 he bought 150 acres on Hunting Creek for 20 pounds from Charles Lee, which land he and his wife Susannah sold on 26 September 1788 to Giles Thweatt for 120 pounds. On 18 May 1780 and 16 July 1784 he was again to receive payment for attendance at court. In 1786 he was surety for the marriage bonds of his younger brother and younger sister. An action brought by him as assignee of Robert Williamson against John Sizemore was discontinued at his request on 23 August 179. The last instrument recorded for him in Halifax county is a power of attorney given by him and his brother-in-law Valentine Dickerson of Warren co, Kentucky, to Lewis Dickerson of Jessamine co, Kentucky to receive from the executors of the estate of Thomas Stovall their interests in this estate; this power is dated 11 May 1804.
The tax records of Warren county, Kentucky show that Bartholmew Stovall was a resident from 1800 to his deeath, having purchased for 140 pounds a tract of 344 acres (taxed as 347 acres) from John and Nanny Curd and Price and Fanny Curd on 23 June 1800. He witnessed a conveyance on 28 August 1802 from Francis Blackwell to John Hart and, with his daughter Sarah, administered the estate of his son-in-law Elias Dobson on 18 January 1802. His own will, dated 25 March 1807, signed by mark, and proved April term, 1807 in Warren County, names his friend John Ray as executor. The 100 acres on which he lived was devised to his wife Susannah for her life, then to his son George, not yet of age (on the tax rolls she is credited with only 79 acres before her remarriage). He devised 100 acres ad the ferry on Big Barren River to sons Jesse and Thomas, 50 acres to son-in-law Thomas Oliver, and another 50 acres (on which Oliver lived) to him that had been sold by Drury Stovall to Oliver with his consent (this conveyance is not recorded). Personalty is given to his grandchildren and wards, the children of Sarah Dobson, his son-in-law Daniel Munro (Jr), to his daughters Nancy and Edy, to his son George, and to his grandson Bartholomew Stovall. The residue was to be sold at auction and the proceeds divided among his wife and children. An inventory, also showing sale prices, was made 19 September 1807. It is most regrettable that the court order books for the period 1804-15, which would have told us much more, have apparently not survived.
On 29 August 1811 the widow Susannah Stovall married Jeremiah Doughty, "both over 21", with Daniel Doughty as surety on the bond. On 15 September 1812 jeremiah Doughty and Edy Stovall sold 50 acres on Doughty's Sinking Creek for $120 to Preston H Doughty. There is no county tax list in 1814 and in 1815 no Stovalls appear. The will of Bartholomew is most helpful in grouping his chidren; for the reasons stated in Appendix 9 I have added to their number Marth (Patsey), fist wife of Sterling Crowder and long dead when the Will was made. _TMPLT:
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