Person:John Stodgill (2)

Information on John Stoghill

From "Sturgill's in America" website:

The name was spelled STOGDELL in the first Virginia records but in later Orange Co. records it is spelled STODGILL which was probably more nearly the correct spelling as this nabe still exists in England. After 1669 the name was not found again in VA records until 1699 when a John Sodgell still owned the land on Piscataway creek. It is reasonable to assume that the immigrant John was a young man in his early twenties when he came to VA in 1650 and thus born about 1625-30. He could still have been alive in 1699 but it is bellieved that the records from that time on refer to a son, also named John, who continmues to appear in the Rappahannock and Spottsylvania Co. records through 1730.

No record has been found to positively identify the wife of the immigrant John Stogdell-Stodgill but there are reasons to believe that she was a FRANKS. Virginia records show that families of this name did live in the same area, and in 1704 John Stodgell recorded a cattle mark for himself and for Daniel Franks to whom he had given a calf. As a calf represented considerable wealth at that time, this gift seems to indicate that there was some family connection. This conclusion is further supported by the fact that the name Daniel came into the Stodgill family in the next generation.

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