Person:Mary Stafford (42)

See Mary Stafford's grave marker at FindAGrave

Mary was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Manor Stafford. William was born about 1689, in Wise County, Virginia, and died 1765, in New Hanover County, North Carolina, where his will listed his daughters, Mary May, Ann Forbes, Prudence Stone, and Eliza Stafford, as well as his wife, Elizbeth, and sons: Richard, William, John, Samuel, and Seth Stafford.

John May entered Beaufort County, North Carolina, and proved his (land) rights 10 April 1745, for four persons, including himself and three sons. He received a Granville Grant in 1756, for 480 acres in Beaufort County, North Carolina, on SS of Fox Branch running across said branch. In the 1762, Pitt County, North Carolina, Tax List, they are listed together: John, Benjamin, and James May. John May's will was proven in 1764, in Pitt County, naming his wife, Mary, as executrix, and his son, Benjamin, as executor. There is also a deed (Deed Book M, pp. 59), 3 March 1788, in Pitt County, North Carolina, executed in the final disposition of land formerly owned by John May, deceased, apparently signed in St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort District (now Hampton County), South Carolina, by his surviving daughters and their husbands, and witnessed by their mother and uncle.

After John's death, Mary moved with her brothers and her daughters to Beaufort District, South Carolina, and took a second husband, David (James) Mullett (Mallette) sometime before 1771.