Person:Stokeley Towles (1)

Stokeley Towles was born in Accomack County on Virginia's Eastern Shore. He grew up on Chincoteaque Island. As a young man, he moved to Middlesex County where he married his first wife, Ann Vallott in 1708. She was the daughter of Claud Vallott alias Champagne and Ann Jenkinson. She was only 15 years old when they married. She was the mother of 13 of his children. In 1737, he bought land in Orange County (later Culpeper, now Madison) on the Robinson River by Thoroughfare Mountain. By 1748 his first wife had died and married the widow Jane Wharton, nee Sparks, by whom two more children (a second daughter Mary and a second son Henry, who are distinguished from their older siblings by the term "second of the name."

1. ↑ Will of Stokely Towles dated 15 JAN 1757, proved 15 DEC 1757 (Culpeper County, VA Will Book A, p. 113-114)
2. ↑ based on date of first marriage and age of his first wife, and birth date of his last child