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The following is edited from my father's book: A Branch Of The Sturgill Family, Volume I Decendants of Francis Sturgill Sr. & Rebecca Hash. Barring transcription errors, the wording is his - THS

The Estate of James Stodgill & Ann Blackstone

The tracts of land shown in the following deeds were all adjoining or nearly so. This land was all part of an original grant to the Madison family and has been identifed as the estate of James Stodgill. Most of these deeds are referred to as a "part of a tract of 1200 acres" indicating that this was the total amount of land included in the estate. the first three deeds, which are recorded in Spottsylvcania Co., account for 800 acres and it is assumed that James recieved an additional 400 acres from the estate of John Madison, no record of this was found. When this lkand was sold the wording of the deeds makes it clear that the sellers had recieved the land without payment - that they had inherited it - and each gauranteed their right to sell it without contest. This indicates that some time before his death in 1753 james had divided his land among his children but never gave them written deeds for it or if so the deeds were never recorded.

#
 
YEAR
 
         FROM                   TO    
ACRES
  
 
1. 1732Zacharia Taylor to James Stodghill 200
2. 1734Will of Ambrose Madison to James Stodghill 400
3. 1741Thomas Calloway to JAmes Stodghill 200
  
          ORANGE  COUNTY  DEEDS
4. 1753Ambrose Stodgill to brother James Stodgill, gift 66
5. 1763James & Ann Stodgill to (son) Ambrose Stodgill 67(same as #4)
6. 1753Ambrose & Sarah Stodgill to brother John, gift 66*
7. 1763John & Eliz. Stodgill to John Shackleford 65(same as #6)
8. 1763William & Mary Herring to (brother) James Stodgill 125*
9. 1758Ambrose & Sarah Stodgill to James Powell 200(same as #3)
10.1763Ambrose & Sarah Stodgill to Honorias Powell 138*
11.1768James and Ann Stodgill to Samuel Ham 50*
12.1770James and Ann Stodgill to James Madey 76
13.1770James Madey to James Stodgill 28
14.1771James & Ann Stodgill to John Jones. Described as land Jones "then lived on". (son-in-law of James) 76
15.1771James & Ann Stodgill to John Jones. Described as land Jones "then lived on". (Part of #8) 120
16.1769John & Elizabeth Stodghill to John Shackleford This deed included 250a John bought from Richard Winslow in 1760. 275
17.1784John & Elizabeth Stodghill to Thomas Davis 200* (same as#1)
18.1818John & Elizabeth Stodghill to Isacc Davis. This deed made from Greenbrier Co. VA which became Morgan Co. WV. 200*


NOTE: All the above deeds gave acreage as "more or less", indicating that no exact survewy had been made before the land was sold. These deeds show that Ambrose sold 470a from the original estate (*) of James Stodgill (Sr), Mary sold 125a, James sold 170a, making a total of 1190a.

The deeds show that the value of the land sold by these four was nearly equal although the acreage was not.

Joel Stodgill, the youngest son of James Sr., was still a minor when his mother, Ann Blackstone Stodgill, died in 1763. He did not share in the division of the land but tax records show that James Sr. owned slaves and some were apparently given to Joel as his share. Joel took slaves with him when he moved to Georgia in 1790.

Elizabeth, daughter of James Sr., also received no land from the estate. She married widower John Hash shortly after the death of her mother (1763) and they owned slaves when they settled in grayson Co. VA about 1765. (then Montgomery Co.)
Inventory of the Estate of James Stodgill
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