CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Stith
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Stith

  In appointment of officials for newly established Campbell, the selection of
Richard Stith was appropriate as he had been assistant surveyor to his brother,
Buckner in Bedford, having received his commission for that office from the
president and professors of William and Mary College, "if he truly and
faithfully to the best of his knowledge and power discharged and executed his
trust, office and employment according to law and his commission."

  Colonel John Stith, first of the name in Virginia, took up grants of land in
Charles City county; was sheriff in 1691, and burgess from 1685-92 and 93; he
married Jane _____, and their son, Drury, the first clerk of Brunswick, married
Susanna Bathhurst, whose son, Colonel Drury Stith, was a Burgess from Brunswick
in 1748, married Elizabeth Buckner and their son, Richard, who had settled in
Bedford, as surveyor of Campbell in 1782, was appointed to run the dividing line
between the old and new counties. Richard was born in 1727, married in 1753
Lucy, the daughter of John and Ann Cocke-Hall, a grand-daughter of Robert and
Anne Cocke-Bolling, Robert Boiling having been son of Colonel Robert of Kippax,
Prince George county, and his second wife Anne, the daughter of Colonel John
Stith of Charles City.

  The county surveys made by Richard Stith are preserved in the clerk's office
at the court house. Stith acquired a large estate in land. He began writing his
will, disposing of it, when he was 54- years old, twenty years before his death,
and as time passed added four codicils to the original instrument, covering
several pages in the records. It is considered the best prepared will at the
clerk's office. His whole estate was left to his wife, to revert to his
children, the portion for each one being specified. In the 3rd codicil he says
"I have left them in comfortable circumstances," in the 4th he devised his still
and its appurtenances to his widow and son Richard; he first appointed Edmund
Winston, John Fitz Patrick and Charles Cobbs his executors; ten years later he
added his wife's name to this list, as executrix. His land embraced 115O acres
including Mt. Hermon on Jumping run, 115O acres on Stony fork of Goose creek
including Buck mountain, 146O acres both sides of Molley's creek; 12OO acres on
the branches of Falling river; 40O acres near the head of Little Falling river
on Mulberry creek, including the Narrow Passage branch; the land on Buzzard
branch along the island road leading toward the old mill; land south side of
Goose creek opposite Flat Top mountain, including Harpeth and Shalum; land at
the mouth of Lick creek and 1O54 acres on Lick creek, including the seat Old
Jacob and Nan; land on branches of Enoch's creek (according to a patent of
1787); part of Stony Fork tract. If Richard, Jr., was not satisfied with his
portion he was to take land beginning at the mouth of Pompey's branch, up the
same, passing by the mouth of Saucer towards Mr. West's mill. To his son-in-law,
Drury Hardaway, was devised 1O5O acres on Lawson's creek, which was not
altogether a gift, as he had made compensation. To Luke Morris Valentine was
given 80 acres, (which Charles Talbot, Sr., "acknowledged,") in Campbell on
Falling river, including the little old plantation on Lick creek, with mouth of
the creek.

Children of Richard Stith:—Joseph m., 1782, Nancy Cocke; —Benjamin . . .;Thomas
m., 1792, Rhoda Jones;—John m. Lucy Ann Hardaway;—Richard, Jr.;—Anne m. Drury
Hardaway;—Elizabeth m. Jesse Moorman;—Lucy m. William Jordan of Bedford
county;—Patsy m. David J. Saun-ders of Buckingham;—Catherine m., 1792, James
Jones;—William m., 1796, Nancy Jones; two brothers and a sister marrying three
members of the Jones family.


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