The Starke Family; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 4, No. 4 Transcribed by Kathy Merrill for the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** The Starke Family William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, (Apr., 1896), pp. 270-272. It appears from the last issue of the Quarterly that 1, Dr. Richard Starke, or Stark, of York county, had three sons 2, William 3, Richard 4, James. 2. WILLIAM STARK'S name appears in the records of York county as a justice till 1732, after which a man of hte same name appears in the records of Prince George county. I think it reasonable to suppose they were the same person. his migration may have been due to a second marriage. According to a memorandum of Robert Bolling, Jr., in an old "collection of Virginia laws", William Stark married Mary Bolling, daughter of Robert and Anne Bolling. in 1727. Bristol parish register shows that she was born January 28, 1708. William Stark's will was dated in 1755 (Hen. Stats.), and the family record shows that he had issue: 5, Rebecca married 1st Dr. John Ravenscroft (see advrt. in Virginia Gazette, December 8, 1774), and had issue John Ravenscroft, M.D., and Jane, who married Daniel Fisher; married 2dly George McMurdo, and had issue Charles J. McMurdo, born 1771, and Thos. Bolling McMurdo, born 1773. 6. Bolling, born September 20, Page 271. 1733; 7, Robert; 8, William; 9, Richard; 10, Elizabeth married Robert Walker. Issue: Robert, M.D., died 1820, no issue; Richard, died 1833, married Mrs. Epes; David, M.D., died 1820, married Dorothea Grammer; Captain Bolling died 1812; Freeman went west; Starke died young; Louisa married Thomas Withers, Martha married Richard Barton; Mary married Dr. R. B. Starke, her third husband; Clara born July 9, 1780, died March 29, 1857, married Philip Haxall, July 20, 1801. 6. BOLLING STARK served in many high offices. He resided in Prince George and Dinwiddie counties, and in Norfolk city. Member of convention of 1775, of the State council and State auditor. He died in 1788. Many of his letters are published in the Calendar of State Papers, in one of which he speaks of a wife and daughters, but I have not traced them. 8. WILLIAM. In 1766 Alexander Bolling, William Allen, and William Daingerfield were appointed trustees for the sale of a plantation containing 350 acres in Bristol parish, Prince George county, called "Broadway's", devised to said William Stark and his heirs by his father's will (Hen. Stats. Vol. VIII., p. 289). He kept a drugstore in Petersburg in 1774 (Virginia Gazette). He married Mary Bassett Daingerfield, and had issue: 11, Edwin, born 1768, died July 1, 1830; married Mary Bacon (the widow of Vaughan), who died October 27, 1833, aged 65, no issue; 12, William, M.D., unmarried; 13, Bolling, M.D., unmarried; funeral July 10, 1810; 14, Mary Bassett married Col. Newsom, went west; 15, Anne, unmarried; 16, Robert Bolling; 17, Daingerfield. 16. ROBERT BOLLING, M.D., born 1781; died March 2, 1839; married 1st April 12, 1812, Mattie T. Lindsay; died November 2, 1826, aged 35. Issue: 18, Anne H., married Capt. Robert Cunningham, U.S.N.; 19, Mattie Lindsay married Admiral Charles H. Poor; 20, Mary Bassett married Admiral Stephen C. Rowan; 21, Powhatan Bolling, M.D., married Betty Organ, no issue; 22, Emily Lomax married Lt. John Ring, U.S.N.; married 2ndly his first cousin, widow of E. W. Rootes, and daughter of Robert Walker and Elizabeth Starke, (she had married 1st John Bell; 2d E. W. Rootes; 3d Dr. R. B. Stark), no issue. See Harper's Magazine, April, 1885). 17. DAINGERFIELD STARK, lawyer, born 1779, died 1825, married December 21, 1804, Eliza- beth Westwood Moseley, daughter of Col. Edward Hack Moseley died January 27, 1856, aged 72 years. Issue: 23, William Edward, Captain U.S.M.C., married Elizabeth Page 272. Wilson; 24, Martha Ann, died young; 25, Burwell Bassett, died young; 26, Mary Bassett married S. A. McCreery, Surgeon U.S.N.; 27, Elizabeth Daingerfield married W. D. Bagnall; 27, Bolling; 29, Hannah Bassett married Thomas B. Whiting. 9. RICHARD. I think he was the "author of Starke's Justice of the Peace". At least, none answers the conditions so well. The Virginia Gazette for July 20, 1772, announced the death of Richard Starke, "attorney at law and clerk to two committees of the House of Burgesses". "He left a numerous and distressed family", says the preface to the book. He had issue: 30, William A. Starke, whose death at 17, from exposure in the war, was announced in the Virginia Gazette. Heitman has Richard Starke, who served as lieutenant through the war in the Continental army Sixth Virginia. He left two daughters, Harriet and Maria who had a warrant for land on accont of military services. Heitman has William Starke, who served as lieutenant in the Seventh Virginia Continental regiment from December 26, 1776. In 1783 Burwell Starke, of Dinwiddie county, assigns to his brother Lewis his right to land due to his brother William Starke, deceased, as lieutenant in Col. George Baylor's regiment of horse. (Papers in land office). Married Mr. William Starke, of Dinwiddie county to Miss Sukey Edwards, of Brunswick county. Virginia Gazette, Nov. 6, 1779. Molly Starke, of Williamsburg, perhaps a daughter of Richard Starke, the lawyer, married in 1774, John King, of Hampton. Virginia Gazette. Elizabeth Bellfield (born 1732), married Mr. Starke, of Southampton county. (Descendants of Roger Jones.) Burwell and Bellfield Starke were living in Dinwiddie county in 1789. (Assessors books). (To be continued).