Abrahm and Dorothy Moss Stapp are my 7g grandparents. Do you have anything previous to them? I have to Dorothy's great grandparents Richard and Ann Sherratt Moss. Would love to hear from you.......... PH DePoy Manassas VA -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Winifred K Miller" <[email protected]> > In the list of numbers of people taken in Orange County by Thomas Barbour Census > 1782 I know the name Staff was really Stapp. Joshua Stapp Senior, Joshua Stapp, > Achilles Stapp and Thomas Stapp. > Abraham Stapp was in VA c 1685 when he married Dorothy Moss. > > John Wilhite is listed as 8 in family in 1782 in Orange County. Could that be > John, Lucy Stapp, his wife and some of the following children, Tobias, Jennie, > Catherine, Martitia, Mourning, John, Achilles, Jesse M, Lewis, Joshua, Barbara. > I have a Margaret Monon also. Some of these could have been married in VA. I > know Tobias married in Woodford County 1801 to Nancy Margaret Ellis and John > signed for his young son Achilles to marry in Woodford County. > > John, the son of John W and Lucy, married a Jane Welch, Mourning married a John > Collins, Achillies married Polly Hall in Woodford County, Jesse married a > Catherine Stone, Jennie married a Handcock, Lewis married at least three times. > Earley, Patsy Taylor and Mary Sheets, Martisha married a Gerarous Jarred Ryker, > Joshua married Mary Polly Sparks, Barbara a Hamilton, Margaret Monon married > Alexander Guthrie Jr. and Catherine a John West. > Young John, Mourning Anna, Achillies, Jesse M were born before 1782 and the > others after 1782. Last children to my knowledge born by 1790. > > We know John Wilhite married into a family that had been in VA way before the > Germanna Group as Abraham Stapp Senior married c 1648 to Dorothy North and died > 1678 in Old Rappahannock County, VA. > It is my Wilhite/Willhoite Quest mixed with Stapp, Towles,, Coffey, Durham etc. > on one side of the family that keeps me searching. > Slaughter, Hord, Miller on the other side. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

My maiden name was Stapperfenne. I have always heard that many people of the past who came to this country shortened it to Stapp. It is of German descent. Donna