So it appears that MY Mary Towles was number 2 out of wife number 2. I have a different line to research--Jane Sparks instead of Ms Vallott. Shouldn't be too hard since I am already descended from that Sparks line. Of course I do not see Jane in my line of Sparks. Anyone know her ancestry? Tom the bewildered ----- Original Message ----- From: "sequoia" <sequoia@pacbell.net> To: <VACULPEP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 7:15 AM Subject: [VACULPEP] Stokeley Towles > Paul, this should answer all your questions, and then some. It was included in the packet sent to me by Lisa. It was written by William B. Newman, researcher of the Towles family, sometime around 1930. Besides a general description of Stokeley, he is trying to articulate all of the convoluted connections in the wills, the suit, and the Clark v. Towles settlement. William was also a descendant of Mary Towles Clark. Tom, it is still my intention to transcribe the settlement document that I have and send that along, but it may take a while. It's quite a bit longer than the original will. > > Rick Waggener > > Stokeley Towles by William B. Newman > > Stokeley Towles of Accomac County, Va., was born at Towles Point, Lancaster County, Va., about 1690. On October 21, 1708, he married Ann (born July 31, 1693) daughter of Claude Vallett, French Huguenot, and lived until 1750 at Jamaica, Middlesex County, Va., then moved to what is now Madison County, Va. (near Locustdale), then in Orange but cut off into Culpeper in 1750 and into Madison in 1793. > > In 1750 he married a wealthy widow (30 years old) Jane (Sparks) Wharton. This wife was the daughter of John and Mary Sparks. Her mother married a second husband, Col. Spencer Bobo. Jane's brother Thomas married Stokeley Towles' daughter, Mary (the first) and her sister was the mother of the two Sims brothers who married daughters of her stepson Joseph Towles. Her daughter Mary Towles (the second) married John Clark (my ancestor), her daughter Sarah Wharton married Wm. Clark, John's brother, her husband's granddaughter, Mary Marston, married James, another brother of John Clark, her niece Ann Haynes married Joseph Clark, another brother of John's, and Reuben, another brother of John's married Bathsheba Sampton, whose mother was a Sims. Reuben Clark was the father of Ann, mother of Eli Sims Shorter, the early Georgia jurist, and of General Reuben Clark Shorter, father of John Gill Shorter and ancestor of the Roquemores, Shorters and McKleroys of Barbour County, Lomaxes of Mont! > gomery, and of Reuben F. Kolb. All this is contained in the partition suit of Clark v. Clark (1820) in Madison County, Va., and Saunder's Leading Men of Alabama. > > There are many signatures of Stokeley Towles in existence. He spelled his name Stokeley, Stokley, Stockley and many other ways. One of his sons-in-law was Hugh Marston, whose name is usually found on the records as Mastin. > > The foregoing may hold to explain Stokeley Towles' will and those of his two sons named Henry. Henry the second and a half brother, John Wharton, who was the father of the Whartons named in the decree. John Wharton died in Nashville, Tenn., in 1817 and his son Jesse sat in the United States Senate with Andrew Jackson. Oliver and Stokeley, sons of Stokeley, are not represented by descendants in the Chancery decree. Oliver died in Carolina in 1770, sine prole. Stokeley in 1800 in Culpeper, but apparently the latter had no surviving issue in 1845, or they would have known. > > All the children of John Clark and Mary Towles (except Mary who married Thomas Wills) are named in the will of Henry Towles, second. Mary Newman, was my grandmother. Her husband Reuben Newman was a great-grandson of Vivian Daniels, whose sister, Margaret , married John Towles, son of Stokeley, and was the mother of Col. Oliver Towles of the Revolution (the great lawyer) and of Ann Towles, who married John Terrill (whose daughter Elizabeth married Nathaniel Welch, whose daughter Malinda married Uriel Mallory). > > Here are the children of Stokeley Towles. > > 1.. Oliver, born circa 1709. Never married. > 2.. Henry, born April 5, 1712. > 3.. Henry, first, born circa 1714, died 1748. > 4.. Elizabeth, born Dec. 7, 1716, marred Hugh Marston. > 5.. Ann, born April 23rd, 1719, married Russell Hill, ancestor of Gen. A. P. Hill. Gen. Hill was a son of Thomas Hill, named in the decree. Henry Hill, son of Russell and Ann Towles Hill, married Ann, daughter of Ambrose Powell. > 6.. Catherine, born July 5, 1721 m. Abraham Eddins. > 7.. Mary (the first) b. November 1, 1723 m. Thomas Sparks. > 8.. Jane, b. Feb. 20, 1726, married Isaac Medley. > 9.. Joseph, b. Feb. 23, 1728, married Sarah Terrill, sister of John Terrill, who married his niece Ann, d. of John Towles, and of Robert Terrill who married his sister Judith Towles. > 10.. Frances, b. May 8, 1736, married Richard Vawter. > 11.. Stokeley, born 1733 (?), married Margery Ballinger. > 12.. Judith, born April 3, 1735 m. Robert Terrill. > 13.. Lucy, b. 1738 (?) married Robert Garnett. > The above were by his first wife (Ann Vallot). > > By the second wife (Jane Sparks). > > 14.. Mary (second) June 19, 1751, married John Clark. > 15.. Henry (second) March 15, 1776. > To further explain the will of the second Henry, note that Reuben Clark (son of William) was son of Henry's half-sister and that Reuben Clark had married his uncle Joseph's daughter and that Joseph's wife was Henry's first cousin. > > Sam Betchelder, mentioned in the will of Henry Towles the first was the son of the testator's aunt, nee Katherine Vallot. > > Perhaps the foregoing will help you to understand the decree. I think you can fish out each of the several children of old Stokeley and how the heirs come in. For example, John Towles had two children, Col. Oliver and Ann, wife of John Terrill. The half share of Ann, who had 4 children, is divided into 4 parts, and the portion of Elizabeth Welck, who had 4 children, again divided into 4 parts. Ann and John Terrill's son Robert (who married Ann, sister of Uriel Mallory) had an only daughter Ellen, who married Robert Lvoell. I met her in 1885. She was then living on the old Towles place, near Locustdale. > > Stockley Towles had made abundant provisions for his older children during his lifetime. His wife was in affluent circumstances in her own right. This will serve to explain his will. His son Oliver was wealthy in 1748. Hence his brother Henry's will. This Oliver left his estate to his grand-niece Elizabeth Welch, whose Aunt Lucy was the wife of Larkin Clark, brother of James, William, John, Reuben and Joseph, above alluded to. > > The intermarriage of Towles, Welch, Clark, Newman, Sims, Mallory families passes understanding. > > > ==== VACULPEP Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Culpeper Co., VA mailing list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to VACULPEP-L-request@rootsweb.comor if you are on the Digest list to VACULPEP-D-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >