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Jeremiah Stover, pacifist
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1734  through 1763    French and Indian Wars,  many Germans participated in the conflicts-   but JeremiahÕs records seem to begin 1764 Lunenburg Co VA-  did he arrive from elsewhere after the conflicts ceased?  PA, MD, Germany??? poss son of Jacob Jr. who had been in Lunenburg records since 1746???

1764 Walgreen page 38-  Lunenburg Co tithes 1748-1783 Cornwall Parish 1764  Elijah White's list: Jeremiah Stover 1 tithe [ne: if age 16 then b c 1748, if age 21 or older then b before 1743-  when were tithes assessed? Marge speculated maybe having a family more important than age]
WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE IN THE '50s?  HALIFAX?
1765  Check in Pittsylvania Co Va, 1767 Land and Tithes a Jeremiah and Jacob Stober [and Holden McGhee] are listed [Bev Thomas email May 1997]
1765 land desc "Stover's line"  Pittsylvania Co
1767  Pittsylvania tax list,  Jacob and Jeremiah Stobo (see web notes)
1768 land entry Pittsylvania Co VA Jeremiah Stover (NOT in survey book for same period)
1767 [will of Jacob Strobhart in Charleston SC] Has Evylene Canup compared signatures, Strobhart and the signature of Jacob Jr. as admin of Jacob Sr.?
WHERE WERE THESE PEOPLE IN THE '70s?
 

Marge Turner:
Kegley's Virginia Frontier  p562 Botetourt Co  Early resident of Bent Mountain,  Capt. Martin's company: Jeremiah Stover  1 horse, 4 cows [what year was this list?  HOW EARLY WAS THIS?  b.m. now in Roanoke Co VA, west of Boone's Mill (see Johann Diel Bohne) Kegley's list is presented in Burton as 1785 enumeration, copy sent by Mary Edith Marley, dated 1785 shows no stock.

Mary Edith Marley
Wilkes Genealogical Society Vol 29 No3 Fall 1995 p18
Forty Four men were charged with misbehavior and Treason
August of 1780        (stated in article, not in transcription,  Botetourt County Virginia)
Part 15 Treason Trial of Jeremiah Stover
...being guilty of treason against the Commonwealth
do order him to receive 39   lashes.
1781, 1783-1786 in Dist. 4, Capt. Joshua Martin's Dist. of Bedford  Co (area now Floyd Co., VA). [another record for 1784?]   Mary Edith Marley sends copy of Botetourt Co 1784 and 1785
1784 Ray Warren says Botetourt VA tax list [cked, ok]
In 1785 he had 9 whites, 1 house, 1 other bldg.  Also listed 1785 is a George Snauffer with 8 whites, 1 house, 1 bldg, wasn't this Botetourt again? Yes   Do we have a Jeremiah in Bedford and a Jeremiah in Botetourt 1784 and 1785?    possibly Jeremiah in Franklin in 1787 and Jeremiah (Stone) in Montgomery in 1787?
1782 Ray said in Bedford VA tax list [cked, ok] Jeremiah Stover 1 tithe  [poss also  1782 Montgomery for Jeremiah Stone?]
1783 Ray said Wilkes NC land grant [Kathy Staley says Grantees index, Deed book F-1  p542, the page she copied had 1790, Charles Adams and James Jackson]  could this be in area of Wilkes now Ashe Co NC?
NC land records via MEMarley,
April 1783   #608 100 acres on Rock Creek [non res, or Jeremiah Jr, or?]  research Jo White Linn, no NC State grants to persons named Stover [no Stover on Wilkes tax list 1787]
1785 Marge says Botetourt VA tax list, Josuah Martin's dist, 9 in family * same county George Stauffer, 8 in family  [cked, ok] but this may be incorrect- in Kegley the Neely list was dated 1782 or 3 and the above list undated. Burton may have been guessing on the 1785 date...
1785 Jeremiah Stover consents, Franklin Co VA to mg of dau Catherine to Adam Rinehart    (Marley also sends info on Rinehart family, "of Botetourt Co")                   ne- Jeremiah's second set of ch b here to new wife?     [MO land records, Rynerd the French expression for "Indian"]
1786 Gracie Golden Stover  From Old Virginia Court Records:
Being a Transcript of the Records of the First Court of FRANKLIN COUNTY,
VIRGINIA   1786-1789
By MARSHALL WINGFIELD
PAGE TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE [page 141-2 in above book]
August Court 1788-Stover vs Davis a Jury Sworn, to Wit, James McVey, George
Ashberry, Ed'd Choat, Robert Mason, John Kyle, David Barton, Jubal Early,
Thomas Jones, Robert Johns, Samuel Kerby, John Bates & Lewis Davis. Ver.
Return for Plf. & O. R. On the Motion of Jonathan Davis it is ordered that
Meshack Hodges & William Dillingham be fined According to Law for not Attndg
as Witness fo S'd Davis Ads Stoner. Holden McGee is allow'd 2 Days Attce & 1
Cumming and returning 20 miles as a Witness for Stover vs Davis. Jeremiah
Stover is allow'd 2 Days a Wits for same
1787 [from Marge Turner] Jeremiah & Jacob Stover on Tax List of Franklin Co., VA.  One in Dist A and one in B. Tax list does not tell if they owned land, but presume they did.  Jeremiah was person charged with the tax, no males 16-21, no slaves, 2 horses, 4 cows.  Some of his neighbors were: Ages, Maxe, McVey, Meadows (2), Miller (3), Moody, Mountain, Radford, Richardson, Simes, Sloan, Smitch (5), Smith, Spangle, Stanton.

1790:  St. Astaph's District  (Hillsborough)  Orange Co NC 1790, Jeremiah Stoner  with Peter Stoner [this district was reconstructed from tax lists, not necessarily a list of residents in 1790   research Jo White Linn shows Peter Stoner continues in Orange Co records]      (Henry Stoner in Morgan dist, Burke Co, research Jo White Linn, the Stoner name continues in Burke records, no Stover NC State grants in Burke Co  but could this be Henry Stover m 1799 Rutherford Co NC?)
NC land records via MEMarley,
1799 entries   #609  50 acres on Roaring River at James Reynold's line
#610 100 acres on Round Mountain Branch below the fauls
#569  50 acres on Hunting Creek   [research Jo White Linn: IF he held these pieces of land, no record of their acquisition  has survived. ne: 1805 tax list for 230 acres of land]

Wilkes NC Road Orders from Anita Hinson:
8 May 1801 road judge, neighbors Elmore, Jones, Adams, Vannoy, Foster, Mires sic [ck Mize], Meyers? Butrom etc.
5 Aug 1801  ALL Chambers, Staley, Souther, Shallowford Rd to widow Southers
*** 2 Nov 1801 Lewis, Coots sic Hoots? Joshua Souther, Henry Souther, William Lunsford, and others to lay off rd from west end Presley Bussel's field into old rd below his house]
1805 Records Search: Samuel E. Sebastian, Wilkes County, NC, Taxables, 1795-1805: p. 34. 1805.  Capt.  John Stanley's District: Jeremiam Stover: no polls, 230 A. [Note: Aged over 45, he had aged off the list for the personal tax. per Jo White Linn]

The Will of Jeremiah Stover and its problems

Evylene Canup sent recorded will and settlement [ne: actually record of estate sale] copies- Kathy Staley says could not find record of settlement in NC Archives Raleigh, later found by Jo White Linn's researcher
Jeremiah Stover will,  dated 26 Nov 1807, proved Feb Term 1808 Wilkes Co
Will Book 2 page 226 Jo White Linn sent copy of the original document from Archives.
[transcription from county record book by Marley, summary mine: ne]
to my sons Jeremiah and John, if I have not divided my land as I thought I had in the Deed  (Jo White Linn shows deed never recorded)
...two steers, two cows, two calves, ten head of hogs, pewter, bedding, furniture
... 13 still tubs & stands,  corn, rye, wheat...coopers tools, farmers tools...
land on Hunting Creek adjoining the other place...
witnesses:  Henry Souther Jr.,  Wm. Lunsford,  Ame Souther       cked these signatures against copy from Archives

per Irene Freemon,  says has land transaction Hunting Creek  Wilkes Co NC 1809  [ne: (must be Jerry Jr.) was this a sale to HOOTS?  havenÕt seen this record, yet]

Frank E. Block early corr w/ Ray Warren, so his work has Jeremiah son of Jacob Jr.- [Anita Hinson corr w/Ray newer]    During the Revolution he was imprisoned in VA, apparently for some military misconduct.          Has wife Mary, saying she d before 1807
ch:  Jacob; Jeremiah b 1765 went to GA by 1830;  John bc1737; Hezekiah bc1769; Obediah bc1771 in NC in 1820s and moved to AL/AR; Joseph b 11 Sep 1777 VA, d IOWA, m Esther YOUNT 4 Apr 1811 in TN; Ruth bc1779 VA. she m ---PROFFITT, lived in MO.
 

===  more problems

Research: Shiela Spencer Stover 1997
>Jeremiah was married twice, both times, so family tradition goes--to women>who were Native.  His first family by Mary are  in fairly good order,
>prove-able due to a surviving Bible.
>
>Sons:  Jacob, Jeremiah, John, Hezekiah, Obadiah, and Joseph b Sept 1777 in
>VA.  the sons, with the exception of Hezekiah, (said to have gone to
>Canada--no substantiaton on this)   are accounted for.  There was a daughter,
>Ruth--who married a Profitt, lived in Missouri.  A daughter, Barbara, prob.
>from 2nd marriage--md. David Yount, brother or nephew to Joseph.  another
>suspected daughter, Margaret, md. Isaac Hoots. Stover's wife)

Shiela has taken liberties here,  no tradition of Native wives, no surviving Bible for this family, suspected daughter is son Isaac who married Margaret Hoots-    see actual Trine papers, no Bible survives

Jo Linn White:  Wilkes Co NC searches
Records search: Turner & Philbeck, Wilkes County, NC, Will Abstracts, 1777-1910: The recorded Chambers wills do not reflect anything we know of this family.  There is no mention in anyone's will of Aaron Roberts or William Morrow.
Will Book 2:154.  Will of James Fletcher Sr., dated 26 Apr. 1805, prb.  July 1805, wife Suzanna ... Wit: Barbara Stover, H. Rousseau, Samuel Profitt.
Will Book 2:226.  Will of Jeremiah (X) Stover, Sr., dated 26 Nov. 1807, prb.  Feb. 1808.  Sons: Jeremiah Stover, Jr.  John Stover.  Exr: Joshua Souther, Presley Bussell Seanr.  Wit: Henry Souther, William (X) Lunsford, Amee (X) Souther.

Hi Marge,
I am a descendant of Jeremiah Stover. His son Jacob Stover who married Sarah Sally Wells had a son Elisha Stover married Rutha Raltson. Their son David Andrew Jackson Stover who married Malinda Long. Their daughter Mary E. E. Stover she was my great grandmother she married James Garrett. Nancy Louetta (Etta) Garrett was my grandmother. My mother was Ruby Lee. Jacob Stover m Sarah Boone were my gx7 grandparents. I hope to hear from you.
Abigail 1 June 1997  [Abigail Stover Garrett,  took the name Abigail Stover for her research page]
[she places Jeremiah as a son of Abraham, son of Jacob]
 


possible answers

I have a copy of the printed 1787 Tax list for Franklin County, Virginia.
List "A" shows the following:
Stover, Jeremiah -
Person charged with Tax: self
1. White males above 16 and under 21: 0
2. Blacks above 16: 0
3. Blacks under 16: 0
4. Horses, mares, colts & mules: 2
5. Cattle: 4

Tax list "B":
Stover, Jacob
Person charged with tax: self
1. 1
2. 0
3. 0
4. 1
5. 6

Hope this helps.
Kay Livermore  livermor@rosenet.net
Roseburg, Oregon

Yes, the 1787 tax list. The cite is Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene
Speakman Love, _The Personal Property Tax Lists for the Year 1787 for
Franklin County, Virginia_, (Springfield, VA: Genealogical Books in
Print, 1987)
[ne:  A=Magodee Valley?  B=Chestnut Creek?]

need land records Ashe Co NC,  formed 1789 from Wilkes

or:

VA State Library search
http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/virtua-basic.html

GRANTEE    Howard, William. grantee.
 DATE    31 July 1797.
 NOTE    Location: Botetourt County.
 NOTE    Description: 100 acres on the waters of Little River adjoing. the land of Jeremiah Stover, and his own.
 NOTE   Source: Land Office Grants No. 36, 1796-1797, p. 469 (Reel 102).
 NOTE    Part of the index to the recorded copies of grants issued by the Virginia Land Office. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
 OTHER FORMAT   Available on microfilm. Virginia State Land Office. Grants A-Z, 1-124, reels 42-190; Virginia State Land Office. Grants 125- , reels  369-.
 SUBJECT   Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Virginia -- Botetourt County.
 SUBJECT   Botetourt County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.

See also 1782 tax list Montgomery Co VA,  Jeremiah Stone (possibly now Floyd Co area:  Little River in this area,  while the 1787 tax list for Jeremiah Stover in Franklin Co VA could be "headwaters of Pigg River" property)


from Anita:  Franklin Co VA:  Martin, Barbara p. 34-35
P. 112. Will. I, Jacob PRILLAMAN Sr of F, s/ Jul 19, 1796.  Barbara MARTIN
is listed as one of his daughters, along with another daughter, Anne SOWDER.
ne: could this be Ame Souther, wit of Jeremiah's will in Wilkes?

Anita Armstrong Hinson,    lots and lots to be entered yet...

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