• General Notes

  The Stith Family
  
     Armistead C. Gordon
  
     William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1.
     (Jul., 1913, pp. 44-51.
  
                            THE STITH FAMILY.
                        BY ARMISTEAD C. GORDON.
  
           (XXI WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY, p. 181 and
                        seq. Id., p. 269 and seq.)
  
  1.  Major John Stith1, in Virginia before 1656.  (21 QUARTERLY, p. 182)
  md, Jane, widow of Joseph Parsons, and had issue:
     2.   i. Capt. John Stith2, md. Mary Randolph.
     3.  ii. Lieut-Col. Drury Stith, d. 1741.
     4. iii. Anne Stith, md. 1681.  Col. Robert Bolling.
  
  2.  Capt. John Stith2, (John1) (21 QUARTERLY, p. 183) md. Mary Randolph,
  and had issue:
     5.   i. Rev. William Stith, b. 1707, d. Sept. 19, 1755; md. Judith
               Randolph, his first cousin (7 QUARTERLY, p. 99).
     6.  ii. Lieut.-Col. John Stith (erroneiously stated by Dr. Johnston to
               have been a son of Lieut.-Col. Drury Stith) (21 QUARTERLY,
               p. 187), md. Elizabeth Anderson, dau. of Rev. Charles Anderson
               of Estover.  d. circa, 1758.
     7. iii. Mary Randolph Stith md. (first wife of) Commissary William
               Dawson.
  
  3.  Lieut.-Col Drury Stith2 (John1) (21 QUARTERLY, p. 183) md. Susanna
  Bathurst, and had issue:
     6.   i. Lieut-Col. Drury Stith of Brunswick Co. d. 1740.
         ii. William Stith of Charles City County, d. 1749.
       [iii. Probably Jane, wife of Thomas Hardaway of Prince George Co., was
               another daughter as the names Stith and Drury descend regularly
  
               in the family.  Hardaway family QUARTERLY, XX, 216.-EDITOR.]
  
  4.  Anne Stith2 (John1) (21 QUARTERLY, p. 184), md. (2nd wife of) Robert
  Bolling and had issue:
          i. Robert Bolling
         ii. Stith Bolling.
  
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        iii. Edward Bolling.
         iv. Ane Bolling.
          v. Drury Bolling.
         vi. Thomas Bolling.
        vii. Agnes Bolling.
     (For the descendants of 3 and 4, supra, see Dr. Johnstone's "The Stith
  Family," 21 QUARTERLY.)
  
  5.  Rev. William Stith3 (John2, John1) (21 Quarterly, p. 185) md. Judith
  Randolph, daughter of thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe, and had issue:
          i. Judith Stith d. unmd. June 17, 1773, (6 QUARTERLY, p. 126).
     8.  ii. Elizabeth Stith, md. Dr. William Pasteur of Williamsburg, d.
               1792.
        iii. Mary Stith, d.unmd. 1816.
  
  6.  Lieut-Col. John Stith (John2, John1) erroneously stated by Dr. Johnstone
  to have been the son of Lieut-Col. Drury Stith2 and his wife, Susanna Bath-
  urst, was the second son of Capt. John Stith2 and hiw wife Mary Randolph,
  and younger brother of Rev. William Stith, President of William and Mary
  College.  He was of Charles City County; and married Elizabeth Anderson,
  dau. of Rev. Charles Anderson of Westover, and his wife, Frances.  In 1739
  the will of Mrs. Frances Anderson was presented in Court by Frances Ander-
  son, one of the executors, John Stith in behalf of his wife, admitted
  executor, and Jane and Charlotte Anderson the other exectors.  Charles City
  County Records, (4 QUARTERLY, p. 127).  Lieut-Col. John Stith and his wife,
  Elizabeth Anderson, had issue:
     9.   i. Anderson Stith, md. before 1765 Joanna Bassett, dau. of William
               Bassett of Eltham, New Kent Co., and his wife, Elizabeth
               Churchill, d. 1768.
  
  7.  Mary Randolph Stith3 (John2, John1) md. Commissary William Dawson.  She
  was his first wife.  Commissary Dawson's second wife was Elizabeth Bassett
  (nee Churchill)
  
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  widow of William Bassett of Eltham.  Elizabeth Churchill was a daugher of
  William Churchill, the emigrant, and his wife, "Madame" Elizabeth Wormeley,
  (nee Armistead).  (Keith's Ancestry of Benj. Harrison, p. 30).  By her
  first marriage with William Bassett, Elizabeth Churchill had a daughter,
  Joanna Bassett, who married Anderson Stith, son of Lieut-Col. John Stith
  and his wife, Elizabeth Anderson.  (See "Anderson Stith," Post).
     "William Dawson was sone of William of Aspatria, Cumberland, pleb.
  Queen's Cottage, matric. 11 March, 1719-20, B.A. 22 Feb., 1724-25 M.A.
  1728; D.D. by Diploma 10 Feb., 1746-47, then President of Williamsburg
  College in Virginia".  Foster's Oxford Matriculations.  (2 QUARTERLY, p.
  51 note (2) ).
     Mary Randolph Stith and her husband, Commissary William Dawson had issue:
     10.  i. Colonel John Dawson of Williamsburg, mar. Mary Johnstone, dau.
               of Governor Gabriel Johnstone, of Edenton, N.C.
     11. ii. Mary Dawson md. 1756, Ludwell Grymes.
  
  8.  Elizabeth Stith4 (Wm.3, John2, John1) married Dr. William Pasteur of
  Williamsburg, and died in 1792.  She is said by a writer in 3 QUARTERLY,
  p. 275, to have died without issue in that year.  Dr. Johnston states (21
  QUARTERLY, p. 185) that she d.s.p."; and follows this with the statement
  that she "had a son William Stith Pastuer (b. 12th November 1762) who
  seems to have died young."
     An account of the Pasteur family is to be found in 3 QUARTERLY, pp,
  274-5.  Elizabeth Pasteur, who was probably a niece of Dr. William Pasteur,
  married Dec. 24, 1793, Richard Harrison Long, son of Col. Nicholas Long of
  Halifax, N.C.  Richard Harrison Long was a brother of Mary Long, who md.
  Colonel Bassett Stith, son of Anderson Stith and Joanna Bassett.  (Long
  Family Bible).  Ann M. Pasteur, probably another niece of Dr. William
  Pasteur, was on of the witnesses to the will of Richard Harrison Long of
  Halifax, N.C., dated Feb.
  
  
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  17, 1810, prob. May Session 1810, Will Book 3, p. 99, Halifax Co., N.C.
  Fanny Pasteur, probably another niece of Dr. Pasteur, is named in the will
  of Mrs. Mary Long (nee Coupland), wife of Lunsford Long of Halifax, N.C.,
  who was a brother of mary Long, who married Col. Bassett Stith.  (See
  post "Bassett Stith.")  The will of Mrs. Mary Lunsford Long, who married
  Lunsford Long in 1799 (Long Family Bible), is dated May 25, 1811, and
  prob. November Session 1811, Will Book 3, p. 522 Halifax Co., N.C.
     Dr. William Pasteur died March, 1791.  In his will he mentions his wife,
  Elizabeth Pasteur, his nephew William Pasteur, his  niece Ann Smith, and
  his sister Ann Craig, wife of Thomas Craig.  Mrs. Pasteur died in 1792
  intestate, and the fact that her sister, Mary Stith, who survived till
  1816, was her sole distributee would indicate that any children which she
  and her husband, Dr. William Pastuer, might have had, had pre-deceased
  her.  (Burwell vs. Anderson, 3 Leigh's Reports, 348).  They had issue:
          i. William Stith Pasteur, born Nov. 12, 1762 (3 QUARTERLY, 275)
               who appears to have died unm. and without issue.
  
  9.  Major Anderson Stith4 (John3, John2, John1) was, as stated by Dr.
  Johnston (21 QUARTERLY, p. 191), a practicing lawyer in Charles City
  County in 1755.  He married at Eltham, New Kent County, VA., some time
  before the year 1766, Joanna Bassett, daughter of Col. William Bassett
  (3rd) and his wife, Elizabeth Churchill, who, as heretofore narrated, was
  the second wife of Benjamin Harrison, the signer of the Declaration of
  Independence, and the ancestor of the Harrison Presidents.  (Keith's
  Ancestry of Benj. Harrison, p. 30).  A younger sister of Elizabeth and
  Joanna Bassett married Rev. Thomas Dawson, brother of Rev. William Dawson,
  and himself a President of William and Mary College.  William Bassett
  (3rd), of Eltham, was
  
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  the son of William Bassett (2nd), and his wife, Joanna Burwell, daughter
  of Lewis Burwell (2nd) and his wife, Abigail Smith (2nd, p. 36).
     Major Anderson Stith died in 1768 in King William County, Virginia,
  and his widow, who survived him, was living in 1774.
     Anderson Stith an dhis wife, Joanna Bassett, had issue:
     12.  i. Colonel Bassett Stith, of Halifax, N.C., born in 1765, md. July
               8, 1790, Mary Long, dau. of Colonel Nicholas Long, of Halifax,
               and his wife, Mary McKinne, and died there August, 1817.  (Long
               Family Bible, in possession of Mrs. Gen. Junius Daniel, of
               Henderson, N.C.  See McRee's Life of Iredell, for an account
               of the weddikng of Col. Bassett Stith and Mary Long).
         ii. Elizabeth Stith, d. unmarried at Halifax, N.C., surviving her
               brother, Bassett, for many years.
        iii. Major John Stith moved to Georgia.
  
  10.  Colonel John Dawson4 (Mary Randolph Stith3, John2, John1), Williamsburg,
  Virginia, md. Mary Johnstone, daughter of Gabriel Jonstone, Colonial
  Governor of North Carolina, and his wife, Penelope Eden, who was a daughter
  of Charles Eden, also a Governor of North Carolina, from 1720 to 1722.  Both
  the Johnstone and the Eden families were residents of Edenton, N.C.  (Col.
  Cadwalader Jone's "Genealogical History."  Privately printed, Columbia,
  S.C., 1900, page 66).
     Colonel John Dawson and his wife, Mary Jonstone, had issue:
          i. William Johnstone Dawson, member U.S. Congress, (1793-1795).
     13. ii. Penelope Eden Dawson md. Tristram Lowther, of North Carolina.
               "They had William, md. Annie Sawyer; Maria, md. Joseph B.
               Skinner, a gallant officer, who fell at Sharpsburg; a
               Penelope, md. Thomas D. Warren, of Edenton."  (Col. Jones'
               Genealogical History,", p. 66).
  
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  11.  Mary Dawson4 (Mary Randolph Stith3, John2, John1), married Ludwell
  Grymes.  From Deed Book H. (1771-1774), Spotsylvania (Va.) County Records
  (p. 283), it appears that on May 18, 1771, Ludwell Grymes, of Orange Co.,
  and Mary, his wife, conveyed to Thomas Walker of Fredericksburg, for L37
  curr.  Lot 236 in the town of Fredericksburg.
     Mary Dawson Grymes will, dated May 15, 1787, and proved June 23, 1788,
  mentions her daughter, Hannah Grymes and her son John Grymes; and also
  gives legacies Mary Maury, daughter of Rev. Walker Maury, and to Mary Moore,
  daughter of William Moore.  The executors were Hon. James Madison, Esq.,
  Hardin Burnley, Thomas Barbour, Esq., and Mr. Henry Fry.  (5 QUARTERLY p.
  208).  In 1795 there is in the Orange records an account of John D. Grymes
  as administrator of Ludwell Grymes, in which he charges for expenses in-
  curred by "travelling to Williamsburg to attend suits in the high court of
  chancery" between Ludwell Grymes and Walker Maury, and by having "the
  graves of his father and mother paled in."  (Id.)
     Mary Dawson and her husband, Ludwell Grymes, had issue:
     14.  i. Mary Grymes, md. Rev. Walker Maury.
     15. ii. Elizabeth Johnstone Grymes, md. Rev. William Moore,
        iii. John Dawson Grymes.
         iv. Hannah Grymes.
  
  12.  Colonel Bassett Stith5 (Anderson4, John3, John2, John1), was born at
  Eltham, New Kent Co., Va. in 1765.  He married in Halifax, N.C., July 8,
  1790, "at the age of 25", Mary, daugher of Colonel Nicholas Long of Quankey,
  Halifax, Co., N.C., and his wife, Mary McKinne.  He was a member of the
  North Carolina House of Commons for the session of 1802 (Wheeler's Hist.
  N.C., vol. 2, p. 202).  His will is recorded in Halifax, Will Book, No.3,
  p. 607.  It is dated Jan. 13, 1816, and prob. August Session, 1817.  It
  gives to his wife, Mary Stith, and all of his children
  
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  his estate to be equally divided, and names his sons, William Anderson
  Stith and Albert Augustus Bassett Stith (with others), "to be executors,
  when they shall arrive of lawful age."  (Keith's Ancestry of Benj. Harrison,
  p. 30; Long Family Bible).
     Colonel Bassett Stith and his wife, Mary Long, had issue:
     16.  i. Maria Stith, md. Judge Joseph T. Daniel, of Halifax, N.C.
     17. ii. Mary Long Stith, md. Edmund Freeman, of Raleigh, NC.
     18.iii. Virginia Stith, md. Nathaniel Macon Eaton, of Warrenton, N.C.
         iv. William Anderston Stith, d. unmd.
          v. Albert Augustus Bassett Stith, d. unmd.
     19. vi. Nicholas Long Bassett Stith, md. Anna Austin Hill.
     20.vii. Martha E. Stith, md. Gen. J.R.J. Daniel, of Halifax, N.C.
    21.viii. Lavinia Bassett Stith, md. Robert Newsome, of Norfolk, Va.
         ix. Sarah Frances Washington Stith, b. Jan. 14, 1809, md. Gen. J.
               R.J. Daniel (his second wife) and died s.p. in Washington, DC,
               Nov. 26, 1895.
  
  13.  Penelope Eden Dawson5 (Col. John Dawson4, mary Randolph Stith3, John2,
  John1), married Tristram Lowther, of Bertie Co., N.C., son of William
  Lowther, of New York, and Barbara Gregory, his wife.  William Lowther's
  will, March 28, 1782, is recorded in the clerk's office of the Superior
  Court at Edenton, N.C.  It names his wife, Barbara.  Tristram Lowther's
  will, Feb. 18, 1796, is recorded in the same office.  It names his wife,
  Penelope and Samuel Johnstone, James Iredell, and his bro.-in-law, Wm.
  Johnstone Dawson (2 N.C. Hist and Genealogical Register, Edenton, N.C.,
  p. 8).
     Penelope Eden Dawson and Tristram Lowther, her husband, had issue:
     22.  i. William Dawson Lowther, md. Eliza Ann Sawyer.
  
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     23. ii. Maria Louise Lowther, md. Nov. 16, 1804, Joseph Blair Skinner.
  
  14.  Mary Grymes5 (Mary Dawson4, Mary Randolph Stith3, John2, John1) married
  Rev. Walker Maury.  They had issue:
          i. James Maury.
     24. ii. Mary Stith Maury married W. Hay.
     25.iii. Ann Tunstall Maury md. Isaac Hite.
     26. iv. William Stith Maury md. A. Woolfolk.
     27.  v. Leonard Hill Maury md. V. Campbell.
     28. vi. Penelope Johnstone Fontaine Maury md. Robert Polk.  (Huguenot
               Emigration to Va.)
  
  15.  Elizabeth Johnstone Grymes5 (Mary Dawson4, Mary RAndolph Stith3,
  John2, John1), married Rev. William Moore.  She died March 31, 1852, in the
  87th year of her age.
     In 5 QUARTERLY, p. 208, is reproduced an obituary of Mrs. Moore, which
  appeared in the Nashville, Tenn., Republican Banner, April 15, 1852, stating
  that she was born in Gloucester County, VA., and was "the second daughter of
  Ludwell and Mary Grymed, and the granddaughter of Rev. William Dawson of
  William & Mary College".  Her parents removed to Burlington, their county-
  seat in Orange County, where she married the Rev. William Moore, then an
  itinerant Methodist minister, and afterwards settled in Fluvanna County,
  where they remained a few years, and then moved to the vicinity of Milton,
  N.C., where they raised their family, and in 1820 removed to Robertson
  County, Tenn."  (5 QUAR., 208).  Elizabeth Johnstone Grymes and Wm. Moore,
  her husband, had issue:
          i. ----- ----- Moore, md. W.C. Richmond, of Robertson Co., Tenn.
         ii. ----- ----- Moore, md. ----- ----- Durrett, and had issue:
        iii. ----- ----- Moore, md. Durrett Richards, of Nashville, Tenn, and
               died about 1820, leaving issue:  (5 QUAR., 208-209).
  
                         (To Be Continued)

Details of Major John's family with Widow Of Joseph Parsons Jane