• General Notes

   Ann Strother was married by the Reverend Mr. William Stuart, rector of  Saint Paul’s Parish, on September 16, 1763 to John James ( circa 1732-circa 1794). He was administrator of the estate of his father-in-law, Major Benjamin Strother, and seems to have succeeded to his plantation near Potomac Church. The inventory of his estate was recorded in now  missing Stafford County Will Nook “Y” (1793-1804), page 83.                  On March 6, 1789 Lund Washington, Senior, ( 1737-1796) wrote General George Washington relating a report heard by his nephew Lund Washington ( Junior) (1767-1853) while he was lately in Stafford County: John James of Stafford County said “that we should have a very pretty President at the head of our new government one who had paid off his debts within the time of the War with paper money altho it had been lent to him in specia.” Lund Washington informs the General that the report was started by Colonel Mason and adds, “he is no friend of yours.”
  
              John and Ann (Strother) James had a large family of whom there is considerable detail in the Lund Washington manuscript.  John James was the son of George James, Gentleman, of Fredericksburg, who died in 1753 leaving a handsome estate in Spotsylvania, Stafford and Prince William counties, and Mary Wheeler, his wife, only child of John Wheeler, Gentleman, (1684-1746) of Overwharton Parish who bequeathed to his grandson John James all his land in Prince William County.
  

Details of Ann's family with John James