William Linebarry Ray was a farmer in Orange county, NC.
Descendants of Thomas Stacey, born 1640 in Waltham Parish, Colchester, County Essex, England
By: D. D. StaceyFirst Generation
1. Thomas Stacey was born in 1640 in Waltham Parish, Colchester, Essex, England. He died on 5 Jul 1697 in Chowan, NC.
Thomas Stacey was born in the coastal town of Colchester in County Essex, England. He was born about 1640 at a turbulent time when the King and the Parliament were at odds with each other. In 1646 when Thomas would have been about 6 years old the Royalist raided and took over the fortified town of Colchester and its population of around 12,000 people. Two years later Colchester would be taken over by Parliament Troops. It is no wonder Thomas chose to travel to the New World at the age of about 34 years in 1674.
There were plenty of opportunities for him to leave because Colchester was a Coastal Town. His transportation Record of 1674 shows Thomas Stacey's destination was Virginia. Marriage records for Thomas Stacey and Rebecca Standly in 1687 in Middlesex County exists in the records of Christ Church Parish. We believe Thomas married Elizabeth very early in Virginia, perhaps as of the years 1674 to 1676 based on the probability of the date of their first son, John. Christ Church Parish records show Elizabeth was a native woman which we believe identified her as of American Indian heritage. It would be difficult to believe Native would be used to identify a colonist in those early days before America was established as a separated country. Thomas Stacey Land Records show up in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia in a land record of 1687. After moving to St. Mary's, Maryland by the 1690's, Thomas Stacey settled his family on the Albemarle Sound, Chowan County, North Carolina in 1694 when he bought 100 acres of Albemarle Sound property. He died in Chowan County and the Will of Thomas Stacey, April 19, 1697 names Rebecca, wife, Thomas (Jr.), Charles, John, and young Son, Francis as possible beneficiaries.
Coming from a probable family of five brothers, including him, Thomas Stacey, sought passage to an American Colony in Virginia. Thomas Stacey’s age upon arrival in Virginia was about 34 years old. He married a Native woman named Elizabeth in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia between 1674 and 1676. This marriage would produce three sons, John, born about 1677 in Virginia, Thomas, born on February 18, 1679, and Charles, who was born on January 11, 1684. Two births were in Christ Church Parish where Thomas and Elizabeth lived until 1686 when Elizabeth died, according to the Parish Register of Christ Church, published by National Society of the Colonial Dames Of America in the State of Virginia.
During the early Indian Wars of 1676 in Virginia, Middlesex County furnished men for the militia. Thomas Stacey is listed as one of the thirty-six men selected for the militia from Middlesex County. The Middlesex record of The Indian War of 1676 is published in the Wm. and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3.
After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, Three young sons made it necessary for Thomas to take another bride as a matter of survival in the American colony. On February 27, 1687, Thomas Stacey married again to Rebecca Standly, the widow of Thomas Standly who had died, too, in 1686. The Parish Register of Christ Church published by the National Society of the Colonial Dames Of America in the State of Virginia published his death notice. Rebecca had Thomas Standly’s daughter, Mary, on April 18, 1686 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia before she married Thomas Stacey. This is all published in the Christ Church Parish records. It is suggested that Mary Standly died between 1686 and 1697 because there is no mention of her in Thomas Stacey’s will of 1697 and her name is not found in another record. Thomas Stacey's will April 19, 1697 was published in the ‘Historical and Genealogical Register of North Carolina’.
Virginia probate records show Thomas Stacey was a landowner in Middlesex County in 1687. Because Thomas Stacey reveals in his will that his son, Charles is literate in reading, writing and ciphering, we know Thomas was an educated man. Education would be in demand in the colonies and a prerequisite to other leadership positions. Thomas' land record was published in ‘The Valentine Papers’, page 1594.
Between 1687 and 1691, Thomas Stacey moved his family from Middlesex County, Virginia to St Mary’s County, Maryland. On three separate occasions In 1691 and 1692 we find records of him serving on the Maryland Provincial Council in St. Mary's Town, St. Mary's County, Maryland which was located just south of Calvert County, Maryland. These events are well recorded in the Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of the Council in 1691 and 1692. Educated men were in demand for these type positions at the time.
Government positions were known to Stacey family members in early colonial days. A Robert Stacy served as a Burgess at the first Assembly at the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia in 1619. Simon Stacey, Thomas’ brother, served at Jamestown during it’s waning days of settlement. It has been suggested that Simon was given a government position after moving back to Virginia from Maryland and during his retirement years according to Jim Stacy, a Historian and Stacy researcher, who is also the son of Richard Stacy who is famous for his Stacy research of the past.
It is known Thomas Stacey had relatives in Calvert County where his brother, Simon lived as late as 1684, per Maryland probate records. Other Stacey family members, namely William and Richard, lived there and showed up in the prerogative reports of Maryland in Calvert County. William Stacy is found on prerogative reports with Simon Stacey in Calvert County on Maryland Calendar of Wills, page 80, Source 2, Maryland Probate Record, George & Frances Beckwith Appraisal dated November 18, 1676, and Maryland Probate Record, Payment, George Beckwith dated July 13, 1677). William lived at Patuxent manor in Calvert County with his father and his wife, Mary The exact family relation with William Stacey’s family is unknown at this time. In 1674 William Stacey inherited Patuxent Manor. Maryland Calendar of Wills, Page 80 confirms.
It is pertinent here and later to discuss Thomas Stacey’s son’s to give more evidence of this Maryland connection and its effects.
When a record of Thomas Stacey’s son, Charles Stacey appeared in the probate records of Maryland for 1709, it provided more proof we were on the correct track. Certainty exists in this identification because Charles Stacey is found on that 1709 prerogative report with Thomas Tench, Esq., and Kenelm Cheseldyn concerning the estate of Henry Truman. This is strong evidence of the proper family connection shown in Maryland because Thomas Stacey, his father, served on MD State Council with Thomas Tench, Esq and Kenelm Cheseldyn is a name that is frequently seen on reports with John Stacey the son of Thomas Stacey. Thomas Stacey’s son, John Stacey would have been about 16 years of age in Maryland with his father, Thomas in 1692. Thomas was living there and serving on the Council at that time per the Maryland Probate Records. The Henry Truman Inventory Jan 17 1709 and the earlier mentioned records of Thomas Stacey in St. Mary’s, Maryland on the Provincial Council is proof of the Maryland connection.
Thomas and Rebecca had one other son named Francis. We know of him only through Thomas Stacey’s will. He may have been born in Maryland or North Carolina.
Further evidence that Thomas Stacey’s son John is the person found in St. Mary’s County presents itself. In 1691, Thomas Cooke served on the MD State Council along with Thomas Stacey In St. Mary's. So it is not unusual that we find John Stacey, Thomas' son, as a witness to Thomas Cooke’s will in 1716. The Cooke family members were friends of the Stacey family. Thomas Stacey's service and Thomas Cooke's Will is found in the Archives of Maryland, Records Illustrating the History of Maryland, Page 250, dated October 12, 1691 and Maryland Calendar of Wills, Thomas Cooke, Planter, St. Mary’s Co. 3rd May, 1716.
The Provincial Government including the Maryland Provincial Council office moved to Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in 1695. Thomas Stacey would have known about this event happening. It certainly would have influenced his decision that prompted him, in 1694, to move his family to Chowan County, North Carolina. His first recorded land purchase on the Albemarle Sound was on September 1, 1694. He purchased 100 acres on the Sound which adjoined the land of Nicholas Simmons. Nicholas Simmons was a close friend of Thomas Stacey and was named in Thomas Stacey’s will in 1697. The Historical and Genealogical Register of North Carolina, Book I, shows Page 24, 1st Sept., 1694 100 Acres was purchased. Nicholas Simmons was mentioned prominently in the Will of Thomas Stacey of Chowan County, NC on 19 April, 1697 and probated on July 1697).
Numerous probate records can be found in Chowan County, NC for Thomas Stacey’s sons, Thomas and Charles, but only one is shown for his son John Stacey in Chowan County, a church record in 1702 with his brother Thomas where they are both counted as Tytheables. I have been notified by a very reliable source that in order to be listed as a Tytheable, one qualifies by reaching the age of 21 or older in Edenton, North Carolina. Because we only find one record of John Stacey in Chowan County, North Carolina it becomes obvious that he no longer lives there. The only record of John Stacey is an early tithe record from the city of Edenton in 1702. But, John Stacey of St Mary’s County, Maryland shows up in probate records there dated 1716, 1721, and 1737. A Maryland Church Register of 1725, lists the parents, John and Ann Stacey for the parents of Benedict, who was born on Dec 19, 1725 in Maryland.
On April 19, 1697, Thomas Stacey died in Chowan County, North Carolina leaving his Plantation to his wife, Rebecca with instructions that it be passed to Thomas at her death or to Charles should Thomas die before inheritance. Four sons were named in his will, Thomas, Charles, John, and Francis. No other records have been found for Rebecca’s daughter, Mary Standly, so it is probable that by 1697 she had died.
Records found under Maryland Probate shows more evidence that Thomas Stacey’s son, John Stacey, moved to Maryland. By 1711-12 John Stacey would already be about 31 years of age. His wife, Anne Stacey appears in a record of 1712 doing laundry for John Parsons, a St. Mary's County resident. The 1725 birth record found by Becky Madruga Martinez shows the father and mother of Bennet Stacey to be John Stacey and Ann. John Parsons owned 200 acres of land in St. Mary’s County and in Somerset County, Maryland according to ‘Settlers of Maryland 1679-1700, by Peter Wilson Coldham. John Parsons earned 50 acres of land from working an indenture and another 150 acres of land. John Parson, probably the junior, shows up on probate records in St Mary’s, Maryland with John Stacey. It is very convincing evidence that John Stacey from Chowan County, North Carolina had moved to St. Mary’s by 1712. The source records found indicate that it is no coincidence that we find Thomas Stacey in St. Mary’s in 1691-92, Charles Stacy in Calvert County, MD in 1709 and John Stacey witnessing Thomas Cooke’s will in 1716 in St Mary’s, Maryland along with other records through the years showing he was in residence there.
After Bennet Stacey was born to John and Ann Stacey in St Mary’s County, Maryland Bennet is found working with another John Stacy in farming tobacco in probate records of 1759; in Philip Keys’ inventory report in St Mary’s County and again in 1769 with a John Stacy in Ann Arundel County, Maryland in the inventory of Richard Chew where they both had credit accounts for tobacco. It becomes evident that John Stacy, the father of Bennet, would not have lived this long. He would have been in his late 80's and 90's in 1659 and 1669 respectively .Regarding Bennet Stacey, we know he married Sarah Haskins of St. Mary’s County and he is named in the Will of Aaron Haskins, Sarah’s father on June 2, 1767 in St Mary’s County Maryland. We can make a small jump and say that the John Stacy found on the same inventory reports as was Bennet is not his father but more probably his brother. Only one record of birth for Benedict “Bennet” has been found with John and Ann Stacy listed as parents. At some point in time we may find other records that will confirm a birth from John and Ann Stacey. The late showing of John Stacy with Bennet Stacy in 1659 and 1669 are good reasons and indicators to believe there are other children besides Bennet.
Below are the actual transcripts from the Maryland Archives showing the actions of the Provincial Councils on which Thomas Stacey was a signature. Language and spelling remains the same as in the original document. While the text is less than exciting to read, it is the Thomas Stacy signatures on all three documents that show the family has moved to St Mary’s.Records Illustrating the History of Maryland (spelling and syntax is preserved)
The late abdicated King James will soone againe be restored Maryland to his throne and his way thereunto made through your bowells and by the utter overthrow ruine and destruccon of your Majtie our Most Gracious Souraigne and redeemer But although wee are thoroughly sensible of and doubt not in the least the indefatiguable Endeavoures of that Cursed Crew to bring to pass their damnable and wicked designes and Enterprizes yet wee hope and humbly pray that the same divine Providence that brought you in and hath preserved and conducted you hitherto through all difficultyes and their damnable designes and attempts against your Royall person will still continue the protection of and over you that wee may amongst the rest of your Majties Subjects reape the benefitt of Soe greate a blessing and alsoe the fruites of our most humble peticons to your Majtie to be firmely setled under a protestant Governmt have our greiveances redressed and our rights and priviledges as Subjects of England under your Majte the best of princes restored and confirmed unto us in such manner and by such wayes and meanes as to your Majtc shall seeme meete and convenient whereby wee may be the better enabled to express our loyalty and the zeale wee have to serve your Majtie and to pray the continuance of the Heavenly protection of the divine Providence over your Royall head in affording you a long and happy reigne and that there may never cease of your Royall offspring to succeed your MajLieas well in the throne of your ancestors as in your royall vertues and endowments it being the continual and constant Supplication to heaven of May it please your Majties most Loyall obedient faithfull humble Subjects and Servts Neal Blakiston, sper., Wm Hopkins, Hen Jowles, John Edmondson, Thomas Tench, Thomas Thurston, John Brooke, John Thomas, Wm Sharp, Thomas Stacy, John Addison, Henery Hawkins, Robt Mason, James Keech, Wm Harris, Thos Cooke, Iohn Courts, Ninian Beall, Henry Trippe, Henry Michell, Charles James, Wm Blanckenstein
(Endorsed)
From the Representatives to their Majtie Three of Paines murderers condemned 24th April Oct: 12: 1691.Articles drawn by the Maryland Citizens Council against Lord Baltimore and his Deputies B. I. Vol. 2,V1Zt B.E.
It is important to recognize, 1691 is a very early date to find dissent among the Citizens Council members of this Maryland Colony. The Citizen’s Council is proposing articles against the rules enforced by Lord Baltimore, the King’s representative in Maryland. Our Thomas Stacey is an early protester.1. The erecting and setting up of new Offices and Officers and granting unreasonable and excessive Fees without Act of Assembly: such as are the examiner Generall Attorney General in Provincial and the County Courts the Clerke of the Councill and doorkeeper to the same with many others.
2. The granting and giving away of Lands as Escheats before found so to be by inquisition.
3. The fineing of men absent without giveing day in Court to answer by sci: fac: or otherwise often times without Juryes where matter of Fact ought to be enquired of and found
4. The Judges for Probate of Wills and granting of Administrations refuseing often times to do the same att their Office but by way of comicon into the Countyes thereby to augment and in a manner double their Fees, to the great burthen and charge of the Inhabitants.
5. Not observeing the Rules appointed them by Act of Assembly for keeping and holding their said Courts to the great disappointment charge and hazard of the Inhabitants and Suitors thereunto.
6. The disposeing and arbitrary selling of places and offices of Trust to persons incapable to manage the same for mony or otherwise at extraordinary rates whereby the same are unduely managed and the persons themselves forced to extort from the Inhabitants Illegall exhorbitant and excessive Fees for their support and maintenance.
7. That by such undue proceedings the records of the Provll and County Courts especially of the Provinciall Court are omitted to be entered but in the loose papers and minutes of the Clarkes who making way for others that give or offer most, are removed before such time as they could make due entry thereof and their minutes not understood by their succeeding Officers by which means such Judgements are reversible by writt of Error.
8. All the Judges att Comon Law Chancery Probate of Wills &c: and of the upper house of Assembly erected by the said Lord Baltemore being one and the self same persons and neerely allied that little Justice is to be expected when any of them are sued as often happens or as little redress upon any just appeale from them in one capacity to the same persons in another.
9. For the same reason the penall Laws made against Officers for extorting unjust and illegall Fees can take little or noe effect the said persons being actually possessed themselves or by their mercenary deputies of all Offices of profltt within P. R. this Province and they the said persons themselves the Judges B. therein.B. E. 10. Writt of Error granted or denyed at the Arbritrary will and pleasure of the said Judges as they assert or disassert the cause or persons sueing for the same.
P. E. B. Jowles, Henry Trippe, Nea Blakiston, John Thomas, Rich: Gassaway, Tho: Stacy, Nicholas Greenberry, Edward Jones, John Edmondson, Jno Coode, Geo: Robotham, Kenelm Cheseldyn, David Browne, Rob: King, John Courts, Ninion Beale, John Brooke.
(Endorsed)_
Articles against My Lord Baltemore.
Recd 22 Nov: 1691.Proceedings of the Council of Maryland
(A year later, the Citizens Council is still considering articles against, the King’s Agent in Maryland)
Other writeings to his Lordships Land belonging this house say that all Bonds and Bills iven for warrants to take up B. I. Vol. 2,Land where the parties have taken up land hereupon ought to be delivered up to his Ldp but where they have not executed the id warrant and returned a Certificate of the same they ought not to be delivered till the parties receive the benefit of the same and as to Records relateing to Land taken upp under his Ldpp they say that they conceive their Majties subjects Title to such Lands are the only evidence for the same and ought not to be entrusted or be in the custody of any but His Majtys Secretary thereunto commissioned & lodged in his Office to which his Ldpps Officers and all His Majtys subjects have free access. And now having presumed to lay these things before your Majestic with all humble submission purely out of duety & for preventing evill constructions of our enemyes and for our own just vindication wee most humbly beseech your sacred Majestic to consider what is here represented and to take suchcourses as in your royall wisdom shall think fltt to be done therein and wee your Majesties most humble and faithfull subjects as in duty bound shall ever pray for your long and prosperous reign over us.
Kenelm Cheseldyn, Speaker, Ed Wynne, Robert Crook,Robert Mason, James Mallwood, Henry Michell, Phill: Hoskin, John Brooke, Wm Dent, Jno Hammond, Henry Hawkings, Tho. Small. Edward Pindar, Will: Harris, Henry Trippe, Henry Ridgley, Tho. Tasker, Edw: Boothby, Hugh Sherwood, John Campbell, Jno Dorsey, Philip Clarke, Francis Watkins, Jo. Watson, Tho. Stacy, Hans Hanson, James Sanders, T. Wroth, Roger Welford, Jno Bozman, Lazarus Maddox, Thomas Theakston, Wm Whittington
(Endorsed)
Referred to the Committee by Order of Councill of the 15th Septr 1692. Ree' 19th Septr
1692.This malcontent continued in Maryland and the other colonies and eventually led to the Revolutionary War that freed America from British rule and established us as a new country. Descendant’s of Thomas Stacey may take pride in the revolutionary accomplishments provided by those men and the accomplishments of many of his ancestors who participated in the war to free the American Colonies from the King’s treachery.
Recorded Sources:
1. Thomas Stacey arrived about 1674 transported to Virginia by Captain Edmund Scarburgh (recorded Land Patent book 6, Cavaliers & Pioneers, Nell Marion Nugent, page 155.)
2. Christ Church Parish Records, Middlesex County, Virginia, Colonial Dames of Virginia (Thomas Stacey Sone of Tho. & Eliza Stacey Bapts ffebr 18th 1679.) (Charles Stacy ye sone of Thomas & Eliza Stacy baptized 11th of January 1684/5) (April 7 Ditto Thomas Standly. (death register)) (April 13 Ditto Eliz Wife to Tho. Stacy native (death register)) (Mary Standly ye Daughter of Tho. & Rebecca Standly bapts 18th Aprill 1686) (Thms Stacy of Coulchester in Essex & Rebecca Standly was married 27th of ffebr 1687)
3. William & Mary University, William & Mary Journal Archives (The Indian War of 1676; Wm. and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3)
4. The Valentine Paper, page 245 (The land deal of Mr. Hugh Watts of Middlesex Co, Christ Church Parish, Virginia mentions the land of Thomas Stacey in his land description.)
5. The Archives of Maryland
(Thomas Stacy listed in the Archives of Maryland, Volume 0008, Page 0363 - Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1687/8-1693 )
(Thomas Stacy listed in the Archives of Maryland, Volume 0008, Page 0250 - Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1687/8-1693 l)
(Thomas Stacy listed in the Archives of Maryland, Volume 0406, Page 0232 - Somerset County Judicial Records, 1692-1693 )
6. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, page 4 (Chowan, Book I, page 2, 1st September, 1694; 100 Acres on the Sound, joining Land of Nicholas Simmons.)
7. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, page 74 (Thomas Stacie, April 19, 1697, Sons; John, Thomas, Charles & younger son Francis.) (Death Record.)Thomas married (1) Elizabeth about 1674 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex Co, VA. Elizabeth died on 30 Apr 1686 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, VA. Elizabeth, an American Indian woman from Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA married Thomas Stacey between 1672 and 1676. She died in Christ Church Parish in 1686 after giving Thomas three sons, John, Thomas and Charles.
The Marriage record of Thomas Stacey and Rebecca Standly, 27 Feb. 1687 exists at Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA. Rebecca was married previously to Thomas Standly, who is probably the same Thomas Standly of Calvert County, MD. A Calvert County, MD probate record of 1681 confirms Thomas Standly's residence in Calvert County, MD. By 1686 Thomas Standly and Rebecca was in Christ Church Parish where Thomas died. In less than a year, Rebecca Standly married Thomas Stacey. She was pregnant by Thomas Standly and gave birth to a daughter named Mary on April 18, 1686. This girl was not recognized in the Will of Thomas Stacey when he died in Chowan County, NC, so, we may determine Mary Standly died between 1686 and 1697.
Elizabeth, an American Indian woman from Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA married Thomas Stacey between 1672 and 1676. She died in Christ Church Parish in 1686 after giving Thomas three sons, John, Thomas and Charles.
Thomas (The Jr.) Stacey was christened on 18 Feb 1679 in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, VA. Thomas Stacey (the Jr.) is a proven family member by the Will of Thomas Stacey who died in 1697, Chowan, NC and by his birth record at Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA showing he was born by Thomas and Elizabeth on February 18, 1679. North Carolina probate Land records in Chowan seem to name Thomas Stacey's wife Christian. Thomas Stacey’s numerous land dealings of record in Chowan County, North Carolina show he was a permanent resident. Thomas Stacey (the JR.) appears on no less than 15 public records from 1697 to 1725 in Middlesex County, Virginia and Chowan County, North Carolina. Thomas married Christian unknown. Thomas Stacey is named as a son in the Chowan County, NC will of Mathias Giles dated Oct. 28, 1713. Thomas Stacey's wife, Christian, may be the daughter of Mathias Giles.
Recorded Sources:
1. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 74 (1697 listed in the Will of Thomas Stacey, the senior)
2. Chowan Miscellaneour Papers of Interest, page 84 (Thomas Stacey listed as Tytheable in Edenton, NC, 1702)
3. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 302 (1703 Thomas Stacey, the junior listed as holding 100 acres, Chowan, NC)
4. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 46 (1713 Thomas Stacey, the junior listed in the Will of Mathias Giles, Chowan, NC)
5. North carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 8 (1714 Book I, Page 237 Thomas Stacey, 52 Acres, Chowan, NC)
6. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 619, Abstracts & Conveyances (1715 Thomas Stacey, assignment of Deed from John Bennett, Chowan, NC)
7. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 621, Abstracts & Conveyances(1716, Thomas Stacey, Witness to Deed for John Bennett, Chowan, NC)
8. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 629, Abstracts & Conveyances (1719 Thomas Stacey, witness to Deed for Henry Haughton, Chowan, NC)
9. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 290, Abstracts & Conveyances (1719 Thomas Stacey assigned 50 acres from William Stewart & wife Mary, Chowan, NC)
10. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register Page 290, Abstracts & Conveyances (1725 Thomas Stacey conveys 50 Acres to Cornelius Leary, Chowan, NC)
11. Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index (1717 Thomas Stacey listed in Census, Chowan, NC)
12. Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index (1721 Thomas Stacey listed in Census, Chowan, NC)
13 North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 292 (1716 Thomas Stacey conveys 75 acres to Henry Cogwell, Chowan, NC)
14. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 619, Abstracts & Conveyances (1715 Thomas Stacey & wife Christian, 25 acres to Alex Smith on Sound.)
15. Parish Records of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Colonial Dames of America, State, Virginia (Thomas Stacey Sone of Tho. & Eliza Stacey Bapts ffebr 18th 1679.)
Thomas Stacey is named as a son in the Chowan County, NC will of Mathias Giles dated Oct. 28, 1713. Thomas Stacey's wife, Christian, may be the daughter of Mathias Giles.
Charles Stacey was born in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA. His mother was a native, meaning an American Indian, named Elizabeth from Christ Church Parish. Charles spent his early childhood in Middlesex County, VA, St. Mary's, Maryland and Chowan County, North Carolina. A Maryland probate record exists showing Charles spent time in Calvert County, MD, too. The records show he was there in 1709. By 1717, we find Charles has moved back to Chowan County, North Carolina and afterwards makes numerous land transactions. Charles Stacey died on January 2, 1724, leaving a will that only named his wife, Mary and no children.
Sources:
1. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Page 74
(1697 listed in the Will of Thomas Stacey, the senior)
2. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Abstract of Conveyances, Page 618
(1716 Charles Stacey conveys 50 acres to Charles Morgan, Chowan, NC)
3. Maryland Probate Records
(1709 Henry Truman Estate, Calvert County, MD. Charles Stacey is listed for money due him for services)
4. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Abstract of Conveyances, Page 288
(1723Charles Stacey is witness for Edward Orrenton and wife Isla for land deal)
5. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, page 151
(1717, April 16, Thomas and Charles Stacey in court order regarding layout of new road.)
6. Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index
(1717 Charles Stacey listed in Census, Chowan, NC)
7. Colonial America, 1607-1789 Census Index
(1721 Charles Stacey listed in Census, Chowan, NC)
8. North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Abstract of Wills, Page 484
(Charles Stacie, July 19, 1725, Wife Mary, (no children listed death record)
9. Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia, Colonial Dames of America, state of Virginia.
(Charles Stacy ye sone of Thomas & Eliza Stacy baptized 11th of January 1684/5)
We only know the first name of Mary, the wife of charles Stacey. A record of marriage has not be acquired as yet for them. Her name appears on the will of Charles Stacey of Chowan County, North Carolina
These source records are on file with D. D. Stacey, Glen Allen, VA
During the 1910 census the following information was recorded. Walter R. Andrews was 26 years old and worked as a Weaver in a Cotton Mill. It was probably one of those that was close-by to his home then at 261 Washington Street, Graham, NC. That residence belonged to William A. and Lila J. Capes who rented part of the house as a boarding house. Walter lived there with his wife Cordia B. Robertson Andrews who was 22 years old and had married Walter in 1903. Additionally, they had two children living with them; Donald who was 2 years old was born April 7th, 1908, and Madge, a 4 year old daughter was born in 1906. A live-in cook lived at the residence, too, name Yeunisa Isley.
The Marriage record of Thomas Stacey and Rebecca Standly, 27 Feb. 1687 exists at Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, VA. Rebecca was married previously to Thomas Standly, who is probably the same Thomas Standly of Calvert County, MD. A Calvert County, MD probate record of 1681 confirms Thomas Standly's residence in Calvert County, MD. By 1686 Thomas Standly and Rebecca was in Christ Church Parish where Thomas died. In less than a year, Rebecca Standly married Thomas Stacey. She was pregnant by Thomas Standly and gave birth to a daughter named Mary on April 18, 1686. This girl was not recognized in the Will of Thomas Stacey when he died in Chowan County, NC, so, we may determine Mary Standly died between 1686 and 1697.