John Stith
John Stith was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses[1] and the progenitor of the Stith family, one of the first families of Virginia.[2][3]
Stith ancestors were likely from the area of Kirkham in Lancashire, England.[4] Stith settled in Charles City County, Virginia sometime after coming to the colony sometime before 1656.[1][5] He was a merchant, an attorney, and a justice of the peace, and served in the militia as a lieutenant (1656), a captain (1676), and a major (1680).[1] In 1691, Stith was the high sheriff of Charles City County.[2] During Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, Stith was a supporter of Sir William Berkeley.[1]
Stith married Jane Parsons, the widow of Joseph Parsons, and had at least three children:[1][2][4][5]
- John Stith2 married Mary Randolph, the daughter of William Randolph, and had three children: William, John3, and Mary.[1][5] William Stith married Judith Randolph, his first cousin and the daughter of Thomas Randolph (of Tuckahoe), and was the third president of The College of William & Mary.[1][2][5] John Stith3 was the great-great-grandfather of Brigadier General of the Confederate States Army Junius Daniel and the great-great-great-grandfather of Armistead C. Gordon.[5][6] Mary Stith married William Dawson, the second president of The College of William & Mary, and had two children including John Dawson, the father of Congressman William Johnston Dawson.[1][2][5]
- Drury Stith married Susannah Bathurst and had at least two children.[1][2][5]
- Anne Stith married Robert Bolling (whose first wife, Jane Rolfe, was the granddaughter of Pocahontas) in 1681 and had at least seven children.[1][2][5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. (1915) "Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons" Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography II New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company pp. 330–331 http://books.google.com/books?id=UCgSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA330#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011
- ^ a b c d e f g Goode, George Brown (1887) "Excursus.-The Stith Family" Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph & English pp. 210–212 http://books.google.com/books?id=_fwcAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011
- ^ "Questions and Answers" Notes and Queries (Manchester, New Hampshire: S. C. & L. M Gould) VI (2): 244–245 February 1989 http://books.google.com/books?id=VeARAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011
- ^ a b Johnston, Christopher (July 1912) "The Stith Family" in Tyler, Lyon G. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine XXI Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson pp. 181–193, 269–278 http://books.google.com/books?id=vikjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA181#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011
- ^ a b c d e f g h Gordon, Armistead C (1914) "The Stith Family" in Tyler, Lyon G. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine XXII Richmond, Virginia: Whittet & Shepperson pp. 44–51, 197–208 http://books.google.com/books?id=YNYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011
- ^ Brown, John Howard (1900) "Armistead Churchill Gordon" Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States III Boston, Massachusetts: James H. Lamb Company p. 331 http://books.google.com/books?id=mWJkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA331#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved February 25, 2011