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Thursday, March 29, 2018

From the Stiths to the Jones in 4 generations

The Randolph connection to my Rogers family is through one Mary Randolph (name's Mary of course) who married William Stith, our great times 8 uncle, while his sister and brother are our great times 8 grandparents.
Family Crest of the Stiths

Lt. Col. Drury Stith 1670-1741 (great times 8 grandfather)
married
Susanna Bathurst Stith 1674-1745 (I noticed her will and probate are indexed as 1810 and 1811, which is strange if she'd died 50 years before then.)

Their daughter was
Mary Stith Herbert, who died Aug 17, 1801.  The date of her birth is given as 1701.  If this is incorrect, there's nothing to prove or disprove it at this time.  She married twice, and second husband was Charles Fisher.  But her first husband, Buller Herbert, is our ancestor.

Their daughter, Mary Herbert (1726-1784) married in 1740 or 1744 to
Col. Augustine Claiborne (1720-1787).
They had around 14 children.

Our ancestor was their daughter,
Susanna "Sukey" Claiborne Jones (1751-1810) who married about Aug 18, 1774 to
Frederick Jones (1741-1791)

I'm going to stop here at the Jones, our great times five grandparents on the George Rogers family tree.  All of these families lived in Virginia colony, and some through the Revolutionary war.

I'm hoping somehow to find out that Mary Stith who was born in 1701 might have been mixed up with a daughter or granddaughter who died in 1801.  Otherwise that 7 times great-grandmother lived a hundred years!  Pretty amazing!

Sorry to zip through these generations so quickly.  I guess it's part of the patriarchal problem of having little data about daughters.  However, I do know where they lived, so can add more details later.















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