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Peter Street (c.1841-1918) sometimes appears in the records as Peter Streets and was born in England.  He married Sarah Frances Smith (c.1848-1916) and lived across Eskimo HIll Road (Route 628) from what’s now the Stafford County landfill.  He was a professional fisherman on Aquia Creek and the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers for over thirty years.

James Madison Sthreshley was the son of Capt. William Sthreshley and Elizabeth Buckner Jones, widow of Thomas Jones of Stafford.  The surname of this family sometimes appears in early Virginia records as “Trashly.”  In 1828 James married Mary Peyton Bolling Fitzhugh (born 1808), the daughter of John Bolling Stith Fitzhugh (1778-1825) and Humphrey Frances Toye…

Barnett Stewart (1814-1871) was the son of Bernard/Barnett Stewart (c.1788-c.1845) and Catherine Kendall (c.1793-after 1860) of Stafford County, Virginia.  He married Mary E. Bloxham (1824-1876).  Barnett was related to the Stewart family who owned Coal Landing on Aquia Creek.  The 1839 Stafford County Personal Property Tax Records state that he was then living on Stony…

Charles Sterne (1756-1818) was the son of Francis Sterne (c.1729-1804) and was born in Stafford County, Virginia.  This branch of the Sterne family had land on the north side of Stefaniga Road (Route 648) and between that and the western side of Mountain View High School.  This farm was later called Pilgrim’s Retreat and part…

Jefferson Spindle (c.1804-1861) was the son of William Spindle (1774-1836) and Elizabeth Alsop of Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  He married Maria A. Tackett (c.1810-1883), the daughter of Charles Tackett, Sr. (c.1780-1834) and Ann Barber (born 1801) of Stafford County.  Jefferson assisted his father-in-law with the Mill Farm Seminary, a school that Tackett had started in 1818 at…

William Skinker was an African American and a blacksmith by trade.  He lived in Stafford County, Virginia though the location of his home is unknown.  In 1821-1822 he was paid for making staples to repair a house on Aquia Creek.  He was the son of Martin Skinker (died before 1826).

Samuel Hampson Skinker (1785-1856) was the son of William Skinker (1738-1812) and Mary (Sells) Powlett (c.1745-1798) and the nephew of Thomas Skinker (1722-1802).  Around 1776 Thomas Skinker purchased 1,021 acres in Stafford from Charles Carter (1738-1796).  Part of this tract became known as Oakley and passed to Samuel H. Skinker.  The fine old frame house,…

John Howard Skinker (1814-1867) was the son of Samuel Hampson (1785-1856) and Margaret Wilson Julian (c.1784-1863).  Samuel devised his Stafford plantation, Oakley, to John Howard and to Samuel’s unmarried daughters, Louisa Virginia Knox Skinker (1828-1886) and Lucy E. Scott Skinker (1807-1896).  Early in his life, John studied law, medicine, and divinity, though he never practiced…

Rodham P. Shelkett (1822-1899) was the son of John Shelkett (1793-1857) and Nancy Stark (1786-1834) of Stafford County, Virginia.  The Shelketts lived in northern Stafford on a farm called Locust Grove.  This is now part of the Quantico Marine Corps reservation.  While the Shelkett family had a grist mill near their home, they supported themselves…

Thomas Seddon (1779-1831) was the son of John Seddon (c.1735-c.1812) of Stafford County, Virginia.  Early in his life, Thomas was a merchant in Falmouth.  His home there stood on the north side of Washington Street very near the bridge over Falls Run.  Later, he moved to Fredericksburg where he became the cashier of the Farmers…

John Seddon (1826-1863) was the son of Thomas Seddon (1779-1831) of Stafford County, Virginia.  John lived at Snowden on the Rappahannock River east of Fredericksburg, having purchased the property in 1847 from the Morson family.  During the War Between the States, Union troops sailing up the Rappahannock may have thought the farm belonged to John’s…

Thomas Cropper Scott (1791-1857) was the only son of Ann Taylor (died c.1838) and an unknown Scott.  Ann married secondly Joseph Browne (died 1806).  Thomas was a merchant in Falmouth and resided at Clearview.  He operated a store on the corner of Washington and Cambridge Streets and had another store on White Ridge road, which…