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Henry Tyler

Henry Tyler (c.1710-1777) descended from a prominent York County, Virginia family.  He was the son of Francis Tyler (c.1688-after 1723) and Rebecca (maiden name unknown (born c.1695).  In 1738 Henry married in Stafford County, Virginia Alice Strother (c.1719-c.1792), the daughter of William Strother (c.1665-1726) and Margaret Watts.  For 41 years, his distinctive and beautiful handwriting…

Thomas Towson

Thomas Towson (1779-1861) was the son of John Towson (1745-1832) and Penelope Buck (c.1753-1794) of Baltimore County, Maryland.  He was a marble cutter by trade and supplied that material for use in many public buildings and monuments in Maryland and in Washington, DC.  He became involved with the Aquia Creek freestone quarries early in the…

Benjamin Tolson

Benjamin Tolson (1763-1838) was the son of George Tolson (1726-1785) of Stafford County, Virginia.  In 1817 Benjamin purchased Bellfair Mills on Chappawamsic Run and operated this large commercial flour mill until his death.  Little is known of his personal life, but he amassed a considerable fortune and owned land on Chappawamsic and Beaverdam Runs.  Benjamin…

Elijah Threlkeld

Elijah Threlkeld (1744-1798) lived on Aquia Creek in Stafford County, Virginia.  His farm was called Coal Trips.  Elijah was the son of Christopher Threlkeld, Jr. (1698-1757) and Susannah Threlkeld of King George County, Virginia.  In 1772 Elijah married Mary (Bronaugh) Waugh (died 1799), the daughter of Capt. David Bronaugh of King George and the widow…

Charles Tackett

Charles Tackett (c.1780-1834) was the son of William Tackett, Jr. (c.1751-after 1830) of Prince William County and his wife, Frances Reno (c.1750-1796:99).  In addition to operating Tackett’s Mills on the upper reaches of Aquia Run in Stafford County, Virginia, Charles also taught school and kept a hotel there.  He married Ann Nancy Barber (born 1801).  In 1817…

John H. Suttle, Jr.

John H. Suttle, Jr. (c.1806-1884) was the son of John H. Suttle, Sr. (died c.1830) and Susanna Barret Conway (died c.1838) of Stafford County, Virginia.  The elder Suttle had managed William Wildy Robertson’s freestone quarry west of Stafford Courthouse and the younger Suttle worked with the quarries for a few years before studying law.  The…

Charles Francis Suttle

Col. Charles Francis Suttle (1807-1881) was the son of John H. Suttle, Sr. (died c.1830) and Susanna Barret (died c.1838) of Stafford County, Virginia.  The Suttles were involved in Stafford County’s freestone industry.  A merchant, Charles F. Suttle kept stores in Falmouth, Aquia, and Alexandria.  He is perhaps best remembered as being the enslaver of…

Peter Street

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

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

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

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

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…