Rachel (DeMoss) Stockwell (abt. 1805 - aft. 1880)

Born about 1805 in Randolph County, VA, (WV, USA)

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Stockwell — married 18 Mar 1866 in Barbour County, WV, USA

Descendants

Died after 1880 after about age 75 in Taylor County, WV, USA [uncertain]

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Richard Deane (1701-1788) and His Children

by Beverly Dean Peoples Contact me by e-mail beverlypeoples1 AT gmail DOT com Edited for publication on the internet November 29, 2004

Rachel Dean Stockwell. It seems that Rachel was born in the late 1740’s or early 1750’s, based on birth order, she was likely one of the last children. She has not been able to be traced because material is so sketchy on the Stockwell family of Washington County, MD. There was a James Stockwell born about 1726, an immigrant from England who was a tailor in Hagerstown, MD. Hagerstown was not established until 1762; it seems he lived in the Antietam area prior to that time. There is a court record concerning a theft from a James Stockwell in 1755 which states that it occurred in the neighborhood of Antietam. This James Stockwell the tailor had several sons; three of these were married to unknown women. Rachel likely was the spouse of one of these three men. There are no other Stockwell families appearing in any census except in New England until after KY and OH opened and members of this family seem to have spread there. One of the three sons of James Stockwell, William Stockwell, appears as a private in 1776 in Michael Cresap’s company and later under Capt. John Renolds and Capt. Barnett Johnston of Washington County, MD. Several of the enlistees in the Renolds unit were neighbors of the Dean family. By 1810 William was over 45 years old and living in Bracken County, KY. His brother Michael Stockwell appears on Capt. Griffith Johnston’s muster roll during the Revolution; later in 1783 he’s located at Murley’s Run in the part of Washington County that became Allegany County. One source speculates that he later went to Canada. The other Stockwell brother who could be spouse of Rachel is James Stockwell who appears in the Fayette County, PA tax records of 1785 and 1786 and in the 1800 and 1810 census there.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ladeanxx/richarddeane.htm

Marriage Record: Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (ancestry.com)

Priscilla's (her mother) will calls her Rachel Shotwell. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/e/Lott-L-Shell/GENE3-0008.html

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