Died
at about age 79
in Roseville, Muskingum, Ohio, USA
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David Stokely I served in the Ohio Militia in the War of 1812 Service started: Unit(s): 1 Regiment (Delong's), Ohio Militia Service ended:
Biography
David was born 1768 in Sussex, Delaware.[1] He married Abigail Hurlburt Hurlburt-442 3 Jul 1799 in Marietta, Washington, Ohio, USA[2] He died 31 Aug 1847 in Roseville, Muskingum, Ohio, USA, [3]
The Stokely Homestead, Est. 1805 Rose Hill Rd, Roseville, Ohio
Note: Read, "The Stokely Homestead", Roseville Legend,Spring 1999 [[1]]
Baptism:
Date: 22 MAR 1771
Place: Lewes and Coolspring Presbyterian, Lewes, Deleware, USA
Emigration:
Left Lewis, Sussex, Delaware in 1790 and after spending some time in Philadelphia , PA, where he had relitives, David traveled to Pitttsburg, PA and then down the Ohio River to Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, arriving in 1795.
Springfield Township:
In 1799 David was the first known settler of Springfield Township, he built a cabin on "Congress Land" on the Muskingum Rivrer, in the Putnam Historic District.[5]
Newton Township - Stokely Homestead, 7680 Rose Hill Road :
Ezekiel Rose, David Stokely, Chauncey Ford, and Adam Rider were the first settlers in Roseville.
In 1805 David Stokely and his new wife Abigail moved from Putnam to their land in Newton Township (see Deeds), south of Jonathan Creek. Stokely built a log cabin that year and the family occupied it for the next ten years. The cabin was torn down in 1815. The back wing of the existing homestead was built on the site where the cabin once stood. The larger front portion of the house was added in 1840. Stokely decendents lived there untill 1981.
↑ Y Bridge City, Pg 58,150. by Norris F. Schneider. The World Publishing Compant, Cleveland and New York
↑ Ancestry.com, U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008), Ancestry.com, Database online. Record for David Stokely.
↑ Direct Data Capture, comp, U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999), Ancestry.com, Record for David Stockley
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with David by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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