Martha (Unknown) Stith (abt. 1720 - bef. 1762)

Wife of Drury Stith — married [date unknown] in Brunswick County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died before Dec 1762 before about age 42 in Brunswick County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Martha (Unknown) Stith resided in the Southern Colonies in North America before 1776. Join: US Southern Colonies Project Discuss: southern_colonies

This profile is protected to ensure it is not merged into Jones-1723. (Drury b c1718 m 1st Martha ____, 2nd Elizabeth Jones.) See Research Notes (below).

Biography

Martha was likely the first wife of Drury Stith. Her birth name is unknown. She was recorded in a Lunenburg County land transfer dated 5 February 1746 when Drury Stith, Gent. & his wife, Martha, of St. Andrew's Parish of Brunswick County, made an indenture to Robert Jones, of Albemarle Parish of Surry County, for a 556 tract of land in Cumberland Parish of Lunenburg County formerly granted to said Stith's father, Drury Stith, Gent., September 27, 1729. ^[1]

Martha was again recorded in April of 1756 in the Vestry Book for St. Andrew's Parish of Brunswick County when it was ordered the parish pay Martha Stith for "making two surpluses."^[2]

A pre-nuptial contract for the marriage of Drury Stith to Elizabeth Eldridge, widow of Thomas Eldridge, was written the 25th of December in 1762 and proved 28 March, 1763 in Brunswick Court, indicating his wife Martha was no longer living (Brunswick County Deed Book 7, pp. 159 & 160).

Research Notes

Last name at birth possibly Bolling or Edmund.^{[citation needed]}

See note on Stith-5 about two Bolling/Stith marriages more than a century apart.

Maybe Kennon.^[3]

Could be Jones.^{[citation needed]}

Martha Stith being family to Elizabeth or Thomas Eldridge may be evidenced by an unknown possible "Margaret Stith" named Godmother of the eldest child of Thomas Eldridge and Elizabeth Jones Eldridge-Stith but "Martha" does not appear to have been a nickname used for Margaret: Aristotle Eldridge b. 10 Oct 1751. Found in: AN INTIMATE STUDY OF THOMAS ELDRIDGE, JUNIOR AND SENIOR By William D. Hall, M.D. Selma, Alabama (Part 3 of 8).

"TAKEN FROM ALBEMARLE PARISH REGISTER ANNOTATED TO SHOW RELATIONSHIPS OF GOD-PARENTS Aristotle, son of Tho. Eldridge and his wife Elizabeth, b. 10, 30, 1751, bap. 1, 29, 1752. God-parents: Xtopher Mason, Wm. Willie and Margaret St... Christopher Mason was a friend, William Willie was the Rector of the Parish, and Margaret St... ^[4]

Drury Stith married Elizabeth Buckner, and a plethera of related, co-located, similar-aged descendants named Drury and Buckner ensued. Also:

• an Elizabeth Jones married a Drury Stith (b 1718), as his second wife.^[5]
• an Elizabeth Jones married a Buckner Stith (b 1752), as his first wife.^[6]

The Buckner Stith born 1752 who married Elizabeth Jones (as his first wife) is the son of Buckner (b 1722),^[6] who was the son of Drury (b 1695) and Elizabeth.

The Buckner Stith born 1739/40 who married Ann Dade is the son of Drury Stith (born c1718), brother of Buckner Stith (b 1722).

Drury Stith, born c1718, married (first) Martha ____, (second) Elizabeth Jones, widow of Thomas Eldridge.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Lunenburg, VA. Deed Book 1. p. 101. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4L-8K4G?i=61&cat=372284
2. ↑ "Brunswick, Virginia, United States Records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C374-XSVG-S : April 5, 2021), image 39 of 114; Saint Andrew's Parish (Brunswick County, Virginia : Episcopal).
3. ↑ Drury Stith b c1718, RBB database in Rootsweb.
4. ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/ELDRIDGE/1998-12/0912989337
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Entry for Drury Stith (b 1718), Lyon Gardiner Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} See this record for his father, Buckner (b 1722):
   • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 26, 2015), "Record of Buckner Stith (b 1722), patriotic service", Ancestor # A110256.