Stovall Family Collection

Taken from Family Lineage of Drury and Sarrah Stovall by Ada Ruth Stovall, c1997.

More than 250,000 people in the U.S. are descendants of Bartholomew Stovall who came from England to Virginia in 1684. Bartholomew Stovall, was born to George and Joan Stovall, August 24, 1665 at Ashbury-Surrey, England. A modest youth from Albury, England, Stovall agreed to a written contract to be indentured as a husbandman to John Bright, to travel to Virginia on the merchant ship Booth and to do whatever he was told to do for four years in exchange for payment for his passage and "meat, drink, apparel, lodging and most other necessities."

A Quaker lad who was baptized in the Anglican church in his town of Albury, England, Bartholomew wanted to be free of the political and religious strife that gripped England and was in opposition to his Quaker beliefs. He came to America and worked off his indenture. On August 8, 1693, he married Anne Burton in the St. John's Episcopal Church, Henrico Parish, VA. The couple had seven children. On August 17, 1715, Bartholomew was granted a patent in Henrico County for 318 acres of land near Powhaton, Va., about 30 miles from Richmond.

Children of Bartholomew and Anne Stovall:

George

William

Thomas

Hannah

Bartholmew, Jr.

John

Margaret

Bartholomew Stovall was a private in the North Carolina militia during the war of the Revolution, he had refused or neglected to take the Oath of Allegiance to the State of North Carolina. Dury Stovall is on the Muster Rolls for the War of 1812. John M. Stovall served as a private in the Texas Confederate Calvalry, 1864. John C. Stovall was killed in the Civil War. Andrew Stovall served in the Mississippi infantry, Confederate army until 1864. In 1893, Wallace Fisher Stovall founded the Tampa Tribune, and helped establish the Florida State Fair in Tampa. Eddie Stovall served in the US Infantry in the Philippine Insurrection, 1899.