Robert T. Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1790 - Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia
Christening:
Death: 1 Aug 1877 - Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia ( at age 86)
Burial: in Stafford Cemetery, Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia
Parents
Father: Thomas Stafford
Mother: Lucy Thomas
Notes
General:
Birth:Dec. 8, 1790, USA
Death:Aug. 1, 1877
Stafford
Camden County
Georgia, USA
On Cumberland Island, GA there is a cemetery at the community called Stafford, off the main road, before Stafford House. There is a coquina wall around 4 marked old graves.
It was 1785 when Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene and his wife, Catherine, received land on Cumberland Island as a repayment for his personal financial war contributions and began construction on a four-story tabby Dungeness. James Oglethorpe was first to build on the island and had named his hunting lodge Dungeness, so Greene and his wife picked up the name for their home. However, the sweltering summer heat of Georgia got the best of the 44-year-old General, and he died at his Savannah Mulberry Grove plantation. His wife, Caty (as she was affectionately called), was left to finish the immense project. With help from the children's tutor-turned- stepfather, Phinneas Miller and Caty completed the structure and began one of the most impressive plantation models of the time period.
During the remaining years of Caty's life, she attempted to rid her name of debt and harvested oaks, staying one step ahead of marauding pirates crossing the Florida-Georgia line to smuggle the gargantuan live oaks. Once Phinneas got lockjaw and died, Caty and her children were on their own until her death in 1814. She was buried, as tradition dictated, in the closest cemetery '96 the Greene-Miller '96 where Phinneas lies in an unmarked grave.
Born on the island in 1790, Robert Stafford's story picks up as the Greene saga fades. Having worked for Caty's daughter, Louisa Shaw, Stafford learned the prosperity of plantation life, cultivating crops of citrus, rice and olives, with his most productive being Sea Island cotton. By the early 1800s, he owned most of the island, as well as 348 slaves at the height of his empire. Never married, Stafford took a mulatto common law slave wife, Zabette, who bore him six children. As the Civil War edged toward the island, the people fled North, including Zabette and the children, but not Stafford. Although the well-educated and accomplished children never returned, Zabette did, finding aging Stafford with another mulatto slave and two daughters. The stalwart, brazen Stafford died at age 87 in 1877, leaving nothing to Zabette or his six children.
http://deepsouthmag.com/2013/06/12/the-living-history-of-cumberland-island/
Stafford acquired portions of lands belonging to General Nathanael Greene through auction, and continued to assemble former Greene family lands so that by 1830 Stafford controlled 1,360 acres (550 ha) with 148 slaves. In 1843 Stafford acquired 4,200 acres (1,700 ha) from P.M. Nightingale, a Greene descendant who retained Dungeness. The primary crop was Sea Island cotton.[2]
Robert Stafford died in 1877. His heirs sold the property to Thomas M. Carnegie and his wife Lucy, who had also acquired Dungeness.[2] All that remains of Stafford's house is a ruin known as "the Chimneys," a series of 24 hearth-and-chimney structures representing Stafford's slaves' housing, about one kilometer east of the main house.[3]
"Growth of the Plantation". History and Archeology at the Robert Stafford Plantation, Cumberland Island. National Park Service. 2009-01-14.
Robert STAFFORD of Camden Co., to his nephew, Robert STAFFORD (subject), son of Thomas and Lucy
STAFFORD. Gift of slave Jan. 14, 1792.
Sarah Stafford
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 18 Jun 1794
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Death:
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Sibbiah Stafford
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1798 13
Christening:
Death: Abt 1839 - ( about age 41) 6
Burial:
Parents
Father: Robert Stafford
Mother: Jane Blair 13
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas O'Neal 13
Marriage: 23 Sep 1817 - Wayne County, GA 6,13
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Children:
1. Martha O'Neal
2. Mary T. O'Neal
Thomas Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1763
Christening:
Death: 23 May 1800 - ( about age 37)
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Parents
Father: Joshua Stafford
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Lucy Thomas
Marriage: Abt 1789
Status:
Children:
1. Robert T. Stafford
2. Elizabeth Stafford
3. Clarrisa Stafford
4. Thomas Stafford
5. Mary Stafford
6. Harriet Stafford
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Camden County Deed Abtracts - Book A & B
(A/33) James CASHAN, an lien, makes his affidavit and has it recorded in
connection with gaining his citzenship in Georgia; it being stated "Agreeably
to an Act of the Assembly passed for the admission of aliens in the State of
Georgia, personally appeared James CASHAN and desired his name to be enrolled
in this office; this 26 day of March, 1788."
(A/33) Robert STAFFORD, An Alien, same affidavit as above, made August 4,
1788.
(A/33) Thomas STAFFORD, an alien, same affidavit and date as Robert STAFFORD. Note: these two
men were brothers and had been residing in East Florida and had been Loyalists during the
Revolution (auth: Mrs. Margaret Davis CATE, well-known Coastal area historian).
Page 140 - (pp. 16 and 17) Oath of Office for Justice of
Peace - September 12, l789 - Thomas Stafford.
No. 5 - July, 1962 - Legal Advertising in Old Georgia Newspapers-
Page 245 - from issue of Nov. 14, 1797 - Thomas Stafford was
elected Representative from Camden County.
Thomas Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1796
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Death:
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Parents
Father: Thomas Stafford
Mother: Lucy Thomas
William Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 6 Mar 1799 - Montgomery County, Georgia 13
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Parents
Father: Ezekial Stafford
Mother: Mary Rawls
William Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1805 13
Christening:
Death:
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Parents
Father: Robert Stafford
Mother: Jane Blair 13
Spouses and Children
1. *Aleph Walker
Marriage: 9 Feb 1825
Status:
William Stafford
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Lydia Oaks
Marriage: 25 Oct 1821 - Camden Co., GA
Status:
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1827 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY, Camden County Residents, sorted by last name Source: "Reprint of Official Register of Land Lottery of Georgia
1827," Compiled and Published by Miss Martha Lou Houston, Columbus, Georgia,
printed by Walton-Forbes Company, Columbus, Georgia 1928.
1 6 297 Stafford, William Camden County Beckwiths Lee County
Military Georgia 1812 Rosters Surnames S-T
STAFFORD WILLIAMPRIVATE PRIVATE JOHNSTON'S Regiment 1 GA Militia
Benjamin Stalvey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1810 - Orangeburg District, South Carolina 1
Christening:
Death: 18 Jan 1890 - Ware County, GA ( at age 80) 1
Burial:
Spouses and Children
1. *Susan Turner
Marriage: 25 May 1830 - Hamilton Co., FL 1
Status:
2. Rhoda Register 1
Marriage: 30 Apr 1855 1
Status:
Children:
1. Matthew Stalvey
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STALVEY, BENJAMINBenjamin Stalvey was born in 1810 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, a son of John and Elizabeth Stalvey and grandson of Peter Stalvey, R.S. John and Elizabeth Stalvey moved to Georgia about 1815-1820, and settled in Ware County in the portion now Brantley County. Benjamin, the subject, grew up in Ware county and in Hamilton County, Florida, his parents moving to the latter county about 1828-1829. It was there that Benjamin was married on May 25, 1830 to Susan Turner, born 1810 in South Carolina, daughter of Moses Turner of Hamilton County. She died about 1853, and he then married on April 30, 1855 Mrs. Rhoda Skinner, widow of David Skinner and daughter of Abraham Register of Hamilton County, Florida. She was born in 1828 in Georgia and died in Clinch County, Georgia April 11, 1901. By his first marriage Mr. Stalvey had eight children, and by the last wife he had six children. The fourteen children in their order were:
1810-1890
CLINCH.
1. Benjamin S.b. 1831, Florida, m. Sallie Tomlinson, daughter of John.
2. Carolineb. 1832, Florida, m. William Tomlinson, son of John.
3. Marthab. 1834, Fla, m. Harris Tomlinson, son of John.
4. George W.b. 1835, Florida, m. Kittie Tomlinson, daughter of John.
5. Mosesb. 1838, Georgia m. Nancy Tomlinson, daughter of John.
6. Maryb. 1840, Georgia, m. John Tomlinson, son of Harris.
7. Aaronb. 1843, Georgia, died in boyhood.
8. Sarahb. 1846, Georgia, m. John T. Register.
9. Elizabethb. 1856, Georgia, m. Abraham R. Register.
10. Harrietb. 1858, Georgia, m. William B. North.
11. Bryantb. 1860, Georgia, m. Marjory North, daughter of James.
12. Matthewb. 1862, Georgia, m. (1) Joanna North, daughter of James (2) Mrs Ruby Moore Williams.
13. Elizab. 1865, Georgia, m. William J. Register.
14. Wileyb. 1868, Georgia, m. Linnie Coarson, daughter of John T.
Mr. Stalvey moved to Ware County in 1837 and located in the 719th militia district on lot of land 160, 12th land district. He lived there until his death January 18, 1890. He was buried in a family burying ground near his residence.
Benjamin Stalvey and his wife, Rhoda, united with Prospect Primitive Baptist Church August 28, 1875 and were baptized by Rev. ^1.^ D. Hutto. On August 5, 1882, they were granted letters of dismission and united by letter on the 22nd of the same month with Ramah Church, Clinch County. They were members there until their respective deaths.
Census References: 1830, Hamilton Co. Florida; 1840, 1850, Ware; 1860, 1870, Clinch.
Matthew Stalvey
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 1862 - Georgia 1
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Death:
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Parents
Father: Benjamin Stalvey
Mother: Rhoda Register 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Joannah North
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