Stephen Tarleton, Il is your 9th great grandfather.
You → Ronnie Eugene Buchanan Baldwin your father → William Henry Buchanan his father → William Earl Buchanan his father → John Neal Buchanan his father → Ann Mariah Buchanan (Rakestraw) his mother → Ann Elizabeth Rakestraw (Trent) her mother → Josiah Trent her father → Elizabeth Trent (Woodson) his mother → Stephen Woodson her father → Judith Woodson (Tarleton) his mother → Stephen Tarleton, Il her father
Stephen Tarleton I (10th great-grandfather) was the son of John Banaster (11 great-grandfather) (1585 - 1654) and Frances Tarleton (born Hooker), (1601 - 1660)
Whether Stephen Tarleton was born in York, Virginia is yet to be completely proven; however using court documents, it can be proved that he lived originally in York County, Virginia but by the time of his death he was living in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia, where he served on the Vestry.
One definite primary document evidence for the life, time and residence of Stephen Tarleton II: At the "Vestry Meeting of St Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia on 24 May 1688," a new Vestry member is chosen in the stead of "Stephen Tarleton, deceased."
Also, letter of penance from Stephen Tarleton to "HIS Majesty's Commissioner in Virginia" for being "seduced into the late horrible [Bacon's] rebellion..." [sometime after the 1676 Bacon's Rebellion}.
When Judith Ursula Tarleton was born in 1658, in New Kent County, Virginia, United States, her father, Stephen Tarleton, was 21 and her mother, Susannah Bates, was 23. She had at least 7 sons and 5 daughters with John Woodson Sr. She died on 7 February 1714, in Henrico County, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 56.
Stephen Tarleton was born on 23 August 1637, in New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Banaster Tarleton, was 27 and his mother, Judith Ursula Fleming, was 27. He married Susannah Bates on 21 May 1655, in New Kent, New Kent County, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 31 March 1688, in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 50.
Name: Stephen Tarleton
Residence Place: Virginia, USA
Comments: Settled in New Kent County and was probably a Quaker. He begged the council for pardon in taking the oath Bacon imposed upon the people. He had a daughter Judith, who married John Woodson, and probably another Susanna, who married Charles Fleming, of New Kent.; IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Person
Virginia, Biographical Encyclopedia
Stephen Tarleton patented "394 acres on the north branch of Black Creek [Originally Black Creek was in York County, Virginia; at some point York was divided into New Kent County and Black Creek fell into New Kent.], next to the lands of Peter Adams, due by purchase from Henry Bateman in 1663, who had purchased the land from Pulliam [probably William Pulliam who was also living on Black Creek] out of the 100 acres in 1657."
Stephen Tarleton and Charles Bostwicke were taken into custody by the Sheriff of York County in May 1682 "for words greatly encouraging the present distractions, by cutting up tobacco plants."
The Vestry Book and Register of St. Peter's Parish [New Kent, Virginia] 1684-1786, pages 2, 11 and 15.
Library of Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Letters and Papers concerning American Plantations.; Author: Public Record Office Class C.O.1/40 ff. 271.; Description: DONE BY JTK, 5 JUNE 1991 Andrews Guide, p. 112. Lists & Indexes XXXVI, p. 1. Calendar of St
Stephen Tarleton was living in York County, Virginia by 1659, and worked as a Tabacco appraiser. In a deposition given by him on June 24, 1659 in the York County Court, he stated he was 22 years of age. Thus Stephen was born in 1637. He was involved in a dispute with a servant, Edward Jenkins, and there are several refrences in the county records. Stephen lived in New Kent County, in Blisland Parish, in the area that later became St. Peter's Parish at least by 1663, when he patented 394 acres of land. His land was on the north side of the main branch of" Blackwater Creek" and a fork of "Chickahominy Swamp". This was just a short distance from the Woodson's over the line from what is now "Hanover County", The Blackwater Creek area is just across the" Pamunkey River" from St. Peter's Parish , where Stephen was a vestryman (1685-1687). Stephen was one of the men involved in Bacon's Rebellion. A number of New Kent County men were recruited by Nathaniel Bacon, when he set out on his mission against the Pamunkey Indians. One of the groups remained in New Kent County, after the Rebellion, at the Brick House, until Christmas time, months after Bacon had died. The group finally disintegrated with the show of British force in York River. This was still in Blisland Parish at the time. Stephen was one of those who suffered because of his part in the Rebellion, and his letter to the honorable Herbert Jeffries Morrison, his Majesty's Commissioners in Virginia follows:
The humble petition of Stephen Tarleton, of New Kent County most humbly sheweth."
" That your petitioner as he most pentiteently and sorrowfully acknowledgth, seduced into the late horrible Rebellion, and taken yet unlawful oath imposed by the late Grand Rebel; Nathaniel Bacon, Jr. and being conscious of his guilt, there of upon the first publishing his most sacred Majesty's gratious, and surpassing act of pardon, to his distressed subject of his late disloyall Colony , lay hold of the same, and take the oath ready to perform those other due and reasonable conditions which by his Majesty's said pardon he is justly enjoyed to doe, and being by the honorable Governors, proclamation of the ninth of February last, referred to the determination of your honor beseeched mercy and pardon for his said crimes, and humbly prayeth yet he may be admitted to the full benefit of his Majesty's said act of pardon".
It is not known when Stephen went to Kent County, to live, but he had lived a colorful life before he left York County. He had appeared in court there, concerning the deposition of Mary Gunnell, a servant girl, on April 12, 1660; Mary deposed, says Stephen Torlington got her with child, and did use her several times by day; and also by night in her master's hall and also other places. Even after all this; his reputation must have not been to badly tarnished. For he surely met his future bride in York County.
Stephen married Susanna Bates, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Bates of York County. John Bates was born in Kent County, England in 1598, and settled in York County Virginia. John Bates, age 24, was listed amoung the muster of Mr. Abraham Peirsey, at "Peirsey's Hundred" in 1624. He was amoung the servant's of Abraham Peirsey and had come to the colony on the "Southampton" in 1623. The Bates family would be leaders in the Quaker movement. Most of this information is from "Tidewater Virginia Families" by Virginia Lee Hutchenson Davis.
