Charles Stapleton

Charles Stapleton was born 13 January 1731 in Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Robert Stapleton and Anna Marie Weigand. His birth was recorded in the Casper Stover records there as Johann George Stabalton along with his sister Anna Margretha. His mother died while he was a teenager. His dad remarried and Charles moved with him and his new wife to Frederick County, Virginia where there was a German Lutheran community. This was around 1749. They bought a 428 tract of land, that they deeded to Charles shortly after he turned nineteen in March of 1750. His dad died a short time later, leaving him, in his Virginia will, a rifle gun that was not to be appraised. His step-mother Catherine died some time later in the early 1770's and his siblings and Charles sold the land (1,2,3,4,5) she had been left as a life estate by his father.

By that time Charles had married Sarah. They had three daughter and two sons; Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth, William and George. They lived in the same area of Virginia. When Charles first came it was Frederick County, but as the people moved in the county split and the part he lived in became Augusta County. In 1769 the part of Augusta he lived in became Botetourt County. For a short while it was Fincastle County before becoming Montgomery County. Charles bought and sold many pieces of property and the records of those transactions are scattered in all of the counties as well as the records of the state. He had several land patents from Virginia. (1)

Charles died in the late spring or summer of 1799 in Montgomery County, Virginia. He wrote a will 1 April 1799 (1,2,3) in Montgomery County, Virginia where he left his estate to his wife Sarah for her lifetime and afterwards to his son George for his lifetime and then it was to go to David Willis and his heirs. David was married to Charles daughter Sarah. David and his wife were executors and they had the will proven in the September 1799 court term.

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Research and website done by Tresa Tatyrek. This site was last updated 01/23/12