Items in [Brackets] are my notes.
Items in {Curly Brackets} are items that either could not be read or I was not sure about the transcription.
[Page 360]
October 174{8}. While this document alludes specifically only to the two
eldest of Stephen's four younger brothers, and does not mention either
William 2 or Turner 2 (probably because both were mere lads at the time),
on the other hand, it contains the only known reference now in existence
to Stephen's sister "Ann Grant" who was the wife of Robert Grant.
Evidently, therefore, Ann Southall 2 must have been one of the four eldest
of her father's six children, if not indeed the eldest of them all. Many
years later, doubtless after her death, Turner Southall 2 left a legacy in
his will to Angelica Grant 3, apparently his ward and presumably his
niece, that is, a daughter of Robert Grant and his wife Ann Southall 2.
William Southall 2, the elder of Dasey's two youngest sons, was a
youth about eighteen years old when his parents left Amelia county
(around 1750) and went to live some distance away on the other side
of James river in Henrico county (Va. M.H.&B., XLV, 279)*; and
there he and his brother Turner 2 grew to manhood and continued to live
all the rest of their days. The period from 1747 to 1750 which they spent
in Amelia county in their youth was a brief interlude in their lives not
long enough to identify either of them with that neighborhood. Concerning
William Southall 2 almost nothing is known, not even whether
he was ever married or when he died. Presumably he left no descendants.
Above all it is important not to confuse William Southall 2 with a
totally different and elder individual who had the same name and who
came to Amelia county from James City county in 175{5} and thereafter
lived in Amelia county possibly more than a quarter of a century. This
William Southall of Amelia county (as he may properly be called)
doubtless belonged to the same generation as Dasey Southall 1 and John
Southall, deputy sheriff of Charles City county in 1737 (Va. M.H.&B.,
XLV, 278)*; and it is natural to conjecture that these contemporaries,
all having the same surname and starting out in Virginia in the adjacent
counties of Charles City and James City, were near kinsmen.
Moreoever, it seems justifiable to conclude that all the Southalls in Virginia
must trace their descent from one or other of these three progenitors,
Dasey, John and William Southall; although concerning both
John Southall of Charles City county and William Southall of Amelia
county and their ramifications we are still very much in the dark. On
the other hand, as set forth in the previous article, the descendants of
Dasey Southall 1 or, more accurately speaking, the descendants of his two
sons, James Barrett Southall 2 of Williamsburg and Col. Turner Southall 2
of Henrico county may be said to be fairly well accounted for. As to the
line of their elder brother Philip Southall 2 of Charles City county (Va.
M.H.&B., XLV, 280)* unfortunately there is still much room for
conjecture. However, the remainder of this contribution will be concerned
chiefly with William Southall of Amelia county and incidentally
with two other obscure individuals, namely, James and John Southall
who may have been two brothers, apparently both younger than William.
[Footnote:]
* For papers 279, 278 & 280 see pp. 335, 334 & 336 this
volume.
Source: Transcribed from images of photocopies, 13 Mar 2002, Susan Shields Sasek. I received this copy from June Southall many years ago, but didn't have the reference. Carol Southall Atkinson has provided me with a reference for this work, but it has different page numbers than were on my copies: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XLVI, No. 2 (April, 1938), pages 166 through 170. Since my copies of "Concerning the Southalls of Virginia," and "Addendum Concerning the Southalls of Virginia" have consecutive page numbers, I'm assuming my copies are from a reprint of the 1937 and 1938 articles that Carol gave the references to. Thanks to Kathi (my daughter) for scanning these images for me.
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