Steptoe Resources
Steptoe Family Bible, Library of Virginia # 38100
Bible of James Steptoe, 1750-1826, Library of Virginia MBRC2, #21403
"Federal Hill" Library of Virginia, Historical Inventory, Works Progress Administration, VHIR/05/0199
Hardy, Stella Pickett, Col. Families of the Southern States, 1991.
Burgess, Jim
Virginia Vital Records #1 1600's to 1800's Virginia Will Records, Berkeley County, WV, FTM CD # 174
Lees of Virginia, a Selective Genealogy by Paul C. Nagel, 1990
Some Prominent Virginia Families by Louise Pecquet du Bellet 1907 Vol. II, Chapter XX, Johnston, Moore, Steptoe, Callaway and Thornton Families, page 717 at Genealogy.com and Ancestry.com
Inscriptions on Old Tombstones in Westmoreland and Northumberland Counties, FTM CD #174
Read-Penn Bible Records, Virginia Vital Records #1 1600's to 1800's, FTM CD # 174
Southern Genealogies #1 1600 - 1800, Historical Southern Families, Vol. III, Steptoe-Lawson-Edwards, Genealogy.com
Virginia Genealogies #1, Genealogies of Virginia Families II, The Eskridge Family, FTM CD # 162
Virginia Genealogies #4 1600 - 1800, Virginia Genealogies, Conway Family, FTM CD # 205
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Burgesses and other Prominent Persons, p 187 at Ancestry.com
Colonial Virginia Sources Records, 1600-1700, Marriages of Virginia Residents Vol. II, Part III, FTM CD # 510
Lee, The Seven Children of Richard Lee of Ditchley.doc, Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lelandva/solv1.htm, Society of Lees of Virginia, 1971
The Lost Child of Richard
Lee of Ditchley, Re: Lucy Lee who married Baldwin Matthews Smith, by Mrs
Merillat Moses, 1967 at
Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~lelandva/lucylee2.html
Courtesy of Jim Burgess
Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Wills, Settlements of Estates, Transcript
of Book 2 1682- 1687
1681 By paid Anthony Steptoe
ANTHONY STEPTO aged fourtey foure years or thereabouts deposeth yt; he knew Mr John Cossens (deceased) at ye time of his death of he county of Northumberland in Virginia, in England, in a place caled Chidredge nere a place called Bishops Walton in Hampsheir, yt he comae out of England with ye said Cossens in ye sam ship into Virga; where he served him & his extors, six yeares in yt he hath often heard ye aid Cossens speak of his Mother & his sister, and yt he expected they would come to Virginia to him, yt after ye said Cossens death, who died about ye year 1674, his reputed Sister Mrs Elizth Jauncey, with her reputed Husband Mr. John Eustace came altogether intoVirginia &toucht at Barbadoes in their way, & he hath heard ye said Wm Jauncey & his daughter say yt; ye said Wm Jauncey in ye wright of his said wife possesst himselfe of ye said Cosses Estate, here by virtue of ye said Cossens Will, yt ye said Sarah & John Eustace have issue living two sons, William ye eldest yt; ye said Wm &Elizth Jauncey owned and acknowledged ye said Sarah for their lawful daughter & owned & acknowledged ye said William Eustace for their lawful grandson by their said daughter; yt after ye death of said Elizth Jauncy, ye wife of ye said Wm Jauncey, who died some shore time after ye birth of ye said william Eustace, ye said John & SARAH Eustace recovered from ye said Jauncey all ye reall & most part of ye personal estate of ye said Cossens here in Virginia; yt; ye said William Jauncey went for England about ye year 1678 & ye said Sarah, wife of ye said John Eustce, died about ye yeare1682, and further he ye Depont saith yt ever since he came to Virginia he had lived near ye said Cossens & Eustace & for ye most part of his time within halfe a mile or a mile there of all along having intimate acquaintance with ye said families to this time & further ye Depont saith not.
ANTHONEY STEPTO
Jurat Coram Cur Com Lancaster, quarto decimo die Aprillis Ano. Dom 1697
Teste Jos Tayloe, Cl Cur
1670-1674 "Appear to Cort that ye estate of Coll. John Carter, (deced) stands indebted to Kingsmeal Steptoe for his Freedom Corne, It is ordered that ye same bee foorthwth pde. wth costs.
9 March 1669 Anthony Steptoe, Servannt to John Coffens coming into this Countrey without Indenture & appearing at this Cort is ordered according to Acte to serve seaven years from his arrival"
Tax listing of 14 Nov 1678 Lancaster Co VA: Anthony STEPTOE owed 2# Tob.
14 April 1697 Depositions were given by (1) Patience STEPTO and (2) Anthony STEPTOE in regard to the estate of John Cossens and will of William Jauncey
Patience Stepto Deposition
Patience Stepto aged fivety four years of thereabouts deposeth yt:
she knoe Mr. John Cossens (decest) at ye time of his death of ye County of
Northumberland Colloney of Virginia On board a Ship called ye "Issac and
Benjamin" Mr. John Plover, Commander, riding in ye River of Thames in ye Kingdom
of England, yt. she came with ye said Cossens in ye same ship into Virginia
where she served him five yeares & was with him when he died; which about ye
year 1674; that she hath often heard him speak of his Mother & Sister & yt he
expected they would come to Virga to him yt. after ye said Cossens death about
ye yeare 1676, his reputed sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Jauncey and her reputed
husband Mr. William Jauncey & their reputed daughter Sarah and her reputed
husband Mr. John Eustace, came... Anthony Steptoe provide similiar testamony..