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This family appears in the King Papers at the Virginia Historical Society in the Douglass family file. I have not independently verified his research, although his work is highly regarded.
King found the following. King Papers, Personal correspondence of George H. S. King to Mrs. Albert Lee Rogers, 30 June 1960:
Archibald Douglass appears on the Personal Property Tax Lists of Stafford County from their beginning in 1782 to 1794 when he drops off. In 1788 he also paid tax on one male between the ages of 16-21 years of age and continued to do so until 1791. This is evidence that he had a son in his household who was taxable and who was aged between 1-21 during the period mentioned.
In 1792 the tax lists show Archibald Douglass listed and just under his name Mourning Douglass appears for himself on the tax lists and paid the so-called "head Tax."
As Mourning Douglass first appears on the tax list in 1792, the inference is that he was 21 years of age in that year, which places his birth year as circa 1771.
In 1794 Archibald Douglass last appears on the Personal Property Tax Lists of Stafford County. The Court Records of the period for Stafford County are destroyed and we have no way of establishing any other death date for him and the inference is that he died circa 1795.
King concluded that since there were no other men with the surname of Douglass in Stafford County, that this was a father and son relationship.
I don't think these people were landowners.
Archibald Douglass filed a Public Service Claim for furnishing beef to the Revolutionary Army in 1781. He is a DAR ancestor, but when I looked at the file on him it was very thin.
The 1810 and 1820 censuses for Mourning Douglass show one slave.
I have not found an ancestor for Archibald Douglass. I have two guesses. One, he is the immigrant ancestor. Two, it is possible that he came over from Charles County, MD, in a manner analogous to the move of the Whaling family (Triplett Douglass's wife was a Whaling).
King speculated that Nancy (Ann)'s maiden name was Mallett, since that was the only surname that appeared as a given name in a later generation.
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