Re: Dorothy Seale of Wilkes Co, GA
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In reply to:
Dorothy Seale of Wilkes Co, GA
Lawrence Maynard 4/21/01
Dorothy Seale Stribling was born in 1739, Prince William Co VA. She was the daughter and youngest child of Anthony Seale (II) and Ann Bristow. Anthony Seale was a justice on the Prince William County court and later sheriff of Prince William County. He was also on the vestry of the Dettingen Parish Anglican Church from the 1730s until the 1750s. Dorothy married Francis Stribling and they lived in Prince William County until 1765, when they following her brother to Cumberland County NC. They bought a farm there, but about 1775 or 1776 they left the virtual civil war in Cumberland County (resulting from political differences over the Revolutionary War) and settled in Wilkes County Georgia. Francis Stribling was granted land in Wilkes County in 1778. His plantation lay on Fishing Creek, in the portion of Wilkes County that bordered Lincoln County when it was created in ---(I am drawing a blank right now - will have to look up when Lincoln was created). Francis Stribling died I think in 1796. Dorothy Seale Stribling lived in Wilkes County until her death in 1820.
Dorothy Seale Stribling's siblings:
William Seale, Sr. (1722-1790/1800) was a sub-sheriff of Prince William Co VA under his father in the 1750s. He replaced his father on the vestry of Dettingen Parish in the latter 1750s. He and the Striblings apparently moved together from Prince Wm. Co VA to Cumberland Co NC in 1765. William was a justice on the Cumberland and Moore County courts, formed a company of men during the Revolutionary War and served as its captain. In 1784 he was elected as the first representative of newly-created Moore County to the General Assembly. He died in Moore County between 1790-1800.
Elizabeth Seale...she married twice and remained in Virginia her entire life. I will have to look up data on her, as I don't recall it offhand and am not at home as I type this.
Thomas Seale, Sr. (1727-1806) lived in Prince William Co VA with his parents and siblings until 1765, when he and several siblings followed their brother Charles to Cumberland County NC. He sold his plantation there in 1782 and moved to Wilkes County GA, later Hancock County GA. He died in Baldwin County GA in 1806.
Charles Seale (1729-1799) moved to NC in 1753 with his father-in-law, James Muse, Sr. They were first in Orange County in 1753, later in Cumberland by 1755. In 1770, he again followed his wife's family, this time to Craven County SC, later Fairfield County SC. Following the death of their father Anthony Seale, II in 1781, he followed his siblings into Wilkes Co GA, moving there about 1783 or 1784. However, he returned to Fairfield County SC and died there in 1799.
John Seale remained in Prince William and Fairfax Cos. VA his entire life. He apparently took care of his widowed mother after his father died. He was a soldier during the Revolution, but apparently had a less than exemplary military career. John also served as sub-sheriff of Prince William County under his father and was quite active in local affairs.
Anthony Seale, III lived in Prince William Co VA and acquired a large plantation there near his father's. He helped manage the affairs of his father's estate following Anthony Seale, II's death in 1781, but by 1783 he departed from Virginia and settled on a tract of land that adjoined Francis Stribling's in Wilkes County GA. Although their farms were extremely close, when Lincoln County was formed the Striblings were still in Wilkes but the the Seales were in Lincoln County. Anthony III died about 1794 or 1795.