Concerning the Southall's of Charles City County

Abstract

1. As far as has been ascertained, the first representatives of the Southall Family in Virginia were at most three individuals who according to the meagre records that have come down to us appeared on the scene, if not on the soil, in chronological order as follows: EDWARD SOUTHALL (or Southwell?), who patented a tract of land in Spotsylvania county in 17251 and who died intestate in the summer of 1728, leaving no known relation in the colony;2 DASEY SOUTHALL, who was appointed inspector of tobacco at Soan's Wharf in Charles City county in 1733;3 and JOHN SOUTHALL, who was deputy-sheriff of Charles City county in 1737.4 Doubtless Dasey Southall was the youngest of the three since he long outlived the other two, but their mutual relationships are not definitely known. Dasey Southalll must have been born in England perhaps as early as 1690. He and his wife Edith had one, daughter and five sons, namely: ANN SOUTHALL2 (Robert Grant's wife, 13 W(1) 143, born about 1723 or earlier), STEPHEN SOUTHALL2 (1722-1748), PHILIP SOUTHALL2 (1724-1759), JAMES BARRETT SOUTHALL2 (b. 1726; died before 1787),5 WILLIAM SOUTHALL2 (b. 1732) and TURNER SOUTHALL2 (1736-1791). How long Dasey Southall remained in Charles City county, we cannot tell; but after spending a couple of years (1747-1749) in Amelia county where during part of that time he seems to have had a country inn or licensed ordinary of some kind, Dasey Southall and his wife, together with their two youngest sons who were still in their teens, moved to Henrico county in 1750 where Dasey abode all the rest of his life until he died in 1767. His widow is said to have been nearly 91 years of age when she died many years afterwards early in 1782. Dasey's oldest son Stephen Southall2 was not quite 26 years old when he died, unmarried, in Amelia county in 1748. William Southall2, next to the youngest of the five brothers, lived in Henrico county and