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This unprecedented work tells the story of a young man brought to these shores as a British conscript during the American Revolution almost 250 years ago. He was captured by Continental forces, marched into the wilderness of Northern Virginia, and released to his own fate. As the war climaxed in colonial victory and led to the formation of the United States of America, Richard Stafford forged a place for himself on the new American frontier. He married and settled on the banks of the Potomac River, there raising a family of eight children. He is well documented in the local records of the time, noted as one of the founding trustees of Frankfort (what is now Fort Asbhy, West Virginia). His Family Bible purchased in 1804 and the estate papers and chancery court records following his death in 1808 give us rich insight into his life and times.
From our ancestral origins in Wexford County, Ireland, Staffordshire, England, Normandy, and Scandinavia, to the family seat in the Blue Ridge and Potomac Highlands of Northern Virginia, and from there to nearly every state in the Union, RICHARD STAFFORD AND HIS DESCENDANTS traces the families of five of Richard's eight children. More than 15,000 direct descendants have been identified and are included in this history. A complete index of names and an easy-to-use numbering system provide the tools you need to follow your family through the pages and the centuries in a discovery of your place in the extended Stafford family.
It is impossible to set a value on such a work, but copies of the book are being made available at $85 each. RICHARD STAFFORD AND HIS DESCENDANTS will be sent to the publisher on June 30. If you would like to have a copy of this once-in-a-lifetime book, please make an order today! Send $85, check or cash, to Casey Stafford, 13083 SH 19 South, Lovelady, Texas, 75851, or email calystafford@live.com for details about using PayPal to order. Thank you for your interest in this project. It is my honor to present this book to you!
Hi Casey, I have not had a chance to meet you, but I think you have meet with some of the Minnesota STAFFORDS. I am married to one of the grandsons of Claude & Laura Stafford, lived in several towns in Anoka County: Spring Lake Park would have been their last address. Would you be able to give me a brief synopsis of the family branch off of Richard Stafford that would include Claude (Laura Ferkingstad) Stafford, Spring Lake Park, MN; and off his branch are his children: Milton, Lorraine, Betty, Gerald, Donald, Patty, and Dwayne? And if you have already discussed this branch of the Stafford family tree with Minneapolis/Metro Area, Minnesota cousins, please let me know whom I should talk with. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI've met many of your husband's cousins, and am friends on FB with them and several more. Claude's father Clifton Bird Stafford was the son of Joseph Milton Stafford; Joseph was the son of Washington Stafford, and brother to my ggg grandfather James. In the 1880s, Joseph "went west" from Iowa with a herd of cattle or horses and some money to start a ranch, and was never heard from again. He left behind a wife and five children. Through various connections in the genealogy world, I was able to show that Joseph was killed in a sheep range war in the 1890s in northern Arizona, and is buried in Kanab County, Utah. Washington was the son of Joseph Stone Stafford, who was the son of Richard Stafford the immigrant ancestor. Of eight siblings, Joseph is the only one who remained in Virginia/West Virginia.
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