STAFFORD COUNTY COURT HOUSE
STAFFORD, VIRGINIA
DEED BOOK 26A
April 15, 1869
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We the undersigned Commissioners having been appointed by the County
Court to divide the land of the late Sallye Payne of Stafford Co. between her
heirs in accordance to her last will and testament recorded in the County
Court of Stafford ‑‑ did on the 15th day of April 1869 proceed as
follows: We first surveyed the
whole land and ascertained it to measure 43 acres 2 rods and 21 poles. We then
divided it into two equal parts and the children of James Payne preferring lot
no. 1, we allotted that portion to them and Mary Johnson and Lucy Burton
preferring the other half of said and containing 21 acres 3 rods and 10 poles
blk 1 allowed that to them and dividing the said half into equal parts we
allotted to Lucy Burton lot blk. 2 and to Mary Johnson lot no. 3 as will
appear in the plot above.
Given
under our hands this 15th day of April 1869.
G.K.
Wallace
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On Pages 516 and 517, Deed Book UU, are entered transfers and sales for
1/2 of the above property from the three children of James Payne to a Lewis W.
Graves of Baltimore, Md. There are three separate transactions, paying each
$72.71 for their 1/3 of the property. The date was 29 December, 1873. From
this, we have proof that William H. Payne of Baltimore, Md. was a brother and
Rosalie Payne of Falmouth was a sister to Sallye Payne. In the third
transaction, it spells out "Sallie Payne now Sallie Payne Stiars and Wm.
Wesley Stiars" leaving no chance that we are not talking about anyone but
Wm. Wesley Stiars and his first wife, Sarah (Sallie) Payne Stiars.
The transactions further note that Elizabeth Payne (their aunt) still lives on
the property.
The
1860 Census of Stafford County, lists Family No. 117 as:
Eliza
Payne 43 F Not owning property.
Sarah
Graves 21 F - Factory hand
Frances
Graves 19 F “ Dtr of
Robert&Eliz.Graves md Bryant, Hy.F.
15
Jul 1858 STMR
Mary
Graves 13 F “
Dtr of Robert&Eliz.Graves md Arthur Lee Payne
2
Nov 1870 SPMR
Lewis
Graves 15 F Laborer
Sally
Payne 7 F
Dtr of James and Sallye Paine, will marry William Wesley Stiars c 1870
Rosalia
Payne 5 F
Dtr of James and Sallye Paine
William
Payne 3 M
Son of James and Sallye Paine
Morris
Truslow 22 M Laborer
On Page 178, Deed Book L, it notes that in an earlier transfer of this
same property, James Payne's wife was Sallie E. Luck and her mother and father
were John M. and Mary A. Luck. It also refers to the property as being 1 mile
from Falmouth.
This
map copied from “The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War” Fairfax
Press, Series 1 Vol XXI, clearly shows this land l mile Northwest of Falmouth
titled "Miss Payne. Also, the road in 1867 clearly follows what is now
Washington Street, turning into Melcher Drive. The Payne property would be
just where Melcher Drive enters back onto Route 17, on the North side of
17.What’s left of this property is now Lot 6A in the current (2002) Stafford
County Land Tax Map.
