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[Jack Tatum's Family Tree PURE.FTW] THIS WAS PUBLISHED BY: FROM THE BOOK STEPHEN TATOM AND HIS DESCENDANTS WALTER J. TATOM & JOHN PLATH GREEN ATTORNEY AT LAW DALLAS TEXAS 75230 IN 1971 THE LIFE OF STEPHEN TATOM Stephen Tatom was a gentleman. of Virginia. In 1721, when he was born , the Crown Colony of Virginia observed as fine a set of social distinctions as did old England, For instance, if a man who lived in Virginia owned no land, he was called a "Goodman" If he owned his own land, but was not wealthy enough to own slaves to till the land for him, he was called a "Yoe man", When he reached that economic level where his land ownership was too large for him to till with his own hands and hew was able to purchase and own slaves to work for him, his social status was thereby raised to that of a " Gentleman". If he was successful in being appointed to a high level of government opposition or was elected to the House of Burgesses, t hen he was referred to as "Esquire" Stephen Tatom was raised on his father's plantation on the James River, Virginia, and obtained his schooling through private tutors hired by his father to live on the plantation and teach him. His father lived on the plantation until his death. When he was 25 years old, an advertisement mentioning him appeared in the Virginia Gazette, Published in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Thursday, May 29, 1746. Mr. John Martin of King William County, Virginia, advertised for the return of an Irish convict servant man who " stole a middle sized grey spotted horse, well gaited and goes sprightly, with bridle and a English double skirted saddle, the crupper made of Virginia leather, belonging to Mr. Stephen Tatom. ( my own guess is that this might be the father of Mourning, and Stephen could have been visiting when horse and saddle stolen by a servant. Irish Convict, Shortly thereafter, Stephen Tatom married a girl by the name of Mourning. In Virginia in 1746 the courtship of a boy and girl was much more formal than it is this day. Arrangements for the marriage had to be made through the parents of the groom with the parents of the bride. After the wedding had been arranged, it was necessary that the date of the ceremony be announced on three consecutive Sundays in the Anglican Church, to which Stephen and his prospective bride belonged, notifying all persons of the impending event. This was occasioned to permit any person who objected to the marriage to be present at the ceremony and register his objections publicly. This method of giving notice was called "publishing the banns". Under Virginia Law during his father's lifetime, only the eldest son inherited lands from his parents, as the law of primogeniture was still in full force and effect. This meant that the father left his belongings, and all property to his first born son and as Stephen was not the first born son, it was necessary for him to go west in search of cheap land to begin his family plantation. On January 11, 1760, Stephen and his family resided in the Piedmont section of Virginia in the frontier country, a resident of the County of Spotsylvania, for on that day the third son and fifth child of Stephen and Mourning Tatom was born, in what was called St. George's Parish. His name was called William, and he is the person through whom you present here today descend, and whose biography we heard read last year. There after, on October 14, 1765 Stephen purchased 50 acres of land in the same county, paying 26 pounds "current money of Virginia". The land lay in St. George"s Parish on Doug las's Run and was bought from Thomas Lane and Ann, his wife. The plantation actually was divided into two portions: the lower half contained the dwelling houses, servants quarters and the cultivated portion thereof: the upper half had never been cleared or tilled. This turbulent period in the history of our country saw the successful conclusion of the French and Indian War, which Britain won but which was actually the beginning of the great American Revolution. King George 111 of England never understood the personal dynamism and love for freedom of the Virginians, who in Stephen's day had grown separate and apart from life in old England. From the animals and with the Indians, his generation had become interested in day -to-day living and had lost interest in the so-called cultural pursuits of their ancestors. In 1765 English Parliament passed and odious law referred to as the Stamp Act. This law required the all letters, newspapers, documents, deeds and the like had to have stamps affixed to it under penalty. The Virginians had no representatives in Parliament to participate in the debate prior to its passage, and the colonists did not believe in taxation without representation. When the stamp collectors arrived in the colonies with their bags of stamps, some were forced at gun point to return to the ship and to sail for England. Others were allowed to land but were never allowed to sell their stamps. Thereafter , on Oct 14, 1765, Stephen purchased 150 ac
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