The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct-Dec, 1957, p 169, Extracts from The Virginia Gazette for 1755-56,
Travers Tarpley advertises for a horse strayed or stolen from Mrs. Tarplay's in Williamsburg. (21N55:31;28N55:32)
1739 in his grandfather John Tarpley's will, North Farnham Parish, Richmond, VA, Travers receives "my mill called the New Mill standing on Constable's Run at the head of Farnham Creek.
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The History of Henrico County, Louis Manarin and Clifford Dowdey, University Press of VIrginia, Charlottesville, p 148
"Woodberry" and Hussey's" tracts on Pipemakers Creek and Farnham Creek acquired by Col. WIlliam Travers in the 17th century later passed to his son Capt. Samuel Travers. In the early 18th centruy they were owned by Travers Tarpley who in 1753 added the "Peacock Hill" tract, named for Richard Peacock who had owned this land in the 17th century. Dr. William Flood of "Kinsail", Westmoreland County purchased the first two tracts form Travers Tarpley in 1767 and the Peacock tract from Tarpley's executors in 1768.
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Died testate in North Farnham Parish, WB 7, p 11, 1768
Major Travers Tarpley's will mentions his "Sons" William Travers Peachey and Bartholomew McCarty and as he had daughters married to gentlemen of the surnames of Peachey and McCarty it has been taken for granted by some the aforementioned gentlement were actually his sons-in-law. The marriage bonds here presented prove this assumption erroneous and the original will of Major Travers Tarpley in the loose papers names William Travers Peachey and Bartholomew McCarty as "grandsons" of the testator. Major Travers and Betty had no surviving male child but six daughters.
