Richard Stith (ca. 1728–1802) was surveyor of Campbell County from about 1781 until his death. He served as a justice of the peace beginning in 1782. At his death Stith had amassed substantial property including a plantation house, twenty-eight slaves, and over thirteen thousand acres of land in Campbell and Bedford counties (Campbell Co. Record of Surveys [1781–1827], 1–88; Campbell Co. Order Book, 1:1; Campbell Co. Will Book, 2:103–11, 121–7, 131–2).

John Wayles (1715–73), TJ’s father-in-law, was an attorney, merchant, and planter who immigrated to Virginia from his native England. By the 1740s he had acquired “The Forest,” a plantation in Charles City County. TJ described Wayles as “a most agreeable companion” and “a lawyer of much practice, to which he was introduced more by his great industry, punctuality & practical readiness, than to eminence in the science of his profession.” Wayles wed three times, with a total of four daughters reaching adulthood from the first two marriages. With his slave Betty Hemings he was reputedly also the father of six children, including Sally Hemings. On 1 Jan. 1772 TJ married Wayles’s widowed daughter Martha, and through her he inherited property in Wayles’s estate that was “about equal to my own patrimony, and consequently doubled the ease of our circumstances.” Wayles died in Charles City County (Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine 6 [1925]: 266–70; TJ’s Autobiography, 6 Jan.–29 July 1821 [DLC]; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 34 vols. description ends , esp. 1:46, 95–6, 100, 103, 15:642–77; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , esp. 1:209, 213, 329–32; Williamsburg Virginia Gazette [Purdie & Dixon], 3 June 1773; Charles City Co. Deeds and Wills [1766–74], 461–3).

james donald was a Bedford County merchant (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 1:218).