This far up my maternal family tree it isn't surprising that we know so little about this 8th great grandmother, especially considering that she lived in Virginia where early records can be scarce.
[Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649–1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003.]
When her husband Abraham Stapp made his will in 1710 Dorothy was to retain "all property" during her lifetime so she was alive at that point although it's not clear to me that she still was at the time Abraham's will was probated four years later.*
[Section: Essex County, Wills and Deeds, 1711-1714.
Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. II [database on-line]. Ancestry.com]
Essex County is located on the south side of the Rappahannock River, roughly here:
[Detail from "A New Map of New England New York New Iarsey Pensilvania Maryland and Virginia" 1685.
Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]
Here's how I'm related to Dorothy through her son Joshua:
[Ancestry.com]
I wrote about Dorothy's granddaughter Martha Stapp earlier this year.
*It wasn't uncommon for a man's will not to be changed to reflect later deaths in the family.
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