Davis Stockton purchased 400 acres on Ivy Creek in Albermarle County, Virginia in 1739."History of Albemarle County, Virginia" He purchased 800 acres at Meachum's Fork in Albermarle County, Virginia in 1741."History of Albemarle County, Virginia"By 1710 they were living in Chester County, PA. Stockton began to prosper as a farmer, In 1739, Stockton obtained title to 400 acres on Ivy Creek and two years later, obviously with his older children in mind, he acquired 800 more at the north andsouth forks of Mechum Riber. Goochland County was broken up in 1744. The Woods and Stockton families found themselves living in the newly formed Albemarle County. No Stocktons remain in Albemarle, but they left their name on the land. The north fork of Mechum's River is still called Stockton's Creek. In early times the south fork, on which the Stockton's operated the first mill in that part of Virginia, was called Stockton's Mill Creek. Once a defile in the mountains now know as Israel'sGapwas called Stockton's Thoroughfare.
