John and Elizabeth Watkins Stockley were my eighth maternal grandparents. Church attendance was compulsory and fines were issued. I can just picture John and his brother, Francis, who got fined inattentive, bored and sleeping, whispering, staring out the windows or into space. Then, as tobacco plantation owners not liking the British overruling the Colony on how much tobacco to pay the Anglican priests when the crops failed. I am continually amazed at the details they kept in the Accomack County, Virginia court records for me to find 378 years later!
