Jerry and Linda Butler

Stephen Lacy was born in New Kent Co. VA in what is now Hanover Co. VA. The exact spot of his residence in New Kent Co. is not known, but it was in the parish of St. Paul. He was a planter and a slave owner. The first documentary record we have of him is in the year 1731, when he took out tow patents of land of 400 acres each in the "new land" in Goochland Co. located on Owens Creek a small tributary of the South Anna River, under grant of King George II of England, by virtue of authority of William Gooch, Lt. Gov. of Virginia from 1727 to 1746 and for whom the county of Goochland was named.

In his early life, Stephen was a member of the Episcopalian Church, the established church of the colony, but by 1747 he had adopted the Presbyterian faith and apparently was in some degree instrumental in propagating that denomination in his community. William Lacy, brother of Stephen, who resided in Chesterfield Co., also adopted the Presbyterian faith by 1755.

Stephen was quite successful and must have been a prominent man in his community for at the time of his death he owned three plantations and a number of slaves. These plantations consisted of one on Owen's Creek in Goochland Co., one on Stone Horse Creek in Hanover Co. and the third on which the father of his wife, Sarah, was living in 1771.

• Hazel Potter Lawler, The Stephen Lacy Family of Goochland County, Virginia