TOOLEY.
In 1741 James Tooley obtained a patent for four hundred
acres on Totier Creek, and two years later John took out one
for two hundred and fifty in the same vicinity. They were
most probably brothers. John died in 1750, and James in
1781. The name of James's wife was Judith, and his children
were John, James, Sarah, the wife of Edmund New,
Ann, the wife of John Martin, Charles, William, Arthur,
Elizabeth, Mary, the wife of John Gilliam, and Judith, the
wife of Archelaus Gilliam. William died about 1830. His
children were Mary, William, John, Charles, Nancy, Elizabeth,
the wife of James Gentry, and Arthur. In 1815 John,
the son of William, married Mary Gilmore, and his children
were James and Joshua. The most of this family seem to
have removed to Monroe County, Kentucky. Totier was
sometimes called Tooley's Creek, and it is so designated on
some of the maps of Virginia. At the beginning of the century,
an eminence on the old Irish Road, where it was
intersected by a road from Cocke's Mill, went by the name
of Tooley's Hill.
