Thomas Stanfield I (1747 - 1824)

Born 29 Dec 1747 in New Castle, New Castle, Delaware

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Vernon) Stanfield — married 1766 in New Castle, New Castle, Delaware

Descendants

Died 11 May 1824 at age 76 in Rushcreek Township, Logan, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Thomas was mentioned on a memorial in Stanfield Pioneer Cemetery, Logan County, Ohio, United States with a death date of 11 May 1823.^[1]

Name

Name: Thomas /Stanfield/^[2]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1747

Place: PA^[3]

Marriage

Husband: Thomas Stanfield

Wife: Hannah Vernon

Marriage:

Place: PA^[4][5]

Thomas Stanfield. ^[6]

Born 29 Dec 1747. New Castle, New Castle, Delaware, United States. ^[7]

Died 1824-05-11 Rushcreek, Logan, Ohio, USA. ^[8]

Buried Logan County, Ohio, USA. ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #32041381 (accessed 25 October 2022)
   Memorial page for Thomas Stanfield Sr. (29 Dec 1747-11 May 1823), citing Stanfield Pioneer Cemetery, Logan County, Ohio, USA.
2. ↑ Source: #S20 Page: Source number: 668.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: KCG
3. ↑ Source: #S20 Page: Source number: 668.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: KCG
4. ↑ Source: #S20 Page: Source number: 668.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: KCG
5. ↑ Source: #S20 Page: Source number: 668.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: KCG
6. ↑ Source: #S-528559335
7. ↑ Source: #S-528559335
8. ↑ Source: #S-528559335
9. ↑ Source: #S-528559335

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Acknowledgments

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• Source: S-528559335 Repository: #R-1044918473 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Repository: R-1044918473 Ancestry.com
• Source: S-528565315 Repository: #R-1044918473 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=82529654&pid=593

Thomas Stanfield, Quaker 1747-1823

Thomas was born December 29, 1747 to John and Hannah Stanfield in New Castle, Delaware. His father died when he was only eight years old. When he was about 17 years old, he must have moved out of the family house as he wanted to join the New Garden Meeting House (Quaker Society) in Pennsylvania, and drop out of Cane Creek Meeting House in Delaware. However, on Dec. 7, 1765 Thomas was refused a certificate because of disorderly conduct. It was reported that he kept company with some people of “loose and irregular conduct” at a public house where they had fiddling music and he joined with them in dancing at said place.

On July 4, 1767 Thomas was not in disposition to make satisfaction for his conduct, so he was disowned by the Friends in New Garden Meeting House in Pennsylvania and the testimony forwarded to Friends in North Carolina, Thomas having returned there.

However, he must have returned to Pennsylvania, because he married Hannah Vernon (1749-1830) in about 1770 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. They then moved to North Carolina, and he must have been reinstated in the Society of Friends.

In 1783, they moved from Orange County, North Carolina to Greene County, North Carolina, which later became Tennessee. In 1806 they left New Hope Meeting House in Greene County and moved to Miami Meeting House, Warren, Ohio. Thomas was the first settler in Rush Creek township, Logan County, Ohio where he established a Quaker society which became Goshen Monthly Meeting with the Meeting House on his farm, 4-1/2 miles NE of Bellefontaine, Ohio.

He died May 11, 1823 and is buried in Stanfield Cemetery, Rush Creek, Logan County, Ohio. Hannah, the daughter of Mordecai and Mary Ellet Vernon, died April 28, 1830.

Volume: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol· V

Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607-1943 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data:Hinshaw, William Wade, et al., compilers. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. 6 vols. 1936–1950. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991–1994. Hinshaw, William Wade. Marshall, Thomas Worth, comp. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Supplement to Volume 1. Washington, D.C.: n.p. 1948.

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