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Elijah Stansbury Sr. (1751 - 1837)

Elijah Stansbury Sr.
Born in Baltimore County, Province of Marylandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 27 Dec 1779 in St Pauls Parish, Baltimore, Maryland, USAmap
Husband of — married 15 Nov 1783 in Baltimore County, Marylandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 85 in Harford, Maryland, USAmap
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Biography

Elijah Stansbury was born in Baltimore County about 1756. He was the son of William Stansbury and Elizabeth Ensor. [1]The family moved to Harford County in the early 1790s and settled in the Deer Creek area. [2] Elijah bought a mill site on Deer Creek and built a brick house around 1805 using bricks made from clay dug on his plantation. The house was still standing in 1967 and was in the Standsbury family until 1900.[3]


Marriage and Family

The family appears on the 1800 U.S. Census with a family of 9 children under sixteen, 8 boys & 1 girl, plus 1 girl over 16. There were also 5 enslaved persons living in the household. There is no sign of the family in the 1810 census, but there is an Elijah Stansbury on the 1820 census living again in Baltimore County. In this household there were a boy & a girl under 10; between 10 and 15 there were 2 girls & 1 boy; between 16 and 25 there were 3 boys and 1 girl; between 26 to 44 there was a boy & a girl. Both parents are listed as over 45. Eliljah was living in Baltimore County with his younger children when he died in 1837. Elijah was married twice to two of the daughters of David Gorsuch and Elizabeth Hanson. His first wife was Elizabeth Gorsuch who was deceased before 5 MAY 1784 and the mother of one child:

  1. Charles Stansbury b. abt. 1784 to 1824 [4]

After the death of Sarah, Elijah married her younger sister, Elizabeth Gorsuch. She was the mother of:

  1. David Gorsuch abt. 1784
  2. William abt. 1781
  3. Jesse 29 JUN 1786
  4. John abt. 1787
  5. Isaac 28 JUN 1788
  6. Rebecca abt. 1789
  7. Elijah MAY 1791
  8. Jacob 17 JUN 1793
  9. Abraham abt. 1797
  10. James abt. 1799
  11. Thomas 14 OCT 1800
  12. Mary Polly abt. 1802
  13. Elizabeth abt. 1805

Death

Elijah died on his farm in Baltimore County 21 AUG 1837. He did not leave a will.[5]


Sources

  1. Barnes, Robert W. “Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759” Baltimore, MD: Clearfield 1989.
  2. Hawkins, Archibald. "The life and times of Hon. Elijah Stansbury, an "old defender" and ex-mayor of Baltimore"J. Murphy & Co. Baltimore:1874 [archive.org]
  3. Wright, C. Milton. "Our Harford Heritage" Baltimore:1967
  4. Balt. Co. Will Book Liber 4 folio 3
  5. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49574523/elijah-w-stansbury
  • Note - more work needs to be done on these children and sources should be added




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Please do not combine them. I made some kind of merge error. Thanks.
posted by Kerry Elkins
Kerry, I don't think all of these children really belong to Elizabeth Gorsuch & Elijah Stansbury. These Stansburys can be very confusing but this family seems to need some work. The last child was born when Elizabeth was 63.
posted by Seely (Kenny) Foley

Rejected matches › Elijah Stansbury (1791-1883)