Moses Stanley (1752 - 1812)

Born 1752 in Wayne, North Carolina

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Died 12 Aug 1812 at about age 60 in Wayne, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Moses Stanley performed Patriotic Service in North Carolina in the American Revolution.

This profile is part of the Stanley Name Study.

Moses Stanley is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A134849.

Moses Stanley was born in North Carolina.

Moses Stanley.

Research Notes

Vincent King, son-in-law of Jack and Beckie Stanly, prepared a summary of the Stanly history, based on work by Harry Stanly, census records, family bible. His sources are documented individually. (will add details later)

Major Kirby, descendant of Martha Stanly Kirboe/Kirby, prepared a history of the Stanly family based on census records, the material from Harry Stanly, and a trip through Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina to check court house and archival records. His trip was before there was a lot available online, but he found the will of Moses Stanly in the Archives in North Carolina. His sources are documented individually. (will add details later)

We have been researching this family for many years - long before there was an internet. There are several Stanly families in North Carolina, not related as far as we can tell. DNA testing may help clarify questions about whether the families are at all connected.. Just a week or so ago I found an online copy of Moses will and the listing of his estate. Before that, I had only a hand written summary of the will prepared by Major Kirby. For years the Croom family were insistent that Dorcas was not his wife, but in recent years that has changed, though I don't recall seeing any source relating to that. The will lists children but not a wife, so we presume she died before he did. The county was Old Dobbs County which later became Wayne County. We located Moses' main farm which is across the Neuse River from a state park. We could stand on a bluff in the park and look at Moses land which was still wooded and undeveloped when we were there perhaps 20 years ago. There was a grave for one of the family (can't remember without digging up old records) just off a main highway, but the area is now a subdivision and I don't know what happened to the grave, There has been a lot of development in that area. I have looked at many land records for Moses and for years could not understand why he had bits and pieces of farms in several counties. At a Wayne County Genealogy Society workshop in NC several years ago, we learned that at the time Moses lived, while the Revolution was going on and afterward, the value of money was very unreliable, with British pounds, North Carolina dollars, and the new US dollars all in use. To be safe, when someone had extra money from the sale of crops, etc., land was purchased as a way of saving the money - like making a deposit in a bank. When money was needed, the land was sold. They, of course, presumed the land would keep its value! Moses owned slaves, which does not make me at all happy. I have an oversupply of records on this family, but they are mostly hard copy, so it is time consuming to locate them and scan them to put online. I do have additional information that is not yet online. I just started an Ancestry tree about six weeks ago, so it is still very incomplete. I am focusing on the Ancestry tree rather than the Wiki Tree because of Ancestry's use of DNA to find and confirm family connections. C. DeWolfe 7/5/2016.

Sources

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of Moses Stanley", Ancestor # A134849.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/100408259/person/130014302390/facts : accessed 2018-03-25), entry for Moses STANLEY.
• owned property in several counties in NC.