Person:Jonathan Stanley (14)

"George Standley of Beverly Massachusetts and His Children"

by Deborah Kimball Nowers

    "On 26 July 1706 in the division of his father's estate after the death of his mother, "Jonathan Standley of Boston . . .mariner" received "twenty & five pounds curr Silver money of New England" as his share.  He and his wife Elizabeth appeared and signed with their marks.

     By 1707 Jonathan was in Perquimans Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina.  On 31 January 1706[/], as "Jonathan Stanley, Mariner," he purchased a "plantation and tract of land containing three hundred and sixteen acres."

     Six years later on 1 April 1713, Jonathan "Stanley" of Perquimans Precinct and Elizabeth his wife sold the same land.  Jonathan moved to Chowan Precinct in the same county [later set off as Bertie County] where he bought 260 acres of land on the south side of Ahotsky Swamp, recorded at the February Court 1729, and at the November Court 1733, he recorded 250 more acres in the same area.  On 13 December 1748, he sold 300 acres of the land for forty pounds to "George Standly son of the sd Jonathan Standly."

     On 28 February 1750, as Jonathan Standly, Sr., now of Johnston County, he sold 300 acres on the south side of Ahoshey Swamp, "being the plantation whereon I lately lived."  This 1750 sale appears to have been the last record of Jonathan Standley.  He has not been found in later Bertie County records or Johnston County records (some of which have not survived).

     On 5 December 1755, Jonathan Standley bought 240 acres on the south side of Roquist Swamp from Moses and Mary Hare, with Jonathan Standley, Junior, witnessing the deed.  Fortunately, this land was referred to in the 1773 will of Jonathan Standley, so the grantee must have been Jonathan Standley, not his father." (4)

1. ↑ Upham, William P; Augustus A Galloupe; and Nellie Preston Lutes. Records of the First Church in Beverly, Massachusetts, 1667-1772. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1905)
   96.
2. ↑ Dunstan, Edythe Smith. The Bertie index for courthouse records of Bertie County, North Carolina, 1720-1875: deeds, land divisions, grants, abstracts of wills and marriage bonds, maps, illustrations. (E.S. Dunstan, 1966).
3. ↑ No 269, in Winslow, Ellen Godde Rawlings. History of Perquimans county as compiled from records found there and elsewhere: abstracts of deed from 1681 through the revolution-petitions, divisions and marriages found in Perquiamans and adjacent counties... (Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1931)
   59.

   Wm glover of Perq precenct, Esq--for 28 pounds pd by Jonathan Stanley, of same, Mariner--"all my Plan"...

4. ↑ Nowers, Deborah Kimball. George Standley of Beverly Massachusetts, and His Children. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic, Genealogical Society, Jan 2009)
   163/1, Jan 2009.