Person:John Stanyarne (1)

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• likely related to Person:James Stanyarne (1)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 .

   Papers of Henry Laurens: November 1, 1755-December 31, 1758 By Henry Laurens, 407.
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   John Stanyarne (1695-1772) was of a family settled on Stono River and Bohicket Creek on Johns Island since 1696. Index to Grant, S.C. Archives ; SCHM, x (1909), 169.
   
   He buried his wife Magdalen on April 21, 1739, and married Sarah Harvey, widow, on Aug. 18, 1740. SCHM, xm (1912), 218, 220.
   
   At his death he was a planter who owned four tracts of land on Johns Island and the Atlantic Ocean.
   
   "Will of John Stanyarne," dated Aug. 27, 1772, proved Dec. 22, 1772, Charleston County Wills, XV, Book B (1771-1774), 369-388, S.C. Archives.

2.   Edgar, Walter B; South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Research Committee; N. Louise Bailey; and Alexander Moore. Biographical directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives. (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, c1974-)
   2:654.

   John Stanyarne, wealthy planter, was a resident of St. Paul Parish in Colleton County.
   
   He owned some 2,560 acres on Johns Island, including Hickory Hill plantation (100 acres) and his main plantation of 586 acres. In addition he owned a plantation on St. Helena's Island in Granville County (1,040 acres), a Charleston town house, Kiawah Island (1,350 acres) in St. John Colleton Parish, and more than 286 slaves. At least part of his lands were used to grow indigo.
   
   Stanyarne was elected to the Fifteenth Royal Assembly (1746-1747), but he declined to serve St. John Colleton Parish. Local offices he held included tar receiver and collector for Johns Island (1724); tax inquirer for Johns Island (1731); commissioner, for St. John Colleton upon the creation of St. John Colleton Parish (1734); commissioner, for regulating patrols for Johns Island (1737); vestryman (1737-1738, 1744-1745, 1754-1762) and churchwarden (1738-1741, 1746-1754) for St. John Colleton; commissioner, for cleansing Wappoo Creek (1741); and commissioner, for St. John Colleton, under the Church Act (1745).
   
   Married three times, Stanyarne's first wife was Mary Whitmarsh, daughter of John Whitmarsh, Sr., and widow of Robert Seabrook (d. 1720). Mary Stanyarne was buried 12 July 1730, and sometime after that date, he married his second wife, Magdalen. She was buried 21 April 1739, and on 18 August 1740, he married his third wife, Sarah Harvey, a widow.
   
   At least seven children were born to his marriages:
   Edith (m. William Mathewes);
   John,
   Ann (m. Robert Gibbes),
   Jane (m. Ebenezer Simmons, Jr.),
   Mary (m. 1st Arthur Mowbray, 2d Robert Sams, 3d [?] McGillvray),
   Elizabeth (m. Francis Hext), and
   Sally (m. James Brisbane).
   
   John Stanyarne died 16 December 1772 and bequeathed his estate, valued over £146,000, to his surviving daughters and numerous grandchildren.
   
   SOURCES:
   Commons House Journals, 1746–1747, 4; 1748, 7; 1749-1750, 7.
   Council Journals, 15(1747-1748), 28, 97, 236; 17, part 1(1748-1749), 257; 18, part 2(1751-1752), 390, 560; 20, part 1(1752), 57.
   Grand Jury Lists, 1731, 1740, 1751.
   Henry Laurens, 2:407.
   Inventories, Z(1771-1774), 305-11.
   Мoore, Wills, 2:56, 60, 73, 184; 3:22, 109.
   Petit Jury Lists, 1731, 1740, 1751.
   Pringle Letterbook, 2:521n.
   Royal Grants, 26:494.
   St. John's Colleton Vestrybook, pp. 1, 5, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 34,
   37, 39.
   SC Gaz., 25 Aug. 1764.
   SCHM, 6:33-34; 10:169; 13:40, 218, 220; 14:131; 17:14-25; 37:11, 14; 64:45-46.
   SC Statutes, 3:238, 309, 375, 459, 651; 9:129.
   Wills, 15(1771-1775-B), 369-88.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 By 1737 these two tracts of Kiawah were again united under one owner, John Stanyarne, a wealthy planter who lived on nearby John's Island and used his Kiawah plantation for cattle ranching and indigo production. When Stanyarne died in 1772, slavery was well established on Kiawah. In fact, Stanyarne owned 296 African-American slaves on his eight plantations and at his Charleston townhouse. His estate was valued at £146,246.9.2 – or about $2.5 million dollars.
   
   Stanyarne's will passed the western half of Kiawah, including his settlement, to his grand daughter, Mary Gibbes. The eastern half of Kiawah Island was devised to his other grand daughter, Elizabeth Vanderhorst. This division of Kiawah into two plantations would last until the early twentieth century ...