Thomas Stanley1

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Charts Pedigree for Stanley Russell McKinney
Relationship 7th great-grandfather of James Jay McKinney.
Last Edited 10 Jun 2005
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Immigration*before 1687 From England. May be descended from Earls of Derby but cannot be proven. Cannot determine exact date of passage.1 
Map*1691 New Kent Co., VA,

VA, New Kent Co. 
Religion*after 1691 New Kent Co., VA, Quaker. Prior to that time attended Old St. Peter's Church, New Kent Co., VA. May have been Quaker before then.2 
Note*10 July 1698 New Kent Co., VA, Entry: Allexander MacKeney produceing an order of Court to Thos. vestry for help to Clear the Roades in his prescints is ordered these familys following viz: Christopher Clarke, Thomas Stanley, Edw. Clarke, Thomas Wharton, Nicholas Purde, etc. Date: July 10, 1698.2 
Note28 February 1700 New Kent Meeting House, Signed a certificate of marriage. EQG VI:213.3 
Notebetween 1704 and 1705 Rent rolls of Virginia in 1704/5 describes the 150 acres of land held by Thomas Stanley in the Parish of St. Peter's and St. Paul's. Land owners paid two shillings per hundred acres to the proprietor, the king or queen of England. St. Paul's Parish was formed from St. Peter's Parish in 1704.3 
Note20 May 1706 Minutes entry from Monthly Meeting at Porters: "Whereas it Hath been declar'd To This Meeting That Thomas Standley hath been greviously overtaken with drunkeness it is Therefore desired that Rob't Hughes & John Atkinson goe To the S'd Standley and desire him to come To The Next Mo. Meeting held here To give The Meeting Satisfaction for The disparagement of The Truth he professeth."3 
Note20 May 1706 Disowned by Henrico Meeting of Friends.3 
Note11 July 1706 Condemned for misconduct and put on probation by Henrico Meeting of Friends.3 
Note19 August 1706 Minutes entry from Monthly Meeting at Porters: "The Report of Robert Hughes & John Atkinson who were desir'd To goe to Tho's Standleys. To discourse him about his drunkeness and To desire him to Come To This meeting wass That he owned The fact and wass Sorry for it but he would not come to This meeting neither Could he give any further satisfaction To the Meeting, however friends are still willing to wait Till The next Mo. Meeting To see The further and conversation of him and weather or no he will then give the meeting Satisfaction for his disparagement of The Truth he professeth and Rob't Hughes and G.R. Ellyson goe to him tell him that friends doe Intend To disown him without he doth return and his life and make The meeting satisfaction as above and are to desire him to be at our next Mo. Meeting."3 
NoteNovember 1706 Thomas stated that he owned the crime of drunkenness and was sorry for it.4 
NoteFebruary 1708 Henrico meeting disowned him: " Thomas Standley for his disorderly walking is deny'd fellowship of friends exept The God of mercy entend his extraordinary Compassion Towards him and That he show forth The Same by his godly Conversation."4 
Note16 December 1714 Thomas and two sons Thomas and James were awarded 800 acres of land for transporting 16 persons to Virginia. The land lay ob both sides of Cedar Creek.4 
Notecirca 1719 Donated land where Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting was established.5,6 
Map1720 Hanover Co., VA,

VA, Hanover Co. 
Note20 May 1720 Hanover Co., VA, Entry: An order for Thomas Stanley to clear a road from Cedar Creek to the road that goes to new market Mill & for him to have all tithables betw. Newfound River & Cedar Creek.2 
Note10 December 1724 Bought 251 acres for 25 shillings in Hanover Co.4 
Note1 August 1726 "Mo. Meeting near Whiteoak Swamp 1st of 8th mo. 1726. This meeting being informed that Thomas Stanley Sr. having taken a wife not of our Society and that he hath since beain publickley drunk - to the great scandull of his profeshon, which Friends think suffishant to disoane him from being one of the said Society, In order their-unto friends ordered a paper to be brought to this Meeting, which was heare read approved and asigned and ordered to be read in the Meeting he formaley belonged unto." Implies he had a second wife.7 

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Citations

  1. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 91.
  2. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 92.
  3. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 93.
  4. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 94.
  5. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 100.
  6. [S21] Thomas Worth Marshall, and Dr.Harlow Lindley William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1973), Volume VI, pg. 223.
  7. [S20] Ph.D. Alvin L. Anderson, Stanley and Allied Families (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1996), Pg. 95.