Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Stanley was born on 9 July 1794, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Jesse Stanley, was 23 and his mother, Huldah Coffin, was 18. He married Elizabeth Bundy in 1814, in Perquimans, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 24 April 1828, in Brownstown, Brownstown Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Peter Babb Cemetery, Veedersburg, Van Buren Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States.
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- Samuel Stanley, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Samuel Standley, "Find A Grave Index"
- Samuel Stanley, "Find A Grave Index"
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1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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