Author: Robert John Gang, III
Samuel Stansbury was born in Scotch Plain, New Jersey on June 26, 1754. His father was Recompense Stansbury (b. October 19, 1710, d. May 20, 1777) who was a merchant and his mother was Margaret Wood (b. July 20, 1729, d. January 18, 1812). He was the third child of nine children. Samuel married Mary Littell of Long Hill, Essex County November 11, 1771. Mary was born July 10, 1744 in Morristown, New Jersey and died in 1792. Her father was Daniel Littlell (b. 1716) and her mother was Mary Acken (1721). Samuel and Mary were the parents of eight children whose names and birth dates were: Phebe, March 30, 1772; Jonas, January 1, 1774; Recompense, November 25, 1775; Samuel, November 11, 1777; Margaret (Peggy) October 14, 1780; John, October 10, 1782; Rhoda, January 25, 1784 and Amos October 4, 1781. Samuel was a farmer owning at one point 137 acres, 2 horses, 8 cows and 4 pigs.
Samuel served during the Revolutionary war as a private in the New Jersey Militia and State Troops. In September 1777 he shows as a Captain in Col. Cornelius Ludlow’s 2nd Morris County Militia. Pension records indicate that in September 1777 Stanbury’s Company was stationed in Newark, New Jersey and from there they marched to Aquackanock. Stansbury’s Company later served at Pompton and then Newtown under the command of Col. Procter. At Newtown the men were informed of the surrender of General Burgoyne’s army. Stansbury’s Company then marched back to Pompton and arrived at Newark on November 1, 1777. Later, under the command of General Winder’s New Jersey Militia Stansbury served in Van Mulinor, Quibbletown, West of Amboy and Brunswick, New Jersey during January and February of 1778. In late March and early April 1778 Stansbury’s company was at Van Mulinor under the command of General Winder.
After the war following Mary’s death Samuel married Mary Baxter in 1806. Samuel and Mary had six children. Their names and birth dates were as follows: Joseph, July 11, 1807; Sarah (Sallie) July 7, 1809; Ann, September 28, 1811; Patience, December 12, 1813; Mary (Polly), September 2, 1816 and Moses Andrew, May 13, 1820. Samuel migrated to Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio where he was one of the original settlers.. Once he was established there had Mary and his youngest son Amos join hm. He died May 20, 1823 from a cave in from a quarry or an excavation.


Submitted by the Benjamin Franklin Chapter, Ohio Society May 25, 2015

Samuel Morris Stanbury served as a Private in Morris County New Jersey Militia and the State Troops.

He was born June 26, 1754 to Recompense Stanbury and Mary Polly Littell, who was the daughter of Daniel Littell and Mary Acken, also born in New Jersey.
Samuel moved to Stark County Ohio and sent for his wife and their son Amos.

Samuel died May 20, 1823, reportedly in a cave-in which prevented recovering the body.

They had seven children.
1. Phebe Stanbury (1772 - ) married Daniel Potter
2. Jonas Stanbury (1774 - ) married Catherine Rague
3. Recompense Stanbury (1775 – 1843) married Eunice Ogden
4. Samuel Stanbury (1777 – 1825) married Phebe Wyckoff on November 29, 1809
5. Margaret Stanbury (1780 – 1850)
6. John Wyckoff Stanbury (May 25, 1805 – June 6, 1875) married Mary Miller
7. Amos Stanbury (1787 -- )

Sources

Littell Families History and Genealogy, Vol. 1 Judge Noble K. Littell
The Official roster of the Soldiers of the American Revolution Who Lived in the State of Ohio Vol. II, p. 327
The History of Morgan County Ohio (1886) p. 454
Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley Above Chatham by John Littell, 1852
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Samuel Stanbury/Stanbery was born in what was then Essex County, New Jersey, probably Scotch Plains, in 1754. He was the great-great grandson of Josiah Stanborough who had immigrated to the Boston area from Kent County, England in the mid 1630’s. Josiah was one of the original undertakers of Southampton, Long Island in 1640 and his son Josiah II then became one of the first settlers of Elizabethtown, New Jersey when that area was taken by the English from the original Dutch settlers.

Samuel’s father Recompense was a merchant, landed gentry man and village elder in Scotch Plains, fathering more than a dozen children with two different wives, Samuel being the oldest boy and the third child of the second marriage. The children were all intelligent and well educated for the times, and grew up in a “revolutionary” household, the father being a member of the local committee of correspondence and thus a patriot in his own right.
Not much is known of Samuel’s wartime service, other than that he is listed in Stryker’s Register as a member of the NJ militia and is documented to have paid others to take at least some of his militia service for him. The area where Samuel lived, however, was the site of many and frequent militia skirmishes with the British, so he probably fought in several engagements. Samuel’s younger brother Recompence II’s extensive service in this area is described in a pension application years later, and it is likely that Samuel experience was much the same. Samuel died before the pension laws were enacted, however, so we have no firsthand account of his service as we do for Recompence II.

Samuel was a junior officer in the militia troops from New Jersey who helped put down the 1791 Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania and then probably lived in this area for a short time before moving his family to the Ohio frontier in the early 1800’s. He was even more prolific than his father, siring fourteen children with two different wives. Nothing of any substance is known about the family’s life in Ohio, other than family lore from the late 1800’s that says Samuel died in a mine cave in near Canton in 1823. No burial place has ever been documented, so it is likely that his body was never recovered from this accident.

Fred Arthur Morris, 184278 of the Oklahoma Society, Bartlesville Chapter.