John Wright Stanley
BIRTH
Dec 18, 1742
Charles City County, Virginia
DEATH
June 1, 1789
New Bern, North Carolina
FAMILY
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Stanley, John Wright
(1742-1789)
John Wright Stanly was a New Bern merchant and Patriot privateer. His vessels captured British shipping and brought vital supplies into North Carolina, while his wealth and civic leadership supported the revolutionary cause and the development of postwar New Bern.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Lady Blessington Cannon | 256 Middle St, New Bern, NC 28560 | MARKER |
DIED:
New Bern, North Carolina
Jun 1, 1789
John Wright Stanley was born on Dec 18, 1742 in Charles City County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Wright Stanley with work or public activity as a merchant. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Wright Stanley died on Jun 1, 1789 in New Bern, North Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.