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Pension application of John Stansell (Stancil, Stancel) W6200 Edith fn60NC
Transcribed by Will Graves 3/8/11
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State of North Carolina Mecklenburg County: Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July Term
1852
On this 26 day of July A.D. 1852 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of
Pleas and Order Sessions in and for the County of Mecklenburg and State aforesaid, Edith
Stansell resident of Mecklenburg County in the State aforesaid, aged eighty-five years, who
being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefit of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed July 4th 1836 – and July
7th 1838 – and all other acts applicable to her case.
That she is the widow of John Stansell who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and
served in the Army of the United States under William Polk a Captain in the southern division of
the Army Commanded by General __ Green [sic, Nathanael Greene], that her said husband also
served as a Dragoon some length of time, but she does not remember the officers under whom he
performed the last mentioned service, neither does she remember the length of time her said
husband served in either capacity but to the best of her recollection from what her husband told
her he must have served between one and two years, perhaps more,
That she does not know of any means of proving the services of her husband by any
living witness, the soldiers of the Revolution in this part of the country being all dead, That her
husband the said John Stansell was a resident of Wake County North Carolina at the time he
entered the service of his Country, she does not remember if ever she knew, whether her husband
was drafted, or was a volunteer, that after his first term of service expired, he moved to
Mecklenburg County North Carolina, where he entered the service again and continued in actual
service as a Dragoon for some time, but whether he served until the close of the war, does not
know, after he was discharged he again returned to Mecklenburg County, where he married this
deponent, whose maiden name was Edith Powel [Edith Powell?] –
This deponent further states that she was married to the said John Stansell on the 19th day
of April A.D. 1786 – And that her husband the said John Stansell died on the 12th day of July
A.D. 1826. And she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by
reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written in open Court before
S/ M. D. Alexander, CCC S/ Edith Stansell, X her mark