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John Stanton

Also Known As: "John Stanton I", "John Stanton", "Capt."
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Newport, Aquidneck Island (Present Newport County), Colony of Rhode Island
Death: October 03, 1713 (68)
Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Place of Burial: Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Robert Stanton, of Newport and Avis Stanton
Husband of Mary Stanton and Mary Stanton
Father of Joseph Stanton, Jr.; Mary Coggeshall; Hannah Carr; Patience Stanton; John D. Stanton, Jr. and 8 others
Brother of Sarah Tibbits; Daniel Stanton and Prudence Stanton

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About Capt. John Stanton

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanton-26

John Stanton was born in Aug 1645 at Newport, Rhode Island as the second child of Robert Stanton and Avis Unknown.[1]

John Stanton lived in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA in 1670. He was a Freeman in 1666 and Deputy in 1696. [2]

Marriage

When he was 21, he married Mary (Harndell) Stanton, daughter John Harndell and Unknown Unknown, in 1667 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Friends Meeting House).

John Stanton and Mary Horndall had:

  1. John Stanton Jr. was born on 22 Apr 1674 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He died on 22 Jan 1762 in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, USA (Age: 89). He married Susannah Lanphere on 16 Oct 1734 in Charlestown, King's, Rhode Island.
  2. Mary (Stanton) Coggeshall
  3. Hannah (Stanton) Carr
  4. Patience (Stanton) Norton
  5. Content Stanton
  6. Robert Stanton
  7. Benjamin Stanton
  8. Henry Stanton

Death

He died on 03 Oct 1713 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age: 68).[3] [4]

Notes

The first Stanton to join the Society of Friends (Quakers) of Newport, RI.

1666- Freeman.

1680- Taxed 1 pound, 2 shillings, and 9 pence.

1696- Deputy.

Siblings: Robert born 1627 in England, Sarah born 1640, Mary born 1642 (whipped in Boston, MA in 1658 for being a Quaker), Daniel born 1648, and Prudence born 1649.


Stanton-3 generation Gravestone. South County Trail, Richmond, RI. From < link >

www.geni.com/media/proxy?media_id=6000000190127311855&size=large


References

  • HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 582, 601
  • https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanton-26 Cites
    • Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899.Newport. (Friends Records)
    • Connecticut, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
    • U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Page 701
    • Findagrave memorial John Stanton https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=37976362
    • Coggeshall, Charles Pierce, b. 1852; Coggeshall, Thellwell Russell. Boston, Suffolk, Mass. C.E. Goodspeed. 1930. The Coggeshalls in America.
    • Stanton, William Henry. Our ancestors the Stantons (Philadelphia, Priv. print. for W. H. Stanton 1922) (pg 31) < Archive.Org >
  • https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/stanton.html
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Capt. John Stanton's Timeline

1645
August 6, 1645
Newport, Aquidneck Island (Present Newport County), Colony of Rhode Island
1667
January 22, 1667
Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, United States
1668
June 4, 1668
Newport, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
June 4, 1668
Newport, Aquidneck Island, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1670
November 7, 1670
Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
1672
September 10, 1672
Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1674
April 22, 1674
Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, British Colonial America
1675
December 20, 1675
Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1677
May 4, 1677
Newport, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations