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John Stanton (No. 110) m. Mary He lived in Pres- ton on lands given him by his father.
CHILDREN:
116 JOHN, b. Nov. 13, 1706, m. Desire Denison (No. 111), that family.
117 DANIEL, b. June 8, 1708, m. Dinah Starke.
118 JOSEPH, b. Feb. 11, 1710, m. Abigail Freeman.
119 LYDIA, b. July 15, 1712, m. Daniel Leonard.
120 ROBERT, b. Feb. 20, 1714, m. Mary Lester.
121 HULDA, b. June 3, 1716.
122 JABEZ, b. Dec. 19, 1718, m. Sarah Morse.
123 DAVID, b. Oct. 22, 1720, m. Sarah Kimball.
124 MARY, b. Sept. 11, 1722.
125 SARAH, b. Jan. 20, 1724.
126 SAMUEL, b. June 20, 1726, m. Mary Palmer.
Joseph Stanton of Stonington (No. III) m. Margaret Chese- brough (No. 27), that family, July 18, 1696. They lived on the Stanton homestead farm, which he inherited from his father.
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CHILDREN:
127 HANNAH, b. Dec. 15, 1698, m. William Morgan, Jr.
128 MARGARET, b. Oct. 7, 1701, m. Jonathan Copp (No. 17), that family.
129 ZERVIAH, b. Sept. 24, 1704, m. Nehemiah Mason (No. 28), that family.
130 SARAH, b. Sept. 24, 1706, m. William Halsey.
131 ANNA, b. Feb. 22, 1708, m. John Avery (No. 71), Avery family. 132 DOROTHY, b. and d. July, 1710.
133 JOSEPH, b. May 1, 1712, m. Anna Wheeler.
134 JOHN, b. Sept. 29, 1714, m. Prudence Chesebrough.
135 NATHANIEL, b. July 29, 1716, m. Mary Coit, 1738.
Hannah Stanton (No. 127) m. William Morgan of Groton Sept. 21, 1721. He d. May 14, 1778; his wife d. June 26, 1747.
CHILDREN:
136 MARGARET MORGAN, b. Sept., 1723, d. Sept., 1745.
137 HANNAH MORGAN, b. July 18, 1725, d. young.
138 ABIGAIL MORGAN, b. Aug. 5, 1727, d. in 1746.
139 ANN MORGAN, b. June 26, 1736, d. young.
Sarah Stanton (No. 130) m. William Halsey June 19, 1738. They lived in Stonington, Conn.
CHILDREN:
140 WILLIAM HALSEY, b. Sept. 20, 1739.
141 SARAH HALSEY, bapt. June 20, 1742.
142 JEREMIAH HALSEY, bapt. June 10, 1744, a lawyer, lived in Preston.
Lieut. Joseph Stanton (No. 133) m. Anna Wheeler (No. 38), that family, Nov. 6, 1735, both of Stonington, Conn. He d. March 14, 1773.
CHILDREN:
143 HANNAH, b. Aug. 8, 1736, m. Charles Hewitt Oct. 28, 1756 (No. 54), Hewitt family.
144 JOSEPH, b. May 31, 1739, m. Hannah Chesebrough.
145 MARGARET, b. Nov. 3, 1741, m. Isaac Frink (No. 53), that family.
146 ISAAC W., b. Jan. 14, 1743, m. Ruth Ayer, Sept. 19, 1765.
147 WILLIAM, b. March 5, 1745, m. Hannah Williams.
148 ANNA, b. Feb. 23, 1747, m. James Allyn, Jr., of Groton, Dec. 14, 1768. 149 NATHAN, b. Dec. 15, 1749, m. Anna Stanton.
150 EUNICE, b. Nov. 12, 1751, m. James Denison Sept. 29, 1773 (No. 297), Denison family.
151 MARTHA, b. Nov. 19, 1753, m. John Holmes, Jr., Dec. 22, 1774 (No. 41), Holmes family.
152 MARY; b. Aug. 28, 1756, m. David Geer, May 17, 1781.
153 DOROTHY, b. Jan. 21, 1760, m. Noyes Palmer May 22, 1785 (No. 226), Palmer family.
John Stanton of Stonington (No. 134) m. Prudence Chese- brough of Stonington, Feb. 27, 1737 (No. 74) Chesebrough fam- ily. They lived in Groton.
CHILDREN:
154 SARAH, b. July 31, 1739.
155 ZERVIAH, b. Sept. 17, 1742.
156 JOHN, b. May 17, 1745, m. Betsey Maples.
157 SAMUEL, b. Nov. 11, 1747.
158 AMOS, b. Nov. 29, 1750; killed in Fort Griswold, Sept. 6, 1781.
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159 ROBERT, b. 1752, d. unmarried.
160 PRUDENCE, b. Nov. 7, 1754.
161 JAMES, b. Dec. 28, 1756.
162 CASINDA, b. 1762, m. Robert Geer, son of Amos and Mary (Wright) Geer.
Joseph Stanton (No. 144), b. in Stonington May 31, 1739, m. Hannah Chesebrough April 22, 1767 (No. 164), Chesebrough family. They lived in Groton. He d. in 1832 ; she d. in 1835.
CHILDREN:
163 JOHN, b. July 25, 1767, m. Polly Palmer.
164 JOSEPH, b. May 11, 1769, m. Polly Dennis.
164a ANNA, b. Aug. 13, 1771, d. April 3, 1779.
165 AMOS, b. June 10, 1773, m. Sabra Palmer Dec. 13; 1795.
166 DESIRE, b. June 10, 1775, m. Henry Gallup.
167 JOSHUA, b. April 1, 1777, d. March 28, 1779.
168 ANNA, b. May 2, 1779, d. unmarried.
169 JOSHUA C., b. June 1, 1781, m. Harriet Hewitt (No. 201), that family.
170 HANNAH, b. May 22, 1783, m. Samuel H. Palmer.
171 MARY, b. July 4, 1785, d. unmarried.
172 ROBERT, b. May 6, 1787, m. Hannah Hewitt Feb. 27, 1812 (No. 196), that family.
Capt. William Stanton (No. 147) m. Hannah Williams Nov. 10, 1773. She d. and he m. for his second wife, Hannah Foster. He d. at North Stonington July 12, 1828.
CHILDREN:
173 THANKFUL, b. July 22, 1774, m. Elias Williams Nov. 24, 1794 (No. 279), Williams family.
Isaac Wheeler Stanton, b. in Stonington Jan. 14, 1743 (No. 146), m. Ruth Ayer, daughter of John and Abby (Cook) Ayer, Sept. 19, 1765. He lived in Preston until eight of his children were born, and then removed to Vermont. He d. in 1829, aged 86 years ; his wife d. aged 75 years.
CHILDREN:
174 ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 7, 1767, m. Levi Collins, about 1810.
175 ANNA, b. Nov. 4, 1768, m. David Blair.
176 HENRY, b. Dec. 7, 1770, m. Ann Harriman.
177 POLLY, b. Sept. 26, 1773, m. Joseph Phillips.
178 HANNAH, b. June 25, 1776, m. Robert Cox, Sept. 22, 1798. 179 ERASTUS, b. Sept. 9, 1778, m. Elizabeth Shepard in 1803.
180 ISAAC WHEELER, b. April 10, 1781, m. Martha Blunt in 1809.
181 WILLIAM JERVAISE, b. Aug. 27, 1783, d. at sea in 1803.
182 JOHN AYER, b. Dec. 7, 1785, m. Tamson Stevens in 1811.
183 JOSEPH, b. March 15, 1789, m. Lodicia Barron.
184 RUTH, b. Aug. 19, 1790, d. unmarried.
Anna Stanton (No. 148) m. James Allyn of Groton Dec. 14, 1768. They lived in Stonington, Conn.
CHILDREN:
185 JAMES ALLYN, b. Oct. 22, 1769.
186 ANNA ALLYN, b. Nov. 9, 1771.
187 JOSEPH ALLYN, b. Jan. 22, 1774.
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188 ALTHEA ALLYN, b. Aug. 6, 1776.
189 JABEZ ALLYN, b. Jan. 12, 1779, d. Sept. 21, 1781.
190 CHARLES ALLYN, b. Sept. 28, 1781. 4
191 MARTHA ALLYN, b. April 17, 1784, m. Stephen Billings (No. 151), that family.
192 HANNAH ALLYN, b. July 7, 1787, d. Sept. 3, 1787.
193 ROSWELL ALLYN, b. July 11, 1789.
Nathan Stanton (No. 149) m. Anna Stanton (No. 381), Stan- ton family, Dec. 25, 1777, both of Stonington, Conn., until 1793, when they moved to Florida, N. Y., where she d. Sept. 27, 1825. He d. at Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1835.
CHILDREN:
194 NATHAN, b. July 4, 1779, m. Mary Denison (No. 454), Denison family. 195 ANNA, b. May 8, 1780, d. young.
196 DANIEL, b. May 17, 1781, d. Aug. 27, 1783.
197 AMOS, b. Feb. 11, 1783, d. Aug. 23, 1793.
198 ANNA, b. Dec. 7, 1784, m. Asa Cady Jan. 23, 1802.
199 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, b. Feb. 12, 1789, m. Martha Rogers; 2d, Char- lotte Jenkins.
200 ELIZABETH, b. April 26, 1791, d. Oct. 2, 1791.
201 JOHN JAY, b. June 7, 1793, m. Lucy Palmer Sept. 26, 1816 (No. 436), Palmer family.
202 HIRAM, b. Feb. 26, 1796, d. March 9, 1797.
203 SOPHIA, b. Nov. 23, 1798, m. Robert Geer Oct. 25, 1820.
Eli Stanton (No. 37) m. Susan Dodge, both of Stonington, Conn.
CHILDREN:
204 JESSE, b. in 1809.
205 LUCY, b. in 1811.
206 CHARLOTTE, b. in 1812, m. William Hall.
207 MARY, b. in 1813.
208 JOHN, b. and d. in 1830, unmarried.
209 LUCRETIA, b. - -, was living in 1888.
Charlotte Stanton (No. 206) m. William Hall, date not record- ed. She d. Oct. 25, 1839, aged 27 years, and left two children.
CHILDREN:
210 A son, who went to California.
211 MARY HALL, who was adopted by Henry and Abby (Palmer) Smith of Stonington, she m. Charles S. Hull of Stonington Nov. 18, 1860 (No .. 41), Hull family.
Elizabeth, called Betsey, Stanton (No. 41) m. Capt. Lodowick Niles, both of Stonington, Conn., Nov. 5, 1797.
CHILDREN:
212 CHARLOTTE NILES, b. date unknown. She was killed while sitting between her two sisters in the old school house, by a stroke of lightning.
213 ELIZA MARY NILES, b. in 1798, m. John F. Trumbull (No. 32), that fam- ily for his first wife; she d. Feb. 29, 1828, leaving one son, Horace N. Trumbull.
214 MARIA NILES, b. in 1803, m. John D. Smith Feb. 7, 1822.
215 HORACE E. NILES, b. in 1806, m. Eunice Pendleton Nov. 1, 1830.
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Joseph Stanton (No. 6), b. in Hartford, 1646. He was bapt. there March 21, 1646, and came to Stonington, Conn., with his parents in 1657. He m. June 19, 1673, Hannah Mead, daughter of William Mead of Roxbury, Mass., and settled upon a tract of land which his father, Mr. Thomas Stanton, had purchased of an Indian chief, "Cassawshett," alias Harmon Garret, Jan. 14, 1659. The consideration mentioned in the deed of land is as fol- lows : "For good reasons leading me hereunto, have and do give a neck of land to Thomas Stanton called Quanccontaug, &c." Thomas Stanton took immediate possession of the land pur- chased of Harmon Garrett and built him a house thereon. Sub- sequently he ascertained that his title to the land so purchased was imperfect; that Harmon was not a sachem, invested with power to sell the tribal lands of the Niantic Indians, and on con- sulting with the Commissioners of the United Colonies, he found that the land in question had been previously purchased by the Maj. Humphrey Atherton Land Company (of which Thomas Stanton was an associate member), of Ninegret, Suncquash and Scuttup, three Niantic sachems, on conditions, introduced by the purchasers, that no associate member of said Atherton Company should sell out his share thereof until he had given the company an opportunity to buy it. Mr. Stanton assured them that he should hold possession of the land in question for himself and the company, with the result that they should regard it favorably to have his share of said company's land include his Harmon Garrett purchase, which was subsequently assented to by the company, and Mr. Stanton retained the possession thereof and gave it to his son, Joseph Stanton, in and by his last will and testament, who after his marriage took possession thereof, and occupied the same during the rest of his life. His first wife died and he married for his second wife, Hannah Lord, his cousin, of Hartford, Aug. 13, 1677, who was b. in 1656. Mrs. Hannah Stan- ton d. April 6, 1681. He m. a third wife, whose name, date of their marriage and the birth of their children has not been pre- served. His third wife was admitted to the Stonington First Congregational Church March 16, 1683. He d. in 1714.
CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE:
216 JOSEPH, b. in 1674, m. Hester Gallup.
217 HANNAH, b. in 1676, m. Dr. James York of Westerly, R. I., Nov. 13, 1695.
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CHILDREN BY SECOND MARRIAGE:
218 THOMAS, b. Dec. 16, 1677, d. young.
219 REBECCA, b. April, 1678, m. Joseph Babcock.
The record of children baptisms in the Stonington church is as sons of Joseph Stanton of Westerly, and reads thus:
220 THOMAS, bapt. April 5, 1691, m. Esther Babcock.
221 DANIEL, b. April 1, 1694, m. Mercy Babcock.
223 SAMUEL, bapt. July 17, 1698, d. young man, unmarried.
By the Diary of Manasseh Miner we learn that Joseph Stanton's wife d. March 12, 1704.
Joseph Stanton (No. 216) m. Hester Gallup of Stonington Jan. 3, 1705 (No. 34), Gallup family.
CHILDREN:
224 JOSEPH, b. April 23, 1707.
225 ESTHER, b. 1708, m. Robert Hazard.
226 MARY, b. 1711, m. Peleg Sanford Mason Nov. 4, 1742 (No. 35), Mason family.
227 HANNAH, b. 1714, m. Dr. Joshua Babcock Aug. 11, 1735 (No 45), that family.
228 NANCY, b. 1716, d. unmarried.
229 SARAH, b. 1719, m. Dr. James Babcock (No. 47), that family.
230 LUCY, b. 1720, m. Christopher Champlin Aug. 19, 1756.
Thomas Stanton (No. 220) m. Esther Babcock, daughter of Job Babcock of Westerly, R. I.
CHILDREN:
231 REBECCA, b. , m. Nathaniel Sheffield Feb. 6, 1740 (No. 17), that family.
232 SARAH, b. , m. Benjamin Hoxie Nov. 19, 1756.
233 ISABEL, b. -, m. Nathan Teft, Sept. 16, 1742.
234 A son, b. and was drowned when young.
Daniel Stanton (No. 221) m. Ist, Mercy, daughter of Job Bab- cock of Westerly R. I. She d. ; he m. 2d wife, Elizabeth, daughter of George and Charity Brown of Westerly, R. I.
CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE:
235 DANIEL, b. -, m. Mary Wilcox, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Randall) Wilcox.
CHILDREN BY SECOND MARRIAGE:
236 SAMUEL, b. -, m. Sarah Browning.
237 JOHN, b. , m. Dorothy Richardson, daughter of Jonathan Richard- son and Anne Treat, and granddaughter of Dorothy (Noyes) Treat.
238 JOSEPH, b. , m. Abigail Sheffield March 6, 1748.
239 GEORGE, b.
-, d. unmarried.
240 MARY, b. m. Thomas Richardson.
241 ELIZABETH, b. -, m. Joseph Champlin.
Col. Joseph Stanton (No. 224) m. Mary Champlin, daughter of William Champlin of Westerly, R. I., Aug. 9, 1738. She was b. July 13, 1722, and was admitted to the Stonington church July II, 1842, and d. 1750. He was an officer in the French and In- dian war.
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CHILDREN:
242 JOSEPH, b. July 19, 1739, m. Thankful Babcock July 14, 1762, and after repeated promotions was elected Senator in Congress from Rhode Island.
243 ESTHER, b. Nov. 23, 1741, m. Ichabod Babcock March 17, 1756.
244 MARY, b. June 18, 1743, m. Elias Thompson.
245 AUGUSTUS, b. March 22, 1745, m. Eunice Crandall Feb. 6, 1765.
246 HANNAH, b. Feb. 24, 1746, m. Daniel Wells.
247 LODOWICK, b. May 27, 1749, m. Nancy
248 GARDINER, b. -, d. unmarried.
249 MALBOROUGH, b. -, d. unmarried.
250 HENRY, b. m. Cynthia Lewis.
251 ABIGAIL, b. , m. Rev. William Gardner.
Samuel Stanton (No. 236) m. Sarah, daughter of John and Ann (Hazard) Browning of Kingston, R. I., (No. 27) Browning fam- ily.
CHILDREN:
252 SARAH, b. - , m. Dea. William Browning. -
253 ELIZABETH, bapt. Jan. 6, 1760, d. unmarried.
254 EUNICE, bapt. Feb. 19, 1764, m. Daniel Sherman.
255 SAMUEL, bapt. April 10, 1771, m. Elizabeth Reynolds.
Samuel Stanton (No. 255) m. Elizabeth Reynolds of South Kingston, R. I., April II, 1799. She d. in Charlestown, R. I., May 3, 1826, and he d. in Stonington, Conn., Jan. 23, 1855, aged 84 years.
CHILDREN:
256 SAMUEL, b. Oct. 27, 1803, m. Matilda K. Clark.
257 SARAH ANN, b. Nov. 23, 1805, m. George C. Brown and lived in Ston- ington.
258 ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 23, 1808, m. John T. Knowles.
259 JOHN, b. July 21, 1810, m. Celia Knowles May 26, 1833.
260 MARY, b. Nov. 6, 1814, m. James H. Kenyon Aug. 22, 1858.
The farm on which Samuel Stanton (No. 255) lived in Charles- town, R. I., was in 1858 the only remaining portion of the tract of land originally conveyed by Harmon Garret to Thomas Stan- ton in 1659. It had never been owned outside of this Stanton family, having been transmitted from father to son. Maj. Sam- uel Stanton (No. 256), that family, and Matilda Clark, both of Charlestown, R. I., were m. Jan. 6, 1838. She d. Sept. 13, 1866; he d. July 5, 1879. Mr. Stanton came here and bought a farm at Wequetequock in Stonington, where he spent the remnant of his days.
CHILDREN:
261 DR. GEORGE D., b. April 13, 1839, m. 1st, Maria Louise Pendleton Oct. 23, 1867; m. 2d, Anna W. Palmer, all of Stonington, Conn.
262 SARAH ELIZABETH, b. July 25, 1840, d. in infancy.
263 SAMUEL M., b. Feb. 10, 1845, m. Lucretia Noyes Chesebro. 264 JOHN R., b. Nov. 20, 1850, m. Mary E. Clark.
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Daniel Stanton (No. 7), b. in 1648, m. and lived in Barbadoes, West Indies. He had one child
265 RICHARD.
This is the child mentioned in Mrs. Ann (Lord) Stanton's will, made in 1688, as the "fatherless child in Barbadoes," which indi- cates that Daniel Stanton was dead when that will was made. He d. in 1687. There is no further record of this child, Richard, except that he came to Stonington and sold his right to certain ancestral estate.
After the death of Thomas Stanton, Sr., his sons decided to en- large their business through their trading house, and arranged with their brother, Daniel Stanton, to take up his residence on the island of Barbadoes, so as to dispose of their goods, furs and farm products in the West Indies in exchange for an equivalent in goods and groceries requisite for the needs of the New Eng- land planters. Before Mr. Daniel Stanton left for the West In- dies to reside, and to enlarge his business there, he sold a por- tion of his real estate here in Stonington to his brother, Thomas Stanton, in 1681, describing it in the deed thereof as land willed to him by his father, Thomas Stanton, the interpreter general, which he failed to acknowledge before a magistrate. This omis- sion subsequently led to a good deal of trouble. An effort was first made to correct it by an affidavit of two of the witnesses of said deed under date of Feb. 9, 1699, which did not prove satis- factory to the grantee of the deed. So, in 1715, Oct. 8th, Nicho- las Cottrell made oath before a magistrate in Westerly, R. I., saying therein that he saw Daniel Stanton the grantor in the deed sign and seal the same, and that he, together with Mr. John Stanton, Mr. Samuel Stanton and Mrs. Anna Stanton, set their hands thereto as witnesses thereof. The proceedings was fol- lowed in a few days, to wit, Oct. 12, 1715, by an affidavit of Mr. Robert Stanton, before Nathaniel Chesebrough, a justice of the peace of Connecticut, testifying to his brother Daniel's handwrit- ing, affixed to the deed, and to the possession of the land em- braced therein by his brother, Thomas Stanton. These proceed- ings were doubtless instituted for the purpose of being used as evidence before the General Assembly of Connecticut in support of an application of Thomas Stanton the said grantee, praying for the confirmation of his said deed by the assembly, which ap-
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plication was presented thereto and considered at its October session of 1715, as follows :
"Upon application made by Thomas Stanton, representing that Mr. Daniel Stanton, sometime of Stonington, deceased, having signed and sealed a deed bearing date in the year of our Lord 1681, conveying to him, the said Thomas Stanton, a certain tract of land containing sixty acres in quantity, lying in the limits of the town of Stonington aforesaid, bounded on the north by a small run of water adjoining to the land belonging to the said Thomas Stanton, on the east by Pawcatuck River, on the south by a small brook called the Hot House brook, and on the west bounded all along by the west side of the swamp out of which the northermost brook runneth; and that the said deed was lawfully witnessed. The said Daniel Stanton died before a lawful ac- knowledgement of it, prayed an act of the Assembly to supply that defect. It appearing to this Court that Mr. Samuel Stanton and Nicholas Cottrell made oath before Samuel Mason, assistant, Feb. 9, 1699, that they signed as witnessed thereto, and further the said Nicholas Cottrell made oath before Thomas His- cox, Justice of Peace in Westerly, in the Colony of Rhode Island, Aug. 1, 1715, that he did verily believe that he saw Daniel Stanton, the subscriber to the aforesaid deed, sign and seal the same, and that he, together with Mr. John Stanton, Mr. Samuel Stanton and Mrs. Anna Stanton, set their hands thereto as witnesses, which was ordered to be endorsed and signed by the secretary.
HEZEKIAH WYLLYS, Secretary."
"Be it thereupon enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said deed be taken as good and effectual to all intents and purposes in the law as it might or could have been if the said deed had been acknowledged by the grantor as the law directs, and this act be indorsed upon the said deed, and shall be signed by the secretary and received as a good, sufficient testimonial of the authentication of the said deed."
"HEZEKIAH WYLLYS, Secretary."
Notwithstanding the pains taken by the grantees to authenti- cate this deed, it all failed to perfect the title thereof, for the rea- son that none of the parties in interest, either grantees or grantors, had the authenticated provisions of the local authorities or those of the General Assembly recorded in the Stonington land records, so the original deed of said premises did not vest the title of the land embraced therein in the grantee thereof, and the failure to have said proceeding regularly recorded in our land records for twenty years after the original deed, left the title thereof remain- ing in Daniel Stanton, and in case of his death in his heirs-at- law. All that is known of this family is that he had a son, Rich- ard Stanton, Jr., who, with him, claimed the land his grandfather, Daniel Stanton, sold to Thomas Stanton, his brother, in 1681, on account of his said grandfather's, Daniel Stanton, failure to acknowledge the deed thereof to his brother, Thomas Stanton, and his failure to have all of the authenticated proceedings in confirmation of said property recorded. After an extended and exhaustive correspondence between Richard Stanton and his son, Richard Stanton, Jr., of Barbadoes, party of the first part, and
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Samuel Stanton, the son of the said Thomas Stanton of Pawca- tuck, Conn., deceased, who lived upon and claimed the land in question at the time, of the second part, it was finally arranged between them that Samuel Stanton should give the said Richard Stanton, Sr., £46 for a quit-claim deed of all his interest in said tract of land. So, giving his son, Richard Stanton, Jr., a full and adequate power of attorney to transfer his title in said land to his cousin, Samuel Stanton, the said Richard Stanton, Jr., came to Stonington Feb. 12, 1736, and by virtue of said power conveyed the disputed premises to Samuel Stanton, fifty-five years after the execution of the original deed thereof to the said Thomas Stanton, by his brother, the said Daniel Stanton, who had other lands in Stonington given him by his honored father, in and by his last will and testament. One tract of 200 acres he sold to Capt. George Denison of Stonington, by a deed thereof executed in Barbadoes in 1682. Before Mr. Stanton went to the island of Barbadoes to reside he united with Mr. Alexander Pygan and Samuel Rogers of New London, and they together employed Mr. Joseph Wells, then of Westerly, but later on of the Mystic Valley, on the Groton side, to build them a vessel in 1681, called the "Alexander and Martha." The dimensions, but not the ton- nage, stated in the contract are as follows : "The length to be 40 and one foot by the keel from the after part of the post to the breaking afore at the guardboard, 12 foot rake forward under her load mark, at least 16 foot wide upon the midship beam, to have II flat timbers and 9 foot floor, and the swoop at the cuttock 9 foot, and by transom 12 foot, the main deck to have a fall by the mainmast, with a cabin, and also a cook room with a forecastle." For payment the builder was to receive one-eighth of the vessel and £ 165, of which £ 16 was to be in silver money and the rest in merchantable goods, the spikes, nails and iron work were to be at the charge of the owners. After the vessel was launched, rigged and fitted for sea Daniel Stanton bought the builder's share thereof, as per the stipulations of the contract and annex. When the vessel had received her cargo, Mr. Stanton and his family em- barked on board and went to Barbadoes in the vessel, where he continued to reside the remainder of his life. He opened a store there for the transaction of the Stanton Brothers' business which he successfully prosecuted. The said vessel contin- ued to run between the West Indies and the trading store on
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Pawcatuck River, doing a successful business for several years. But the West Indies' climate did not agree with Mr. Stanton's health, which so impaired it that he did not live but a few years, dying before 1688, which fact we learn from his mother's will.
Robert Stanton (No. 9) m. Joanna Gardiner Sept. 12, 1677, daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Smith) Gardiner of Roxbury, Mass. He lived in Pawcatuck, Stonington, Conn., and d. Oct. 24, 1724.
NOTE .- Robert Stanton was a soldier in King Philip's war, as was his older brothers, Capt. John and Joseph Stanton. In 1676, Capt. George Denison, with a large company of subordinate officers and men, who were raised in New London county, went in pursuit of the remnant of King Philip's army, and while a portion of them, under the command of Canonchet, the last of the Royal Narragansett Sachems, were encamped on the banks of the Pawcatuck River in Rhode Island, they were attacked by the English, under Capt. George Denison, accompanied by some of the friendly Pequot and Mohegan Indians, when most of the Narragansett and Wampanaog Indians fled, leaving Canonchet almost entirely alone. As soon as he realized his situation, he too sought safety in flight. The Indian allies of the English and a few of the fleetest whites pursued him, and as he saw his pursuers were gaining on him he threw off his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peage, and ran with all possible speed, to escape from his enemies, and as he crossed the rivers ford he fell and wet his gun, which so embarrassed him in his flight that he was soon overtaken and surrendered to Robert Stanton, son of the Interpre- ter General Thomas Stanton, then not 22 years old. Being questioned by the young man, whom he personally knew, about a treaty of peace, between the English and Indians, and not wishing to recognize the authority of his youthful inquisitor, he looked upon him with lofty and defiant contempt, and said you are a child, you cannot understand matters of war; let your brother, Capt. John Stanton, or your chief, Capt. George Denison, come, then I will answer. But when the officers whom he had requested to see came up, he refused to enter into any negotiations with them, so he was brought a prisoner to Ston- ington, where a council of war was held, which he declined to recognize, and after his absolute refusal to enter into and abide by a treaty of peace with the English, who, after considering their defenseless conditions and his ferocious temper, he was condemned and ordered to be shot, and when told of his fate he said that "he liked it well, and should die before his heart had grown soft or he had said anything unworthy of himself," and so he was shot near An- guilla in Stonington.
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