The Stanton Family of Stonington

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First Generation

THOMAS STANTON

Parents:

Thomas Stanton married Ann Lord. [Ref]

The 10 May 1666 court at Hartford requested Mr. Thomas Stanton to administer the freeman's oath to a number of inhabitants of Stonington. [Ref 2;32]

Thomas was an original member of the Church of Christ in Stonington on 3 Jun 1674. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Stanton and Ann Lord:

1. Thomas Stanton was born about 1638. He died on 11 Apr 1718, age 80. [Ref] His gravestone in the ancient cemetery in Stonington says: Here lyeth/The Body of/Thomas Stanton/Gent dyed/April the 11th/1718 in his 80th/year of his age. [Ref]
   The 10 May 1666 court at Hartford requested Mr. Thomas Stanton to administer the freeman's oath to a number of inhabitants of Stonington, including Thomas Stanton, Jr.. [Ref 2;32] Thomas was an original member of the Church of Christ in Stonington on 3 Jun 1674. [Ref] Mrs. Stanton, the wife of Thomas Stanton, was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 26 Feb 1689. [Ref]
2. Capt. John Stanton was born in 1641 in Hartford. [Ref, p. 135]
   some descendants of Capt. John Stanton
   
3. Hannah Lord Stanton was born in 1644. She died on 17 Oct 1727 in Stonington. She married Nehemiah Palmer.
4. Dorothy Stanton was born about 1652. She died on 19 Jan 1742/3. She married Rev. James Noyes 2.
5. Robert Stanton was born about 1653. He died on 25 Oct 1724, age 71. [Ref] His gravestone in the ancient cemetery in Stonington says: Here lyeth/The Body of/Robert Stanton/Gent who dyed/Octo ye 25th 1724/in ye 71st year/of his age. [Ref]
   Robert was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 29 Jul 1677. [Ref]
6. Sarah Stanton was born in 1655 in Pecquoit, Connecticut. [Ref, p. 74] She married first Thomas Prentice on 20 Jan 1675. [Ref, p. 74] He was born on 22 Nov 1649 in Newton, Massachusetts. [Ref, p. 74] She married second Capt. William Denison in May 1686. [Ref, p. 74] William was the son of George Denison. [Ref, p. 74]
   some descendants of Sarah Stanton
7. Joseph Stanton [Ref]
   Joseph Stanton's wife was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 16 Mar 1683. [Ref]
   some descendants of Joseph Stanton

Samuel Stanton was was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 28 Dec 1690. [Ref] Borodel Stanton owned the covenant at the first church in Stonington on 18 Apr 1689. [Ref] Samuel's wife Borodel was admitted to the church on 5 Oct 1690. [Ref]

The 10 May 1666 court at Hartford requested Mr. Thomas Stanton to administer the freeman's oath to a number of inhabitants of Stonington, including John Stanton. [Ref 2;32] John Stanton, Sr. owned the covenant at the first church in Stonington on 18 Apr 1689. [Ref]

Second Generation

HANNAH LORD STANTON (1644 - 1727)

Parents: Thomas Stanton and Ann Lord [Ref, p. 27]

Hannah Lord Stanton was born in 1644. [Ref, p. 27] She died on 17 Oct 1727 in Stonington. [Ref][Ref, p. 24] Hannah Lord Stanton married Nehemiah Palmer on 20 Nov 1662 in Stonington. [Ref][Ref][Ref gives only the name][Ref, p. 24]

In 1680, Nehemiah Palmer sold land willed to his wife by her father Thomas Stanton to Jeremiah and Thomas Hatch of Scituate and Thomas Rouse of Marshfield. [Ref, p. 23]

Hannah, the wife of Nehemiah Palmer, was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 24 Feb 1689. [Ref]

On 23 Apr 1706, Nehemiah Palmer deeded half of the land where he lived to his son Daniel and half to his son Joseph; he gave two acres of salt marsh to his son Nehemiah. His wife was to own the old house and have one third of the income from the farm; the three sons were to care for her. [Ref, p. 23]

On April 10, 1717, Hannah, the widow of Nehemiah Palmer, gave a deed "to my son and daughter, Ichabod and Hannah Palmer, of all the goods and chattels in the house of my son Daniel Palmer, which were left to me by my late deceased husband, together with one-third of the housings, lands, barns, orchards, to be theirs henceforth." [Ref, p. 24]

DOROTHY STANTON (b. abt 1652 - 1743)

Parents: Thomas Stanton and Ann Lord

Dorothy Stanton was born about 1652. She died on 19 Jan 1742/3 in Stonington. [Ref] She married Rev. James Noyes 2 on 11 Sep 1674. [Ref] Her gravestone, next to her husband's, in the ancient cemetery in Stonington says: In Memory of/Dorothy ye wife of/ye Reverd Mr. James/Noyes Deceased/who died Janry/ye 19th 1742/3/in ye 91st year of/her/age. [Ref]

Mrs. Dorothy Noyes was admitted to the first church in Stonington on 13 Jun 1675. [Ref]

References

Leavitt, Emily Wilder, Groups of Palmer Families from Walter Palmer of Charlestown and Rehoboth, Mass., Stonington, Conn., Privately printed by David Clapp & Sons, Boston, MA, 1901.

No Author, History of the First Congregational Church, Stonington, Conn., 1674-1874 with the Report of the Bi-centennial Proceedings, June 3, 1874, Richard A. Wheeler, T. A. David and Co., Norwich, 1875.

No author, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Hartford, Brown & Parsons, 1850-1890.

Stanton, William A., A Record, Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and his descendents, 1635-1891, Albany: J. Munsell, 1891.

White, Lorraine Cook, ed., The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.

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