Born in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ancestors 
Daughter of Ebenezer Standish
and Hannah (Sturtevant) Standish
Sister of
Zachariah Standish, Moses Standish, Zerviah (Standish) Gray, Sarah (Standish) Newland and Mercy (Standish) Weston
Wife of
Seth Staples
— married
4 Jan 1721 (to Apr 1774) in Plympton
Descendants 
Mother of
Hannah (Staples) Gushee, Unnamed Staples, Sarah (Staples) Wilde, Susanna (Staples) White, Anne (Staples) Richmond, Mercy Staples, Mary (Staples) Deane, Seth Staples, Zerviah (Staples) Williams, John Staples, Ruth (Staples) Soper and Jemima Staples
Died
at age 70
in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
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Biography
Deacon Seth Staples son of John and Hannah Staples was born at Taunton, Mass. in 1699 and died March 20, 1778 of small pox. He married in Plympton, Mass. January 4, 1721/2 Hannah Standish, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah (Sturtevant) Standish. They had six children named in his will as Hannah, Sarah, Susanna, Mary, Zerviah and Ruth. [1]
Records
Birth
Hannah Standish was born on 6 March 1704 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts to Ebenezer Standish (1673-1755) and Hannah Sturtevant (1680-1759). [2]
Marriage
She married Deacon Seth Staples (1699-1778) on 4 January 1721 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts when she was 16 and he was 22. [3]
Death and Burial
Hannah died on 5 April 1774 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts at the age of 70.
- Buried at Neck O Land Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.
- Find A Grave Memorial # 93777589
Sources
- Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Birth record with parents.
- Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Birth, death parents, siblings.
- Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Marriage of Hannah and Seth Staples.
- New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, Town Death Records, 1620-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Death of Hannah Staples.
- Find A Grave.
Footnotes
- ↑ Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and his wife Lucy Tufts Williams; page 66; Josephine C. Frost; 1920
- ↑ Vital records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850; Plympton Births; page 198
- ↑ Vital records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850; Plympton Marriages; page 399
Acknowledgements
- Toby Proctor created Standish-454 created through the import of Thomas Proctor Family Tree as of feb 2012.ged on Mar 2, 2012
- Darlene Scott Kerr added bio and sources on 4 June 2016.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hannah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Hannah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Hannah:
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~0.78%
Randolph Rose
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~0.39%
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