Jabez Stanton (1718 - 1804)

Born 19 Dec 1718 in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Morse) Stanton — married 9 Sep 1745 in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died 2 Mar 1804 at age 85 in Preston, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Jabez Stanton, son of John and Mary Stanton, born in Preston, New London County, Connecticut Colony, British America, 19 Dec 1718; died in Preston, New London County, Connecticut, United States, 2 March 1804, age 85; buried in the Brown Cemetery, Preston; married in Preston, 9 September 1745, Sarah Morse.

Timeline

1718, December 19. Birth of Jabez Stanton in Preston, New London County, Connecticut Colony.^[1][2][3]

1745, September 9. Marriage of Jabez Stanton and Sarah Morse in Preston.^{[1][4][5][6][7]}

1746, March 17. Birth of son Jabez Stanton and daughter Sarah Stanton in Preston.

1747, July 27. Birth of daughter Lydia Stanton in Preston.

1748, December 29. Birth of son Abel Stanton in Preston.

1751, July 8. Birth of daughter Elizabeth Stanton in Preston.

1753, May 11. Birth of son Daniel Stanton in Preston.

1755, May 24. Birth of daughter Anna Stanton in Preston.

About 1755. Death of father John Stanton.

1757, March 6. Birth of daughter Hannah Stanton in Preston.

1759, May 6. Birth of daughter Mary Stanton in Preston.

1762, January 15. Birth of son William Stanton in Preston.

1765. Birth of son Henry Stanton in Preston.

1770. "British troops fire into an unruly crowd in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five." History World.

1773. The Boston Tea Party. "Some fifty colonists, disguised as Indians, tip a valuable cargo of tea into Boston harbour as a protest against British tax." History World.

1775. "The first shot of the American Revolution is fired in a skirmish between redcoats and militiamen at Lexington, on the road to Concord." History World.

1776, July 4. The British colonies in British America declare their independence from Great Britain.

1789. "George Washington, unanimously elected first president of the United States, is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York." History World.

1799, November 25. Death of wife Sarah (Morse) Stanton in Preston.

1804, March 2. Death of Jabez Stanton in Preston, New London County, Connecticut, United States, age 85. Jabez was buried in the Brown Cemetery in Preston.^{[1][3][6][8][9]}

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Stanton, William A., Ph.D., D.D., A Record, Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants, 1635-1891 Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons (1891), pp. 143-144.
2. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), database online, Preston Vital Records Part I, 1687-1850, p. 221, Ancestry.com
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Find A Grave, database online, Memorial 69995465, findagrave.com.
4. ↑ Early Connecticut Marriages, database online, Preston-Griswold Book 4, p. 37, Ancestry.com.
5. ↑ Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), database online, Preston Vital Records Part I, 1687-1850, p. 221, Ancestry.com.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, database online, 043 Griswold, p. 206, Ancestry.com.
7. ↑ Memorial of the Family of Morse : Compiled from the original records for the Hon. Asa Porter Morse, database online, pp. 64-65, Ancestry.com.
8. ↑ Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934, database online, Headstone Inscriptions, 305-3 Brown Cemetery, Griswold, Connecticut, p. 82, Ancestry.com.
9. ↑ Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, database online, FHL Film Number 3336, Ancestry.com

Acknowledgments

Thanks to William L. DeCoursey for starting this profile and Caley Gredig for early editing.