John Stanton Jr (1674 - 1762)

Born 22 Apr 1674 in Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Clarke) Stanton — married 3 Feb 1700 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Husband of Susannah (Lanphear) Stanton — married 16 Oct 1734 in Charlestown, Kings, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 22 Jan 1762 at age 87 in Richmond, Kings, Rhode Island

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Biography

John Stanton, Jr. was born to John Stanton and Mary Harndell on 22 Apr 1674 at Newport, Rhode Island.^[1]

Marriages

John Stanton married (first) 3 Feb 1699/1700 at Portsmouth, Rhode Island to Elizabeth Clarke. ^[2] They had 12 children during the ensuing timespan through December 1721.

Family history of Elizabeth Clarke:

Latham Clarke3 (Frances2, Lewis Latham1) was born at Newport in 1645 ; died 1 August 1719. He was for several years a member of the house of deputies, and is said to have been a minister of fame among the Friends. He married (1) Hannah Wilbur, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Porter) Wilbur; (2) 20 September 1698, Anne Collins, born in 1652, died 19 February 1732; widow of Walter Newbury, Esq.

Children of Latham3 and Hannah (Wilbur) Clarke:

1. Latham Clarke4 born in 1668 ; married Hope
2. William Clarke4 born 27 May, 1673, married Knight
3. Abigail Clarke4, born in 1674 ; married Samuel Thurston
4. Elizabeth Clarke4, born in 1680 ; married John Stanton
5. Mary Clarke4, married Joseph Fry
6. Ann Clarke4, born in 1682
7. Samuel Clarke4, born in 1686 ; married Mary Coggeshall
8. Jeremiah Clarke4
9. Amey Clarke4, married William Wood.

Elizabeth Clarke) Stanton died 10 Sep 1730 at Newport.

John Stanton married (second) Susanna Lanphear on 16 Oct 1734 at Charlestown, Rhode Island ^[3], at which time she was 19 years old. They had 13 children during the timeframe through 1759.

Death

John Stanton died at Richmond, Rhode Island on 22 Jan 1762.^[4] John was mentioned on a memorial in Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States with a death date of 22 January 1762.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899. Page 76
2. ↑ Portsmouth Marriage Index on ancestry.com (see image att.)
3. ↑ Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1696-1899. Citing Charlestown Marriages, pg 11
4. ↑ Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934.
5. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #37977146 (accessed 15 October 2022)
   Memorial page for John Stanton (22 Apr 1674-22 Jan 1762), citing Common Burying Ground, Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA; Maintained by V. Nareen Lake (contributor 46613568).

• Genealogical and biographical memorials of the Reading, Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham, and Elkins families, Author: Josiah Granville Leach January 1, 1898, Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, in the year MDCCCXCVIII; Two hundred copies printed on paper hand-made for this edition. Presented to the Maine Genealogical Society, Portland, Maine, by Josiah Granville Leach, Accession No. 3421. JOSlAH GRANVILLE LEACH. LL.B. MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES OF PENNSYLVANIA; NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY; VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND ESSEX INSTITUTE; HISTORIAN OF PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, AND OF PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS; AND AUTHOR OF "MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE ANCESTRY AND FAMILY OF HON. LEVI P. MORTON"

Wilbore, William. Jr., pg. 226, Hannah, pgs. 222 & 230, Samuel, pg. 230

• Memorial of Lewis Latham and some of his Descendants, pages 215- 236; Wilbore, William. Jr., pg. 226, Hannah, pgs. 222 & 230, Samuel, pg. 230 Index of Names Page 411

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 601, no. 8: [1]

• Bartley, Scott Andrew. George Lanphear of Westerly, Rhode Island, and His Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2006) Vol. 160, Page 55.