Sarah (Stanton) Denison (1655 - 1713)

Born 1655 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of William Denison — married May 1686 in Stonington, New London, CT

Descendants

Died 7 Aug 1713 at about age 58 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

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Biography

Sarah Stanton was born in 1655, the eighth child of Anna Lord & Thomas Stanton. Her birth location probably was at Pequot (later renamed Stonington), Connecticut, to where her birth family was in the process of relocating (from Hartford) during the period from 1651 to 1657.

She married twice, both at Stonington:

1) 20 MAR 1674/75 Thomas Prentice; they had 5 children during the timeframe through 1685.

Thomas Prentice died 19 Apr 1685

2) In May 1686 William Denison; they had 3 children.

Sarah (Stanton/Prentice) Denison died 7 Aug 1713 at Stonington. Her grave is in Denison Burying Ground, Mystic, New London County, Connecticut: Find A Grave: Memorial #76362854. Her tombstone reads:

"Here lies ye body of Sarah wife of William Dension who died August the 6th 1713 Aged 59 years"

Sources

Anderson, The Great Migration, Volume VI, R-S, page 475

• Jeff Walton, children with Thomas Prentice, Jr. transcribed from The Descendants of Rev. John Eliot, Capt. James Parker, Capt. Thomas Prentice from New England and Pulteney, New York, 1620-1967: Including references to the families of Mullins, Southworth, Bradford, Bridge, Stanton, Lord; compiled by Wilford V. Case; Syracuse, NY; December 15, 1967.

• Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut (J.H. Beers & Co., 1905) Page 621

• "Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants", 1635-1891; p. 66: https://ia802701.us.archive.org/26/items/recordgenealogic01stan/recordgenealogic01stan.pdf

• Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 340, no. 43: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n362/mode/1up; p. 543, no. 3: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n565/mode/1up; p. 578 no. 10: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n600/mode/1up

• Genealogy of the Chesebrough Family (1903); p. 520, no. 12: https://archive.org/stream/genealogydescen00wildgoog#page/n544/mode/1up

• Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 8: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/3/mode/1up