Timothy Stanley

   Cause of his death was apoplexy.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Moved, 1742, Goshen, Connecticut.

• Biography. ⁵⁴³ Timothy Stanley was the eighth child of Deacon John and Esther (Newell)Stanley, and was born in Farmington, June 6, 1689. He married Martha,daughter of Samuel and Sarah Smith, December 25, 1718, sister of hisbrother Nathaniel's wife, and lived in the same house with him in thenorth part of the town, now Avon. In the summer of 1742 he removed toGoshen, Conn., where he was a prominent citizen, and died there ofapoplexy, November 28, 1761, aged seventy-two. He and Nathaniel Stanleyare recorded as protesting against a vote fixing a place for ameeting-house in Goshen, October 15, 1742; also as petitioning for aparish, October 5, 1748. The Stanleys seem to have lived in thenortheastern part of the town, and naturally desired church accommodationas near their homes as possible. The winters in that elevated region areexceedingly severe, and the roads often totally impassable from snow.
Nathaniel Stanley records: "Timothy Stanley, of Goshen, departed thislife in a very awful manner, in a fit of apoplexy, about break of day,November 28, 1761."
(*)Nathaniel Hooker, brother of Dr. Daniel, b. Sept. 28, 1671, m. MaryStanley.
She was daughter of Nathaniel Stanley of Hartford.

The will of Timothy Stanley, late of Goshen, dated July 31, 1760, waspresented for probate by Timothy Stanley, Jr., September 7, 1762,contains bequests to wife Martha, son Timothy, daughter Mary Baldwin, anddaughter Lois Bailey. Timothy was executor.

Timothy married Martha Smith, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 25 Dec 1718 in Farmington, Connecticut. (Martha Smith was born on 20 Jan 1697 in Connecticut.)