Captain John Stanley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Served: in King Philips War. One of the most tragic of the wars between the colonies and the Indians was the war known as King Philip's War. In 1662 Matacomet or Philip (younger son of the Pilgrims friend Massasoit) succeeded his father as chief of the Wampanoags. He tried for several years to keep peace and meet the demands of the white settlers. The settlers were increasing in numbers and advancing more and more on the Indian lands. In 1671, the English suspected Philip of secretly plotting against them, and forced the Wampanoags to surrender their arms. An Indian who was acting as an informer was murdered in 1675. Three Wampanoags were executed for the crime. This act precipitated a bloody war with three tribes of Indians, up and down the Conneticut valley, in Massachusetts, Plymouth and Rhode Island. The Indians raided and burned settlements and killed men, women and children. The colonists resorted to similar measures against the Indians. Finally, Matacomet or King Philip himself was hunted down and Killed on August 12, 1676. His death ended the war. John Stanley who was the orphaned son of John Stanley that came over on the second voyage of the Mayflower was in the King Philip's war. He was advanced to Captain and was thereafter known as Captain John Stanley. He was around 50 years old during this time.

• Family Origin. Original Proprietors Of Hartford, CT., 1636 List of names of the Founders of Hartford, CT. from an obelisk in the Center Church Burial Ground, erected 1837.

Adams, Jeremy Allyn, Matthew Andrews, Francis Arnold, John Bacon, Andrew Barnard, John Barnes, Thomas Bartlett, Robert Baysey, John Beals, Thomas Bearding, Nathaniel Betts, Mary Bidwell, John Billing, Richard Birchard, Thomas Blachford, Peter Blatchley, Thomas Bliss, Thomas, Sr Bliss, Thomas, Jr Blumfield, William Bridgeman, James Bronson, John Bull, Thomas Bunce, Thomas Burr, Benjamin Butler, Richard Butler, William Chaplin, Clement Chester, Mrs Dorothy Church, Richard Clarke, John Cole, James Cornwell, William Crow, John Cullick, John Davis, Philip Davy, Fulke Day, Robert Desborough, Nicholas Easton, Joseph Edwards, William Elmer, Edward Ely, Nathaniel Ensign, James Field, Zachary Fisher, Thomas Friend, John Gardner, Samuel Garrett, Daniel Jennings, John Gibbons, William Goodman, Richard Goodwin, Ozias Goodwin, William Grant, Seth Graves, George Greene, Bartholomew Greenhill, Samuel Gridley, Thomas Hale, Samuel Hale, Thomas Hall, John Hart, Stephen Hayden, William Hayes, John Higginson, Rev John Hills, William Holloway, John Holton, William Hooker, Rev Thomas Hopkins, Edward Hopkins, John Hosmer, Thomas Hubbard, George Hungerford, Thomas Hyde, William Ince, Jonathan Judd, Thomas Keeler, Ralph Kellogg, Nathaniel Kelsey, William Lay, Edward Lewis, William, Sr Lord, Richard Lord, Thomas Lord, Thomas, Jr Lyman, Richard Marsh, John Marvin, Matthew Marvin, Reinold Maynard, John Moody, John Morris, John Munn, Benjamin Munson, Thomas Mygatt, Joseph Olcott, Thomas Olmstead, John Pantry, William Parker, William Peck, Paul Phillips, William Pierce, John Porter, Thomas Post, Stephen Pratt, John Pratt, William Purchase, John Richards, Nathaniel Richards, Thomas Risley, Richard Roote, Thomas Rusco, William Sable, John Scott, Thomas Selden, Thomas Seymour, Richard Skinner, John Smith, Giles Spencer, Thomas Spencer, William Stanley, John Stanley, Thomas Stanley, Timothy Stanton, Thomas Stebbins, Edward Steele, George Steele, John Stone, Rev Samuel Talcott, John Upson, Thomas Wade, Robert Wadsworth, William Wakley, Henry Wakeman, Samuel Ward, Nathaniel Warner, Andrew Warner, John Watts, Richard Webb, Richard Webster, John Welles, Thomas Westley, William Westwood, William White, John Whitehead, Samuel Whiting, William Wilcox, John Wolterton, Gregory Woodford, Thomas Wyllys, George

Stanley Immigrants Prior to 1800

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Christopher Stanley; emigrated from England to New England on board the ship Elizabeth and Ann in April, 1635; age 32; taylor.

Christopher Stanley; immigrated to Virginia in 1652.

Francis Stanley; emigrated from London, England to Virginia on board the ship Abraham in 1635; age 23.

George Stanley; immigrated to Virginia in 1656.

Henry Stanley; emigrated to Virginia around 1656.

Hugh Stanley; emigrated from England to Virginia on board the ship Thomas in 1635; age 16.

James Stanley; transported* from Middlesex, England to Maryland on the ship Neptune in February; 1743; indentured servant.

James Stanley; transported from Newgate Prison to Maryland on board the ship Pretty Patsie in September, 1737; indentured servant.

John Stanley; immigrated to Virginia in 1639.

John Stanley; transported from Newgate Prison to Virginia on board the ship Dorsetshire in December, 1736; indentured servant.

John Stanley; died 1698; immigrated from England to Maryland in 1683.

Captain John Stanley; born 1624, died 1706; immigrated from England to New England in 1634 on board the ship Elizabeth and Dorcas. One of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Married to Sarah Scott in 1645.

Joseph Stanley; emigrated from England to Savannah, Georgia in November, 1732; age 45; stocking maker; may have returned to England in 1740.

Morris Stanley; emigrated from England to Virginia on board the ship Hopewell in 1624; age 26; indentured servant.

Nathaniel Stanley; transported from Hertford, England to Virginia on board the ship Smith in September, 1730; indentured servant.

Roger Stanley; emigrated from England to James City, Virginia on board the ship Abigaile in 1620; age 27; indentured servant.

Thomas Stanley; born 1597, died 1663; immigrated from Kent, England to New England in 1634 on board the ship Elizabeth and Dorcas. One of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut; moved to Hadley, Massachusetts in 1659; married to Bennet Tritton in 1630.

Thomas Stanley; born 1689; emigrated from England to Virginia around 1714; settled in New Kent (now Hanover) County; married (1st) to Hulda McGee, and (2nd) to Elizabeth Crew.

Timothy Stanley; born 1603, died 1648; immigrated from Kent, England to New England in 1634 on board the ship Elizabeth and Dorcas. One of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut; married to Elizabeth Morrice in 1625.

William Stanley; immigrated to Virginia in 1648.

William Stanley; immigrated to Virginia in 1649.

William Stanley; transported from Hertford, England to Maryland on board the ship Margarett in May, 1719; indentured servant.

William Stanley; immigrated to Virginia arround 1663.

* There were no less than 150 capital crimes in England for which a man might be transported. Of course, there were the expected ones of murder, arson, and treason, but there were also lesser ones such as maining, stealing a cow, cutting down trees along an avenue, sending threatening letters, and standing mute when addressed by a legal official. Some convicts were even people of quality. One gentleman one high birth, for example, was transported for stealing books out of a library. As a child, George Washington was taught to read and write by a transported convict who had been a scholmaster. Especially on the country side, the crimes which resulted in transportation were often very petty. One man was transported for stealing a silver shoebuckle. Another was sent to America for seven years for the theft of a chicken. (Source: "The Stanley Family", American Genealogical Research Institute, Published 1975, Heritage Press, Inc.)

JOHN, Farmington, s. of the preced. b. in Eng. brot. in 1634, by his f. wh. d. on the pass. m. 5 and 15 Dec. 1645; Sarah, d. of Thomas Scott, had John, b. 3 Nov. 1647, at Hartford; Thomas, 1 Nov. 1649; Sarah, 18 Feb. 1652; Timothy, 17 Mar. 1654; Elizabeth 1, bapt. 5 Apr. 1657, d. young; Isaac, 22 Sept. 1660; all at F. His w. d. 26 June 1661; and he m. 20 Apr. 1663, Sarah, d. of John Fletcher of Milford, and had Abigail, 25 July, bapt. 1 Aug. 1669; and Elizabeth b. 28 Nov. 1672; was freem. 1665, a lieut. and capt. in Philip's war in active serv. up. the riv. many yrs. rep. says Porter, d. 19 Dec. 1705, hav. made his will Apr. preced. in wh. he names all the s. and d. Sarah, w. of Joseph Gaylord of Windsor; Abigail, w. of John Hooker; and Elizabeth w. of Jon Wadsworth the sec. The wid. d. 15 May 1713.

• Biography, 1634. ⁵⁴⁵ Upon our arrival with our uncles, my sister and I settled with them in Newe Town, Cambridge. It was there that my Uncle Timothy purchased a house in what is now Dunster street, near Harvard, numbered twenty-two on Paige's Plan of the settlement. The following March we presented ourselves before the court and our uncles took the disposition of what was to become of my sister and me. My sister Ruth was assigned to live with Uncle Timothy and I was to live with Uncle Thomas. The next day our uncles appeared in court again to be admitted as "freemen" and to take the oath of allegiance. The date of this court case was March 4, 1635.

My uncle Thomas decided he wanted a separate home of his own and finding Newtown to crowded to his liking, removed to Lynn another settlement a few miles eastward and became a townsman there. He was almost immediately chosen as one of the deputies to the general court from Lynn and sat in that capacity until September 2 of 1635. The following year he was appointed constable, the stern executive officer of the colony, but he didn't serve long because he moved again before June. He was fined ten shillings for not appearing in court to assume his duties.

We weren't the only one to move. The servatns of Christ, who peopled the Towne of Cambridge were put upon thoughts of removing, hearing of a very ferill place upon the river of Canectico low Land, an well stored with Meddow, which is greatly in esteeme with th people of New England, by reason the Winters are very long. this people seeing that Tillage went but little on, Resolved to remove and breed up store of Cattell, which were then at eight and twenty pound a Cow or neare upon, but assuredly the Lord intended far greater matters than man purposes but God siposes these men, having their hearts gone from the Lord, on which they were seated, soone took dislike at every little matter, the Plowable plaines were too dry and sandy for the, and the Rocky places, although more fruitfull yet to eate their bread with toile of hand, and how they deemed it unsupportable; And there fore they onely waited now for a people of stronger Faith than themselves were to purchase their Houses and Land, which in conceipt they could no longer live upon, and accordingly they met with Chapmen, a people new come, who aving bought possessions, they highed them away to their new Plantation.

Mass. Hist. coll., 2d series, vol. 111 p 150

"It was a moring in June, 1636 bright and early that our company was collected in Cambridge to begin its journey, men, women, and childre, over a hudnred, with packs or bundles, most of them borne on the back or by the hand, and near them a few wagons and carts hitched to horses or oxen, and around a hundred and sixty head of cattle and swine and goats and kids. But they were doomed in one respect to disappointment. The journey they expected to make in five or six days occupied them a full fortnight. We traveled through a pathless wilderness, where we could hear the sounds of wild beasts and savages. There were no roads, no fences, no bridges. We had no guide but the compass, no cover but the heavens. Mrs. Hooker was borne on a litter and the rest on foot.

• expedition, 1636. I went on an expedition against the Pequots the same year that we settled in Hartford, Connecticut.

• faith. My wife and I were recieved into the church on January 30, 1653 and were graded 4th according to the dignity of our standing.

• Biography. He was one of the most distinguished of the colonists, being appointed by his townsmen to nearly every ofice of trust and honor. He was a deputy to the general court almost conitnualy for thirty-seven years, from 1659 to 1696, being with few exceptions, the longest term of service known in the annals of the state. In King Philip's war he was a lieutenant and captain, from which he obatined the appellation by which he was most commonly known of "Captain John Stanley." He was constable in Farmington in 1654; seargeant in 1669; ensign in 1674; captain 1767; recieved a grant of one hundred and twenty acres ofland from the general court in 1674 and another in 1687; he was one of a committee on indian troubles in 1689.

John married Sarah Scott, daughter of Thomas Scott and Elizabeth Ann Strutt, on 5 Dec 1645 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Sarah Scott was born in 1624 in Rattlesden, Suffolk, England and died on 26 Jun 1661 in Farmington, Connecticut.)

John next married Sarah Stoddard Fletcher on 20 Apr 1663. (Sarah Stoddard Fletcher died on 15 May 1713 in Farmington, Connecticut.)