Timothy Stanley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Original Settler. Timothy is listed as one of the original proprietors of Hartford, CT in 1636. This taken from a list of names of the Founders of Hartford from an obelisk in the Center Church Burial Ground, erected 1837

• estate inventoried. An Inventory of the Goods of Timothy Standley, of Hartford, deceased
£ s d
In the kittchin chamber;
Item, One standing bedstead, one feather bed and feather boulster, on red and blue couerlitt, one paire blankits, 2 pillowes 07 18 08
Item, one trundle bed, 1 flock bed & 2 boulsters, 1 white blankitt, 1 straw bed case, one yello and white couer litt, 1 feather pillow, 1 flock pillow, 2 little feather pillows 05 18 08
Item, 4 yards 1/2 of blankitt cloth at 3s. prt yard and one trundle bed 00 18 06
Item, one paire of flaxen sheetes 01 04 00
Item, 1 paire of course sheets, 12s. 1 paire sheets more, 12s. 01 04 00
Item, 2 paire of hempen sheets 02 10 00
Item, 1 paire more of towing sheets 16s. 1 single sheete 12s. 01 08 00
Item, more 4 paire of course sheets 8s. pr 01 12 00
Item, 1 long table cloth,10s. 2 shorte table cloths 10s. 01 00 00
Item, 3 holland pillow peeres, 12s. 3 flazen pillow beers, 10s. 2 flaxen hand towells. 9s. 1 course towell, 2s. 01 13 00
Item, 1 course board cloth, 2s. foure course towing towells, 6s. 00 08 00
Item, 6 flaxen napkins, 12s. 1 chest & box 4s. 3 chaires 4s. 01 00 00
Item, 6 cushins, 12s. 1 paire bellows, 2s. 00 14 00
In the Hall chamber
Item, one chest, 12s. 1 paire curtans, 20s. 1 little chest, 3s. 1 shipp chest, 2s. 6d. 01 17 06
Item, one trunck, 5s. one old trunck, 3s. one little chest, 2s. 00 10 00
Item, one Fann, 10s. foure hogsheads, 8s. 10 yards of course lyning at 1? d. pr. 01 13 00
Item, 5 great pltters, 20s. 4 small platters, 10s. 01 10 00
Item, 3 sasers, and 2 bigger dishes 00 05 04
Item, pewter bowle, 2 small potts, 4s. foure porringers, 21s. one salte, 3s. one dozen of spoones 2s. 6d. 00 11 06
Item, one chamber vessell, 2s. 6d. 12 skinns for cloaths at 5s. pr. 3£ 03 02 05
Item, the wearing cloaths, valued at 06 00 00
In the Garritt chamber;
Item, 1 flock bed & 4 blankitts, 02 10 00
Item, 8 sacks 01 00 00
In the Kittchin;
Item, 1 kettle, 30s. one, 16s. one 12s. 02 18 00
Item, one spitt, one lattin dripping pann, 00 04 00
Item, 3 skittetts, 10s. 3 iron potts, 1 iron kettle, 01 14 00
Item, one brass sckumer; in earthen ware and wooden dishes 00 05 04
Item, one iron morter and pessell, 00 05 00
Item, 1 kneading trough, 1 forme, 1 table, 00 08 00
Item, 2 tramells, fire pann, tongs & cubiornes 00 11 00
Item, 1 tosting iron, 2s. two linnen wheeles, 6s. 00 08 00
Item, 3 siuefes, 3s. one treuett, 18d. 1 chaffin dish, 00 03 06
Item, 1 cross cutt saw, 6s. 2 muskitts, 24s. 2 paire bandleers, 4s. 1 fowling peece 15s. 02 09 00
Item, more one woollen wheele, 00 03 00
Item, in seuerall bookes, 20s. and one sword, 4s. 01 04 00
In the Hall;
Item, one table, 10s. one press, 10s., 01 00 00
Item, one great seife, 2s. in mony and wampum, 2£ 02 02 00
Item, one warming pann, 5s. 1 halfe bushell 2s. 00 07 00
In the Chamber ouer the shopp
Item, 1 flock bed, 2 bouldsters, 2 blankitts, 1 yello: and white couerlitt, 04 00 00
In the working shopp;
Item, in lasts, axes, handsaw, bettle rings, iron wedges & other toolls. 01 15 00
Item, in 3 backs and halfe of leather, and one peece; 10 00 00
Item, one parcell of leather, sould for 13£ 13 00 00
Item, one paire of Bootts, 00 10 00
Item, in Cartes and wheeles, & chaines & plow irons, 02 10 00
Item, 6 oxen valued at 38 00 00
Item, 2 cowes, 11£, one heifer,2£ 10s. two calues, 2£ 15 10 00
Item, 1 yeare old horse colt, 4£, 4 sheepe, 5£, one blankitt more, 10s. 09 10 00
Item, in wheat at Farmington, valued at 100 bush: out of which the family is to bee provided and some small debts paid.
Item, 6 hoggs at 25s. pr and 3 piggs. 09 00 00
Item, 2 hivefes of bees 01 10 00
Item, the dwelling howse, home lott, and little meadow ? and outhowsing, with uplands 75 00 00
Item, 8 akers of meadow and swamp, in the northmeadow 40 00 00
Item, 3 akers of meadow and some vpland on the east side of the great Riuer 12 00 00
Item, land and howsing at farmington 40 00 00

Total sum is 332 18 10
John Tailecoate Will: Westwood
Edward Stebbing Thomas Standly
The distribution of the estate by the Court, the 7th Decembr, 1648, is as followeth: To the eldest daughters 50£. out of the movables. to the eldest sonn, Calib, the howses and ands in Hartford, at the age of 21 yeares; hee paying to the youngest daughter, if shee liues, 30£. To the youngest sonn, Isaack, after the decease of his mother, the land and howsing at Farmington.
December 1, 1670
These presents witnesse, that we Thomas Portter & Lois Porter ?? fully reciued of o' brother Caleb Standky of Hartford, that porton that was alotted or distributed to Lois by the Honoured Court as her portion due to her of her father Timothy Standly his estate, and we doe by these presents fully acquitt, exoneratt and discharge sayed brother Caleb Standly, his heires, executors and administrators of all debts, dues and demands whatsoeuer dew from him the ?? Caleb Standley, by vertue of any quift or distribution made of the estate of o' Honoured Father Timothy Standly deceased; as witness o' hands this first day of December. in the year of our lord, one thowsand, six hundred and seuenty.
Witness, Samuel Cowles, Thomas Porter,
Abigail Cowles Lois Porter.
This is a true coppy of the originall. being examined & compared therewith, this 5th of January, 1670 pr me.
John Allyn, Secretary
Colonial Records Volume 1 page 489 to 492

• Biography. The Stanley family is very ancient in England, with numerous branches settling in many countries. Tradition says that the Stanley name is a place name of Saxon origin. Given to a man who lived in a stony clearing in the woods. It is derived from the Old English words stan meaning stone and leah meaning woods or clearing. A couple of the variations are Steinleigh and Stoneley The Hartford branch of Stanley's is believed to have come Kent County, England.
In late February 1634 the Elizabeth and Dorcas set sail from England. On board were 3 sons of Robert Standley, a glazier and farmer from Tenterden, Kent, England. Timothy Stanley and Elizabeth his wife along with their son Timothy. Thomas Stanley with his wife Bennett. John Stanley with his three young children Ruth, John and Timothy. It was a rough passage; the ship was damaged on some rocks near the Scilly Islands. The Elizabeth and Dorcas landed at Cambridge in early July, the voyage taking about a month longer then the average passage. The youngest of the brothers John and his son Timothy died while at sea. Timothy and Thomas took over the care of the other two children Timothy caring for Ruth and Thomas caring for John. It is evident from the estate that John Stanley left to his two remaining children that the Stanley brothers had a certain amount of wealth when they immigrated to the new land.
Timothy and his brother Thomas both settled in Cambridge. Becoming freemen there in March 4 1635. Timothy owned the first lot from Harvard Square on Dunster with a house and a garden. In 1636 the two Stanley brothers joined Hookers group of settlers and journeyed with the party to what is now Hartford Connecticut. Becoming original proprietors of the community. His home-lot in 1639 was on the west side of Front Street, near the road to the landing, the second lot north of the present State Street.
Timothy served as townsman and juror in 1639 and then again in 1642. He was on the jury of the Particular Court in Dec 1641.
In the division of land among the first settlers, Timothy had two parcels allotted to him totaling 68 acres in all, which was more than twice the average. His home lot was on the west side of what is now Front Street. Here he built his home and farmed.
In Jan 1642/3, he was chosen Selectman at Hartford. Later serving on many committees with men like Governor Hopkins, Governor Thomas Welles, Governor John Webster and John Talcott.
While there is no evidence that Timothy ever lived in Framington, his will shows he owned land there with "howsing," some building or buildings on it, which he bequeathed to his son Isaac, after the death of his widow. Timothy died in 1648 leaving a substantial estate for his widow and children.

• Biography. ⁵⁶² Timothy had two parcels allotted to him, of 23 and 26 acres, making 63 in all, which was much above the average. His lots wee located on the west side of what is now Front street, nearly opposite to the lane leading down to the landing, now Kilbourn street, and one of the nearest to the banks of the Great River. here he pursued the vocation of a farmer, having as appears from his inventory his dwelling house and house lott and a little meadow lott and outhouse with uplands, also eight acres of meadow and swamp in the North meadow and three acres of meadow and some uplands on the east side of the river. Subsequently, he purchased also land and housing at the newer settlement over the mountain on the west, called Farmingtown. he lived in Farmingtown for thirteen years until his death in April of 1648.

He was respected by the other colonist and selected as a townsman in 1642 to manage the town affairs. Everything that is recorded of him indicates that he was a man of dignity, good substance and piety, worthy of the sincere respet of his numerous descendants. He died while yet comparatively young, in the spring of 1648 aged forty five.

Timothy's home is described as follows: The front of the house faces the east with nothing to intercept the view of the charming landscape of the river winding through the broad meadows, whose fertility had first invited the settlers thither. It is a small two story building, having on the first floor only the hall and kitchen the latter serving alike for a cook-room, living-room and parlot. Meager enough is the furniture; a deal table with a form of bench for sitting upon at meals and standing in winter before the grat open fireplace who cobirons support the massive sticks of wood overhung by the long trammels in the chimney. A few pots and kettles and some humbler utensils are hung in the fireplace or deposited on rough shelves overhead. The emigrant's armory of a sword, two muskets and a fowling piece, with bandoleers (pounches for powder and bullets to be slung from the shoulders) are suspended on the wainscoting ready for instant use; and for mentalrecreation and the educaiton of the children twenty shillings worth of books, icluding, of course, the Bible are carefully deposited on some shelf safest from injury.

The hall shows a clothes-press and another table, with a warming pan for making the children's beds comfortable in the bitterly cold winter; the big sieve with which the farmer cleans his wheat and the half-bushel with which he measure it; and somewhere in some safe nook the family purse, with the strings of Indian wrought beads or wampum, which servedas money, so many strings for an English shilling.

We ascend to the chamber over the kitchen, the main sleepingroom of the house. Here are three chairs one bedstead apparently the only one in the house, with a feather-bed and sheets, one pair of which are linen, the rest either of hemp or tow. A trundle-bed fo the little ones pushes under the bedstead and on the floor in one corner is a flock bed i.e. a bag stuffed with bits of cloth, wool or two, serving the place of feathers. The rest of the family linen is kept in the chest standing between the two front windows, and in the bos in the opposite corner. The chamber adjacent over the hall seems to be a general store room where is kept the family plate, all of pewter carefully deposited in one of the trunks or chests, the wearing apparel of thehousehold with a dozen dresed skins for making leather breeches and four large casks where the farmer probably stores the provision and breadstuffs that need safe keeping. In the attic, still higher up, is another flock bed, wihtout chair or mirror, the boudoir, perhaps of Ruth and the older daughters.

A little out building near by serves the farmer for a working shop where he keeps his tools and supplies of leather which the itinerant shoemaker in his round of visits to various houses, will work up into shoes for the family. the narrow loft overhead accomodates a third flock bed where, it may be the hired men sleep.

Timothy married Elizabeth Morrice in 1625 in Ashford, Kent, England. (Elizabeth Morrice was born about 1603 and died on 23 Feb 1679 in Hartford, Connecticut.)