John Stanley

d. 1634 · the Atlantic → New England

Died 1634

Children include John

He never reached New England. The Massachusetts General Court, sitting at Newtown on 3 March 1634 old style, opened the matter in its own words: "Whereas John Stanley dyed intestate, in the way to Newe England, & lefte three children vndisposed of, the yongest whereof is since disceased, haveing also lefte an estate of cxvj [116 pounds] in goods & chattells."

So he sailed in 1634 with three children and no wife that any record mentions, died somewhere on the water, and the ship put his orphans ashore. Within months the youngest of the three was dead too. The court then split the estate into two blocks of fifty eight pounds and handed one to each of his brothers, Thomas and Timothy, in exchange for raising a child apiece to the age of twenty one and paying that child a fixed sum at the end of it: fifty pounds to the son John, thirty to the daughter Ruth. Both brothers consented on the record. The magistrates kept a hold on it, ordering that if either child died before their term ran out, the uncle who had kept them must come back and be told what to pay the survivor.

Ruth married Isaac Moore of Farmington on 5 December 1645. The son became Lieutenant and Captain John Stanley of Farmington, an officer through King Philip's War, and died in 1705 at about eighty. Both were raised by an uncle on their father's money.

Children

John Stanley d. 1705

Sources

Israel P. Warren, The Stanley Families of America (Boston, 1887), page 19, quoting Massachusetts Colonial Records vol. I p. 134 · archive.org stanleyfamilieso1887warr, leaf 24

Israel P. Warren, The Stanley Families of America (Boston, 1887), page 23 · archive.org stanleyfamilieso1887warr, leaf 28

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, vol. IV (Boston, 1862), page 165 · archive.org genealogicaldic04savarich, leaf 178

Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, vol. I (Boston, 1853), the Court held at Newtown 3 March 1634/5, pp. 134-135

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1862), vol. IV, under STANLEY

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