Samuel Stanton and Martha Carpenter Morse
Husband Samuel Stanton 1 2 3
Born: 17 Apr 1759 - Preston, New London Co, CT 4 Christened: Died: 15 Apr 1816 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 4 5 Buried:
Father: Samuel Stanton (1726-1803) 2 Mother: Mary Palmer (Abt 1737-1815) 2
Marriage: 3 Dec 1786 - Preston, New London Co, CT 4
Wife Martha Carpenter Morse 1 4
Born: 15 Oct 1764 - Preston, New London Co, CT 4 Christened: Died: 8 May 1830 - Port Allegany, McKean Co, PA 4 Buried:
Father: Daniel Morse ( - ) 4 Mother: Anna Carpenter ( - ) 4
Children
1 F Martha Stanton 4
Born: 18 Nov 1787 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: William Green ( - ) 4 Marr: 12 May 1806 4
2 M Samuel Stanton 4
Born: 26 Feb 1789 - Preston, New London Co, CT 4 Christened: Died: - Minnesota Buried:Spouse: Weltha Copeland ( - ) 4 Marr: 1826 4Spouse: Polly Roland ( - ) 4 Marr: 1851 4
3 F Polly Stanton 4 5
Born: 26 Aug 1791 - Pleasant Mount, Wayne Co, PA 4 5 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Thomas Lillibridge (1787- ) 4 5 Marr: 31 Mar 1808 4 5
4 F Rebecca Stanton 4
Born: 1 Jun 1793 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: William Haines ( - ) 4 Marr: 10 Dec 1809 4
5 F Anna Carpenter Stanton 1 4 5
Born: 9 Feb 1795 - Preston, New London Co, CT 4 5 Christened: Died: 9 Feb 1876 5 Buried:Spouse: Lodowick Lillibridge ( - ) 1 5 6 Marr: 28 Apr 1814 4
6 F Lucy Stanton 4
Born: 5 Jan 1797 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Elias Morse ( - ) 4 Marr: 11 Feb 1819 4
7 M Daniel Stanton 4
Born: 18 Jun 1799 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Lydia Chadwick ( - ) 4 Marr: 29 Jan 1824 4
8 M Thomas Stanton 4
Born: 15 Nov 1801 4 Christened: Died: Buried:
9 F Lydia Stanton 4
Born: 16 Jun 1803 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Horace Morse ( - ) 4 Marr: 11 Feb 1819 4
10 M Abel Stanton 4
Born: 30 Jun 1805 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Sarah Scott ( - ) 4 Marr: 1837 4
11 F Hannah Stanton 4
Born: 18 Jul 1807 4 Christened: Died: Aft 1890 Buried:Spouse: James Steele ( - ) 4 Marr: 12 Sep 1824 4
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Stanton
In June, 1789, he bought a tract of three hundred and twenty-two acres in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and became the first actual settler in Mount Pleasant township; he had previously done some surveying in that section. The day following his purchase he bought nearly three thousand acres more. About a year later he began to work this land, and he brought his family there in April, 1791. During the following winter he and his family nearly died of starvation. When they were almost beyond hope, a passing hunter killed a deer near their cabin; then discovering their plight, he generously relieved them. In 1796 Mr. Stanton was appointed justice of the peace in Northampton County. When Wayne county was organized, two years later, he was a commissioner to build the court house, and he was engaged in many enterprises in Wayne county. In October, 1814, he was appointed associate judge of that county. Near the close of his life, however, he removed westward, and purchased seventeen hundred acres of land on Marvin creek, in what is now Hamlin township, McKean County, and three or four hundred acres in Liberty township. In the latter township he erected a store and log house; he also planned for many buildings. His project was to bring two hundred families to what is now Port Allegany. In this new home he was commissioner of a state road; business growing out of this position called him to Harrisburg. Taking his family, he went as far as the west branch of the Susquehanna; and it was while stopping at Bellefonte to visit a friend, as he was making his journey to Harrisburg. that he died. When he had started with his family, they had just had a visitation of typhoid in which seven of his children had been sick. Mrs. Stanton, after his death, continued the journey to Port Allegany. The main body of the intended colonists settled in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Judge Stanton was a pious Christian man, a member of the Free Communion Baptists, and was the author of about fifty hymns. He was a man of lively imagination, well developed intellect and unusual power of concentration. It is said that he read over two thousand books, and could discourse intelligently about their contents. In disposition he was cheerful, entertaining, yet not jovial, and with a thirst for information which made him alert.
1 —, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 525.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 122.
3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 355.
4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 123.
5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 356.
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John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 116, 123.
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