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- Birth: 1607 Tenterden, Kent, England
Death: Jan. 31, 1663 Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
He came from England in the ship ‘Planter’ to Lynn, MA in 1635, removed to Hartford in 1636, and in 1659 removed to Hadley, MA.
Freeman in MA 4 March 1635, and a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1640. He was Deputy to the General Court from Lynn in 1635 when the removal to Connecticut was decided upon. He was an original proprietor at Hartford and his home lot in 1639 was on what is now Main Street just north of Little River, extending to the present Center Church. Was constable in Hartford in 1644, 48, and 53.
Thomas married Bennet Tritton on August 3, 1630 in Ashford, Kent, England. To this union, 5 children were born:
Mary
Hannah
Violet
Nathaniel
Sarah
An original proprietor of Hartford, his name is on the Founders Monument. He probably came to America with his brothers, John & Timothy, he was a freeman in Mass. on Marach 4, 1634-5 and settled in Lynn. He was a deputy & constable there, but soon removed to Hartford. His homelot in 1639 was on Main Street just north of the Little River extending to Center Church. He was also a constable in Hartford. In 1659, he removed to Hadly and was a townsman there.
He married Benet Shepard, daughter of John and Rebecca (Waller) Shepard. (Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, p. 566)
Family links:
Parents:
Robert Stanley (____ - 1605)
Ruth Garland Stanley
Spouse:
Benet Tritton Stanley (1609 - 1664)
Children:
Hannah Stanley Porter (1631 - 1708)*
Thomas Stanley (1631 - 1632)*
Mary Stanley Porter (1633 - 1688)*
Nathall Stanly (1636 - 1712)*
Nathaniel Stanley (1638 - 1712)*
Sarah Stanley Wadsworth (1638 - ____)*
Siblings:
John Stanley (____ - 1634)*
Timothy Stanly (1603 - 1648)*
Thomas Stanley (1607 - 1663)
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Old Hadley Cemetery
Hadley
Hampshire County
Massachusetts, USA
Created by: the moo
Record added: Jul 30, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 15088994—————
• Biography. THOMAS of more consequence, br. of the first John and Timothy, is found on the rec. of London custom ho. aged 16, as Mr. Drake cop. the fig. in Geneal. Reg. XIV. 307, precisely like mine in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VIII. 257; and the spell. of the surname is Stansley, as shown in the Index of that series of the Mass. Hist. Coll. but in the Index of Geneal. Reg. vol. it is alter. to Stanley, and so justifies the construct. I had many yrs. since giv. He emb. in the Planter 1635, for N. E. from that port, and was among the first sett. of Hartford 1636, had Nathaniel, b. 1638, and three ds. rem. 1659 to Hadley, d. 30 Jan.1 663. Of his ds. Hannah m. Samuel Porter; Mary m. John Porter; and Sarah m. John Wadsworth. His wid. Bennet m. Gregory Wilterton as his sec. w. the same, yr. and d. the next, aged 55.
• Biography. 543 Thomas came with his brothers Timothy and John to Cambridge in 1634. He was appointed the guardian of John, the son of his brother John who died at sea. Thomas was made a freeman in March 1635 and settled first in Lynn, where he was chosen a member of the General Court and constable and removed to Hartford in June 1636. In the division of lands there he was assigned two parcels fo forty-two acres each, and a house lot thus described on the record: 1 acre, 1 rood, abutting on the highway lying on the north side of the Little River on the south and on the highway lading from the palisado to the Centinell hill on the East and on Rich: Olsteds land on the North, and Thomas Lords land on the West. This was on the west side of the present Main street, running from the bridge over the Little River to the Center church,a most valuable location, generally known since as Stanley's Corner.
Though a young man at this time, Mr. Stanley soon took an important position in the affiars of the town. he was a juryman in 1639 and 1643 and a constable in 1644, 1647, 1648 and 1653. This office was then one of the most responsible in the settlement, combineing the duties of the modern sheriiff and policeman, and being charged in general with preserving the order and decorumof the place. it devolved on him to summon the courts, General and Particular, to their sessions, and the freemen to their elections, to execute the decrees of the courts and the laws, to enforce order in public worship, to arrest and confine offenders, to administer the frequent whippings which were order in punishment of petty crimes, inflicting so many lashes, well laid on a duty requireing a steady nerve and a strong arm.
In the year 1659, Thomas Stanley and his family, with some others, removed from Hartford and commenced a new settlement at Hadley, Massachusetts. They moved over a controversy in the church regarding who would be the next minister following the death of their first minister.
While Timothy and his family removed from Hartford, he didn't sell his property.
Thomas married Bennet Tritton on 3 Aug 1630 in Ashford, Kent, England. (Bennet Tritton was born in 1609 in Ashford, Kent, England, christened on 30 Jul 1609 and died in Jan 1664 in Hartford, Connecticut.)
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