Family:Peter Stanton and Sarah Cleveland (1)

Facts and Events
Marriage[1][2][3] 21 Sep 1763 Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Children
BirthDeath
References
  1. Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Canterbury Vital Records:287.

    'STANTON ...
    Peter, m. Sarah CLEVELAND, Sept. 21, 1763'

  2. Cleveland, Edmund Janes, and Horace Gillette Cleveland. The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: an attempt to trace, in both the male and the female lines, the posterity of Moses1 Cleveland who came from Ipswich, County Suffolk, England, about 1635, was of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; of Alexander Cleveland of Prince William County, Virginia; and of ancient and other Clevelands in England, America and elsewhere; with numerous biographical sketches; and containing ancestries of many of the husbands and wives; also a bibliography of the Cleveland family and a genealogical account of Edward Winn of Woburn and of other Winn families. (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1899)
    1:129.

    'Ch. b. Canterbury ...
    Sarah5 Cleveland, b. Sep.3, 1744-5 [sic], m. C., Sep. 21, 1763, Peter Stanton, b. C. May 18, 1743, a s. Joseph and Abigail.'

    This source seems to have confused Peter's maternal grandparents (Joseph and Abigail Staples, as per "Unplaced Stantons") with his parents, Thomas and Sarah (Staples) Stanton.

  3. Wood, W. Herbert. Unplaced Stantons. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (1950)
    26:41-42.

    'Thomas Stanton ... married ... Sarah Staples ... daughter of Joseph and Abigail (------) Staples. ... Children: ...
    Peter, b. 18 May 1742 (1743 by Canterbury V. R.); bapt. 13 June 1742 (Brooklyn church); m. 12 Sept. 1763 (Canterbury V. R.), Sarah Cleveland, b. 3 Sept. 1744 or 5, dau. of David and Eunice (Backus) Cleveland. In 1790 he was probably in Worthington, Hampshire Co., Mass.'