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Facts and Events
| Name |
John Stanbridge |
| Gender |
Male |
| Marriage |
Bef 1673 |
to Sarah Norton |
| Occupation[1] |
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Tailor |
| Death[2] |
1725 |
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Profile of John Stanbridge from History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol 2:
- This man was a tailor by occupation, who is first heard of in Boston, 1674, on the tax list, and in 1678 he took the oath of allegiance in that town. He is found there in 1681, 1687 and 1688, but before this, probably about 1673, he had married Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Norton, which explains his connection with our island.[3] How soon he came here to live is not definitely known, possibly before 1692, when he was a witness to a deed.[4] After this he seems to have removed as in 1703 he bought property here (part of the Mayhew home lot), and is then called "late of Newport." Evidently he was a roamer. He remained here for some ten years, and is mentioned in the records until 1714, when it appears that he again removed to Newport.[4] The next record of him is in 1719, when "John Stanbridge, Taylor and wife, wich came from R. Island" were warned to depart from Boston by the authorities. This however was not followed out by Stanbridge, as he was an unsuccessful petitioner in that town for a license to retail liquor in 1723, the last we hear from him.[5] In 1731, his wife, or widow probably, entered suit in our courts against ten of her nephews by blood and marriage, alleging that they had invited her to come from Boston to Edgartown, promising maintenance, which they had failed to perform, and asking damage. The court awarded her £100 and the defendants appealed.[6]
Footnotes (from History of Martha's Vineyard)
- ↑ Stanbridge, John, in Banks, Charles Edward. The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. (Boston: G H Dean, 1911)
Vol II p. 135.
- ↑ Stanbridge, John, in Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (1963)
Online database, Accessed 29 Oct 2009.
"Stanbridge, John (-1725) & Sarah [NORTON] (?1653-); by 1673; Newport, RI/Martha's Vineyard {Martha's Vineyard 345, 458; Weymouth 4:445}" from online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.
- ↑ Sarah, wife of John Stanbridge, was convicted of selling rum without a license, Jan. 30, 1685-6. (Dukes Court Rec., Vol. I.)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dukes Deeds, I, 48. He was plaintiff in a suit in the Cambridge, Mass., Court 1690. (Records, Court of Assistants, I. 330 and 134.)
- ↑ Boston Town Records.
- ↑ Dukes County Records, Vol. II. She called herself a seamstress. It is possible that the plaintiff may be a daughter of Sarah (Norton) Stanbridge, who sues her cousins. There being no court files in the county archives of that date, the pleadings are not available.
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