189. Samuel5 Stanton (Samuel4, John3, Capt John2, Thomas1) was born in Preston, Conn 17 Apr 1759. Samuel died 15 April 1816 in Bellefonte, Center Co., Penn, at age unknown.

He married Martha Carpenter Morss 3 December 1786 in Preston, Conn. Martha was born 15 October 1764 in Preston, Conn. She was the daughter of Daniel Morse and Anna Carpenter. Martha died 8 May 1830 in Port Allegany, McKean Co.,m Penn, at age 65. Samuel lived in Preston for three years after his marriage. In June, 1789, he purchased a large tract of land in Wayne Co., Penn., and became the first actual settler in Mr. Pleasant township of said county. He had previously done some surveying in that section for Mr. William Cooper of Cooperstown, NY. His purchase was 322 acres, for which he paid L322 to Thomas Rogers of Philadelphia, for whom Copper acted as agent. The next day, June 30, 1789, he bought nearly 3,000 acreas of William Cooper, who in that sale acted as agent for Thomas Franklin, William and Andrew Craig and others. In June of 1790, he began to work the land, and he brought his family there April 10, 1791. The next winter he and his whole family nearly perished through starvation and sickness, but relief came at last in the person of a hunter, Mr. Frederick Coates, whose dogs chased a deer near Samuel's cabin. When, in after years, Samuel kept a tavern, the horns of that deer where nailed to the top of his sign-post. In physical aspect Samuel Stanton was tall, Broad-shouldered, heavy, but not corpulent. He had a light complexion, soft blue eyes, very light-brown hair and whiskers verging a little to the sandy shade.

In temperament he was sanguine, his imagination was lively and his intellect well developed. His powers of ocncentration were almost too well developed, for if absorbed in a book he became oblivious to all the rest of the world.

He was said to have read over 2,000 volumes, ocncerning the contents of which he could converse intelligently.

Socially he was free, affable, entertaining, and serious rather than jovial; he was very inquisitive, desiring to learn all he could, and he always had a great variety of anecdotes to tell. In 1796 he was appointed justice of the peace, his home then being in Northampton Co.; in 1798 Wayne Co. was organized and he was one of the commissioners to locate the seat of justice and build the court-house. In Oct. 1814, he was appointed associate county judge, and held that office until he moved away.

Mr. Stanton has some aspirations towards poetry, and he wrote more than fifty hymns, some of which had a place in the hymn books used by the Free Communion Baptists, of whom he was one. Near the close of his life he moved to the western part of Pennsylvania. He had been appointed commissioner of a State road in that section; this office have him some business in Harrisburg. Taking his family he went to the west branch of the Susquehanna; left them to proceed on their way while he went to Harrisburg, expecting to meet them later. He stopped in Bellefonte, Center Co., to visit his friend Judge Burnside, and there suddenly died, April 15, 1816.

Samuel Stanton and Martha Carpenter Morss had the following children:

child 470 i.

Polly6 Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 26 Aug 1791. She married Thomas Lillibridge 31 March 1808.

child 471 ii.

Daniel Stanton was born 18 Jun 1799. He married Lydia Chadwick 29 January 1824.

child 472 iii.

Lydia Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 16 Jun 1803. She married Horace Morse 11 February 1819.

child 473 iv.

Abel Morse Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 30 Jun 1805. He married Sarah Scott 1837.

child 474 v.

Martha Stanton was born in Preston, Conn 18 November 1787. She married William Green 12 May 1806 in Mt. Pleasant, Penn.

child 475 vi.

Samuel Stanton was born in Preston, Conn 26 February 1789. He married twice. He married Weltha Copeland. He married Polly Roland.

child 476 vii.

Rebecca Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 1 June 1793. She married William Haines 10 December 1809.

child 477 viii.

Anna Carpenter Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 9 February 1795. She married Lodowick Lillibridge 28 April 1814.

child 478 ix.

Lucy Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 5 January 1797. She married Elias Morse 11 February 1819.

child + 479 x.

Thomas Stanton was born 15 November 1801.

child 480 xi. Hannah Stanton was born in Mt. Pleasant, Penn 18 July 1807. She married James Steele 12 September 1824.

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