Hon. Thomas Stanton, III - Parentage of Thomas Stanton

Disconnected from parents and relationship locked with this curator note:

Curator Note from Erica Howton (today):
No proof that his parents were Thomas Stanton, Jr. & Katherine (Washington) Stanton. Married Ann Lord.

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A discussion should be started with evidence for parentage.

Thank you for bringing to attention.

You're welcome!

According to "An Introduction to Thomas Stanton" from the Stanton Homestead Museum, "The most egregious tale about Stanton’s early life is the one told and retold of his English origins. It has been believed that Stanton came from a landed, armigerous family in Warwickshire, that he attended Oxford University, leaving wealth and privilege to come to the New World. It is said that he walked from Virginia to Boston to satisfy his Puritan beliefs, learning the Algonquian language along the way. It would have made a delightful introduction to his biography, but, alas, it has been disproved, not just once, but twice, the first time by Clarence Almon Torrey (in The American Genealogist, Volume 14, pp. 86-87) back in the 1930s and more recently by Eugene Cole Zubrinsky in The American Genealogist of January 2006 (a second article to follow)."

Zubrinsky is a genealogy godling. You're lucky he's addressed this family.