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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire


    John Stanton

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 782 
    • Birth Date:
    • Oct 1645 
    • Birth Location:
    • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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    • Death Date:
    • 3 Dec 1713 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 1667 
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    • Children:

    • Mary Stanton (Ahnentafel No:391 )

      Hannah Stanton

  • Additional marriages for John Stanton


    • Spouse:
    • Mary Clarke
    • Marriage Date:
    • AFT 1684

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  • Sources for John Stanton

    • 3 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 20, New York: James T. White and Company (1929), 137.
    • 4 Brenneman, Richard E., "Notable Kin - New England in Hollywood, Part Three: The Possible Rhode Island Ancestry of Marilyn Monroe", www.americanancestors.org/notable-kin-the-possible-rhode-island-ancestry-of-marilyn-monroe, (accessed 10/09/2014).
    • 5 Carr, Arthur A., The Carr Book: Sketches of the Lives of Many of the Descendants of Robert and Caleb Carr . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. (1947), 18-19.
    • 6 Carr, Edson I., The Carr Family Records: Embracing the Record of the First Families Who Settled in America and their Descendants . . ., Rockton, Illinois: Herald Printing House (1894), 30.
    • 7 Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 3rd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Company Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1926), 221.
    • 10 Stanton, William Henry, A Book Called Our Ancestors the Stantons, Philadelphia: Privately Printed for William Henry Stanton (1922), 30-31.