Another of favorite brick walls with a marriage record is the identity of Patience Hartford who married Isaac Stanton at Rochester, N.H. on 7 April 1757. [“The History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire 1722-1890” by Franklin McDuffee (2 vols., 1892, reprinted as one volume, Somersworth, NH, 1988), 2:618] No doubt she was the same Patience Hartford who was baptized at Rochester on 18 July 1756 and owned the covenant at Rochester (Ibid, p. 593). On July 12, 1820 Charles Stanton deposed in his Revolutionary War Pension Application as being 61 years old and living in Brookfield, N.H. with a father aged 86 and a mother aged 80. [Rev. Application #S16543] So Patience was born ca. 1740. Her husband died at Middleton on 24 February 1829 at age 96 and his death notice was in several newspapers due to his age and his service in the French & Indian War.
So, who were the parents of Patience? She was likely born a Quaker and was an adult convert to the Puritan church, hence the baptism in 1756. A William Hartford married Patience Long at Dover, N.H. in 1701[New Hampshire Genealogical Record 1:51] and any sons born between 1702 and 1710 would be married between 1730 and 1739 and could have named an eldest daughter after their mother. The problem is there are no records for William and Patience (Long) Hartford in the surviving Dover Quaker records. There is also a competing Hartford family in Dover: Nicholas Hartford and his wife Elizabeth Jenkins. They were married c. 1700 and their eldest daughter was named Patience (b. 16 September 1701). One of their twelve children Stephen moved to Rochester. So this family is also a possibility.
Isaac and Patience (Hartford) Stanton had eleven children: John, Charles, Elizabeth, Elijah, Eleanor, Patience, Isaac M., Hannah, Sarah, William, and Mary. Isaac was the son of Benjamin and Eleanor (Ricker) Stanton. Naturally all probates, vitals, and deeds have been checked and nothing has popped up as a smoking gun yet.
Source: Stanton Manuscript by Benjamin I. Stanton (NEHGS Mss SG/STA/8 (186)), gift of Minnie Stanton, 1902.
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