Mary CLARKE

Female 1641 - 1711  (70 years)

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  • Name Mary CLARKE 
    Birth 1641  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 7 Apr 1711  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Burial Common Burial Ground, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I11865  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Captain Jeremy CLARKE,   b. 1605, East Farleigh, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1651, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Mother Frances LATHAM,   b. 15 Feb 1609/10, Kempston, Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Sep 1677, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1637  [3] 
    Family ID F00784  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Gov. John CRANSTON,   b. Between 1625 and 1626, Scotland or England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1679/80, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Marriage 3 Jun 1658  Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Gov. Samuel Cranston,   b. 16 Aug 1659, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Apr 1727, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     2. James Cranston,   b. Abt Feb 1660/61, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1662 (Age 1 year)
     3. Caleb Cranston,   b. Abt 1662, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Jeremiah Cranston,   b. Abt 1663, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1678 (Age > 16 years)
     5. Mary Cranston,   b. 27 Jan 1664/65, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Mar 1665/66 (Age 1 year)
     6. Benjamin CRANSTON, I,   b. Abt 1668, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1708 and 1718 (Age 40 years)
     7. William Cranston,   b. Abt 1670, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Elizabeth Cranston,   b. 1671, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1736 (Age 65 years)
     9. Peleg Cranston,   b. Abt 1673
     10. John Cranston, Jr.,   b. Abt 1675, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F04620  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Family 2 Capt. John Stanton,   b. Between Jun and Aug 1645, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Oct 1713 
    Marriage Abt 1687 
    Children 
     1. Henry Stanton,   b. 25 Jun 1688, Newport, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1751, Carteret, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Family ID F04619  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • When Mary (Clarke) Cranston married John Stanton, she was the widow of Gov. John Cranston (b. 1626).

      Her will identifies her as "Mary Stanton, of Newport, now wife of Capt. John Stanton of Newport, Physician." It mentions her brothers Walter and J. Clarke; and sons (surname Cranston) Caleb (dec'd.), Samuel, John, Benjamin and Henry; daughter Elizabeth (Cranston) Brown; and son Henry Stanton. Based on Henry's date of birth (1688), Mary would have been about 47 years of age when he was born. The will also mentions son-in-law John Brown, grandsons John & Robert Brown; grandson John Cranston, son of Samuel; and granddaughter Mary Cranston.

      Her epitaph reads as follows: "Here lyeth interred the body of Mary Stanton alias Cranston who departed this life ye 7th day of April 1711 in ye 70th year of her age late wife of Capt John Stanton & was ye only wife of Major John Cranston & ye virtuous & worthy mother of ye family here."

  • Sources 
    1. [S012422] Alden G. Beaman, Ph. D., editor, RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 17, 325.

    2. [S012422] Alden G. Beaman, Ph. D., editor, RI Genealogical Register, Vol. 17, 324 & 325.

    3. [S013457] Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 35.

    4. [S013226] Descendants of Gov. John Cranston of RI; Genealogies of RI Families, Vol. 1, 278.