Thomas Stanton

Thomas Stanton’s work as an interpreter placed him between English colonial authorities and Indigenous communities in seventeenth-century New England. His first documented appearance was at a conference with the Pequot at Fort Saybrook in July 1636.[3]

He married Ann Lord Stanton, called Anna in the family society’s account, probably that year. They had ten children, including Dorothy Stanton Noyes.[1,3]

A fur trader as well as an interpreter, Stanton took part in the Pequot War and the negotiations that followed. During the Fairfield Swamp fighting in 1637, he helped arrange a temporary ceasefire and the surrender of noncombatants. He later served as interpreter for the United Colonies.[3]

After establishing a trading post on the Pawcatuck River in 1650, he moved his family from Hartford to New London and then to the Pawcatuck area. He died on 2 December 1677.[3]