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Excerpt from The Revolutionary Martyrs of Ancient Pachaug
Lester stanton, the son of Robert and Mary (lester) Stanton, was born June 25, 1742. The home of his parents, where he is supposed to have spent his early years, was between what is now the John Graves farm and the farm of Kingsley Chapman in the south part of Griswold.
His father was a descendant of Captain John Stanton of Narragansett war fame, who gave one-half his vast estate in the Pachaug country to his son John. According to tradition, he aided the speedy settlement of the country, by disposing of farms to actual settlers on surprising terms - to one, on condition of his being a good neighbor; to another, for the consideration of a plow clevis and pin. He also, it is said, gave a farm to each of his seven sons, of whom Robert Stanton was one. The mother of Lester Stanton was Mary, daughter of Andrew Lester, the first of the name in Pachaug, whose wife was the daughter of John Starkweather and sis ter of the mother of Robert Stanton.
All the known war record of Lester Stanton is contained in that line in the records of his parish, already quoted, which makes mention of his death. He married August 6, 1772, Margaret Benjamin, the sister of John Benjamin, Jr., his fellow martyr. The graves of his parents and many of the Stanton line are to be found in the Leonard burying ground.
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