Ruth Stanley

  Noted events in her life were:

• Moved: Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

• Moved, 1660, Farmington, Connecticut.

• Biography. Ruth married Isaac More or
Moore, December 5, 1645. They early removed to Norwalk,
Connecticut, where he was one of the first settlers; was a
sergeant in 1649, and a representative from Norwalk to the
General Court in 1657. He removed back to Farmington in 1660,
where he was chosen deacon of the church. He and his wife were
fifteenth in the grade of families there. After the death of
his wife, May 26, 1696, he married, very late in life, Dorothy,
daughter of Rev. Henry Smith, the widow of three previous
husbands, the third of whom was Mark Sension (St. John), whose
first wife was Elizabeth Stanley, her cousin, daughter of the
emigrant, Timothy Stanley."
from horrocks
Timothy Stanley was also one of the Hooker Party, and an original
proprietor at hartford in 1636.
from "the Stanley Families"
THE beginning of our knowledge respecting the three ancestral brothers
from whom the Stanley family of Connecticut is descended, is to be found
in the following entry in the Massachusetts Colonial Records, Vol. I., p.
134.
"Att a Court, holden att Newe Towne, March 3, 1634. Whereas John Stanley
dyed intestate, in the way to Newe England, & lefte three children
vndisposed of, the yongest whereof is since disceased, haveing also lefte
an estate of cxvjl, in goods & chattells, &c., it is therefore ordered,
with the consent of Thomas Stanley, brother to the said John, disceased,
that hee shall haue forthwith the some of lviijl of the sd estate putt
into his hands; in consideracon whereof, the said Thomas Stanley shall
educate & bring vpp John Stanley, sonne of John Stanley, disceased,
finding him meate, drinke, & app'ell, till hee shall accomplishe the age
of xxi yeares, & att the end of the said tearme shall giue vnto the said
John Stanley the some of ffifty pounds.
"Also, it is further ordered, with the consent of Tymothy Stanley,
another brother of the aforesd John Stanley, disceased, that the other
lviijl of the aforesaid estate shalbe put into the hands of the said
Tymothy Stanley, in consideracon whereof the said Tymothy shall educate &
bring vpp Rueth Stanley, daughter of the aforesd John Stanley, disceased,
findeing her meate, drinke, and app'ell, till shee shall attaine the age
of one & twenty yeares; & att the end of the said tearme, or att the day
of her marriage, with Tymothy Stanleyes consent, shall giue vnto the sd
Ruth Stanley the some of thirty pounds; provided if eyther of the said
children shall dye before the expiracon of the said tearmes, then the
p'ty whoe kept the said childe shall stand to the order of the Court for
payeing soe much to the survyeving childe as the Court shall appoynct."
The date of the above order, according to our present mode of reckoning,
is March 3, 1635. At that time the civil year began March 25, and the
months of January, February, and so much of March, instead of being at
the beginning of the year, were at its close. It is customary, in giving
dates of that period, to put the last figure of the year in duplicate, or
in the form of a fraction, thus, 1634-5, or 163 4/5. The date referred to
is March 3d, of the year ending March 25, 1634, or of the year beginning
January 1, 1635.
These families had arrived in Boston some nine months previous, in May,
1634; at least Timothy Stanley certainly and the others in all
probability, for there is no reason to doubt that they all came together.
There is on file among the Colonial papers at Hartford, a deposition from
the wife of Timothy, who after his death married Andrew Bacon, which
sheds some light on that subject.
"Elisabeth Bacon aged aboute seaventy one yeares testifyeth that I come
over ffrom old Engelande in a ship with Samuell Greenehill and his wife
in the yeare one Thousand sixe Hundred

Ruth married Isaac Moore on 5 Dec 1645 in Farmington, Connecticut. (Isaac Moore was born on 5 Dec 1625 in England and died in 1706 in Farmington, Connecticut.)