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Benjamin Bradstreet STANWOOD

Benjamin Bradstreet STANWOOD

Male 1766 - Aft 1820  (> 55 years)

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  • Name Benjamin Bradstreet STANWOOD 
    Birth 19 Jun 1766  Duck Brook, Mt. Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Tax 1796  Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • State Tax Bill, Owned 1/8 interest in saw mill.
    Census 1800  Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Males
      Under 10: 3
      10-15: 1
      16-25: 0
      26-44: 1
      45 and over: 0

      Females
      Under 10: 0
      10-15: 0
      16-25: 0
      26-44: 1
      45 and over: 0
    Census 1810  Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Benjamin, who would have been 44 years of age in 1810.
      Males
      Under 10: 1
      10-15: 0
      16-25: 1
      26-44: 0
      45 and over: 0
      Females
      Under 10: 0
      10-15: 0
      16-25: 0
      26-44: 1
      45 and over: 0
    Census 1820  Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • Males
      Under 10: 0
      10-16: 0
      16-26: 1
      26-45: 0
      45 and over: 1

      Females
      Under 10: 0
      10-16: 0
      16-26: 0
      26-45: 0
      45 and over: 1
    Death Aft 1820 
    Person ID I1493  Stanwood Family
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2022 

    Father Job STANWOOD,   b. 14 Feb 1726/7, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jul 1776, Duck Brook, Mt. Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Martha BRADSTREET,   b. 11 Mar 1738/9, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Dec 1787, Mount Desert Island, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 1 Sep 1754  Hampton, Rockingham, Province of New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Family ID F482  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaret WASGATT,   b. Abt 1771   d. 4 Mar 1808, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1790  Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin STANWOOD,   b. 12 May 1791, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 12 Oct 1860 (Age < 69 years)
     2. Thomas STANWOOD,   b. 28 Jul 1793, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. John STANWOOD,   b. 14 Nov 1795, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Henry STANWOOD,   b. 20 Feb 1797, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F747  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2024 

    Family 2 Zilpa Rocetta PHELPS 
    Marriage Mar 1810  Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F425  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2024 

  • Photos
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    Documents
    STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1800_Eden    		STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1800_Eden
    STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1810_Eden    		STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1810_Eden
    STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1820_Eden    		STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1820_Eden

  • Notes 
    • Cordelia Stanwood, in her article written for the Lewiston Journal (May 29, 1926), says of Benjamin:

      "Captain Benjamin Bradstreet Stanwood continued to live at Duck Brook where he was born. Here he built one of the handsomest houses on the Island. Near his house was his saw and grist mill. He sailed in his vessels to Boston, New York and other ports. His first wife, the mother of his children, was Margaretta Wasgatt. She bore him four children."

      Benjamin is often credited as a petitioner to the General Court in 1768 and a resident of Cranberry Island; however, this is more likely his uncle Benjamin (half brother of Benjamin's father, Job), as Benjamin Bradstreet Stanwood was only a child of two at the time of the petition.

      Nonetheless, Benjamin B. Stanwood was clearly a man of importance on Mt. Desert Island, having been a major landowner, including the property later purchased by Governor Blaine and his wife, a distant Stanwood cousin.

  • Sources 
    1. [S278] Vital Records of Mount Desert Island Maine and Nearby Islands, 1776-1820, p. 33 (page 130 in original town book).

    2. [S1398] Original Records of Towns and Cities: Town of Bar Harbor, Benmain Stanwood and Humphrey Stanwood, CD 3, p. 731.
      Citing Early Records of the Plantation of Mt. Desert, Me., Part I, transcribed by Eben M. Hamor, p. 100.
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    3. [S1172] CENSUS: U.S., 1800 Maine, Hancock, Eden; p. 203; Benjamin Stanwood; 28 April 2016.
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    4. [S1174] CENSUS: U.S., 1810 Maine, Hancock, Eden; p. 448; Benjamin Stanwood; 28 April 2016.
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    5. [S1179] CENSUS: U.S., 1820 Maine, Hancock, Eden; p. 610; Benjamin Stanwood; 5 May 2015.
      STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1820_Eden      		 STANWOOD_Benjamin_b1766_census_1820_Eden


    6. [S1770] Hampton, NH: Vital Records to 1900, downloaded; 30 November 2024; "Job Stanwood & Martha Bradstreet of Cape Ann, A dollar" [paid], 1 September 1754; citing v. 2, p. 118.
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