Anthony Stoddard

Abt 1614 - 1687  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Anthony Stoddard  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1614  [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Mar 1687	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I15387	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2025

  
  

  Family	Mary Downing,   b. Abt 1618   d. 16 Jun 1647, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 29 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1639  [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Rev. Solomon Stoddard,   b. 4 Oct 1643, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 11 Feb 1729, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F9706	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Probably born in London. A linen draper of Boston by 1639. In 1641 he is listed in the records of the Skinners Guild of London as being in New England. A holder of many public offices, he has said to have served Boston as a deputy to the general court at more sessions than any other individual. As constable, on 7 Sep 1641, he refused to serve a warrant against Francis Hutchinson and was fined. At his death he was called the "ancientest shop-keeper in town." In his introduction to Hale, House and Related Families (citation details below), Donald Lines Jacobus called Anthony Stoddard "the progenitor of more illustrious individuals than perhaps any other early settler in New England."

  
  

• Sources

  [S1589] The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches by James Carnahan Wetmore. Albany, New York: Munsell & Rowland, 1861. [S1616] Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "A Study of the Downing Family in England, with Connections in Early New England." The American Genealogist 74:161, 74:299, July 1999 and October 1999. [S2044] George E. McCracken, "Who Was Aaron Burr?" The American Genealogist 40:65, April 1964. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952. [S388] FamousKin.com.