Rev. John Staples

1742 - 1804  (61 years)

• Name	John Staples  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	23 Apr 1742  [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	15 Feb 1804  [2]
  Person ID	I14523	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Deacon Seth Staples,   b. 1699, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 20 Mar 1778 (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Hannah Standish,   b. 6 Mar 1704   d. 5 Apr 1774 (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	4 Jan 1722	Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F9056	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susanna Perkins,   b. 29 Jan 1753   d. 10 Sep 1810 (Age 57 years)
  Children	1. Seth Perkins Staples,   b. 1 Sep 1776, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut d. 6 Nov 1861, New York, New York (Age 85 years)   2. Susanna Staples,   b. 20 Aug 1778, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut d. 22 Nov 1855, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F9054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  A graduate of Princeton in 1765, he was the Congregational minister of the parish of Westminster, in Canterbury, Connecticut, for over thirty years.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2001] Brief Memoirs of the Class of 1797 by Thomas Day and James Murdock. New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen, Printer to Yale College, 1848. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920. [S2000] Find a Grave page for Deacon Seth Staples. [S2003] Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams by Josephine C. Frost. 1920.