Col. William Stanwood, son of Sgt. David and Mary (Reed) Stanwood, was born in Brunswick, Maine, April 5, 1752 and died there June 24, 1829. He married 1st, Mary Orr, who d. June 26, 1781 (1 child); 2nd, Hannah Thompson (10 children); 3rd Ruth Thompson.
He received the title of "Colonel" as a colonel of a regiment of the Maine militia, after the Revolutionary War. During the War, he was a lieutenant, and had a long and honorable record.
Mrs. Ethel Stanwood Bolton, in "A History of the Stanwood Family in America,"1889, p. 113 described him as "perhaps, the most prominent Stanwood who has ever lived in Brunswick." In 1796 he transferred to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College "fifty acres of land." That land now comprises the Bowdoin campus. In 1798 he was made an overseer of the College, and held the position until May 16, 1815 when he resigned it by letter. He was a representative in 1794-95. The eldest child of William and Hannah (Thompson) Stanwood, Jennet, b. July 3, 1784; m. Deacon John Perry.
Source: "A Biographical Sketch of Eight Generations of Hoopers in America: William Hooper, 1635, to Idolene Snow (Hooper) Crosby, 1883"; Idolene Snow Hooper Crosby; G.H. Ellis Company, Printers, 1906.
He received the title of "Colonel" as a colonel of a regiment of the Maine militia, after the Revolutionary War. During the War, he was a lieutenant, and had a long and honorable record.
Mrs. Ethel Stanwood Bolton, in "A History of the Stanwood Family in America,"1889, p. 113 described him as "perhaps, the most prominent Stanwood who has ever lived in Brunswick." In 1796 he transferred to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College "fifty acres of land." That land now comprises the Bowdoin campus. In 1798 he was made an overseer of the College, and held the position until May 16, 1815 when he resigned it by letter. He was a representative in 1794-95. The eldest child of William and Hannah (Thompson) Stanwood, Jennet, b. July 3, 1784; m. Deacon John Perry.
Source: "A Biographical Sketch of Eight Generations of Hoopers in America: William Hooper, 1635, to Idolene Snow (Hooper) Crosby, 1883"; Idolene Snow Hooper Crosby; G.H. Ellis Company, Printers, 1906.
Col. William Stanwood, son of Sgt. David and Mary (Reed) Stanwood, was born in Brunswick, Maine, April 5, 1752 and died there June 24, 1829. He married 1st, Mary Orr, who d. June 26, 1781 (1 child); 2nd, Hannah Thompson (10 children); 3rd Ruth Thompson.
He received the title of "Colonel" as a colonel of a regiment of the Maine militia, after the Revolutionary War. During the War, he was a lieutenant, and had a long and honorable record.
Mrs. Ethel Stanwood Bolton, in "A History of the Stanwood Family in America,"1889, p. 113 described him as "perhaps, the most prominent Stanwood who has ever lived in Brunswick." In 1796 he transferred to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College "fifty acres of land." That land now comprises the Bowdoin campus. In 1798 he was made an overseer of the College, and held the position until May 16, 1815 when he resigned it by letter. He was a representative in 1794-95. The eldest child of William and Hannah (Thompson) Stanwood, Jennet, b. July 3, 1784; m. Deacon John Perry.
Source: "A Biographical Sketch of Eight Generations of Hoopers in America: William Hooper, 1635, to Idolene Snow (Hooper) Crosby, 1883"; Idolene Snow Hooper Crosby; G.H. Ellis Company, Printers, 1906.
He received the title of "Colonel" as a colonel of a regiment of the Maine militia, after the Revolutionary War. During the War, he was a lieutenant, and had a long and honorable record.
Mrs. Ethel Stanwood Bolton, in "A History of the Stanwood Family in America,"1889, p. 113 described him as "perhaps, the most prominent Stanwood who has ever lived in Brunswick." In 1796 he transferred to the President and Trustees of Bowdoin College "fifty acres of land." That land now comprises the Bowdoin campus. In 1798 he was made an overseer of the College, and held the position until May 16, 1815 when he resigned it by letter. He was a representative in 1794-95. The eldest child of William and Hannah (Thompson) Stanwood, Jennet, b. July 3, 1784; m. Deacon John Perry.
Source: "A Biographical Sketch of Eight Generations of Hoopers in America: William Hooper, 1635, to Idolene Snow (Hooper) Crosby, 1883"; Idolene Snow Hooper Crosby; G.H. Ellis Company, Printers, 1906.
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