General Notes

Occupation: Planter, Proprietor.  Resided in Lynn, Mass. between 1637 and1
639. In 1644 resided in Southampton
On 13 November 1648, Josiah Stanborough of Southampton, Long Island, ga
ve a power of attorney to "W[illia]m Francklin of Boston ... to ask &c. a
ll rents due unto him for a messuage or house in Banbury in Oxfordshire
," for which Franklin advanced him Ð44 [Aspinwall 165].
NOTE.--John Stanborough was a great-great-grandson of Josiah Stanboroug
h, one of the original "Undertakers" of the settlement of Southampto
n. He probably lived in Bridge Hampton. The "Town Close" was on the nor
th side of the road from Southampton to Watermill, and next west of the hi
ghway, west of the house of late Nancy Goodale, now of Edward Goodal
e. On May 29, 1762, it was sold by John Stanborough, of Westerly, Rhode Is
land, to his sister, Abigail Stanborough, of Southampton. It was 22 acre
s, bounded thus: west by David Howell, north, east, and south by highway
s. It was lately owned by D. Frank Osborn.
NOTE.--John Wheeler was son of Thomas Wheeler, whose widow, Alice, was t
he second wife of Josiah Stanborough, one of the first settlers of Southam
pton.--W. S. P.]