Joseph Wanton Jr.

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Joseph Wanton Junior (born February 8, 1730 in Newport , Rhode Island , † August 6, 1780 in New York City ) was a loyalist , trader and politician . He served between 1764 and 1767 as Deputy Governor in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations .

Career

Joseph Wanton Jr., son of Mary Winthrop and Governor Joseph Wanton , was born in Newport County during colonial times . Nothing is known about his youth. Wanton graduated from Harvard University in 1751 . He was a privateer during the Seven Years' War in North America . He may have been promoted to colonel during that time . His first wife, Abigail, died in 1771. Wanton served as a parish councilor at Trinity Church in Newport. He served as lieutenant governor between 1764 and 1767.

During the War of Independence he fought on the king's side. After Narragansett Bay came under British occupation, he was charged with treason by General William West and imprisoned in 1776 . When the British occupied Newport, he raised troops for the king. In 1780 Newport was retaken by the colonists. Wanton fled the city. His property was confiscated. He probably died in New York in 1780 while fleeing to the British. In 1781, his widow Sarah Brenton Wanton unsuccessfully requested the State of Rhode Island to get back Wanton's confiscated property in Newport and Jamestown, as well as on Prudence Island and Gould Island .

Trivia

Hunter House in Newport

Wanton was the owner of the Hunter House in Newport for a while .

Some family researchers suggest that Wanton an Episcopal clergyman near Liverpool ( England was). This seems to be inconsistent with other information about his life, including the 1780 funeral records of a Colonel Wanton buried in the Trinity Wall Street Church cemetery in Manhattan . It is more likely that the episcopal clergyman is Joseph Brenton Wanton, the son of Sarah Brenton and Joseph Wanton. At the age of 18 he began in October 1795, the Trinity College of the University of Cambridge to visit and later became a clergyman.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Newport Mansions - Hunter House , The Preservation Society of Newport County
  2. ^ Yarnall, James L .: Newport Through Its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern , UPNE, 2005, ISBN 9781584654919 , p. 13
  3. ^ Daniel Goodwin and Wilkins Updike: A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island: Including a History of Other Episcopal Churches in the State , Volume 2, Part 2, DB Updike, 1907, p. 278
personal data
SURNAME Wanton, Joseph Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British loyalist, trader and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1780
Place of death New York City