Various spellings of Stanhope
Stanape, Stanup, Standhope, Stanhop, Stanop, and Stannup
Sudbury in Middlesex County, Massachusetts was incorporated in 1639 with a population of 476. A major battle of the King Philip's War was fought in Sudbury in 1676.
The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine by George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe says that Jonathan married the considerably older, Sarah Griffin,on May 11, 1674 in Sudbury. Sarah was born November 20, 1642 in Sudbury. Her parents were Humphrey Griffin and Elizabeth Andrews. She may have been the daughter who caused her father to be fined for her wearing a silk scarf in 1659.
Jonathan and Sarah's children included:
Isaac Stanhope (June 27, 1675) and
Jonathan Stanhope (about 1677) who died young.
Jonathan died November 19, 1681 when he was only 25 years old.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643. The county originally included Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown, Sudbury, Concord, Woburn, Medford, Wayland, and Reading.
