Joseph Stanard, the immigrant ancestor, was an early settler at Hartford, Connecticut, and perhaps an original settler. According to the history of Middlesex county, Connecticut, he was one of twenty-eight men from Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, who settled at Haddam. Most of them are thought to have been young men. At a town meeting in Haddam, February 7, 1667, he was granted six acres of common land on the mill river southeast of his own swamp. On June 13, 1671, a decision was made that twenty acres of land should be laid out to every œ100 valuation, and in the division the lots were drawn as the names were drawn by lot. Joseph Stanard was eleventh on the list. In October, 1703, the name of his son William is on the Saybrook records, and as Joseph's name is not found on Haddam records after 1671, he doubtless moved to Westbrook Parish in Saybrook before 1700, being among the first settlers there. He died in 1721.
