Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Stanton, Daniel

STANTON, Daniel, Quaker preacher, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1708; d. there, 28 June, 1770. He began to preach in 1728, travelled in New England and the West Indies, went to Europe in 1748, and visited the southern colonies in 1760, preaching zealously against slavery as well as worldliness and the vices of society. See “Journal of his Life, Travels, and Gospel Labors” (Philadelphia, 1772).