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John was born on October 20, 1754 at Wandsworth, in Surrey, England to William and Mary Stanford.
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John was born on October 20, 1754 at Wandsworth, in Surrey, England to William and Mary Stanford.
He received his early education at a seminary in Wandsworth. At the age of sixteen he began to study medicine but his studies were interrupted by the death of his parents and he subsequently took charge of a boarding school in Hammersmith.
After serving as a minister in an organized Baptist church in Hammersmith, where he was ordained as its first minister in 1781, John Stanford emigrated to the United States and, after a brief period of teaching in Norfolk, Virginia, and in New York City, he served as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, in 1788-89, afterwards returning to teaching in New York City.
In 1795 he erected a building for combined use as a church, school, and residence on Fair (now Fulton) Street, and acted as pastor until the yellow fever scourge of 1798 disrupted his congregation and a fire in 1801 reduced his church building to ashes. Stanford never held a fixed pastorate thereafter.
For a decade he was known to his friends as a professor of theology although he preached frequently in Baptist churches in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. He spoke occasionally before the inmates of Bellevue Hospital and the New York State Prison, and in 1812 was appointed chaplain of the Prison.
He called his charges at the latter institution his "Greenwich congregation. " His services in a similar capacity in municipal institutions began the following year without formal appointment by any city authority, but he was compensated annually by the Common Council by special resolution. It was "for his zeal in administering to the spiritual wants of the poor and afflicted in the Alms House Gaol-and City Prison", that the original annual stipend of $250 was increased to $300 in 1816, and to $500 in 1830.
Unfortunates of every description found a friend in Stanford, but the youthful inmates of institutions were particularly his concern. With a zeal reminiscent of John Howard he pled with the city magistrates to separate young offenders from the hardened criminals, and, as a result, the House of Refuge, called by Governor DeWitt Clinton the "best penitentiary institution ever been devised by the wit and established by the beneficence of man" was dedicated by Stanford with a discourse in 1825.
He died of old age in New York City in 1834.
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By eighteen, he had converted from the Anglican Church to the Baptist tradition, largely because he became disenchanted with the concept of infant baptism as a result of his personal study of the New Testament.
Stanford believed that only a man who was “a friend of God” could face death head-on. A staunch protestant, Stanford was proud to have converted one prisoner away from “the delusions of the Roman Catholic Church, ” and he believed it was his duty to warn the dying of their imminent damnation.
He was granted membership into the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
He was married on June 16, 1790, to Sarah Ten Eyck who died during the fever scourge of 1798, leaving two sons and two daughters.