we are separated, where shall we find another Britain to supply our loss? Torn from the body to which we are united by religion, liberty, laws and commerce, we must bleed at every vein." Following his removal from office, Wanton retired to private life, occupying a strict neutrality, and giving neither aid nor comfort to the British. Neither he nor his property were disturbed, and he died in 1780, being buried in the Clifton Burying Ground where several other Quaker governors are buried. Family Wanton married Mary, the daughter of John Still Winthrop of New London in the Connecticut Colony, the great granddaughter of Connecticut colonial Governor, John Winthrop Jr., and a great great granddaughter of Massachusetts colonial Governor and Boston founder John Winthrop. They had eight children, the oldest of whom, Joseph Wanton Jr. was a deputy governor of the colony for two terms, but also an overt Loyalist whose Newport property was confiscated after the British occupation of Newport ended. While Wanton himself was outwardly neutral during the war, his sentiments leaned heavily toward the British, with not only his son being a Loyalist, but several of his daughters marrying prominent British officials. His chest of drawers is at the Chipstone Foundation. The chest was made in Newport, Rhode Island. See also List of colonial governors of Rhode Island Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations References Bibliography Further reading External links Gaspee Virtual Archives info Chronological list of Rhode Island leaders State list of lieutenant governors of Rhode Island 1705 births 1780 deaths 18th-century Quakers American slave traders Brown University people Colonial governors of Rhode Island People of Rhode Island in the American Revolution Politicians from Newport, Rhode Island University and college founders Burials at Clifton Burying Ground