In 1858, William Kell, of the Ancient Melodies Committee set up by the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, noted that Stanton owned the printed tunebook of John Peacock.
At the Committee's launch, Kell addressed the Duke of Northumberland, the patron of the Society, and specifically thanked Stanton.
One variation set on Sir John Fenwick's "The Flower Among Them All", needing a keyed chanter, corresponds to that found in the Rook manuscript, and may derive from the Reid family, who lived nearby in North Shields; another tune in Stanton's hand "Shew's the Way to Wallington", is identical to a version in the Fenwick manuscript, there stated to be James Reid's copy.
Scans of two of the Stanton pages in the Fenwick manuscript are on a WordPress site titled "Northumberland Small-Piping in North Shields".
[8] In 1881, John Stokoe, one of the editors of the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, referred to some of Stanton's manuscripts, then in the possession of the piper T. Errington Thompson, of Sewing Shields.