Unknown (Rogers) Stone (abt. 1580 - aft. 1629)

Born about 1580 in Wethersfield, Essex, England

Ancestors

Wife of John Stone — married about 1598 in Wethersfield, Essex, England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 28 Apr 1629 after about age 49 in Connecticut

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Biography

Proposed Revisions, arising from recent research

The identification of the subject of this profile as the wife of John Stone, mother of Rev. Samuel Stone, and daughter of Richard Rogers is based on a conjecture arising from three facts about his relationships with others who mentioned him or his relatives in their wills. The will of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers of Rowley, Mass., son of Richard Rogers of Wethersfield, Essex, identifies Rev. Samuel Stone of Hartford, Connecticut as his nephew. Stone was also called "cousin" in the will of Edward Sammes, grocer of London and husband of John Wright's half-sister Bennet. And Sammes' brother-in-law John Wright, of Romford, Essex, was called cousin by Richard Rogers in his will.^[1] From these relationships, McCracken (and Donald Lines Jacobus, his editor) inferred that the mother of Samuel Stone must have been a sister of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. Robert Charles Anderson based his statement that Samuel Stone's parents were John and _____ (Rogers) Stone on McCracken's work.^[2]

New research published in 2022 calls that conjecture into question, providing a different and convincing explanation of those family relationships in those wills. Jesse Torbert shows that the link between Richard Rogers and Samuel Stone was not through Stone's (still unidentified) mother but rather through Stone's previously unidentified first wife, Rebecca Wright, who was the daughter of Ezekiel Roger's sister Rebecca (Rogers) Wright, making Samuel Stone (a) the nephew (by marriage) of Ezekiel, (b) the first cousin (by marriage) of Edward Sammes, and (c) his wife's paternal grandfather is Richard Rogers and her maternal great-uncle is John Wright, making those two men (distant) cousins (by marriage).^[3]

Further proofs, cited by Tarbert, are the marriage in Cranham, Essex of Samuel Stone and Rebecca Wright on 5 June 1629,^[4] and the baptism on 13 Sep 1632 in Towcester of Samuell, ye sone of Mr Samuell Stone & Mrs Rebecca his wife"^[5]

The research by Jesse Tarbert cited above effectively removes any basis for the earlier conjecture that the relationships cited by previous research establish that Samuel Stone's mother was a Rogers. He and his siblings surely had a mother, and John Stone had a wife, but she remains unidentified. Furthermore, there being no evidence that Richard Rogers and his wife Barbara had a daughter Sarah, this profile should be disconnected from her purported parents. After that, this profile's LNAB should be changed from Rogers to Unknown, via a merge to a new Unknown profile. Halsey Bullen, 22 Jan 2023

Note on first name of ____ (Rogers) Stone: There are family trees on the internet claiming that the given name of the mother of Rev. Samuel Stone was Sarah. This given name is the result of a mis-identification of John Stone of Guilford, New Haven Colony (who had a wife named Sarah), with another John Stone, one of the original proprietors of Hartford and the presumed father of Rev. Samuel Stone.

Sources

1. ↑ A Hartford Miscellany: Howard, Stone, Adsit-Edgett, section: Hertford, Hertfordshire and Hartford, Conn., by George E. McCracken, Ph.D., TAG Vol 36 (1960), page 34 citing the will of Rev Ezekiel Rogers
2. ↑ Samuel Stone, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volume III, page 1770
3. ↑ Tarbert, Jesse, "The Identity and English Ancestor of Rev. Samuel Stone's First wife: Rebecca Wright, Granddaughter of Rev. Richard Rogers" in the New England Historical Genealogical Register, Vol. 176, Fall 2022, pp. 388-404, citing many parish registers and wills
4. ↑ Register of All Saints, Cranham, Essex, Essex Record Office, D/P 118/1/1, image 25
5. ↑ Register of Towcester, Northamptonshire Record Office 329P/255, image 172, viewable on ancestry.com

• A Hartford Miscellany: Howard, Stone, Adsit-Edgett, section Hertford, Hertfordshire and Hartford, Conn., by George E. McCracken, Ph.D., TAG Vol 36 (1960), page 34 citing the will of Rev Ezekiel Rogers (brother of the woman in this profile)
• Repository: The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)

• Samuel Stone, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). page 1770, "____ (Rogers) Stone" is the mother of Samuel Stone

• WikiTree profile Rogers-3764 created through the import of Kennedy02.ged on Aug 21, 2011 by Robert Kennedy. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.