Nathan Stone (1746 - 1827)

Born 9 Aug 1746 in Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

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Died 19 Dec 1827 at age 81 in Hubbardston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Private Nathan Stone served with 18th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Nathan Stone is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 329297
Rank: Private

Nathan Stone (Lieutenant), b. 9 Aug 1746, Rutland, Massachusetts; d. 19 December 1827 (81 years).

Spouse (1): Freelove Phillip, born abt 1749, d. abt 1828.

Intent to marry recorded, Rutland, 2 April 1768; daughter of Joshua and Freelove (___) Phillips; she died 13 July 1826, Hubbardston.

Children of Nathan and Freelove Stone:

1. Polly b. 8 November 1768; m. at Hubbardston, 12 March 1789, Dea. Eli Hinds, b. Barre, Massachusetts, 25 Ms 2767, son of Cornelius and Martha (How) Hinds; residence Eden, Vermont; d. 4 November 1852; Eli died 28 August 1791

Children of this union:

I. Eli, b. 28 August 1791

ii. Polly

iii. Freelove

iv. Josiah Dana, b. 17 September 1801

v. Nathan

vi. Abel Smith, b. 28 January 1809

vii. Patty

Spouse (2): Mary Robbins, b. 28 Apr 1722, Sudbury, Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Robbins; m. Nathan Stone, 5 May 1740. Mary, m. Edward Clark, 22 Sept 1767.

Lieut. Nathan Stone "appears on the roll of Capt. William Marean ' Hubbardton company of minute men, Col. Doolittle's regiment, which marched on the Lexington alarm, 19 Apr. 1775; service ten days.^[1]. He died 19 December 1827.

Will: Nathan Stone's will dated 11 November 1817:

1. My wife, Freelove, to be maintained for life according to bond of 28 January 1816 with Sampson and Elisha Stone and Moses Waite.
2. To eldest daughter Polly, wife of Eli Hinds of Eden, Vermont, and to sons Eliphalet, Jeduthan, Sampson, and Joseph Stone, $1.00 each.
3. To sons Nathan and Johan and to daughters Patience Clark and Freelove Phillips, $150 each.
4. To daughters Eurana, wife of, and Alpheus Earle, and Ruth, wife of Abraham Shadduck, and to son Samuel Stone, $100 each.
5. Otis Parker to be executor.
6. Will proved 22 May 1828 (Worcester County Probation Records, No. 56820).

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol. 15, pg 113

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 2021-10-09), "Record of Nathan Stone", Ancestor # A110212.

• Stowe, John Murdock, 1824-1877; Bennett, William, 1809-1881 [[Space:History of the town of Hubbardston, Worcester County, Mass|History of the town of Hubbardston, Worcester County, Mass] (Hubbardston, Mass., 1881); p. 44

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 15, p. 113

• Vital Records of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Mass., 1907); p. 94

1. Source: Bartlett, J.G. Gregory Stone Genealogy. The Stone Family Association, Boston, 1918. Available through Google Books.

1. Source: US Federal Census 1790

1. Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93004839

1. Source: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-T6J4 : 25 September 2017), Nathan Stone and Freelove Phillips, 02 Apr 1768; citing Marriage Notice, Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 859,332.

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Message from Another WikiTreer:

Lynden, Freelove Phillips was married to the Nathan Stone who was born 9 Aug 1746. The spouse of Nathan Stone born 28 Apr 1722 was Mary Robbins. Mary was the daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Robbins. She was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts 18 Jan 1722/3. She married Nathan Stone 5 May 1740. Nathan died sometime in 1758 while enlisted as a soldier. Mary later married to Edward Clark on 21 Sept 1767.

This message is from Sydney Smith

Huseby, Nelson Dean. 2015. Lieutenant Nathan Stone. Minuteman. Miller-Cook Family Stories. No. 12. . 4 pp. Copyright and distributed by N. D. Huseby. One paragraph excerpted:

At the outset of the Revolutionary War, Nathan along with sixteen other minutemen from Hubbardston went to Lexington to fight the British soldiers on April 19, 1775. He was involved in this campaign for ten days and served as a private for that campaign11 as part of Captain William Marean’s Hubbardston Company. 12 When Dawn and I were in Lexington and Concord, we were disappointed not to find Nathan listed as a Lexington minuteman in the town square. It is easy to understand why the family had thought that he was a Lexington minuteman because he was a Hubbardston minuteman and his grandparents had originally settled Lexington. Nonetheless, Nathan responded with his town’s minutemen when British soldiers advanced on Lexington and Concord and he definitely was there at the outset of the Revolutionary War. By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant. For the rest of his life, he was referred to as Lieutenant Nathan Stone13 and that is how he is remembered on his gravestone.

Acknowledgements

• Thank you to Sydney Smith for creating Stone-4799 on 14 Dec 13.
• Thank you to Lynden Castle Rodriguez for her contributions to the creation and development of this profile on Friday, February 6, 2015.