Samuel Stone (1684 - 1769)

Born 12 Aug 1684 in Cambridge Farms, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Reed) Stone — married 3 Apr 1706 in Woburn, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 5 Apr 1769 at age 84 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Captain Samuel Stone, born August 12, 1684 in Cambridge Farms (now Lexington),^[1] was the son of Deacon Samuel Stone and Dorcas (Jones) Stone. He married Abigail Reed daughter of Deacon George Reed of Woburn on April 3, 1706,^[2]and they had nine children.^[3]

Life Events

For a few years after his marriage he lived in Concord, probably on some of the property formerly occupied by his father. About 1713 he removed from Concord to Sudbury (now Wayland), where he acquired a farm on what was known as "Pelham's Island,"

Samuel Stone was one of the early proprietors of Rutland, Mass., where he secured nearly nine hundred acres of land on which he established his sons.

About 1740 he returned from Sudbury to Lexington to take charge of the ancestral estate of his aged father to which he succeeded on the death of the latter in 1743.

He was a selectman of Lexington in 1741 and 1742, and captain of militia.^[3]

Death

He died April 5, 1769 in Lexington in the 85th year of his life and was buried in the Old Burying Ground of Lexington, Massachusetts^[4][3]

Will of Capt Samuel Stone

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The will of Samuel Stone of Lexington, gentleman, dated 13 May 1760.

To my three sons Samuel, Jonas, and Isaac Stone all my lands in Sudbury and Rutland, Mass., and in Winchester, N. 1 1., equally divided. To son Jonas all husbandry utensils.

To grandchildren John Stone, Israel Stone, Sarah Stone, Eunice Bellows, Beulah Stone, Elizabeth Stone, and Hepzibah Stone, children of my daughter Elizabeth Stone deceased, a silver spoon apiece, which with what their mother had is their full portion.

To wife Abigail the use of all residue of my estate for life, with remainder to my nine children Samuel, Jonas, and Isaac Stone, Abigail Perry, Tabitha Noyes, Mary Bent, Susanna Bent, Eunice Beed, and Sybil White, and the heirs of my son Nathan Stone, deceased, equally divided.

Sons Samuel, Jonas, and Isaac to be executors. [Signed) "Sam" Stone. :Witnesses: Jonas Meriam, Samuel Meiiam, Ebenezer Cutter. Heirs cited 18 Apr. 1769, returnable 2 May 1769.

On 2 May John 'Stone Jr. of Rutland for himself and the other children of testator's daughter Elizabeth Stone, objected to the will; but it was proved on that date.

Inventory of personal estate totaled £778-17-3. Account dated 31 Oct. 1771 shows £76-12-9 paid to each of the nine living children; £l2-15-5j^ paid to each of the children of Nathan Stone, deceased, viz., Nathan, Jeduthan, Lois, and Rebecca Stone, Mary Rice, and Thankful Savage; and silver spoons to each of the children of Elizabeth Stone deceased.

(Middlesex County Probate Records, No. 21716.)

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ64-37N : 5 January 2021), Samuel Stone, 1684.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28L-S6R5 : 22 July 2021), Samuel Stone and Abigail Reed, 3 Apr 1706; citing Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 927,923.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Bartlett, J. Gardner. GREGORY STONE GENEALOGY. Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass.,1320-1917. Published for The Stone Family Association. Boston, 1918.Page 117, 118. https://books.google.com/books/about/Gregory_Stone_Genealogy.html?id=ZxsVAAAAYAAJ
4. ↑ Old Burying Ground of Lexington, Massachusetts by Francis H. Brown, M. D. 1905

See Also

• Find A Grave: Memorial #16639759 Photos of gravestone,
• Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.[https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14467/21716-co10/38408254