Hugh
Stone
Sr.
Born about [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Hannah (Foster) Stone
— married
15 Oct 1667 (to 20 Apr 1689) in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Died
at about age 45
in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
This profile is part of the Stone Name Study.
On 15 Oct 1667, Hugh Stone married in Andover, Massachusetts Bay, Hannah Foster, d. 20 Apr 1689, Andover, Massachusetts Bay.[1]
Murderer of his Pregnant Wife; Executing by Hanging
Hugh Stone killed his wife Hannah Foster, in a drunken rage. This crime became the first murder of Andover, Massachusetts.[2][3][4][5]
"Upon a quarrel between himself and his wife, about selling a piece of land, having some words, as they were walking together on a certain evening, very barbarously reach'd a stroke at her throat, with a sharp knife; and by that one stroke fetch'd away the soul of her who had made him a father of several children, and would have bro't yet another to him if she had liv'd a few weeks longer in the world."[6]
He died by hanging on 2 Jan 1689/90.[6]
His estate was probated on 25 Mar 1690 in Andover, Massachusetts Bay.[7]
Notable Descendants
Sources
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-GQXK : accessed 12 May 2016), Hero Or Hugh Stone and Hannah Foster, 15 Oct 1667; citing Marriage, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468.
- ↑ “Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692 .. : Massachusetts. Court of Assistants : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. Boston, Pub. by the county of Suffolk, January 1, 1970. https://archive.org/details/recordscourtass01crongoog/page/n333/mode/1up.
- ↑ “Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire; : Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, [from Old Catalog] Ed : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company, January 1, 1970. https://archive.org/details/genealogicaland00chicgoog/page/n234/mode/1up.
- ↑ “Historical Sketches of Andover, (Comprising the Present Towns of North Andover and Andover) : Bailey, Sarah Loring : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. Boston, Houghton, January 1, 1880. https://archive.org/details/historicalsketc01bailgoog/page/n123/mode/1up/search/Hugh Stone.
- ↑ “Thedarwinexception.” Vermont History and Genealogy. Accessed April 2, 2020. https://vermontgenealogy.wordpress.com/author/thedarwinexception/page/103/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana (Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three crowns in Cheapside, 1702) Vol. 2, Page 413
- ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/rd/13880/26678-co1/248354257
- ↑ “American Presidential Families : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada, January 1, 1993. https://archive.org/details/americanpresiden0000unse_c9t6/page/510/mode/2up/search/Chester Arthur.
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Additional information on Andover's first Murder; HUGH STONE: Of ANDOVER from Stone Family Association. Cheryl
Believe these two profiles need to be merged, no profile manager for Stone-3698 and Stone-716 (John Stone) should be added as son, see messages I left on Stone-716 with sources for dob, marriage and death. Regards, Cheryl
Believe these two profiles need to be merged, no profile manager for Stone-3698 and Stone-716 (John Stone) should be added as son, seen messages I left on Stone-716 with sources for dob, marriage and death. Regards, Cheryl