Jonathan Stone (abt. 1689 - 1729)

Born about 2 Feb 1689 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Charity (Adams) Lane — married 5 Nov 1712 (to 8 Dec 1729) in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1729 at about age 40 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Jonathan Stone was born on 2 Feb, 1689/1690, in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Jonathan was the son of Samuel and Dorcas (Jones) Stone (1). Jonathan married Cherry Adams on 17 Nov 1712 (1). [Note: Concord's Vital Record records a different date of marriage, quoting "Jonathan Stone and Cheree Addams [sic] were married by Justice minott [sic] November 5 day 1712[.]" He died in 1729 and was buried in The Old Cemetery at Watertown, Massachusetts. Jonathan's gravestone lists his age as forty years old (1).

WILL

The probate papers are of great interest, as they are full of so many details. The size of the homestead lot is estimated to be 100 acres. One of the boundary lines borders the land belonging to Rev. Storer. In addition, there were twenty-one acres of pasture land in Waltham and the right to 300 acres of land in Townsend. Finally, one and three-fourths acres of orchard near Ebner Cheney's place.

Inventory of Personal Property

a light Collared Broad Cloth Coat,

a Dark Collared Coat,

2 Jaccotts,

pair of Spatter Cfhes,

a Bedsted with Cord and Blue Curtains,

a negro boy,

utensils for household use, and for husbandry.

The whole is valued at between three and four thousand pounds, old tenor. To the widow was set off a third part of the dwelling, in the southerly end of the house, with certain parts of the barn, ‘with privilege of the floorway for carting and thrashing,’ also ‘a third part of the cellar, with privilege of passing and repassing through the kitchen to sd Cellar, to fetch wood and water as she shall have occasion.’ As Jonathan Stone died in 1729, and his widow married Thomas Wellington, of Cambridge, February 1, 1735, and the estate was not settled until 1746, on the coming of age of the oldest son, it is difficult to see what use she could have had for these privileges.

Additional Family History

The baptisms of his children are mentioned in the church records of Lexington, and the fact that he ‘owned the covenant,’ a form of joining the church, necessary in the case of the baptism of children, and voluntarily performed by the parents on that occasion. (1)

Some time previous to 1727 he moved to Watertown, with his wife and family of five children. In 1727 or 1728 Chary Stone, with several others, was received into ‘full communion’ with the First Church of Christ in Watertown by the pastor, Rev. Seth Storer. At Watertown two more children were born, as the parish record of births, deaths, and marriages shows. Immediately following these two entries, all three having apparently been set down at the same time, is the record of the death of Jonathan, scarcely a month after the birth of the youngest child. (1)

Sources

• (1) Historic leaves, volume 8 Apr 1909- January 1910, John Stone and his descendants in Somerville. [continued from Vol. III., no. 4.] By Sara A. S. Carpenter.
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• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1850; Vital Records of Concord; Name: Jonathan Stone; Birth Date: Feb 1689; Birth Place: Concord; Father's First Name: Samuel & Dorcas; Gender: Male; Source: Vital Records of Concord. [Repository: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.] (birth record)
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current; Memorial ID 28834578; Accessed on October 13, 2020 by Rosa Lane; Created on August 7, 2008 by Bob Boyington and maintained by Kevin Avery, contributor 47024642: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28834578/jonathan-stone
• Bartlett, J. Gardner, "Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917" (Boston: The Stone Family Association, 1918) in North America, Histories, 1500-2000; S; Stone; Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Massachusetts; "Gregory Stone Genealogy," p. 121. [Repository: Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.] (p. 121): https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61157/images/46155_b289802-00140?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.107847490.1152322520.1602504838-1022223744.1589987676&pId=907096
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• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; Watertown; Births, Marriages and Death; "Births and Deaths," p. 71 (orig. hand-scribed). [Repository: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line, frame #221 of 3991). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).] (death record; note same page includes birth of son, Josiah Stone born on November 10, 1729, which was less than 4 weeks before Jonathan's recorded death on December 8, 1729)

Acknowledgements:

• WikiTree profile Stone-2273 created through the import of Winn.ged on Dec 20, 2011, by Elizabeth S.
• WikiTree profile Stone-3271 created through the import of Jamie Matthews Coyle Family Tr.ged on Nov 29, 2012, by Jamie Coyle.